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Passages From Antiquity to Feudalis...

Perry Anderson

Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism

How the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of historical materialism, while casting a fascinating light on the Ancient world, the Germanic...

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Perry Anderson

The Dilemmas of Lenin

Tariq Ali

The Dilemmas of Lenin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin At the end of his life, Lenin wrote ‘we didn’t know everything’, acknowledging the dilemmas he faced on the road to revolution in 1917 and beyond. In this unusual exploration of the crises that Lenin overcame, the decisions he made, and actions that he took, Tariq Ali reveals an insightful political portrait of this most exemplary leader. From the first stirrings of revolutionary fervour, Lenin sought...

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Tariq Ali

Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen

Hazem Kandil

Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen

Gripping analysis of Egypt’s transformation from military regime to police state, on the road to revolution. Revolutions are difficult to understand and almost impossible to predict. Egypt’s 2011 revolt was no exception. The military’s abandonment of Mubarak—a turning point for the revolt—confounded many observers, who assumed that the leader and the generals stood or fell together. The officers, it was thought, ruled from behind the scenes and simply swapped the figures in the spotlight to...

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Hazem Kandil

City of Quartz

Mike Davis

City of Quartz

This new edition of Mike Davis’s visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century. No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, «Los Angeles brings it all together.» To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where «you can rot without feeling it.» To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being...

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Mike Davis

Bloody Nasty People

Daniel Trilling

Bloody Nasty People

How the far right entered Britain’s mainstream through the front door. The past decade in the UK saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’, these groups have been working overtime to shift the blame for the nation’s ills onto the shoulders of the vulnerable. What does this...

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Daniel Trilling

Red Flag Unfurled

Ronald Grigor Suny

Red Flag Unfurled

Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of “Communism” and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. While a quarter century after the disintegration of the USSR, the story usually told...

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Ronald Grigor Suny

China’s Revolutions in the Modern W...

Rebecca E. Karl

China’s Revolutions in the Modern World

China’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation’s “great rejuvenation,” a story narrated as the return of China to its “rightful” place at the center of the world. In China’s Revolutions in the Modern World , historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and...

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Rebecca E. Karl

The Burmese Labyrinth

Carlos Sardiña Galache

The Burmese Labyrinth

In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, even as the international community was celebrating a new dawn, old wars were raging in the northern borderlands. A crisis was emerging in western Arakan state where the regime intensified its oppression of the vulnerable Muslim Rohingya community. By 2017,...

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Carlos Sardiña Galache

Lineages of the Absolutist State

Perry Anderson

Lineages of the Absolutist State

Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism. Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why...

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Perry Anderson

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter...

Vivek Chibber

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capitalism

A provocative intellectual assault on the Subalternists' foundational work. Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on...

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Vivek Chibber

Lenin 2017

Slavoj Žižek

Lenin 2017

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Žižek argues in this new study and collection of original texts, Lenin’s true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts...

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Slavoj Žižek

Reclaiming the Black Past

Pero G. Dagbovie

Reclaiming the Black Past

In this information overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things are certain. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all think historically on a routine basis. And our perceptions of history, including African American history, have not necessarily been shaped by professional historians. In this wide-reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public knowledge and understanding of black history,...

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Pero G. Dagbovie

War Primer

Bertolt Brecht

War Primer

A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II. In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading...

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Bertolt Brecht

Der rote Himmel

Ксюша Ангел

Der rote Himmel

1860, im Süden der USA: Die Situation ist äußerst angespannt. Walther Fitchner tritt als einer von wenigen für den Erhalt der Union an – und wird von seinem politischen Gegner Montgomery zum Duell gefordert. Fitchner gewinnt das Duell, muss danach aber die Hauptstadt verlassen. Währenddessen versucht der inzwischen zum General aufgestiegene Burke, sich Walthers Besitz aufgrund eines neuen Gesetzes anzueignen. Um dem zu entgehen, bleibt Walther nichts anderes übrig, als den Eid auf die...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Invention of the Land of Israel

Шломо Занд

The Invention of the Land of Israel

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of Invention of the Jewish People. What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth...

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Шломо Занд

Arguments Within English Marxism

Perry Anderson

Arguments Within English Marxism

The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An editor of The New Reasoner in 1957–59, a founder of the New Left in 1960, now an eloquent champion of civil rights, Thompson has most recently aroused widespread interest with the appearance of his...

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Perry Anderson

October

China Miéville

October

Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down Award-winning writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take...

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China Miéville

The Bourgeois

Franco Moretti

The Bourgeois

Who – and what – are the Bourgeois? “The bourgeois … Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,’ wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois ‘opinions and ideals’—what are they?” ...

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Franco Moretti

America’s Romance with the English...

Thomas J. Mickey

America’s Romance with the English Garden

Named one of “the year's best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the...

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Thomas J. Mickey

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violenc...

Meredith Terretta

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon, as well as oral sources, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence chronicles the spread of the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalist movement from the late 1940s into the first...

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Meredith Terretta

Marikana

PETER DUKES ALEXANDER

Marikana

The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail, beginning with a valuable history of the events leading up to the killing of workers, and including eyewitness accounts of...

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PETER DUKES ALEXANDER

Holy Week

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Holy Week

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly traumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where Malecki, his pregnant wife, and his younger brother...

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Jerzy Andrzejewski

Die Fürstin

Ксюша Ангел

Die Fürstin

Deutschland im Jahre 1722: Charlotte stammt aus einem verarmten Adelshaus und muss sich als eine von acht Töchtern glücklich schätzen, dass Fürst Carl Anton sich bereitfindet, sie zur Frau zu nehmen. Für ihren Bräutigam ist sie jedoch nur Mittel zum Zweck, ihm den ersehnten Thronfolger zu schenken – denn nur so kann er das Reich vor seinem gefährlichen Feind schützen. Während die junge Fürstin alles tut, um die in sie gesetzten Erwartungen zu erfüllen, gerät ihr Leben in höchste Gefahr …

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Ксюша Ангел

Reading Victorian Deafness

Jennifer Esmail

Reading Victorian Deafness

Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people’s language use was a public, influential, and...

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Jennifer Esmail

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