Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Since the onset of global crisis in recent years, academics and economic theorists from various political and cultural backgrounds have been drawn to Marx's analysis of the inherent instability of capitalism.

Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics.

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos.

Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice.

The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America's most important untold stories.

Aneurin Nye Bevan was one of the pivotal Labour Party figures of the post-war era in Britain.

Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion provides a timely reminder of persisting inequalities of class, race and gender as a consequence of the changes which have engulfed Europe in less than a decade.

Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change.

The 1920s and early 1930s were a very turbulent time in the working-class movement.

Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design.

German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic.

This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the Socialist response to antisemitism in Imperial Germany.

The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision.

';Rural spaces,' writes Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, ';are often thought of as places absent of things, from people of color to modern amenities to radical politics.

In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter.

The history of sport in socialist Yugoslavia is a peculiar lens through which to examine the country's social, cultural and political transformations.

The issue of electoral reform has divided the Labour Party since its inception, but only for a brief period in the early 20th century has the Party been committed to reforming first-past-the-post (FPTP).

No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser.

False necessity is the central work in the three-volume series Politics.

Is it possible to evolve a form of socialism which, while promoting industrial development, will be merciful to the ideals of democracy?

In a period marked by growing fluidity between the West and the Communist nations, the role of revolution as an instrument of political and social change takes on an intense, possibly dangerous importance.

Were the occupations of 2010-11 - from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street - a success or failure?

Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms.

The political potential of millenarian religion has long exercised the interests of scholars of western history and religion.

Originally published in 1940, this is an exhaustive biography of the famous socialist philosopher and revolutionary.

Seventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the vice president of the United States, mounted a campaign about the "e;Danger of American Fascism.

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization.

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world.

Originally published in 1924, Unemployment Relief in Great Britain takes up the history of unemployment relief in Great Britain, focusing on the after effects of the post-war period and the Great Depression.

Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.

In the aftermath of the economic crisis, left-wing parties and leaders began to consider themselves populists or were labelled as such in media and public discourse.

China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji.

This first volume will showcase the richness and diversity of the Owenite movement, which spanned decades (from Owen's first published books in 1813-16 to the late 1840s), political allegiances, genders and continents.

This book, originally published in 1949 (but here re-issuing the second edition of 1966) presents a history of international socialism, not just from the political but also the economic standpoint.

"e;Yes, Minister!

"Small is beautiful" lautet der Titel des Hauptwerks von Ernst Friedrich Schumacher aus dem Jahr 1973, das prompt zum Weltbestseller avancierte.

Using a variety of methodological approaches, this timely book offers a thorough examination of the impact and implications of religious fundamentalism in developing nations.

First published in 1975, this book is concerned with the facts and implications of the case of Lin Piao and his army, as well as with the broader question of military intervention in the authoritarian polity of developing countries.

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.

"e;Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial.

First published in 1981 The Italian Communist Party looks at the debate within the party and how its strategy was forged.

The liberal representative model of democracy is in a crisis.

Originally published in 1982, The Concept of Class provides a concise and stimulating guide to the historical development of the concept of 'class' and the different ways in which it has been applied in social and political theory.

Western critical theory, Marxism included, has largely been based on a view of historical materialism that Gramsci, among others, developed in his prison notebooks.

First Published in 1950, Trade Unions in the New Society examines the changing significance of trade unionism and the place they occupy in the democratic world.

This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives.

"¿Es posible encontrar un camino diferente entre las izquierdas y las derechas contemporáneas?

Against the grain is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century.