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by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development...
by Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Max Weber, widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology, is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe and the analysis of modernity. But he also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East, and turned the youthful...
A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet
In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of struggling peoples throughout the ages.
From the earliest human societies to the Holy...
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
In addition to a new translation of her doctoral...
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity...
The Progress of This Storm
Nature and Society in a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from...
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today
On its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked...
Power Games
A Political History of the Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation...
Policing the Planet
Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
How policing became the major political issue of our time
Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police...
Cultural Capital
The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything,...
Agonistics
Thinking The World Politically
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural...
All Over the Map
Writing on Buildings and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.”
by Nicholas Abercrombie, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
For a long time, the term “ideology” was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory...