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Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-281-3
EAN 9781844672813
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.
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Groundbreaking account of the development of capitalism.The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-986-7
EAN 9781844679867
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-963-8
EAN 9781844679638
One of Britain's foremost political writers confronts ten years of murderous delusion.In 2001, Tony Blair declared that those who opposed the war on terror had been proved wrong' along with critics of unfettered corporate power and free market capitalism.Ten years later, the critics have been comprehensively vindicated and the champions of the New World Order ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 142 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-042-1
EAN 9781781680421
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world's racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a ...
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Irregular Army
. How the War on Terror brought Neo-nazis, Gang Memebers and Criminals into the US Military
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-880-8
EAN 9781844678808
Reveals the US military's don't ask, don't tell approach to extremists in its ranks.Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars now the longest wars in American history the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard's explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white ...
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This is a first collection by leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine. Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 31,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-871-6
EAN 9781844678716
With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century - the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational banks and corporations. ...
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In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-862-4
EAN 9781844678624
For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by "timeless" standards ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-861-7
EAN 9781844678617
Searching examination of the influence of the pro-war Left on US foreign policy.A war that has killed over a million Iraqis was a 'humanitarian intervention', the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam.Those are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, ranging from ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-969-0
EAN 9781844679690
Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas presents a searing critique of the neoliberal nature of the Eurozone and ruthlessly dissects the roots of the current financial turmoil and the European debt crisis. Lapavitsas argues that European austerity is contradictory because it leads ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-855-6
EAN 9781844678556
The forgotten history of London: the world capital of revolutionIn the eyes of Britain's heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background.Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ...
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The Journey to Tahrir
Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt 1999-2011
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 26,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-875-4
EAN 9781844678754
The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers, an editor of Middle East Report - the premier journal covering the region - brings together updated essays that offer unrivalled analysis of the transformation. Starting with the momentous eighteen days of street protest that ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-787-0
EAN 9781844677870
The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary someone who ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-766-5
EAN 9781844677665
In this short, highly readable book, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of The Modern World-System, his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity. In developing an anatomy of capitalism over the past five centuries, Wallerstein provides one of the most coherent and succinct introductions to the genesis of a ...
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The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-701-6
EAN 9781844677016
Provocative and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are ...
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- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 283 páginas
PVP: 26,85 €
ISBN 978-0-86091-915-5
EAN 9780860919155
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