CALIBAN AND THE WITCH (PB)

Taking in the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages, the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, this is a panoramic account of the violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It Is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in suffering.