Verso: 737 books
by Jean Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter—not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics,...
Care
The Political Economy of Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care
We are living through a crisis of care. Looking at austerity measures, cuts and closures, it is easy to conclude that there is a lack of care, that we exist in a society that is careless. Care--the practice of valuing...
War and Revolution
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses...
Mobility Justice
The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis...
Deep Mountain
Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2020
From the Armenian communities of Venice Beach and Paris, to Turkey and Armenia, Deep Mountain is a nuanced and moving exploration of the living history and continuing denial of the Armenian genocide. Encountering writers, thinkers and activists from across the Turkish-Armenian divide, Ece Temelkuran...
The Return of the Public
Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same time, journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News International and elsewhere have been breaking the law on an industrial scale....
Dispatches from the Dark Side
On Torture and the Death of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legalprinciples and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the‘War on Terror’. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such asthose of Guantánamo detainees Shafiq Rasul and Binyam...
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...