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Formation of the Socialist Workers Party; its program and leadership under Felipe González; the issue of NATO membership.

Intro; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; I Introduction; II Origins and critique of the religion of free trade; III The substantive alternative: ethical world trade; 1 Significance of trade; 2 For an ethical trade system within the United Nations; 3 A pragmatic alternative: the Common Good Balance Sheet; IV The procedural alternative: sovereign democracy; 1 The centrality of democracy; 2 The democratic genesis of international (business) law; 3 Encouraging examples; 4 Questions for the trade convention; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Notes; Index; About Zed.

"Afghan society has been marked in a lasting way by war and the exodus of part of its population. While many have emigrated to countries across the world, they have been matched by the flow of experts who arrive in Afghanistan after having been in other war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine or East Timor. This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic travels in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates"-- Provided by publisher.

"Contrary to the predictions that consigned Marx to oblivion after the fall of the Berlin Wall, his ideas are once more the object of analysis and debate. Around the world, Marx's writings have been reprinted or brought out in new editions, and there are more new studies of his work. Of particular importance has been the resumed and ongoing publication, started in 1998, of the Marx Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), the historical-critical edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels. The MEGA corpus suggests that, despite claims to the contrary, Marx is not at all an author about whom everything has already been said or written, and his profile is changing. Combining rigorous scholarly analysis with a clear and accessible style of writing, this intellectual biography positions itself as part of a renewed exploration of Marx. It offers an original reading of the last phase of Marx's intellectual development, which has hitherto pretty much been ignored. Dispelling the myth that Marx ceased to write in his final years, the author points out the relevance of previously unknown or neglected late writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. What's more, the book challenges the long-lasting misrepresentation of Marx as a Eurocentric and economistic thinker who was fixated on class conflict alone. Readers are thus invited to reconsider, for example, Marx's ideas in light of late remarks on anthropology, non-Western societies, and the critique of European colonialism. Availing itself of sources that have still not been published in English, the book fills a gap in the existing literature on Marx and suggests an innovative reassessment of some of his key ideas."

"Julia Cagé scrutinizes contemporary democracies and offers a new approach to the crisis of political representation. She proposes radical solutions for political funding and participation, including "Democratic Equality Vouchers" and a "Mixed Assembly" model where disadvantaged socioeconomic groups are guaranteed a significant fraction of seats."

"Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2) have provided researchers with new texts that underline the gulf between Marx's critical theory and the dogmatism of many twentieth-century Marxisms. This work reconstructs with great textual and historical rigour, but in a form accessible to those encountering Marx for the first time, a number of little noted, or often misunderstood, stages in his intellectual biography. The book is divided into three parts. The first - 'Intellectual Influences and Early Writings' - investigates the formation of the young Marx and the composition of his Parisian manuscripts of 1844. The second - 'The Critique of Political Economy' - focuses on the genesis of Marx's magnum opus, beginning with his studies of political economy in the early 1850s and following his labours through to all the preparatory manuscripts for Capital. The third - 'Political Militancy' - presents an insightful history of the International Working Men's Association and of the role that Marx played in that organization. The volume offers a close and innovative examination of Marx's ideas on post-Hegelian philosophy, alienated labour, the materialist conception of history, research methods, the theory of surplus-value, working-class self-emancipation, political organization and revolutionary theory. From this emerges "another Marx", a thinker very different from the one depicted by so many of his critics and ostensible disciples."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: APPROACHES -- I Memory and Self­Observation: The Perpetuation of the Nineteenth Century -- 1 Visibility and Audibility -- 2 Treasuries of Memory and Knowledge -- 3 Observation, Description, Realism -- 4 Numbers -- 5 News -- 6 Photography -- II Time: When Was the Nineteenth Century? -- 1 Chronology and the Coherence of the Age -- 2 Calendar and Periodization -- 3 Breaks and Transitions -- 4 The Age of Revolution, Victorianism, Fin de Siècle -- 5 Clocks and Acceleration -- III Space: Where Was the Nineteenth Century? -- 1 Space and Time -- 2 Metageography: Naming Spaces -- 3 Mental Maps: The Relativity of Spatial Perspective -- 4 Spaces of Interaction: Land and Sea -- 5 Ordering and Governing Space -- 6 Territoriality, Diaspora, Borders -- Part Two : Panoramas -- IV Mobilities -- 1 Magnitudes and Tendencies -- 2 Population Disasters and the Demographic Transition -- 3 The Legacy of Early Modern Migrations: Creoles and Slaves -- 4 Penal Colony and Exile -- 5 Ethnic Cleansing -- 6 Internal Migration and the Changing Slave Trade -- 7 Migration and Capitalism -- 8 Global Motives -- V Living Standards: Risk and Security in Material Life -- 1 The Standard of Living and the Quality of Life -- 2 Life Expectancy and "Homo hygienicus" -- 3 Medical Fears and Prevention -- 4 Mobile Perils, Old and New -- 5 Natural Disasters -- 6 Famine -- 7 Agricultural Revolutions -- 8 Poverty and Wealth -- 9 Globalized Consumption -- VI Cities: European Models and Worldwide Creativity -- 1 The City as Norm and Exception -- 2 Urbanization and Urban Systems -- 3 Between Deurbanization and Hypergrowth -- 4 Specialized Cities, Universal Cities -- 5 The Golden Age of Port Cities -- 6 Colonial Cities, Treaty Ports, Imperial Metropolises -- 7 Internal Spaces and Undergrounds.

"Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the 18th century and sparked the beginnings of modern environmentalism. This book traces the cultural history of wood and offers a highly original account of the connection between the raw material and the human beings who benefit from it. Even more, it shows that wood can provide a key for a better understanding of history, of the pecularities as well as the varieties of cultures, of a co-evolution of nature and culture, and even of the rise and fall of great powers. Beginning with Stone Age hunters, it follows the twists and turns of the story through the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution to the global society of the twenty-first century, in which wood is undergoing a varied and unexpected renaissance. Radkau is sceptical of claims that wood is about to disappear, arguing that such claims are self-serving arguments promoted by interest groups to secure cheaper access to, and control over, wood resources. The whole forest and timber industry often strikes the outsider as a world unto itself, a hermetically sealed black box, but when we lift the lid on this box, as Radkau does here, we will be surprised by what we find within"--