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Ellen Meiksins Wood

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Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.

Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent.

47 posts
Lineages of the Absolutist State

by Perry Anderson
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism
5 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
5 posts
Britain's Empire

by Richard Gott
Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation.
18 posts

Theatres of Memory

by Raphael Samuel

The classic, passionate plea to “remember what others forget.”

3 posts
The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The classic history of the Paris Commune.

21 posts
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

by Arno Mayer

An acclaimed history of the Holocaust.

7 posts
A People's History of London

by Lindsey German and John Rees
The forgotten history of London: the world capital of revolution
21 posts

The Eitingons

by Mary-Kay Wilmers

A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky

4 posts
Proletarian Nights

by Jacques Rancière
A classic text by Rancière on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century.
17 posts
Dispatches from the Dark Side

by Gareth Peirce
Acclaimed examination of the British government’s complicity in torture.
18 posts
The Enchanted Glass

by Tom Nairn

The acclaimed anatomy of Britain’s relationship with its monarchy, by the foremost historian of nationalism.

11 posts

The New Old World

by Perry Anderson

A magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War.

50 posts
Albion's Fatal Tree

by Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, et al.
Renowned social historians examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society.
4 posts
A Book of Migrations

by Rebecca Solnit
"A brilliant meditation on travel."—The New York Times
9 posts
Citizens to Lords

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
A major new history of Western political thought as it evolved through conflict and communities.
12 posts

The Invention of Paris

by Eric Hazan

A radical guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.

52 posts
The Meaning of the Second World War

by Ernest Mandel

“One of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxists of the post-war world.”—The Guardian

4 posts
A Common Treasury

by Gerrard Winstanley

Some of the earliest examples of communist thought, introduced by Tony Benn.

16 posts
Night Haunts

by Sukhdev Sandhu

“Some of the greatest insights we have into contemporary London.”—Daily Telegraph

5 posts

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