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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

Verso World History Series

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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  • Peasant-Citizen and Slave

    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 ...
    Paperback

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  • The Persistence of the Old Regime

    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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  • Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

    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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  • Lineages of the Absolutist State

    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...
    Paperback

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  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    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

    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

    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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  • European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

    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

    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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