The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

Bibliographia universalis As a librarian, my confrontation with the myth of the universal library has been intimate and uncomfortable. It arrived in the form of digitization, the ubiquitous internet ...

Experiments with history See the beauty of distant reading plus world literature: they go against the grain of national historiography. And they do so in the form of an experiment. You define a unit ...

What is, perhaps, even more dangerous, it has placed its stamp upon the grammar schools, even when its social cachet cannot be transmitted lower down the social scale. Whereas for the public school ...

Eichmann And Us But alienation is a diseased condition. Fascist groups re-form in Germany, France, England, and America. Swastikas decorate synagogues. The same slogans, the same pamphlets, reappear.

A Path to the World Marxism is the path to European civilization, the path to a Western tradition, seen not as the shelves of a supermarket but as the real wealth of political, cultural and social ...

The ambition of this book—Mark Greif’s first—is to identify a set of ideas from the relatively recent past, dated with arresting precision to the forty years from 1933, which bear on the present we ...

Defeats and triumphs The double defeat of Reconstruction had suppressed black rights in the South and curtailed labour rights in the North. Jim Crow in the South, and the widespread use of Pinkerton’s ...

When balloting stopped on the evening of July 2nd at the end of Mexico’s 2006 presidential election, the eyes of the nation turned to the two main tv networks to await the result of exit polls. Most ...