Books published by Verso Books

A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kingsand queens, the battles and bloody defeats of thepast. It captures the history that matters today,stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workersof Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest ofthe treacherous Thatcher era.With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recountsthe struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scotswho changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinarypeople at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid tocampaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd.This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice.

The role of Puritanism in the formation of modern Britain

The masterful account of transformation of Britain into a modern nation by leading Marxist historian

A fascinating analysis of the decline and fall of Western communism by a participant observer.

A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in BritainThe Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain's history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women's place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, The Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism.This new edition includes a foreword by Lola Okolosie and an interview with the authors, chaired by Heidi Safia Mirza, focusing on the impact of their book since publication and its continuing relevance today

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between ';sight' and ';site' and ';motion' and ';emotion.' In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois, the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, media archaeology and the origins of the museum, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno's book opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

A collection of essays which offer a testimony of the dialogue between the present and the past.