Ellen Meiksins Wood
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Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, was an editor of the New Left Review from 1984 to 1992, and, co-editor of Monthly Review from 1997 to 2000. She is the author of numerous books, including The Retreat from Class (1986; reissued in 1998, with a new introduction by the author), which won the Deutscher Prize; The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States (1992); Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (1995), andThe Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (2002), as well as several others on the history of Western political though and ancient Greek democracy. Her work has been translated into many languages, European and non-European.
- The Empire of CapitalINR 150
In this era of \'globalization\', we hear a great deal about a \'new imperialism\', the hegemony of global capital and its chief enforcer, the US. Today, with the US promising an endless \'war agai...
- Democracy Against CapitalismINR 425
Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that with the collapse of Communism the theoretical project of Marxism and its critique of capitalism is more timely and important than ever. In this book she sets out to...
- The Origin of CapitalismINR 395
In this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices ...
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Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was an American painter.
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Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta (born 8 September 1953) is a photographer and writer based in Delhi and London.
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and Leo Panitch
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Mitch Weiss
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Huma R. Kidwai
Huma R. Kidwai is a Hyderabad-based writer and independent researcher in the sociology of Muslim societies.
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Sharmistha Mohanty
Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of two previous works of fiction – Book One and New Life. She has also translated a selection of Tagore's fictional work, Broken Nest and Other Stories.
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