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A book about the rise of English nationalism and the impending breakup of the United Kingdom.

An account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one the most influential statements in the history of democracy.

From the internationally acclaimed author comes his bestselling account of India's experience of British colonialism.

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s futureThe land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of “spreading democracy” — except wreak havoc in country after country and establish a reckless foreign policy that served the interest of few and endangered all too many? Without, ironically, making Americans any safer.

In this timely book, Noam Chomsky, one of the most wid...

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West's colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.

A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Named a best book of the year by The Economist | Financial Times | New Statesman | The Telegraph

"[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." -Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic

"This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contempora...

Three of our leading public intellectuals come together to offer an urgent way to escape our current permacrisis.