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The Left Hand of Capital
(June 2021)
Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile
Fernando Ignacio Leiva - Author
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Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillful...(Read More) |
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Identities in Flux
(February 2021)
Race, Migration, and Citizenship in Brazil
Niyi Afolabi - Author
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The Muslim World in Modern South Asia
(January 2021)
Power, Authority, Knowledge
Francis Robinson - Author
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Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.
Over the past two hundred years, two great processes have shaped Muslim societies: Western domination and the industrial capitalism that came with it, and the Islamic revival that preceded the Western ...(Read More) |
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Till Kingdom Come
(January 2021)
Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya
Lokesh Ohri - Author
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The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.
Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a multitude of shapes and forms. Some Hindu “little traditions” have remained obscure or understudied to this day due to their regional remoteness. One such offshoot is the influential ...(Read More) |
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Holidays of the Revolution
(December 2020)
Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965
Amir Locker-Biletzki - Author
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Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.
Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Party and its youth movement, which posed a radical challenge to Zionism. Amir Locker-Biletzki examines the development of thi...(Read More) |
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Michael Gold
(December 2020)
The People's Writer
Patrick Chura - Author
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An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.
Jewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893–1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, journalist, and editor, Gold was the leading advocate of leftist, proletaria...(Read More) |
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Racialized Visions
(December 2020)
Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
Vanessa K. Valdés - Editor
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The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exch...(Read More) |
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