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The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin gran...

The biblical story of the destruction of Sodom has inspired countless literary visions. The city has elicited writing from Milton, Sade, Proust, Do...

A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all the odds. So impressive was the surface appearance ...

“The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentione...

The classic text, with a new introduction by Anthony Barnett In this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the “slow ...

What has become of the English Working Class in the 21st Century?Class is more central to understanding what is happening in the UK than it has bee...

It is widely argued that Britain has always followed a coherent imperialist strategy in Northern Ireland. Paul Bew and Henry Patterson take issue w...

The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal’s Maoists launched their armed r...

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the RohingyasIn 2011, Myanmar embarked in...

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, a...

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, a...

Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since André Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but presti...

The shocking history of France's secret war in Cameroon and its neocolonial afterlivesLegend has it that the end of France’s empire in sub-Saharan ...

A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s workFinalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book PrizeDes...

A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s workFinalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book PrizeDes...

The first English edition of a legendary journalist’s eyewitness account of the near-bloodless coup and the Carnation Revolution that ended fascism...

What is care and who is paying for it?Every one of us will need care at some point in life: social care, healthcare, childcare, eldercare. In the s...

An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of careValuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more...

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current cri...

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current cri...

In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding...

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it?To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy—we h...

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it?To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy—we h...