Perry Anderson Books
Lineages of the Absolutist State
Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiq...
Read MoreThe Indian Ideology
Today, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of tho...
Read MoreThe H-Word
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemonyFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact...
Read MoreThe H-Word
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemonyFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact...
Read MoreThe Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
A major essay on the thought of the great Italian MarxistPerry Anderson’s essay “The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive a...
Read MoreThe Indian Ideology
The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s mo...
Read MoreBrazil Apart
Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula’s Workers’ Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New RightWhat does Brazil’s lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro porten...
Read MoreAmerican Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American EmpireSince the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these ur...
Read MoreDifferent Speeds, Same Furies
An exploration of Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell's greatest literary achievements.There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of T...
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