The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism. [...]

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the devel[...]

The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism. [...]

Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of United States's image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts Anderson charts the entwined historical development of America's i[...]

Eminent historian and new left thinker takes on leading conservative, liberal and socialist thinkers in one iconoclastic volume. "Spectrum" offers a critical survey of the ideas of rival intellectual groupings from the far right, the liberal center and the Marxist left, rarely considered in the same[...]

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today's EU has been theorize[...]

Postmodernitetens ursprung är en lika bitande skarp som perspektivrik redogörelse för hur begreppet postmodernitet uppkommer, sprids och förändras. Boken tar sin början i 1930-talets spanskspråkiga värld och följer begreppets omvandlingar fram till det sena 1970-talet då det genom Jean-Fra[...]

En storslagen exposé över den 'västerländska' marxismens utveckling från 1918. Boken tar upp alla de viktiga traditionerna, från Lukács, Gramsci och Frankfurtskolan fram till Sartre och Althusser. Ett centralt tema i boken är också en diskussion om marxismens kris samt en uppgörelse med st[...]