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Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past by Richard Jobson 9781526113313
RRP: £25.00£22.03This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party's political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour's identity and... -
Malayan Emergency by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526707864
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal... -
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok 9780674455320
RRP: £29.95£24.06Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure... -
Political Racism: Brexit and its Aftermath by Martin Shaw
RRP: £19.99£18.80Political Racism conceptualizes a distinctive form of racism - intentional, organized hostility mobilized by political actors - and examines its role in the Brexit conflict and in the rise of a new nationalist politics in the UK. In a compelling... -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks 9781503603226
RRP: £54.00£36.13In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal... -
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century by Samuel P. Huntington
£34.36Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political... -
The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism Colin Crouch (University of Warwick) 9780745652214
RRP: £16.99£15.22The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this... -
The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships by Vineeta Yadav
RRP: £28.99£24.42The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships studies how institutional and social factors influence corruption in dictatorships. Dictatorships are often synonymous with high levels of corruption, yet Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee argue otherwise. The... -
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780816618637
RRP: £18.99£16.72The three essays in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, Nothern Ireland. Founded in 1980 as a theatre cmpany, Field Day has eveolved as a publisher concerned with the typically Irish... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780553214642
RRP: £6.99£5.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214642Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance Cedric J. Robinson 9780745340036
RRP: £21.99£14.56Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the Black Radical Tradition. His works have been essential texts, deconstructing racial capitalism and inspiring insurgent movements from Ferguson to the West... -
The Women's Revolution: Russia 1905 - 1917 by Judy Cox
RRP: £14.99£14.87The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for 'bread and herrings', which sparked the February Revolution, in most... -
Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance by Henry A. Giroux
RRP: £21.99£19.28Henry A. Giroux argues that education holds a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society. Education, with its increasingly corporate and... -
Far-Right Politics in Europe by Jean-Yves Camus
RRP: £24.95£19.89In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to... -
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason
RRP: £19.00£18.50Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable... -
The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea by Shadi Hamid 9780197579466
RRP: £25.49£21.58Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions. What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is... -
The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe by Patrick J. Geary
RRP: £28.00£21.80Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand... -
Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker 9780691243030
RRP: £28.00£21.80How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up... -
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
RRP: £8.99£6.20In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the... -
Nicaragua, 1961-1990, Volume 2: The Contra War by David Francois 9781911628682
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628682Author David FrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Up from Conservatism: Where the American Right Must Go by Arthur Milikh 9781641772907
RRP: £23.99£16.09The Conservative Establishment's consensus of the past two generations has almost totally broken down. Conservatism was unable to stop or even slow the Left's rolling revolutions in nearly every sector of American society-from classrooms to boardrooms,... -
British Fascism, 1918-1939: Parties, Ideology and Culture by Thomas Linehan
RRP: £19.99£16.80A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features of British fascism in the interwar period. Considers a previously... -
Continuity and Rupture - Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain J. Moufawad-paul 9781785354762
RRP: £17.99£15.39A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.About the AuthorJ. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and... -
Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini by Peter J. Williamson
RRP: £30.00£26.95Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's... -
Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters by David Mountain
RRP: £16.99£11.58'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle AgesFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.The stories we tell about our past... -
Histories of Racial Capitalism by Justin Leroy
RRP: £25.00£19.59The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger... -
Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures Iokine Rodriguez 9780745344775
RRP: £24.99£19.39The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic... -
The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition by Kevin P. Phillips 9780691163246
RRP: £30.00£23.29One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968--and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: £18.99£12.75George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691167886
RRP: £25.00£20.59How the conflict between political Islamists and secular nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically... -
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel: Abridged Edition Alexandre Christoyannopoulos 9781845402471
RRP: £17.95£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402471Author Alexandre ChristoyannopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams)... -
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel by Mahdi Amel
RRP: £25.00£16.73Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. For the first time in English, this collection makes available lengthy excerpts from six major works by Mahdi Amel. These include the two founding texts on... -
To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism by Rob Riemen 9780393635867
RRP: £15.99£13.82Thomas Mann and Albert Camus understood something many political scientists still find difficult to fathom. Deprived of any coherent theory, fascism is characterised by its politics of resentment, stirring up of anger and fear, xenophobia, need for... -
Reds: Mccarthyism in Twentieth Century America by Ted Morgan 9780812973020
RRP: £19.99£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973020Author Ted MorganFormat PaperbackImprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 511g -
Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Nolan McCarty
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that... -
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
RRP: £25.00£19.40'A scrupulous biography' Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' Kirkus 'If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read' Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk James Baldwin is an icon of liberation who created... -
Understanding Humanism by Andrew Copson
RRP: £35.99£31.69Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a... -
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter 9780300192377
RRP: £22.50£21.68A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A... -
Prague Spring: Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968 by Phil Carradice 9781526757005
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it...