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History won’t save us: a reply to Donny Gluckstein

Posted on 11th April 2024 by International Socialism

I am very grateful to Donny Gluckstein for his kind and attentive review of my new book, The New Age of Catastrophe.1 It is a real pleasure to have one’s work reviewed by someone who is a long-standing comrade and… Continue Reading →

Article crisis, History, method

Enclosing knowledge: books and power in the English countryside

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800, James D Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £75 From the 16th until the 19th century, the multifaceted process known as enclosure transformed England’s rural landscape.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews feudalism, History, Middle Ages, transition to capitalism

Women’s work in the first civilisations

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by International Socialism

“Be sure to send me the equivalent of my cloth in silver so that I can buy barley.” A woman in Assur to her husband in a distant trading colony, about 1900 BCE. “You are perpetually pressing oil, grinding barley,… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised History, prehistory, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Repression and resistance on the French home front 1911-1919

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

What means other than war could there be under capitalism to overcome the ­disparity between the development of the productive forces and the accumulation of capital on the one side, and the division of colonies and spheres of influence for… Continue Reading →

Article 20th century history, First World War, France, History

Popular Fronting, 1934-2012

Posted on 17th October 2019 by International Socialism

A review of Richard J Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown, 2019), £35 Breadth and verve made Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) the most sold and most translated of socialist historians ever to write in English. Compared with his… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Eric Hobsbawm, History

Rural rebellion

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Martin Empson, Kill all the Gentlemen: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside (Bookmarks, 2018), £14.99 When Karl Marx analysed the birth of capitalism he drew attention to what he called the primitive accumulation of capital.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Environment, History, Peasants' revolt
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