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Invisibility Blues

by Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism

41 posts
The Invisible History

by Karma Nabulsi

How our contemporary counter-terrorism practices reveal the persistence of Empire
Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
11 posts
Island Stories

by Raphael Samuel
“The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning.”—Terry Eagleton, Guardian
2 posts

It Started in Wisconsin

Edited by Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle
First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labor mass mobilization in modern American history
11 posts
Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis
A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World
14 posts
Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

4 posts
Legalize This!

by Douglas Husak
Exploding the myths that sustain the criminalization of recreational drugs.

Lockdown America

by Christian Parenti
Updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics.
10 posts
Lockdown High

by Annette Fuentes

23 posts
The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

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

15 posts
Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
2 posts

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
12 posts
Malice

by Francois Flahault
The inner roots of malice—good and evil as inherent in the human condition.
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

10 posts
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

Edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi
Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world
7 posts

Mechanic Accents

by Michael Denning

“One of the most illuminating, theoretically informed accounts of popular fiction.”—Terry Eagleton

2 posts
Media Manifestos

by Régis Debray
A tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation.
2 posts
Memory and Modernity

by William Rowe and Vivian Schelling
“A new, needed and definite work.”—New Statesman and Society
The Mental and the Material

by Maurice Godelier

Groundbreaking examination of the relationship between thought, economy and society.

6 posts

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