Zed Books: 608 books
Palestine
A Four Thousand Year History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The first book to fully span the country’s millennia-old history.
Draws on the latest archaeological evidence as well an impressive range of documentary sources.
Author is a distinguished Palestinian historian.
Most mainstream histories of the Holy Land take an Israel-centred approach, this book offers...
Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges
How Foreign Aid became a Casualty of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.'
LSE Review of Books
The war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate.
From the ravaged streets of...
African Women and ICTs
Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it bought, when issues of social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the developing world, remain at large? In addition, the gender digital divide...
The Duel in European History
Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Kiernan is a highly distinguished Marxist historian whose work attracted praise from the likes of Edward Said
A fascinating, in-depth and superbly written account of a subject that continues to hold much historical fascination
Features a new introduction from renowned historian...
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?
In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing,...
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Women in the International Division of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour"...
by Paul Todd, Jonathan Bloch, Patrick Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The advent of the War on Terror has seen intelligence agencies emerge out of the shadows to become major political players. 'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are now fast becoming the norm. Spies, Lies and the War on Terror traces the transformation of intelligence...
Slumming It
The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences...
Clothing Poverty
The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
‘An interesting and important account.’
Daily Telegraph
Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling?
Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid...
Ghost Cities of China
The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into...
Glamour
Women, History, Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition? This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its...
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
The Management of Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following...
Change Everything
Creating an Economy for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Updated with a new forward and released at a time when the need for economic transformation has never been so urgent
Passionately argues that civil society should be placed back at the centre of our financial landscape – and sets out how to do just that
Offers an economics for our time: democratic,...
Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected...