Verso Books: 696 books
by Stefan Collini
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia
In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology...
Reformation to Industrial Revolution
1530-1780
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The masterful account of Britain’s reshaping as a modern nation
In 1530 England was a backward economy. Yet by 1780 she possessed a global empire and was on the verge of becoming the world’s first industrialized power. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and explains how England...
Liberty Against the Law
Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century England
In 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The enclosures of common land, loss of many traditional rights and draconian punishments for minor transgressions...
by Christopher Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
How Puritanism made modern Britain
In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War, it is essential to get a grasp on the nature of Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Christopher Hill reveals Puritanism as a living faith, one responding to social as well as religious...
The New Faces of Fascism
Populism and the Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
What is fascism in the twenty first century?
What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images spontaneously...
All-American Nativism
How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
A searing critique of the big big business nativists dictating our immigration policy - and the moderate Democrats that put them in power
For three decades, establishment Democrats and Republicans have led a bipartisan assault on immigrants, pulled further and further right by a vocal and organized...
The Notion of Authority
A Brief Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre
Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment
to Vichy France.
This foundational...
Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.
Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of...
by Allyson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
In 2010, weeks after the election, the Coalition government started to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault disguised as austerity. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of costcutting and...
Crashing the Party
From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A leading activist-scholar on what’s next in the Sanders revolution
Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. Since that upset, repeated polls have judged this democratic socialist to be the...
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property
Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
A collection of essays on class politics in America
In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn’t feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance,...
Comrade
An Essay on Political Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
When people say 'comrade', they change the world
Between mass participation in two world wars and mass participation in Communist parties, in the 20th century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as 'comrade'. Now, it's more common to hear talk of 'allies' on the left than...
by Seumas Milne
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike “the enemy within.” With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared...
Empire of Borders
The Expansion of the US Border Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process
The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where...