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With the collapse of state socialism, women in Eastern and Central Europe are now faced with more than the double burden of paid and domestic labor...

Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China’s most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commen...

Circus Americanus is a riotous excursion through America’s changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff...

Why are cities centers of power? A sociological analysis of urban politicsIn this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of u...

Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, C...

After a tumultuous century, the Jewish radical tradition lives on in the United StatesSince October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive Amer...

In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from...

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the se...

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

Hong Kong’s film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain’s return of the colony to China. Unc...

Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence ...

"This remarkable book enhances Ariella Azoulay’s position as the most compelling theorist of photography writing today."–Jonathan Crary, author of ...

Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence ...

American civilization’s dominance over Europe—and what to do about itIn 1900, an American of taste was a European in exile; in 2000, a trendy Europ...

How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic - and what the lessons are for todayWinner of the...

Some of the liveliest and most fruitful debates in recent historical writing have been about the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Rodney Hi...

A bold new history of the global class war A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the ma...

What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollers In an age of austerity, elite corporate educat...

For ten years, Tory Britain has burned. From Brixton ’81 to Oxford, Cardiff, and Tyneside ’91 the unforgivable have risen and seized back their str...

When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband “The Man Who Hated Britain,” a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with ...

One of the major works of the new American Marxism, Wright’s book draws a challenging new class map of the United States and other, comparable, adv...

One of the major works of the new American Marxism, Wright’s book draws a challenging new class map of the United States and other, comparable, adv...

Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James AwardSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian Davi...