What the future fortunes of Gramsci s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this. Eric Hobsbawm, from the preface
Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world s greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world s preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci s masterful intellectual biography of the...
What the future fortunes of Gramsci s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the ...
The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1839 by two of the greatest historians of our age. In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty.With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, and tensions mounted between agricultural workers and employers. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the 'Swing' shook England to its core. Landowners wanting to make their land more profitable started to use...
The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1839 by two of the greatest historians of our age. In our increasingly me...
While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equaled the breadth or insight of America: From White Settlement to World Hegemony, which was one of the first books to provide a historical perspective on the origins of the American empire. Victor Kiernan, heralded by Edward Said as the "great Scottish historian of empire," employs a nuanced knowledge of history, literature, and politics in his tracing of the evolution of American power. Far reaching and ambitious in its scope, the book combines accounts of the changing relationship between Native Americans...
While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equaled the breadth or insight of America: From White Settlement to World Heg...
