Pick of the quarter Pride of place this quarter must go to the devastating critique by Vivek Chibber (whose book, Locked in Place, John Game has reviewed in this issue of IS) of Niall Ferguson’s much-praised glorification of the British… Continue Reading
A comment on the experience of the Alliance Party in New Zealand Continue Reading
A review of Isaac Ilyich Rubin, A History of Economic Thought (Bertram), £19.99 Continue Reading
Supermarkets are hugely influential in 21st century corporate globalisation and capital accumulation. Wal-Mart (which owns Asda) is the world’s biggest corporation, and the British multinational Tesco is one of Britain’s biggest companies, worth around £40 billion in 2002. During the… Continue Reading
A review of Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European (Verso, 2004), £8 Continue Reading
A review of Jonathan I Israel, Radical Enlightenment (Oxford, 2002), £20.99 Continue Reading
A review of Vivek Chibber, Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialisation in India (Princeton University Press, 2003), £26.95 Continue Reading
A review of Neil Davidson, Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1682-1746 (Pluto Press, 2003), £19.99 Continue Reading
A review of Chris Ealham, Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona 1898-1937 (Routledge, 2004), £70 Continue Reading
A review of John Newsinger, Rebel City (Merlin Press, 2004), £14.95 Continue Reading