God, guns, gold and glory

american character and its discontents

From a small group of devout Puritan settlers, the USA ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world. Yet it is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, offers a unique ...

Empires and walls

globalization, migration, and colonial domination

Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers ...

European bloc imperialism

Recent debates on imperialism have focused on the means by which Euro-American capital is spread around the globe. The Economic Partnership Agreements being foisted on the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries by the European Union, however, has been under the radar. This book fills that ...

Crisis of capitalism

compendium of applied economics

This title is a compendium of a comprehensive treatise of applied economics published in Italian by Jaca Books in 2007. The global economy is taken as the starting point for this unique analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development. Updated and expanded with a new ...

Social change, resistance, and social practices

Critical sociologists of various nationalities focus on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists, and others, these studies grapple with diverse forms of organized resistance in the twenty-first ...

Profitable ideas

the ideology of the individual in capitalist development

Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and doctrines. As a correction, this book shows that as capitalism the theories, doctrines and moral precepts comprising liberal individualism change and evolve ...