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Spurred on by the oil barons, the corporate politicians in Washington have set out to play the game of empire alone. One of their first targets is the oil-rich Republic of Iraq. As a brotherhood of investors - including corporations with close ties to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and James Baker - attempt to turn war-ravaged Iraq into a cash cow, America's unilateral leadership is becoming increasingly problematic. The adventure has provoked a...

The DI put me and my friend in front of the platoon and said, 'this is what the View Cong looks like, with slanted eyes'." - Raymond Imayama, US Marine Corps, Dong Ha, 1968-69. Among Vietnam veterans, Japanese Americans have remained largely silent about their wartime experiences. Until now. In this ground-breaking book, many of them talk for the first time about their struggle for identity in the US and how this affected their participation i...

This study examines the composer as a public figure, it examines the fate of the composer through successive incarnations and investigates a range of themes such as subjectivity and identity.

Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives -- these characteristic cliches of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs such stereotypes while offering an authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. From the early cinema of Griffith and ...

Falk and Friel show that despite numerous US threats to invade Iraq, and despite the fact that an invasion of one country by another implicates fundamental aspects of the UN Charter and international law, the New York Times editorial page never mentioned the words "UN Charter" or "international law" in any of its 70 editorials on Iraq.

False necessity is the central work in the three-volume series Politics. It presents both a way of explaining society and a program for changing it. The explanation develops a radical alternative to Marxism, showing how we can account for established social arrangements without denying their contingency or our freedom. The program offers a progressive alternative to the now-dominant ideological conceptions of neoliberalism and social democracy...

This text examines documentary in print, photography and film from the 1930s to the 1990s, using the lens of feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender. Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which the media have shaped the truth over the decades.

This volume illuminates a neglected moment in cultural and political history. The essays look at the relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the Caribbean and the surrealist European movements of the 1930s and 1940s. Michael Richardson is the author of "Georges Batailles".

Traces the story of Yugoslavia's disintegration over the entire period since Tito's death in 1980. This book explains why this once stable and seemingly harmonious country was fated to break up in a savage war for territory.

The only intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, published on the first anniversary of Said's death. The only intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, published on the first anniversary of Said's death.

Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.

A study of British attitudes towards India, written in the wake of the 1960s national liberation struggles. The text surveys the racist and jingoistic predjudices of Anglo-Indian writers such as Flora Annie Steele and Rudyard Kipling, and the work of more liberal thinkers such as E.M. Forster.

Taking cues from art and popular culture to analyse bestiality in all its guises -- physical, psychological and legal -- here is the first history of the last taboo.