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Archive of Imagined Communities

    Verso Books
    09 September 2022
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    Bestsellers of the Student Reading Sale

    Our top 20 bestselling books of the Student Reading Sale – get them all for 40% off!

    Verso Books
    29 August 2022
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    Anthropology: Verso Student Reading

    Our Anthropology reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    25 August 2022
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    10 Books Every Student Should Read!

    Must-read Verso classics for all students.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2022
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    Understanding the Enemy: Verso Student Reading on the Far Right

    Books on authoritarianism, fascism and the far-right from across 50 years of publishing.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2022
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    Key Debates in Theory: Verso Student Reading

    The most pressing debates in left theory from 50 years of radical publishing.

    Vazira Zamindar
    01 March 2022
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    Towards a Radical Practice of History: When Can History Repair?

    Historian Vazira Zamindar asks if history has the disciplinary tools to practice repair, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

    Verso Books
    16 December 2021
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    Verso Gift Guide

    Books to ignite radical ideas: 40% off all print books and 60% off all ebooks.

    Verso Books
    22 August 2021
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    Sociology: Verso Student Reading

    Our Sociology reading for the academic year ahead.

    Benedict Anderson
    04 August 2020
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    The Origins of National Consciousness

    The convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation. 

    20 May 2020
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    A Question of Belonging: Imagining Mutual Aid

    Freya Marshall Payne looks at how communities have been imagined under COVID-19 and what the future of Mutual Aid might be after the virus.

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