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How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets ...

A groundbreaking history of oil and it's importance to US politics, finance, militarism and consumerism from an award-winning author and scholarThi...

How oil greases the wheels of global capitalismThis expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s ...

While the rest of the media lounge in the warm glow of New Labour’s rosy dawn, one journalist in Britain has been a consistently sharp and witty sc...

In this moving and personal account of the forty-three-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Román de la Camp...

Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and gall...

From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robi...

A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.Raymond Williams is a towering presence i...

Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the apporach that has come to be known as “cultural...

Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.Raymond Williams was a pioneering schol...

Over the last half of the twentieth century, culture moved to the foreground of political and intellectual life. Suddenly everyone discovered that ...

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political stormIn an age of protest, cultural institutions have come...

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political stormIn an age of protest, cultural institutions have come...

"Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture." –Elizabeth Alexander, author of Th...

A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car ... The explosion in the development of computer- and robot-based manufacturing is seeing the...

How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggleAcross the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is ...

An anti-capitalist guide to breaking the power of Big TechBig Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In t...

An anti-capitalist guide to breaking the power of Big TechBig Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In t...

Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmod...

On the fraught bonds between daughters and their fathers, women and the patriarchywomen patriarchy In this beguiling, incisive book, critically acc...

Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

In a world tour that touches down in Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo, George Lipsitz exp...

A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the wom...

Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar NegtCollaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist...