books achieved an instant prominence for Anderson, whose wide-ranging analysis synthesised elements of history, philosophy, and political theory. In the 1980s, Anderson took office as a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He returned as editor at NLR in 2000 for three more years, and after his retirement continued to serve on the journal's editorial committee. As of 2019, he has continued to make contributions to the London Review of Books, and pursued teaching as a Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Influence and criticism Anderson bore the brunt of the disapproval of E. P. Thompson in the latter's The Poverty of Theory, in a controversy during the late 1970s over the structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser, and the use of history and theory in the politics of the Left. In the mid-1960s, Thompson wrote an essay for the annual Socialist Register that rejected Anderson's view of aristocratic dominance of Britain's historical trajectory, as well as Anderson's seeming preference for continental European theorists over radical British traditions and empiricism. Anderson delivered two responses to Thompson's polemics, first in an essay in New Left Review (January–February 1966) called "Socialism and Pseudo-Empiricism" and then in a more conciliatory yet ambitious overview, Arguments within English Marxism (1980). While Anderson faced many attacks in his native Britain for favouring continental European philosophers over British thinkers, he did not spare Western European Marxists from criticism; see his Considerations on Western Marxism (1976). Nevertheless, many of his assaults were delivered against postmodernist currents in continental Europe. In his book In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, Anderson depicts Paris as the new capital of intellectual reaction, placing himself at odds with the popular notion of postmodernism as a left-wing heresy. Works Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism (1974). London: New Left Books. . Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974). London: New Left Books. . Considerations on Western Marxism (1976). London: Verso. . Arguments within English Marxism (1980). London: Verso. . In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1983). London: Verso. . English Questions (1992). London: Verso. . A Zone of Engagement (1992). London: Verso. . The Origins of Postmodernity (1998). London: Verso. . Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005). London: Verso. . The New Old World (2009). London: Verso. . The Indian Ideology (2012). New Delhi: Three Essays Collective. . American Foreign