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Reification
VersoOf all the concepts which have emerged to describe the effects of capitalism on the human world, none is more graphic or easily grasped than “reifi...
View full detailsReinventing Social Emancipation
VersoThe majorconflicts between the Global North and the South can be expected toresult from the confrontation of alternative conceptions of democracy,m...
View full detailsReinventing Social Emancipation Toward New Manifestos
VersoThis is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggl...
View full detailsReinventing Social Emancipation Toward New Manifestos
VersoVolume 4 in the acclaimed series Reinventing Social Emancipation, it assembles first-person narratives from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Wide-ra...
View full detailsReinventing Social Emancipation Toward New Manifestos
VersoThis is the second volume, after Democratizing Democracy, of the collection Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.Here, the auth...
View full detailsRentier Capitalism
VersoHow did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality?In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and...
View full detailsRentier Capitalism
VersoHow did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality?In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and...
View full detailsRepeated Takes
VersoRepeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison’s talking tin foil of 1877...
View full detailsRepresenting Capital
VersoRepresenting Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the prog...
View full detailsRepublics, Nations and Tribes
VersoIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European perceptions of the ancient city underwent a dramatic alteration, due mainly to revu...
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VersoCollected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory Raymond Williams possessed unique aut...
View full detailsRestless Cities
VersoThe metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a ‘city-symphony’ to the cinematic tradition that runs from Wa...
View full detailsRestoration in Russia
VersoIt supplies an account of the former Politburo member, Boris Yeltsin—his rise to the presidency and the rifts with his parliamentary opponents, whi...
View full detailsRethinking the French Revolution
VersoHistorians generally—and Marxists in particular—have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of...
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VersoAn extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima“The journey filled me with bitterne...
View full detailsReturn to Vietnam
VersoAs journalists, both had covered the Vietnam War until 1972. after twenty long years—of Stalinism, boat people, Hollywood heroics and French nostal...
View full detailsReversed Realities
VersoReversed Realities uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the ma...
View full detailsRevolting Prostitutes
VersoHow the law harms sex workers—and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients b...
View full detailsRevolution
Verso"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it."–China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellec...
View full detailsRevolution
Verso"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it."–China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellec...
View full detailsRevolution and Counterrevolution in China
VersoA history of revolutionary China in the 20th centuryChina under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road init...
View full detailsRevolution at the Gates
VersoThe idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrop...
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VersoThis volume continues the work of Martin Murray‘s book, South Africa: Time of Agony, Time of Destiny. It explores the social forces that are curren...
View full detailsRevolution in the Age of Social Media
VersoEgypt's January 25 revolution was triggered by a Facebook page and played out both in virtual spaces and the streets. Social media serves as a spac...
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