Books published by Verso Books

A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation

An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures

How antifascism is as American as apple pie

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of seventeenth-century England

Asserts that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux.In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualizes these developments, surveying the accumulated experience of humanity with regard to such phenomena as the organization of lines of descent, sexuality and sexual prohibitions. In parallel, Godelier studies the evolution of Western conjugal and familial traditions from their roots in the nineteenth century to the present. The conclusion he draws is that it is never the case that a man and a woman are sufficient on their own to raise a child, and nowhere are relations of kinship or the family the keystone of society.Godelier argues that the changes of the last thirty years do not herald the disappearance or death agony of kinship, but rather its remarkable metamorphosisone that, ironically, is bringing us closer to the ';traditional' societies studied by ethnologists.

Eminent Marxist intellectual reveals class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium.

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world.

How antifascism is as American as apple pie

How all great powers decline-including the US

Exploring the close relationship between the real, the symbolic and imaginary

A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft's seminal feminist tract

A history of "the Troubles": the radical politics of Republicanism.

How public land has been stolen from us

Path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supporters

what a Green New Deal could look like

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism.

The renowned French theorist dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopher

Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right

A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the present.

All of Marx's essential political writing in one volume.