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Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
Disputing Disaster
The H-Word
Different Speeds, Same Furies
Ever Closer Union?
The Indian Ideology
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
Brazil Apart
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Lineages of the Absolutist State
The New Old World
Spectrum
The Origins of Postmodernity
A Zone of Engagement
English Questions
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Arguments Within English Marxism
Considerations on Western Marxism

Books

Disputing Disaster
The H-Word
Different Speeds, Same Furies
Ever Closer Union?
The Indian Ideology
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
Brazil Apart
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Lineages of the Absolutist State
The New Old World
Spectrum
The Origins of Postmodernity
A Zone of Engagement
English Questions
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Arguments Within English Marxism
Considerations on Western Marxism

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