In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and ...

This book brings together James C. Scott's most important work on peasant religion and ideology; everyday forms of peasant resistance; and state technologies of personal identification.

This collection, by an international array of historians, examines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 to the present.

This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture.

Delivered at the height of US involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky's foreign policy analysis.

But for those who remained, the comradeship and intense political engagement are the strongest memories. The Party is the second volume of Stuart Macintyre's masterful history of Australian communism.

From revolution and Lenin to Stalin’s Terror, from World War II to Gorbachev's glasnost, this is an authoritative distillation of 75 years of communist rule, and the disintegration of an empire.

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster. ‘A must read’ Gordon Brown ‘A truly excellent book’ Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the ...

RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART - based on notes Watson kept through the four turbulent and exhausting years of Keating's Prime Ministership - is a frank, sympathetic and engrossing portrait of this brilliant and perplexing man, and a ...

Shadows of empire, 1868-1918 -- 1.