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The Origins of Postmodernity

by Perry Anderson

A history of the postmodern, and the role of Fredric Jameson in shaping it.

4 posts
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

by Perry Anderson
How the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages
6 posts
A Zone of Engagement

by Perry Anderson
An assessment of the seminal thinkers at the border of history and politics.
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts

The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

15 posts
A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?
The Panthay Rebellion: Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873

by David Atwill

A history of the Panthay Rebellion against the Chinese imperial court
The Meaning of Sarkozy

by Alain Badiou

The reactionary tradition behind Sarkozy, and the communist hypothesis for the twenty-first century.

56 posts

Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
5 posts
We Want Everything

by Nanni Balestrini
The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969
14 posts
Trampling Out the Vintage

by Frank Bardacke

A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers

18 posts
Casualty Figures

by Michèle Barrett
A unique investigation of the impact of the Great War on the lives of the soldiers who survived.
3 posts

Unfinished Business

by Terry Bell and Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza
This book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.
Suffering as Identity

by Esther Benbassa
An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.
4 posts
An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd

“France’s leading Marxist public intellectual.” –Tariq Ali

23 posts
Labor and the Course of American Democracy

by Charles Bergquist
“Groundbreaking political and ideological analysis.”—Carol A. Smith, UC Davis

On the Town

by Marshall Berman
A pulsating history of Times Square and its iconic role in America's society of the spectacle.
4 posts
The Shadow of the Mine

by Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson

The rise and fall of Britain’s most important industry

3 posts
The American Crucible

by Robin Blackburn

How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionists gave us our ideals

19 posts
The Making of New World Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.

14 posts

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