Verso Books: 696 books
Land Grabbing
Journeys In The New Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
To the governments and corporations buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is ‘land leasing’; to its critics, it is nothing better than ‘land grabbing’ – the engine powering a new era of colonialism. In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of fertile soil are
stolen...
by Christopher Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th Century
In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician,...
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists,...
The Management of Savagery
How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism
In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s...
Citizens to Lords
A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood lays out her innovative approach to the history of political theory and traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Her “social history” is a significant departure from other contextual...
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
One of the most incisive, heterodox analysts of contemporary American politics and society turns his attention to the demographic revolution that is already—albeit largely quietly thus far—transforming American politics. The dilemma of the modern Republican party is that its most active element,...
Paul Robeson
A Watched Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African American singer was the voice of the people, both on stage and as a political activist who refused to be silenced as he fought for the rights...
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis
*Order Out of Chaos *is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya...
Night Haunts
A Journey Through the London Night
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2025
London at night has always been seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered neutral by street lighting and CCTV cameras. His nocturnal...
by V. I. Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Re-launch of the Collected Works of the legendary revolutionary in paperback
Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known...
by Hartmut Rosa, Stephan Lessenich, Klaus Dörre
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism
For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology,...
by Norman Geras
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
An important contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Marxism
During the first decades of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg was the leader of the workers’ movement in Poland and Germany. She made a remarkable contribution to socialist theory and practice, yet her legacy...
The Age of Globalization
Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
History is forged through the travel of ideas across continents—as well as by bombs. The Age of Globalization is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century politics and culture, and in particular between militant anarchists in Europe and the Americas, and anti-imperialist...
Molecular Red
Theory for the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.
Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires,...