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Verso World History Series

Shop the Verso World History series, including the recently released new edition of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World

3 December 2025

We're proud to present the Verso World History Series, which offers beautiful new editions of classic texts on world history, including our latest: The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World.

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The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World

by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and provocative reconstruction of 1,400 years of classical antiquity. Sharply written, it is a major intervention in Marxist theories of...
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Peasant-Citizen and Slave

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented ...
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The Persistence of the Old Regime

by Arno Mayer

In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the Europea...
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

by Perry Anderson

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of th...
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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

by Arno Mayer

Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doi...
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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture i...
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Lineages of the Absolutist State

by Perry Anderson

Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiq...
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Connected History

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history – in his case, not longue durée ...
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Nevertheless

by Carlo Ginzburg

Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjun...
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Latin

by Françoise Waquet

Foreword by Donald Sassoon

Translated by John Howe

Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Françoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's ...
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney

In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought...
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The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

Preface by Eric Hazan

Translated by Eleanor Marx

In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theh...
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The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

by Max Weber

Translated by R.I. Frank

Max Weber is widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe or the analysi...
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The Panthay Rebellion

by David G. Atwill

Foreword by Tariq Ali

The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society ...
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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

by Victor G. Kiernan

Foreword by Tariq Ali

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of...
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A History of Gold and Money

by Pierre Vilar

Translated by Judith White

For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From the ancient world of Croesus to the wealthy dynastie...
Paperback (2011)

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