The Revenge of History: The Battle for the Twenty First Century
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Author | Seumas Milne |
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Language | English |
Published | 2012 |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 298 |
ISBN | 9781781680919 |
The Revenge of History: The Battle for the Twenty-First Century is a 2012 book by British journalist and writer Seumas Milne. An updated edition was published in 2013.
Synopsis
[edit]The book is a collection of Milne's columns published in The Guardian over 10 years. Verso Books describes The Revenge of History as an account of the first decade of the twenty-first century . The book indicts the United States presented as a global and corporate empire in decline. Milne also examines the causes of the credit crisis and the Great Recession, claims the policy of humanitarian military intervention to be a failed land grab, offers an explanation of the dynamo behind the roaring Chinese economy and introduces new models of society flourishing in Latin America.
Reception
[edit]Naomi Klein praised The Revenge of History as "a book with an urgent message" and wrote that "Reading Seumas Milne, one often has a feeling of physical relief: finally someone not only sees the truth but articulates it with thrilling erudition and moral clarity".[1]
In The Guardian Owen Hatherley wrote "Milne has a knack for making arguments which when published are excoriated as unforgivable, and which then gradually become guiltily commonsensical" and broadly praised the work.[2]
Al Jazeera published a review which suggested that "As The Revenge of History reminds us, it is the left which has got the major judgement calls of the last 10 years – on economic and foreign policy – essentially correct, while the political right and many mainstream liberals have got them badly wrong" and which also praised the book.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Verso".
- ^ Hatherley, Owen (26 October 2012). "The Revenge of History by Seumas Milne – review". The Guardian.
- ^ "Review: 'The Revenge of History: The Battle for the 21st Century' | US & Canada | al Jazeera".
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