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Empire, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 478 pages, $36.95/$18.95 paper EMPIRE WAS THE academic press success story of last year. First published in March […]

Only a little more than a month ago at this writing, before September 11, the mass revolt against capitalist globalization that began in Seattle in November 1999 and that was [...]

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. --George Orwell, 1946 [...]

Mark Perryman on the latest political books, ranging from protest to privatisation Globalisation is no longer simply the stuff of academic treatises. It has entered the popular lexicon, made headlines [...]

Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt (Harvard University Press) is a stunningly brilliant, if difficult, analysis of power and the possibilities of resistance in a globalized world. Described as [...]

Empire The Russian Empire and its Rivals Dominic Lieven John Murray 27.50 £ 486 pp. ISBN 0 7195 5243 5 OPINIONATED, DELIBERATELY speculative and provocative: there is scarcely a dull [...]

Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Empire, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2000. Over the past twenty years, Toni Negri has been at the centre of an important intellectual movement to [...]

EMPIRE. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Harvard. 478 pp. $35. The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders [...]

by Henry Kamen (HarperCollins). Stretching from the Netherlands to the Philippines, the first global empire was Spain's. In his colossal single-volume history, which covers the years 1492 to 1763, Kamen […]

Empire. Say, did you know that President McKinley would casually drop a silk handkerchief over his wife's head during dinner parties when she had an epileptic seizure? Or that Theodore [...]

by Niall Ferguson (Basic Books) and BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1688-2000, by P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins (Longman). The history of Britain's empire is in fashion: Simon Schama's volume The […]