Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson’s books include Lineages of the Absolutist State and American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers.

In the LRB Archive:

• Bolsonaro’s Brazil · 7 February 2019

• Time Unfolded: Powell v. the World · 2 August 2018

• Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell v. Proust · 19 July 2018

  • Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling

• Crisis in Brazil · 21 April 2016

• Imitation Democracy: Post-Communist States · 27 August 2015

• One Exceptional Figure Stood Out · 30 July 2015

• The Italian Disaster · 22 May 2014

• Diary: Forget about Paris · 23 January 2014

• After Nehru · 2 August 2012

• Why Partition? · 19 July 2012

• Gandhi Centre Stage · 5 July 2012

• The Force of the Anomaly: Carlo Ginzburg · 26 April 2012

  • Threads and Traces: True False Fictive by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by Anne Tedeschi and John Tedeschi

• Sino-Americana · 9 February 2012

  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel
  • On China by Henry Kissinger
  • The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor

• From Progress to Catastrophe: The Historical Novel · 28 July 2011

• Lula’s Brazil · 31 March 2011

• Sinomania · 28 January 2010

  • When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques
  • Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang
  • Against the Law: Labour Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Ching Kwan Lee

• An Invertebrate Left · 12 March 2009

• An Entire Order Converted into What It Was Intended to End: Italy’s Decline · 26 February 2009

  • La Casta: Cosi i Politici Italiani sono Diventati Intoccabili by Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella
  • La Deriva: Perche l’Italia Rischia il Naufragio by Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella

• After Kemal · 25 September 2008

• Kemalism: After the Ottomans · 11 September 2008

• The Divisions of Cyprus · 24 April 2008

• Depicting Europe · 20 September 2007

• Our Man: The Inglorious Career of Kofi Annan · 10 May 2007

  • The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power by James Traub
  • Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler

• Russia’s Managed Democracy: Why Putin? · 25 January 2007

• Union Sucrée: The Normalising of France · 23 September 2004

  • Le Rappel à l’ordre: Enquête sur les nouveaux réactionnaires by Daniel Lindenberg
  • Esquisse pour une auto-analyse by Pierre Bourdieu
  • La République mondiale des lettres by Pascale Casanova

• Dégringolade: The Fall of France · 2 September 2004

  • La France qui tombe by Nicolas Baverez
  • La Face cachée du ‘Monde’: Du contre-pouvoir aux abus de pouvoir by Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen

• Stand-Off in Taiwan: Greens v. Blues in the South China Sea · 3 June 2004

• Casuistries of Peace and War: The assumptions the Bush Administration and its critics share · 6 March 2003

• The Cardoso Legacy: Lula’s Inheritance · 12 December 2002

• Confronting Defeat: Hobsbawm’s Histories · 17 October 2002

• The Age of EJH: Eric Hobsbawm’s Memoirs · 3 October 2002

  • Interesting Times: A 20th-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm

• Land without Prejudice: Berlusconi’s Italy · 21 March 2002

• On Sebastiano Timpanaro · 10 May 2001

• A Ripple of the Polonaise: work of the Nineties · 25 November 1999

  • History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties by Timothy Garton Ash

• The German Question: Goodbye to Bonn · 7 January 1999

• In the second half of an essay on his father’s career in China, Perry Anderson writes about the closing phases of the Chinese Maritime Customs: My Father’s Last Years in China · 20 August 1998

• A Belated Encounter: My father’s career in the Chinese Customs Service · 30 July 1998

• Diary · 17 October 1996

• The Europe to Come · 25 January 1996

  • The Rotten Heart of Europe by Bernard Connolly
  • Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of European Union 1973-93 by Keith Middlemas

• Under the Sign of the Interim · 4 January 1996

  • The European Rescue of the Nation-State by Alan Milward
  • The Frontier of National Sovereignty: History and Theory 1945-1992 by Alan Milward
  • Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence by François Duchêne

• The Dark Side of Brazilian Conviviality · 24 November 1994

• Maurice Thomson’s War · 4 November 1993

  • Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London’s Overseas Traders 1550-1653 by Robert Brenner
  • The Nature of the English Revolution by John Morrill

• Diary · 21 October 1993

• High Jinks at the Plaza · 22 October 1992

  • The British Constitution Now by Ferdinand Mount
  • Constitutional Reform by Robert Brazier
  • Anatomy of Thatcherism by Shirley Letwin

• The Intransigent Right at the End of the Century · 24 September 1992

  • Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays by Michael Oakeshott, edited by Timothy Fuller

• Perry Anderson reflects on his experience of the Moscow coup, and of its failure, and considers Gorbachev’s failure and success · 26 September 1991

• Nation-States and National Identity · 9 May 1991

  • The Identity of France. Vol. II: People and Production by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds

• England’s Isaiah · 20 December 1990

  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy

• Witchcraft · 8 November 1990

  • Storia Notturna: Una Decifrazione del Sabba by Carlo Ginzburg

• Societies · 6 July 1989

  • A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. II: Substantive Social Theory by W.G. Runciman

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