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No major figure of the English Augustan period has generated stronger and more contradictory views than Jonathan Swift. Scourge of the Whig ascenda...

How anti-fascism is as American as apple pieSince the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedWhen first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deade...

One of the fruits of the revival of socialist economic theory over the past decade has been a wide-ranging debate about the validity of Marx’s labo...

Western philosophies of history commonly regard nature as a mere arena in which human beings suffer, labour and create. In this lucid and clearly w...

According to the media, the 2000 election debacle was a once-in-a-century fluke. But, in this riveting new polemic, political analyst Daniel Lazare...

Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistanceThroughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and r...

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others aro...

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others aro...

An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global historyThroughout written history and across the world, women have pro...

A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generat...

In Edward Hallet Carr’s definitive biography Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the...

“Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical ...

One hundred kilometers from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the center of a tireless st...

The dramatic story of the peoples' fight for the right to vote in BritainThe culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian...

The dramatic story of the peoples' fight for the right to vote in BritainThe culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian...

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely accl...

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely accl...

From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca ...

From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca ...

How artists have changed America through direct actionArtists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do m...

How artists have changed America through direct action and protestArtists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can i...

The War of Gods traces the intimate relationship between religion, politics and social issues in Latin America over the last three decades, as libe...

Wilhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julien Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke ... the golden age of the European novel discovers ...