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  • Mother of Capital

    How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity

    by Matthew Costa ...
    ‘As some are pointing at rent to claim that we are moving out of capitalism and into “techno-feudalism”, it seems urgent to rethink the relation between capital and rent. In this inventive book, Costa takes us back into the womb of history to show that it was a transmutation of rent that gave birth to capital, and that the two never parted ways since then’ Xavier Lafrance, Professor, Université du ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Mother of Capital

    How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity

    by Matthew Costa ...
    Narrated by Matthew Costa ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    ‘As some are pointing at rent to claim that we are moving out of capitalism and into “techno-feudalism”, it seems urgent to rethink the relation between capital and rent. In this inventive book, Costa takes us back into the womb of history to show that it was a transmutation of rent that gave birth to capital, and that the two never parted ways since then’ Xavier Lafrance, Professor, Université du ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Colonialisms and Queer Politics

    Sexualities, Genders, and Unsettling Colonialities

    Edited by Sonia Corrêa, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, Matthew Waites ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
    Across global queer activism and literature from the social sciences and humanities, the impact of empires on the regulation of sexuality and gender is an emergent theme. While there has been a considerable focus on British colonial criminal law, there is a need to investigate and compare the diverse forms of power and control adopted across the histories of European empires. In Colonialisms and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • New Critical Legal Thinking

    Law and the Political

    Edited by Matthew Stone, Costas Douzinas, Illan Wall ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. Combining grand theory with a concern for grounded political interventions, the various contributors ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Heroes and Cowards

    The Social Face of War

    by Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn ...
    When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community? Using the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn answer these questions and uncover the vivid stories, social influences, and crucial networks ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    A Longer View

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood ...
    **An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • For Cause And Comrades : Why Men Fought In The Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    by Kevin Phillips ...
    The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American RevolutionIn 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England’s rage militaire, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Great Sacrifice

    Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War

    by James G. Mendez ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    "Offers readers new insight into the lives of African American men and women from the North in the era of the Civil War." —Liz Regosin, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, St. Lawrence UniversityA Great Sacrifice is an in-depth analysis of the effects of the Civil War on northern black families carried out using letters from northern black women—mothers, wives, sisters, and female family friends ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara ...
    The first volume of Marx's Capital was published 150 years ago. It continues to entice readers eager to grapple with the author's account of the 'laws of motion' of capitalism. Yet for many, Capital can seem a forbidding work. This book, by Joseph Choonara, author of Unravelling Capitalism, is aimed at both individual readers and Capital reading groups. It takes each chapter of the first volume of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The War of 1812

    Conflict for a Continent

    by J. C. A. Stagg ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812–15 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J. C. A. Stagg focuses on the war as a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914

    by Dr Jose Harris ...
    The late nineteenth century and Edwardian era, suggests Jose Harris in this book, represent a sharp break with the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Indeed, despite the intense upheavals of two world wars, it was the beliefs, social structures and oppositional forces established between 1870 and 1914 which dominated British life right up until the 1960s. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD