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Slavoj Žižek

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The Thirty Years’ Wars

by Andrew Kopkind

In Boston in the 1970s he wrote articles and movie reviews for a range of publications and did regular political commentary for WBCN radio. With...

2 posts
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post
Senseless Acts of Beauty

by George McKay

“The secret history of the last two decades.”—Jon Savage

1 post
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
5 posts

Enigmas

by Mario Perniola
What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?
Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Where the Boys Are

by Van Gosse
The Destruction of Yugoslavia

by Branka Magaš

A Yugoslavian’s analysis of her country’s descent into violence.

A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

“Very learned, very informative.”—Victor Kiernan

2 posts
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 posts
Misplaced Ideas

by Roberto Schwarz
Essays on history, culture and identity by one of the foremost Latin American intellectuals of our time.
1 post
A Zone of Engagement

by Perry Anderson
An assessment of the seminal thinkers at the border of history and politics.

English Questions

by Perry Anderson
Examines British society in the sixties, and the changes wrought by the next two decades.
7 posts
The Making of Bourgeois Europe

by Colin Mooers

A defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution in European history

5 posts
Rethinking the French Revolution

by George Comninel
“Bold and convincing.”—Village Voice
7 posts
New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time

by Ernesto Laclau
A critical examination of social struggle in the context of late capitalism.
9 posts

Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism

by Rodney Hilton
How capitalism evolved from the economics of feudalism.
3 posts
Red Brotherhood at War

by Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley
A comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina
1 post
Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England

by Christopher Hill
“Arguably [Hill’s] most flawless achievement.”—Times Literary Supplement
7 posts
States of Emergency

by Robert Lumley
“A fascinating account.”—Paul Ginsborg
4 posts

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