Verso: 737 books
The Ministry of Nostalgia
Consuming Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”?
In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “make do and mend” aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed,...
by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood...
Rebel Crossings
New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World...
The Ancients and the Postmoderns
On the Historicity of Forms
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against...
The Beast
Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon...
The Age of Inequality
Corporate America's War on Working People
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The stories behind the inequality crisis—a forty-year investigation by In These Times
With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class. Here, in a selection from four decades...
Drone Warfare
Killing by Remote Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force now trains more...
by Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
A thrilling example of philosophy in action, Towards a New Manifesto reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas.
A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing...
None of Us Were Like This Before
American Soldiers and Torture
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional warfare to guerrilla war and prisoner detention. Phillips’s narrative reveals how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended...
Britain's Empire
Resistance, Repression and Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule...
by Lindsey German, John Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background.
Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground...
by Carla Blumenkranz
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines...
by Eric Hazan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes
The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat—the events and figures...
Irregular Army
How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals...