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A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century ... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark 'Rich and deeply researched' John Gray As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political, economic, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances shrank, new towns sprang up, and ingenious inventions transformed the industrial landscape.

Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, this book traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. It argues that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free- market politics.

A classic social history of 19th century London.

Masters of the Universe describes neoliberalism's road to power, beginning in interwar Europe but shifting its center of gravity after 1945 to the United States, especially to Chicago and Virginia, where it acquired a simple clarity that was developed into an uncompromising political message. Neoliberalism was communicated through a transatlantic network of think tanks, businessmen, politicians, and journalists that was held together by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. After the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971, and the "stagflation" that followed, their ideas finally began to take hold as Keynesianism appeared to self-destruct. Later, after the elections of Reagan and Thatcher, a guileless faith in free markets came to dominate politics.

The debate on world poverty and globalisation is one which began two centuries ago in the wake of the French Revolution. In this book, a major historian, Gareth Stedman Jones, traces the history of those arguments and relates them to current discussions and policies.

A Offers a major reinterpretation of the work of one of the founding fathers of modern sociology A Criticises the conventional interpretations of Durkheim and shows that they are often based on misleading assumptions A Will become a standard text in courses on classical social theory and the foundation of modern sociology.

This book challenges the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class consciousness'.