Xiaming Li, Education in China: Cultural Influences, Global Perspectives and Social Challenges (Nova, 2013), £124, and Holly H Ming, The Education of Migrant Children and China’s Future (Routledge, 2013), £85 Chinese education has become a hot topic in the UK.… Continue Reading
Richard House (ed), Too Much, Too Soon: Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood (Hawthorn Press, 2011), £20 In April this year Ofsted Chief Inspector Michael Wilshaw announced that from September 2015 four year olds will be tested within the… Continue Reading
Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti–fascism (Zero, 2013), £18.99 There is much to recommend in this work, prepared for publication following Dave Hann’s untimely death from cancer by his partner, who, like Dave did, still leads from… Continue Reading
Lindsey German, How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women (Pluto Press, 2013), £14 Lindsey German describes her book How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women as “an attempt to understand the relationship between women… Continue Reading
Sabby Sagall, Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide (Pluto Press, 2013), £20.50 In Final Solutions Sabby Sagall analyses the nature and the role of the subjective and irrational in determining genocidal mass murder. The book poses the question as… Continue Reading
A review of Robert Colls, George Orwell: English Rebel (Oxford University Press, 2013), £25 At one point in his new study of George Orwell, Robert Colls, Professor of Cultural History at De Montfort University, insists that he is not trying… Continue Reading
A review of Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty–First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014), £29.95 In January, Oxfam’s “Working for the Few” report tore apart the idea that wealth “trickles down” and revealed that just 85 billionaires now own more… Continue Reading
A review of Gilbert Achcar, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2013), £17.99, and Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East (Haymarket, 2013), £14.99 These important books make a… Continue Reading
Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig, African Struggles Today: Social Movements since Independence (Haymarket, 2012), £12.99 African Struggles Today seeks to explain the key role that mass social movements have played in the history of Africa over the last three quarters… Continue Reading
Mike Gonzalez and Houman Barekat, (eds), Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring (Pluto Press, 2013), £19.99 In 1870 Otto von Bismarck’s conscript army, using modern means of warfare including… Continue Reading