Books published by Verso Books

This work studies television reporting of the US at war since World War II, including detailed coverage of television's role in the Gulf. Cumings offers insights into the everyday operations of the media and assesses the possibilities of mobilizing them for political purposes.

This reference combines commentary and explanation with a detailed chronology to illuminate the period of 1987 to 1993 in Central America. It offers a succinct overview of pacification and democracy in the region, including criticism of the structuralist approaches like those of Chomsky and Petras.

Sets out to diagnose and explain all the major - old and new - "problems of philosophy". The book includes a synoptic account of the development of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to poststructuralism. It is designed to be both an introductory work and a resource for scholars.

The photographer Raymond Depardon and the writer Jean-Claude Guillebaud both covered the Vietnam War. After 20 years, they decided to go back. Travelling by slow train, Russian car and bicycle, they travelled from South to North. This book is an account of these travels.

In a system of basic income, as elaborated by Philippe van Paijs, all citizens are given a monthly stipend sufficiently high to provide them with a no-frills, but adequate standard of living.

Both a diary of a radical's working life and a chronicle of the recent political past. His reflections are mixed with letters from Graham Greene, an interview with Noam Chomsky, personal friends and irate readers. Alexander Cockburn is the co-author, with Susanna Hecht, of "Corruptions of Empire".

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of PalestineOn 2 November 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared it was in favour of ';the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.' This short note would become one of the most controversial documents of modern history.Offering new insights into the imperial rivalries between Britain, Germany and the Ottomans, Regan exposes British policy in the region as part of a larger geopolitical game. He charts the debates within the British government, the Zionist movement, and the Palestinian groups struggling for selfdetermination. The after-effects of these events are still felt today.

Historian Carlo Ginzburg here draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in the late-20th century political show trial of Italian communists, Continua, Sofri, Bompressi and Piotresetafani.

Argues that, since the collapse of the USSR, the US government has been trying to bring about a unipolar world in which the United States can control and shape the pattern of economic and political change in all regions of the globe.

The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English-speaking world, which had previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of twentieth-century architecture. Building the New World attempts to redress the balance. It surveys the most important examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism, when politicians and architects such as Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer sought ways, literally, to build their societies out of underdevelopment.