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Recent Publications:
Agreement!
The state, conflict and change in Northern Ireland
Beatrix Campbell
Published ten years after the Good
Friday Agreement, this book is about the people, ideas and movements that
created it. But it is also about its limits; how the Agreement's promise was
frequently betrayed. Read
introduction
Imagined
Nation
Edited by Mark Perryman
Imagined Nation
explores the possibilities for England after Britain - as a multicultural
nation, capable of addressing the legacies of history, yet confident enough
to construct an inclusive future.
Read
introduction
The
T & G story A History of the Transport and General Workers Union, 1922-2007
Andrew Murray
The Transport and
General Workers Union was the biggest trade union in Britain for much of the
20th century, with its membership in the late 1970s reaching more than two
million. It organised workers across the whole economy - from the docks to
the car factories, from light engineering to aviation - and its activities
touched the lives of many.
Women's
Voices from the Spanish Civil War
Edited by Jim Fyrth with Sally Alexander
Perhaps more than
any other war in the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War was seen as
a 'writers' war' - names such as Hemingway and Orwell spring to mind. But
the women who went to Spain and wrote about it have often been forgotten.
This anthology is part of efforts to redress the balance ...
Soundings
39 Interesting times
The summer issue of Soundings is out now.
Articles on China, Pakistan, Africa; Heathrow; corporate responsibility; new
media; binge drinking; national melancholy; and sexual violence.
More information on Soundings
Ideology,
Absolutism and the English Revolution
David Parker
Offers a glimpse
into some of the early debates inside the History Group of the Communist Party
of Great Britain, whose members included Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and
Eric Hobsbawm. This book focuses on the debates of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
section and their work on ideology and absolutism...
Building a Citizen Society
Stuart White and Daniel Leighton
'The ideals of civic republicanism have been undergoing a renaissance in scholarly
circles for many years. This volume brings those ideas to bear on a range
of contemporary issues … lucid, radical and relevant.' Richard Reeves
'a major contribution to neorepublican democratic theory' Philip Pettit
Development
of Socialist Economic Thought: essays by Maurice Dobb
Edited and introduced by Brian Pollitt
This collection brings together a selection of essays written in the 1960s
and 1970s, on socialist economic thought and planning. The essays discuss
many issues of relevance today - how to bring about growth in non-industrialised
countries; non-market approaches to the economy; and the relevance of Marx
to analysing commodity capitalism.
newformations
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After '68: The Left and 21st Century Political Projects
Essays
include evaluations of May ’68 as an expression of radical immanence, the
transformations of capitalism, critical conceptions of cosmopolitanism and
humanism, the juxtaposition of Paris ’68 and Seattle ’99, and the necessity
of utopianism.
Read editorial
Anarchist Studies Vol 16 no1
Contributors include Allan Antliff on abstract art,
Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos on Leo Tolstoy and
Charles Thorpe and Ian Welsh on anarchism,
science and technology.
Read
editorial
Culture,
Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall
Edited by Brian Meeks
The essays in this collection are a tribute to Stuart Hall, and to the outstanding
contribution he has made to contemporary cultural, social and political thought.
Read some of
Stuart's essays in our Reading Room.
Race,
Identity & Belonging This collection brings together insightful writers
from the forefront of current debates, to think together about questions such
as living with difference, changing definitions of equality, muslim identities,
cosmopolitanism, gun crime, and the wider relationship between neoliberalism
and racial power.
Read
introduction
Marx
in London
Asa Briggs and John Callow
Marx lived in London from 1849 until 1883 and this book links his story to
the places in the capital where he lived and worked, including Soho, Kentish
Town, the British Museum Reading Room, Covent Garden and Hampstead Heath.
Includes maps and illustrations. Read
sample chapter
After
Identity
Jonathan Rutherford
'There has been
thus far no better inventory made of the human consequences of individualisation,
and the price which individuals are required to pay for their freedom of self-assertion
in a world vacated by the past and denying hospitality to the future.' Zygmunt
Bauman
Read Introduction
After
Blair: Politics after the New Labour Decade
Edited by Gerry Hassan
This book asks what the future holds for progressive politics as the Blair
era draws to a close. An over-arching story of a commitment to socialism once
made the compromises of government worthwhile or bearable. After Blair asks
whether progressives still have a story that can sustain their faith in the
future. Read
introductory essay
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