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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones ...
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On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Budaexploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap nearNew York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype thecar bomb has evolved into a poor man's air force, a generic weapon ofmass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma ...
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Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.In this expanded new edition of a highly acclaimed work, Manning Marable rejects both liberal inclusionist strategies and the separatist politics of the likes of Louis Farrakhan, arguing powerfully for a new transformationist' ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-769-1
EAN 9781784787691
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or powerThe trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with ...
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A fascinating exploration of the American mind by one of the most important radical writers.In his study of Herman Melville, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, C.L.R. James wrote: My ultimate aim is to write a study of American Civilization. This project, long in gestation, at last sees the light of day in this posthumous publication of ...
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Darkwater
Voices from Within the Veil
- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-775-2
EAN 9781784787752
Essential reading for students of African-American historyThe distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Part essay, part autobiography, Darkwater explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of ...
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Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an unclassifiable philosopher. His essay On the Concept of History' was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-813-7
EAN 9781781688137
It's easy to imagine the end of the world, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek has remarked, but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. Jacobin editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures ...
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A stylishly designed datebook including dates from across worldwide radical historyThe 2017 Verso Radical Diary is not just a beautifully designed week-to-week planner where you can keep track of your coming year, including international holidays, it also includes significant dates in radical history from Spartacus to blacklivesmatter, from the English Civil War to the American ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-621-2
EAN 9781784786212
Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national ...
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Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish traditionThey were on the barricades from the avenues of Petrograd to the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto, from the anti-Franco struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance. Before the Holocaust Yiddishland was a vast expanse of Eastern Europe running from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and ...
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Leading thinkers' critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author's responses and reformulationsVivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication, by the Journal of World Systems Research, as without any doubt a bomb. Chibber presented a bold attempt through the use of the tools of analytical Marxism to ...
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A new philosophy of religion for a secular worldHow can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organise a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at ...
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Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-250-4
EAN 9781784782504
Once described by Simone de Beauvoir as France's most exciting feminist theorist, the sociologist Christine Delphy was a central figure in French feminism, and one of the first to focus on the structural importance of the family in understanding women's oppression. Close to Home is her classic study of the family, patriarchal ideologies, and the ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-471-3
EAN 9781784784713
Original investigative reporting from award-winning scholar and expert on border issues, probing the ongoing migrant crisisForty thousand human beings died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. 14 million people were displaced by war in ...
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A collection of essays on the frantic retreat of democracy and the war on terror, from America's leading essayistLewis Lapham reviews the course of American democracy from the beginning of the War on Terror to the present day: from the bombastic spectacle of US elections, bought and paid for in advance, to the surveillance and ...
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Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today's leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon his teachers, opponents and allies to offer unique insights into both the authors and ...
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A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What's the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn't offer you a seat when you go into his ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-592-5
EAN 9781784785925
A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the USMark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In Against Everything, he make us rethink the ordinary, taking our own lives seriously, exploring how we might live an honest life in these dishonest times. In ...
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