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In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, w...

A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters ...

This corrective history of Scotland reveals the little-told stories of freedom fighters and suffragettes—offering a passionate case for Scottish In...

Discover French history as you’ve never read it before in this bold account of the French Revolution from the perspective of the lower classes. T...

Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of s...

An original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new strugglesCan...

This “passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things” explores how walking influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry D...

This philosophical ode to finding joy in simple things explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and...

This “passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things” explores how walking influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry D...

The best-selling author of A Philosophy of Walking returns to address the eternal subject of human conflictRussia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to ma...

A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the w...

All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century—and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and...

A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natur...

A radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching assessment of why we haven’t won—from the best-selling author of Capital CityIn the ...

Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humi...

Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humi...

Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ...

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by ...

The trans panic has not always been with us: it was inventedAward-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from N...

The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. I...

How a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forcesAnalytic philosophy is the leading form of p...

How a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forcesAnalytic philosophy is the leading form of p...

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thoughtIn this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of pol...