Verso Books: 696 books
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and...
Reading Capital
The Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time
Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that...
De Colores Means All of Us
Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity
Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents...
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III
Political Writings 1: On Revolution-1897-1905
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece
This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work—revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes,...
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece
The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works...
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered...
Mistaken Identity
Race and Class in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find...
Close to Home
A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists,...
The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization,...
The Battlefield
Algeria 1988–2002: Studies in a Broken Polity
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interference, Algeria’s tragedy has been reduced to a clash of stereotypes: Islamists vs. a secular state,...
The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism
Secular Claims, Communal Realities
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left
With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition...
by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism
In this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace...
by Emilie Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art,’ equal to literature, painting or music, and it revolutionized film-making and writing. Its contributors would put their words into...
by Owen Hatherley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service...