Zed Books: 608 books
Theory of African Literature
Implications for Practical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Written by a prominent Nigerian public intellectual, the book was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature.
A provocative Afro-centric analysis of African literature that remains essential reading for anyone studying work from the region.
Features a new foreword by Buidun Jeyifo, Professor of African Literature at Harvard University.
Leadership in the Cuban Revolution
The Unseen Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Most conventional readings of the Cuban Revolution have seemed mesmerised by the personality and role of Fidel Castro, often missing a deeper political understanding of the Revolution’s underlying structures, bases of popular loyalty and ethos of participation. In this ground-breaking work, Antoni...
Ghana
One Decade of the Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government in an era of globalization and liberal triumphalism has brought with it new demands. How has Ghana faced up to the problems of institution-building,...
Angry Nation
Turkey since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Since its re-emergence as nation-state in 1923, Turkey has often looked like an odd appendix to the West situated in the borderlands of Europe and the Middle East, economically backward, inward looking, marred by political violence, yet a staunch NATO ally, it has been eyed with suspicion by both...
Iran's Influence
A Religious-Political State and Society in its Region
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider. Iran's Influence is the first comprehensive analysis of the role that Iran plays both in Middle Eastern and global politics. Expert Iranian author Elaheh Rostami Povey provides a much-needed...
Iran in Crisis?
Nuclear Ambitions and the American Response
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Is Iran at a crossroads? The recent US - led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought new opportunities and dangers that could conceivably either herald a new rapprochement between Tehran and Washington or else bring a sharp detorioration that might perhaps spill over into confrontation. At home,...
Catastrophe Remembered
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees: Essays in Memory of Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The 1948 Palestine War is known to Israelis as 'the War of Independence'. But for Palestinians, the war is forever the Nakba, the 'catastrophe'. The war led to the creation of the State of Israel and the destruction of much of Palestininan society by the Zionist forces. For all Palestinians, the Nakba...
The Palestinians
From Peasants to Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
As the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is more important now than ever to understand the history of the Palestinian people. Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history. Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps, she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots...
Egypt
The Moment of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Egypt is at the axis of the Arab world. With the largest population, the largest industrial economy and the longest tradition of modern political activity it has profound influence across the region. But there have been few attempts to understand contemporary Egyptian society, in particular growing...
The Global Land Grab
Beyond the Hype
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenceless, and one about which multilateral organizations,...
Beyond US Hegemony
Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this major new work - the result of a lifetime of intellectual engagement - one of the developing world's most famous thinkers reflects on the times we live in. He argues that US hegemony has reached a dangerous new level under George Bush Jr, and that the US President's hubristic militarism will...
Imperial Overstretch
George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
George W. Bush has fundamentally changed America's place in the world. In some neo-conservative circles the word 'empire' is back in fashion, and a great republic that broke away from the British empire is now supposed to be proud of its new imperial role. This book explains how the neo-conservatives...
The End of Conceit
Western Rationality after Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
In this radical new book, Patrick Chabal reveals how the future of the West is now inextricably linked to that of the non-West. The rise of the economic power of China and other Asian countries as well as urgent environmental issues now force the West to think in new ways about how to best face the...
by Mary Stella Chika Okolo
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested. African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular...