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The battle for online rights and for the future of democracy Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? ...

The battle for online rights and for the future of democracy Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? ...

Silvio Berlusconi, a self-made man with a taste for luxurious living, owner of a huge television empire and the politician who likened a German MEP...

A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: An...

A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: An...

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalismIn our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freigh...

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalismIn our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freigh...

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden’s revelations in our age of surveillance   One day in t...

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden’s revelations in our age of surveillance   One day in t...

The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaignerIn this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and polit...

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout EuropeOver the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums ...

In this path-breaking work, Alan Carling develops a general theory of social division centring on the three core areas of social class, gender and ...

This outstanding and original volume offers a critical examination of a number of developments which in recent years have undermined the idea of so...

How Puritanism made modern BritainIn order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War, it is essential to get a grasp on the nature of Puri...

Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalismFor years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capita...

Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalismFor years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capita...

"I looked around my cell and saw the sheet of paper taped to the door at chest height. It listed everything in the room, chair, bed, soldier box … ...

How war gave birth to revolution in the 19th centuryThe Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organi...

One of the most momentous events in the Arab uprisings that swept across the Middle East in 2011 was the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. As d...

Revolutions are difficult to understand and almost impossible to predict. Egypt’s 2011 revolt was no exception. The military’s abandonment of Mubar...

What are the sources of solidarity? Do universalist motives have an important place among them? And how are they related to arguments about human n...

In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reve...

In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reve...