Zed Books: 608 books
China's Asian Dream
Empire Building along the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the...
Africa's Odious Debts
How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is...
The New Maids
Transnational Women and the Care Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers...
Catastrophe
What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state...
Year of Fire, Year of Ash
The Soweto Schoolchildrens Revolt that Shook Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
‘We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.’
Nelson Mandela
Originally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of Ash is an eye-opening account...
A Jar of Wild Flowers
Essays in Celebration of John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
‘John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. These essays tell us how he succeeded in that task.’
Arundhati Roy
In this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic collaborators and followers come together...
A Kingdom in Crisis
Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
‘Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand’s present political impasse. A brilliant book.’
Simon Long, The Economist
Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, and convulsed by an intractable conflict that will determine its future, Thailand stands at a defining moment...
Yours for the Union
Class and Community Struggles in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
*Yours for the Union *stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled...
The Trouble with Aid
Why Less Could Mean More for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments...
Fast Fashion
A cut from Clothing Poverty with exclusive new content
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013. Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand...
Africa's New Oil
Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The development of Africa’s oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets. But the story of African oil has usually been associated with conflict, corruption and disaster, with older producers...
by Eric Hazan, Kamo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a ‘democratic consensus’ that has, since...
Women and the War on Boko Haram
Wives, Weapons, Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram’s campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions....
Angry White People
Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
'An enlightening, thoughtful and intelligent study.'
The Independent
There is a new anger brewing in Britain. In the pubs and estates, the cafes and football stadiums, the mood is unsettled. People kick back increasingly against whoever or whatever is presented as the latest scapegoat.
Delving...