Political Ideologies

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremismAt the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a...

The first general history of the evolution of European states and nations from medieval times to the present.About the AuthorHagen Schulze was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1943. He was until recently Professor of Modern History and Head of Department at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510732315Author Tim Pat CooganFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 239mm...

2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats. To mark this important milestone, this book brings together prominent...

Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. ...

In his hard-hitting and controversial book, George Watson examines the foundation texts of socialism to find out what they really say; the result is blasphemy against socialism's canon of saints. Marx and Engels publicly advocated genocide in 1849;...

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong in the twenty-first. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)...

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of 'fully automated luxury communism' have seen art topple...

When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350129Author Charles EalhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 438g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043219Author Ellen WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 138mm * 17mm

Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired by Ronald Regan and the United States Congress,...

Writing in response to our current "constitutional crisis," New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of...

Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds"After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don't...

An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace democracy to restore balance between economy and society. What happens to a society-and a planet-when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are...

Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the central figures of the Frankfurt School, with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and...

Business and Populism analyses the relationship between right wing populism and business with a focus on business responses and strategies in the face of the global populist turn. In the neoliberal era business had become accustomed to favourable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351306Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352925Author Nick HenckFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952223280Author Arnold KlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Libertarianism.org PressPublisher Cato Institute

Democratic equality entails a principle that everyone whose basic interests are affected by policies should be included in the process of making them. Yet individuals and groups often claim that decision making processes are dominated by only some of the...

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the state. Brexit has the potential to change everything - from the shape of government institutions, to the main...

Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects and processes. In Gender and Nation...

The influence of Antonio Gramsci's thought is exceeded only by the diverse interpretations to which it has been subjected. Claimed by disparate schools of thought, Gramsci's writing has influenced scholars ranging from Michel Foucault to Noam Chomsky. In...

Andre Gorz argues that changes in the role of the work and labour process in the closing decades of the twentieth century have, once and for all, weakened the power of skilled industrial workers. Their place has been taken, says Gorz, by social...

This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by the...

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is...

This volume contains the proceedings and resolutions from three expanded meetings of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1922-1923, while Lenin was still alive. At these 'mini-congresses', Communist leaders from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860290Author J. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 782g

In this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless - and internationally influential - champion of the liberal cause...

Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity,...

Part dictionary and part encyclopedia, this book has become the standard reference work on the concepts of Marxism and the individuals and schools of thought that have subsequently contributed to the body of Marxist ideas.About the AuthorThomas Burton...

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012* Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a...

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957452012Author Weather UndergroundFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Warcry CommunicationsPublisher Warcry CommunicationsWeight(grams)...

The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fifty countries since World War II.Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the...

Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world...

Explores how authoritarian regimes are deploying "sharp power" to undermine democracies from within by weaponizing universities, institutions, media, technology, and entertainment industries.The world's dictators are no longer content with shoring up...