A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people. Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answe...(展开全部)

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with al...(展开全部)

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. Slobodian begins in Austr...(展开全部)

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations tha...(展开全部)

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. Slobodian begins in Austr...(展开全部)

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations tha...(展开全部)

罗伯特•瑟维斯（Robert Service）是英国历史学家、学者和作家，对苏联历史，尤其是从十月革命到斯大林逝世时期，著述颇丰。瑟维斯著有十二部专著，包括《间谍与人民委员》(Spies and Commissars)；享有盛誉的《列宁传》(Lenin: A Biography)《斯大林传》(Stalin: A Biography)和《同志：世界共产主义史》(Comrades: A History of World Communism)。他目前是英国牛津大学俄国史教授、牛津大学圣安东尼学院研究员、斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员。

罗伯特•瑟维斯（Robert Service）是英国历史学家、学者和作家，对苏联历史，尤其是从十月革命到斯大林逝世时期，著述颇丰。瑟维斯著有十二部专著，包括《间谍与人民委员》(Spies and Commissars)；享有盛誉的《列宁传》(Lenin: A Biography)《斯大林传》(Stalin: A Biography)和《同志：世界共产主义史》(Comrades: A History of World Communism)。他目前是英国牛津大学俄国史教授、牛津大学圣安东尼学院研究员、斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员。

罗伯特•瑟维斯（Robert Service）是英国历史学家、学者和作家，对苏联历史，尤其是从十月革命到斯大林逝世时期，著述颇丰。瑟维斯著有十二部专著，包括《间谍与人民委员》(Spies and Commissars)；享有盛誉的《列宁传》(Lenin: A Biography)《斯大林传》(Stalin: A Biography)和《同志：世界共产主义史》(Comrades: A History of World Communism)。他目前是英国牛津大学俄国史教授、牛津大学圣安东尼学院研究员、斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员。

罗伯特•瑟维斯（Robert Service）是英国历史学家、学者和作家，对苏联历史，尤其是从十月革命到斯大林逝世时期，著述颇丰。瑟维斯著有十二部专著，包括《间谍与人民委员》(Spies and Commissars)；享有盛誉的《列宁传》(Lenin: A Biography)《斯大林传》(Stalin: A Biography)和《同志：世界共产主义史》(Comrades: A History of World Communism)。他目前是英国牛津大学俄国史教授、牛津大学圣安东尼学院研究员、斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员。