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On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair’s “War on Terror.” Six years on, where have...

Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, C...

This expose of Washington politics revives the disreputable profession of muckraking, scrutinizing with an unforgiving eye the political culture of...

A DEVASTATING ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN MILITARY FOLLY  AND POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION BY THE WASHINGTON EDITOR OF HARPER’S MAGAZINEWashington Is Burning reve...

Sanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of...

A private American consortium of corporate owners aims to pipe and ship water from northern Quebec to the US. Congressmen, state governors, and a f...

A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican governmentFrom a storefront law office in the ...

The “inspiring,” little-known history of the Jewish vigilantes of the 43 Group, who fought fascism in Britain following World War II (Guardian). R...

The “inspiring,” little-known history of the Jewish vigilantes of the 43 Group, who fought fascism in Britain following World War II (Guardian). R...

Taking apart the ideology of the "middle class"Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our...

The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a mil...

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Offic...

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 and shortlisted ...

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 and shortlisted ...

The industrial revolution which so transformed nineteenth-century labour brought about fundamental changes in the lives of working-class families. ...

A masterful, polyphonic portrait of a nation in turmoil from a Nobel Laureate in Literature.Though kaleidoscopic and ambitious in range and form, W...

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to powerIn 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, ...

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies a...

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies a...

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek argues ...

This collection is designed to answer the demands of students and socialists, teachers and interested readers, for a comprehensive critique of the ...

This collection is designed to answer the demands of students and socialists, teachers and interested readers, for a comprehensive critique of the ...

Most writing on the dramatic events in the former Soviet Union has been based on the assumption that Russia is engaged in a transition from “state ...

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists ...