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Marx for the twenty-first century
The first new English translation in fifty years鈥攁nd the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself
Featuring extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown
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How a new 鈥渨oke鈥� elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status鈥攚ithout helping the marginalized and disadvantaged
A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism
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A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin鈥檚 Russia鈥攁nd beyond
The contested creation of free movement鈥攆or people and goods鈥攊n the Schengen area of Europe
A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety
How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memory
The untold story of South America鈥檚 most interesting beverage
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them
How human institutions鈥攎arkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families鈥攈ave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire
How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves
A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War I鈥攁nd how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War II
A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries鈥攁nd made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century
A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century鈥檚 biggest refugee crises
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today鈥攁nd the courageous countervoices
A century-long history of immigrant incarceration in the United States
How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkers
An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies
How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony
Why Britain鈥檚 attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern world
A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars鈥攁nd what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson
A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thought
The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe
How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial power
A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolution
A provocative new theory of 鈥渢he economy,鈥� its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics