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In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the ...

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the...

Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown—symbolized by Trump’...

An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in econo...

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce.In...

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the n...

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new editionIn this provocative and now-classic w...

Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they se...

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-EuropeanIn this distillation of reflections accumulated from a life...

Stories from the front line of the war in El Salvador are juxtaposed with tales of Hollywood-mythological childhood, and the history of Los Angeles...

In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half mil...

This unique guide to the politics and recent history of Central America by one of its most distinguished commentators opens with a succinct overvie...

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE****Finalist for the 2023 Moore...

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE****Shortlisted for the 2023 Mo...

The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to noth...

A history of the Panthay Rebellion against the Chinese imperial courtThe Panthay Rebellion of 1856–1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay ...

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequalityIn the wake of the mass protests following the police murder of George...

The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideasIn 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of...

The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon MarblesThe Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and ex...

The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon MarblesThe Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and ex...

The Fall of the Tory PartyDespite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It n...

The Fall of the Tory PartyDespite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It n...

In this ambitious work, Giacomo Marramao proposes a radical reconceptualization of the world system in our era of declining state sovereignty. He a...

Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified ...