Verso World History
This series provides attractive new editions of classic works of history, making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers. Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth century, and with a global geographical range, the series will also include thematic volumes providing insights into such topics as the spread of print cultures and the history of money.
Books in this series
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The Coming of the Book
by Lucien Febvre, and Henri-Jean Martin
Two distinguished historians examine the impact of the world's most influential information technology.
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A History of Gold and Money
“A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English.”—The Economistby Pierre Vilar
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The History of the Paris Commune of 1871
The classic history of the Paris Commune. -
The Making of New World Slavery
Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.
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The Meaning of the Second World War
“One of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxists of the post-war world.”—The Guardian
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The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery
"One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition."—Eric Foner
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The Persistence of the Old Regime
by Arno Mayer
“A seminal book—extremely challenging.”—Carlo Ginzburg
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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?
An acclaimed history of the Holocaust.by Arno Mayer