Perry Anderson Books
Considerations on Western Marxism
This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Ru...
Read MoreIn the Tracks of Historical Materialism
What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? I...
Read MoreArguments Within English Marxism
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working...
Read MoreDisputing Disaster
A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading hist...
Read MoreDisputing Disaster
A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading hist...
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 MorePassages from Antiquity to Feudalism
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderso...
Read MoreLineages of the Absolutist State
The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situat...
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...
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