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Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the...

Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the...

Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the...

The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twen...

Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the gr...

An intimate account of Edward Saïd's life and thoughtEdward Said is a personal, literary portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most influentia...

A gripping history of nineteenth century Egypt reveals how steam, debt, and animal viral disease powered capitalism’s spread—turning the Nile Valle...

In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England’s first capitalist revolution, and its first...

The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama in western Europe as a whole and in England in particular. It was, argues Victor Ki...

Yvonne Kapp’s monumental biography of the daughter of Karl Marx who became a radical activistEleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked ...

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, ...

In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau addresses a central question: how have the changes of the last decade, together with the transformation in conte...

In 1776, Britain is at war with American rebels. One man sets out to bring the empire down from within. Released on the 250th anniversary of the De...

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the processThe twenty-first century has witnesse...

Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White H...

This travel book explores the forgotten countries on the edge of the new Europe—Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Uzbekistan. Mixing anecdote and repor...

Ending the fossil fuel industry is the only credible path for climate policyAround the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon e...

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully ...

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully ...

A collection of essays exploring emancipatory social science, inspired by the work of pioneering sociologist Erik Olin WrightErik Olin Wright was o...

Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies, occupying roughly th...

A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published i...

In this succinct and innovative book, Mario Perniola, one of Italy’s most influential philosophers and critics, argues that our society is living t...

Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled ...