Political Ideologies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632384Author Colin WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only...

Liberalism is under attack. From the rise of nationalism and populism to the decline of trust in institutions, liberals are facing unprecedented challenges. But what does it mean to be a liberal in the 21st Century? And how can we defend the values that...

The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of the Second World War . At its peak in 1944, almost 2,000 British and American men and women worked at the...

This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900274Author Helena SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as...

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. This volume reveals another aspect of the work of this remarkable polymath, a pioneering analysis...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447766Author Edward A. ShilsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful story that is probably not yet over' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900927Author TiqqunFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 13mm

'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and...

The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the...

Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into the cataclysmic events of the Second World War.But how...

A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire-and the intrepid empire-builders-that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australia not just a common language, but common ideals of freedom and justice The British Empire-the biggest...

The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007037Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong in their country. Why does full-time work no longer guarantee financial stability? Why does college cost a lifetime of debt? And why have decades of free-market promises yielded not more...

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions." He was referring to Germany in 1923, a "year...

From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth "[A] fresh and stimulating look at the path to nationhood."-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs ...

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the...

The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality 'Gripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx's life was so much more than a...

This is a condensed edition of 'The Road to Serfdom' republished in this edition with 'The Intellectuals and Socialism' (originally published in 1949). In 'The Road to Serfdom' F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639697Author Michael LowyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's...

'A panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach read' New Yorker'Read this book: in the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the...

Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an...

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the Young Turks' single-party regime in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably a...

The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikoetter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum ...

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859796Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 878g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593727140Author Rachel BitecoferFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873481069Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637976Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360975Author Maurice PopeFormat HardbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 14mm

Most mainstream economists view capitalism's periodic breakdowns are nothing more than temporary aberrations from another wise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635798Author Erica LagalisseFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press