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Now newly updated, America’s Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States’s special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also know...

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him thereDonald Trump’s residency in the White House is ...

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American EmpireSince the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been clo...

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been cl...

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed societyIn this provocative book, Jeffrey Escoffier trac...

A radical reinterpretation of the Cold War by its most iconoclastic historian.What was the cold war? Conventional wisdom makes it coextensive with ...

The Americas of the 1850s provides James Dunkerley with compelling material for this majestic and unorthodox book. Drawing on a range of contempora...

AN ACUTE, OVERARCHING ANALYSIS OF ALLAN SEKULA’S PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM AND PROSE, ILLUMINATING HIS CRITIQUE OF NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISMThe photographer, f...

This definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination collects “an impressive array of testimony and evidence” to offer a new perspect...

This definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination collects “an impressive array of testimony and evidence” to offer a new perspect...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radical...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radical...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radical...

Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, was one of Latin America’s best known and most popular film-makers. The only woman director in the region to...

A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army.The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was...

What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexande...

What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexande...

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques DerridaWho is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativ...

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques DerridaWho is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativ...

A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both th...

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of ...

Whatever happened to the working class? A compelling new social history of Britain since 1945From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Ama...

Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one of th...

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they a...