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Subtitled "From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution", David Harvey's Rebel Cities  has been a big seller. In part th...

The current UK coalition government is engaged in a war on the poorest and most vulnerable people in British society. There is no other way ...

When the US President Woodrow Wilson delivered his "war message" to Congress on April 2 1917, he was taking his country into a war...

In 1839 a British Army of over 20,000 British and Indian troops invaded the area that we now call Afghanistan. Less than two years later the...

Moshe Lewin's 1968 book is a classic study of a crucial period in Soviet history. It provided ammunition  for socialists at the time who...

I have to admit to being left feeling very uncomfortable by Losing Nelson. In part this is the subject matter - the novel tells the story of...

In his obituary of E H Carr in the magazine Socialist Review the British Marxist Duncan Hallas wrote that "The death of an eighty yea...

One of the myths about Karl Marx's work is that it is impenetrable  Certainly there are academics who have made a career from raising Ma...

If the first volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle  Quicksilver  could be said to deal with the emergence of capitalism and modern m...

If I am honest, when I first picked up Ian Mortimer's book I assumed it was going to be a gimmicky work with little substance, designed...

Before a recent visit to Naples I was repeatedly warned to beware of crime and pickpockets. Online reviews of our hotel complained about the...

Despite the title, this is very much a book about the life and times of the great Renaissance thinker Galileo Galilei. That said, it is v...

Novels set in Ancient Rome are always hampered by the perceptions that people have of life there 2000 years ago. For many years Roman h...

Having really enjoyed Neal Stephenson's book Quicksilver recently, a novel set during the late 1600s which frequently focuses on some ...