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Between 1879 and 1882, Marx studied the latest research and writing on communal clan-based social formations around the globe, focusing on the changing nature of land ownership and gender and family relations within these societies.

This book was first published in 2019 and is a classic whose relevance has only grown over time. Reviewer Rohde offers a detailed tour of this important work.

These two anthologies showcase poets that are responding to the anxieties of our time.

The contributors to this latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics offer a wide ranging discussion about social justice-oriented responses to the politics of our constructed, lived environment.

"It must be said," writes reviewer Finkel, "that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone."

If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action.

This study of three late 1940s kibbutzim, writes reviewer Kanaaneh, “analyzes how these so-called leftist settlements” related to their Palestinian neighbors in “the land and the farming villages that were then wiped out of existence.”

Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.

Writer Rampell looks at a long-forgotten, but deeply influential, document from the domestic Cold War that served the unofficial blacklist for radio and television performers, with the aim of helping draw lessons for today.