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A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great BritainThe Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Comm...

The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most nota...

Place: Latin Quarter, Paris. Date: May 1968. Cast: Polly, Giorgio, Jane, Anna, Arthur and a thousand rioting students. Plot: Polly accepts that it ...

With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the glob...

This defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution reasserts the importance of basic historical materialist precepts to an understanding of the ri...

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of compet...

The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of p...

This lively book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world. Th...

This lively book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world. Th...

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum,...

The exposé of the dark side of US foreign policy explores how America’s failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria have increased threats to na...

The exposé of the dark side of US foreign policy explores how America’s failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria have increased threats to na...

Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-...

In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he ...

The very scale of the 1939–45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable...

Generating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter-revolution in intellectual life has seen ...

The Melancholy Science is Gillian Rose’s investigation into Theodor Adorno’s work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fr...

What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-mad...

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partner...

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partner...

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partner...

The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of “irrational” violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context o...