Author: Gopal Balakrishna
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: mapping, series, nation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1859840604
ISBN-13: 9781859840603

Few political phenomena have proved as confusing and difficult to comprehend as nationalism. There is no consensus on its identity, genesis or future. Are we, for example, in the process of being thrust back into a nineteenth-century world of competitive and aggressive great powers and petty nationalisms? Or are we being flung headlong into a new, globalized and supra-national millennium? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role, or has nationalism always been implicated in an exclusivist ethnic and militaristic logic? Mapping the Nation

Authors:Perry Anderson,  Patrick Camiller,
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: mapping, england, london, european, west
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0860919277
ISBN-13: 9780860919278

This authoritative survey provides the first comprehensive map of the trials and tribuations of the West European left over the last decade. Organized as a series of tightly linked, comparative assessments, it provides a guide to the state of the left in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. While all the essays are detailed historical compositions -- setting recent crises and dilemmas in a longer perspective reaching back into the postwar settlement -- they articulate original insights into the contemporary political conjuncture. Why did Swedish social democracy

Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, sky, open
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844672085
ISBN-13: 9781844672080

A passionate critique of information technology and the global media."One day the day will come when the day will not come." Bleak, but passionately political in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern technologies of communication anc surveillance Open Sky is Paul Virilio’s most far-reaching and radical book. Deepening and extending his earlier work, he explores the growing danger of what he calls a "generalized accident," provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media. But this is

Author: Linda Melvern
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: revised, genocide, rwandan, murder, conspiracy
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-04-17
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1844675424
ISBN-13: 9781844675425

The definitive account of the Rwandan genocide—voted Best Book on Africa by Foreign Affairs.This award-winning and acclaimed history of the Rwandan genocide has been fully updated for this paperback edition. In April 1994 up to a million people were slaughtered in Rwanda during a murderous campaign of horrifying efficiency. The ferocity of the killing and the cruelty inflicted on defenseless people has no comparison in modern times. Conspiracy to Murder is the story of how that genocide was planned. It reveals how, from as early as 1990, the political, military and administrativ

Author: Etienne Balibar
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: marx, philosophy
Number of Pages: 139
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1844671879
ISBN-13: 9781844671878

The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need. Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar. He examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings, including his early works,

Author: Gavan McCormack
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: embrace, american, japan, state, client
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 184467133X
ISBN-13: 9781844671335

McCormack traces Japan’s institutional, political and military transformation through a history of its subservience to Washington Consensus policies. Japan is the world’s No. 2 economy, greater in GDP than Britain and France together and almost double that of China. It is also the most durable, generous, and unquestioning ally of the US, attaching priority to its Washington ties over all else. In Client State, Gavan McCormack examines the current transformation of Japan, designed to meet the demands from Washington that Japan become the "Great Britain of the Far East." Exploring p

Author: Kim Moody
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: haymarket, unionism, american, decline, injury
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0860919293
ISBN-13: 9780860919292

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of ’business unionism’ effectively disarmed unions in face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production. Eschewing alliances with new social forces in favour of its old Cold War liaisons and illusory compacts with big business, the AFL-CIO under George Meany and Lane Kirkland has been forced to surrender many