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Continuity and Rupture - Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain J. Moufawad-paul 9781785354762
RRP: $37.78$32.32A 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... -
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel by Mahdi Amel
RRP: $52.50$35.13Mahdi 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... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: $35.68$24.23'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini by Peter J. Williamson
RRP: $63.00$56.60Eighty 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: $35.68$24.32'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: $52.50$41.14The 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... -
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel: Abridged Edition Alexandre Christoyannopoulos 9781845402471
RRP: $37.70$35.66Apologies 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)... -
Reds: Mccarthyism in Twentieth Century America by Ted Morgan 9780812973020
RRP: $41.98$30.39Apologies 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 -
Anarchafeminism by Chiara Bottici
RRP: $39.88$35.24How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to... -
Postmodernism and the Other: New Imperialism of Western Culture Ziauddin Sardar 9780745307497
RRP: $62.98$48.34Postmodernism has often been presented as a new theory of liberation that promotes pluralism and gives representation to the marginalised peoples of the non-west and 'other' cultures. In this major assessment of postmodernism from a non-western... -
Prague Spring: Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968 by Phil Carradice 9781526757005
RRP: $31.48$23.00Cold 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... -
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework by Balint Magyar
RRP: $88.10$81.29Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China,... -
Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution Clifford D. Conner 9780745331935
RRP: $52.48$34.40Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he is portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $73.50$58.25Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Fascism by Richard J. B. Bosworth 9780199594788
RRP: $87.13$86.16The essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of distinguished scholars, combine to explore the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion. From a... -
Without a Dog's Chance: The Nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Irish Boundary Commission, 1920-1925 by James Cousins 9781788551021
$45.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551021Author James CousinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land and Freedom Francis Dupuis-Deri 9780745349220
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle' Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University As early as the end of the 19th century, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin... -
Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean by Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith 9780252087776
RRP: $52.48$45.51The drug trade. Crime. Terrorism. Cyber threats. In the Caribbean, these cross-border Problems Without Passports (PWPs) have shaken the very foundation of nation states. Blending case studies with regional analysis, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith examines the... -
The Day After the Revolution by Slavoj Zizek
$23.84Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last... -
Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101
RRP: $33.58$28.18A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021,... -
Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: $56.68$45.30In this book, the most thorough account of Marx's theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book... -
Song of Arirang by Nym Wales 9781885030566
RRP: $46.20$31.16An intimate telling of the life and times of teenage Korean revolutionary Kim San First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager... -
Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future by Azeem Ibrahim
RRP: $42.00$37.46Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. For a while, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we believed that this would be enough. Yet, today, we face an... -
Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty by Samuel Issacharoff 9780197674758
RRP: $51.43$43.64A powerful new account of how populist movements are sabotaging political institutions from within and undermining democracies across the globe. The 2016 election of Donald Trump focused people's minds on populism, and most of the attention paid to... -
The Trieste Crisis 1953: The First Cold War Confrontation in Europe Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781912866342
RRP: $35.60$25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866342Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Mind Fuck: The Mass Psychology of Creeping Fascism Neil Faulkner 9780902869318
RRP: $12.60$12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869318Author Neil FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism by John Breuilly
$73.50The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every... -
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice
RRP: $92.40$63.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455540181Author Condoleezza RiceFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)... -
Liberalism's Religion by Cecile Laborde
RRP: $71.30$57.56Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state separate). But recently this idea that religion requires... -
The well dressed revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo (1911-1996) by Hall Greenland 9780902869103
RRP: $37.80$35.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869103Author Hall GreenlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen 9780691178240
RRP: $42.00$30.72Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown by Leszek Kolakowski 9780393329438
RRP: $75.58$67.81Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his definitive Main Currents of Marxism: "A... -
Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice Chris Saltmarsh 9780745341828
RRP: $20.98$14.28'An inspiring rallying cry for activists everywhere to work together to build a just, ecosocialist future' - Grace Blakeley Time is up. The climate crisis is no longer a future to be feared, but a devastating reality. We see it in the wildfires in... -
Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State Jonathan Wolff 9780745606033
RRP: $35.68$31.96Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a... -
The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781420926972
RRP: $20.98$18.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420926972Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Democracy and Truth: A Short History by Sophia Rosenfeld
RRP: $41.98$30.22"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies-citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no... -
Libertarianism for Beginners by Todd Seavey 9781939994660
RRP: $25.18$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994660Author Todd SeaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Understanding Humanism by Andrew Copson
RRP: $75.58$66.55Understanding 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... -
Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts by Cesare Cuttica
$65.58This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Patriarchalism is omnipresent in Western culture and it pervades the texts that have shaped this culture. From the... -
Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 by John Gooch 9780521856027
RRP: $107.08$98.39This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research,...