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The Palgrave Encyclopedia Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism objectively presents the prominent themes, epochal events, theoretical explanations, and historical accounts of imperialism from 1776 to the present. It is the most historically and academically comprehensive examination of the subject to date.
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Immanuel Ness is a Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of Workers, Corporate Despotism and Worker Resistance (2011) and is working on a manuscript focusing on precarious labour, workers councils, worker control and self management, and radical social movements.
Dr Zak Cope obtained a PhD from the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of
Dimensions of Prejudice: Towards a Political Economy of Bigotry (2008) and
Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour under Capitalism (2012 and 2014).
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism objectively presents the prominent themes, epochal events, theoretical explanations, and historical accounts of imperialism from 1776 to the present. It is the most historically and academically comprehensive examination of the subject to date.
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“Political scientists Ness (Brooklyn College) and Cope (independent scholar) have assembled scores of eclectic essays written by a great mix of contributors of varying backgrounds into this omnibus collection of gargantuan proportions. … A useful purchase for academic libraries supporting advanced students and graduate programs in political science or international relations. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (D. Ettinger, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)
“It contains a great body of useful material and many valuable general surveys. … it certainly requires a serious student to mine its riches. … The text is well printed … .” (John Kendall, Reference Reviews, Vol. 30 (4), 2016)
