Verso Books: 696 books
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire
Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests...
Revolution in the Air
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968
The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from...
Underground America
Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the United States under constant threat of imprisonment or deportation. They survive underground, with little protection from exploitation by human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men...
Chasing the Harvest
Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States
The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination...
Soldier Box
Why I Won't Return to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
"I looked around my cell and saw the sheet of paper taped to the door at chest height. It listed everything in the room, chair, bed, soldier box … For a moment I thought it meant the cell itself; a box to put soldiers in."
When the War on Terror began, Briton Joe Glenton felt compelled...
by Oli Mould
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.
From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is 'be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society; celebrated...
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat
A Novel of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy by one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria and Libertaria, in his quest...
The Rise of Islamic State
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award
Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in...
The Social Origins of Private Life
A History of American Families, 1600-1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit
Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This acclaimed study surveys the dominant popular and scholarly images of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Finkelstein opens with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating it as a romantic form of nationalism that assumed the bankruptcy of liberal democracy. He goes on to look at the demographic...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist
Perry Anderson’s essay “The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has...
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism
The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country'
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments...
Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction
Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
Racial Oppression and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes...