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Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico...
Last Futures
Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?
In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future,...
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions...
In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises
In the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamored to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state,...
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
The New Global Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history—democratic revolt and social revolution—are being lived by millions...
Europe's Fault Lines
Racism and the Rise of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-right
It is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone’s minds is:...
Border Vigils
Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States has been to raise the drawbridge: immigrant workers are needed, but no longer welcome. So migrants die...
Against the Troika
Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity
On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance—not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged....
Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
Colonial Exploitation in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private...
School Wars
The Battle for Britain's Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments.
Now, with the growing...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy
Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close and Marx’s work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars.
Based...
Spaces of Global Capitalism
A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.
David...
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
“Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing...