Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of ‘history from below’. Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upon an ec ...
A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers. In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan “Yes, we can”—in the form “?Si, Se Puede!”—winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm workers, and becoming a major voice for the Latino community. Today, it is a mere shadow of its former self. Trampling Out the Vintage is the authoritative and award-wi ...
"A very good book indeed.... It is quietly reasoned, beautifully ordered, and spirited as hell.... [It] is not a book for children, nostalgic or otherwise."—Loren Baritz, The Nation William Appleman Williams was the American history profession’s greatest critic of US imperialism. The Contours of American History , first published in 1961, reached back into British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was ...
The forgotten history of London: the world capital of revolution. In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background. Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground for radical ideas, home to thinkers, heretics and rebels from John Wycliffe to Ka ...
The classic, passionate plea to “remember what others forget.” When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men , we are once again conjuring historical fictions to ...
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying. For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by “timeless” standards of moralit ...
Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation. This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule was imposed as a military ope ...
Ein mutiges Madchen, eine abenteuerliche Reise, ein morderischer Feind Thuringen, 18. Jahrhundert: Die beiden Bruder Martin und Alois ziehen als Wanderapotheker durch die Lande und haben vor vielen Jahren einen Goldschatz gefunden. Wahrend Martin seinen Anteil versteckt und nicht angeruhrt hat, ist Alois nichts geblieben. Verzweifelt versucht er, seinen Bruder zur Herausgabe seines Teils zu bewegen. Als dieser sich weigert, kommt es zu einem tod ...
