Political Ideologies

Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best...

This book presents a unique collection of some of the most influential recent writing on vital aspects of Nazi Germany.About the AuthorChristian Leitz is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of...

In recent years, the so-called Alt-Right, a white nationalist movement, has grown at an alarming rate. Taking advantage of high levels of racial polarization, the Alt-Right seeks to normalize explicit white identity politics. Growing from a marginalized...

Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain--at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476763804Author Ej DionneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by...

Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in...

This is the sixth and final volume of L&W's comprehensive history of the British Communist Party, covering the debates of the last years - a period of accelerated change and reassessment, and ultimately dissolution. The book begins by situating the CPGB...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351225Author Iain McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 1136Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1503g

The best-selling radical diary and weekly planner is back for the new year!The 2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully designed week-to-view planner where you can keep track of your coming year. Alongside illustrations, it features...

In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way the Hungarian political party Fidesz (the Federation of Young Democrats) was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law as it was on government for the first time. At that time, many readers...

In the mid 1920s Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought that the text had been destroyed. However, a group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853152125Author Karl MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 491Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353892Author G.D.H. ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851352527Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 644Imprint Lawrence & WishartPublisher Lawrence & WishartWeight(grams) 736g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525434955Author Eli SaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059230Author Dmitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Socialism has always had internationalist ambitions, but what those ambitions should be and how to rethink them in the 21st century remain open questions. Before his tragic passing in 2020, Michael Brooks talked about a new kind of cosmopolitan socialism...

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This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa's most important changes in the transition from apartheid to a constitutional democracy. Hassen's political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604868128Author Colin WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 152g

As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062954862Author Rand PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 514gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

How did Trump and Brexit go from laughable impossibilities to everyday reality? Why did digital media stop being cool and progressive, and become a reactionary, brainwashing nightmare? And, how did the Left get its act together and start winning again?...

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions charts a transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years between the American Revolution and the revolutions of 1848. In the mid-eighteenth century,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668010877Author Jesse KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633909Author Alex PrichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641996Author Russell KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Socialism has made a dramatic comeback in the 21st century. In the wake of financial crisis, mounting inequality and social decay, it seems more relevant than ever. Nobody who seeks to understand contemporary politics can ignore it. In this book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015740Author Professor of History Melvyn P LefflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 159g

While there have been many books written about the IRA since 1916, comparatively little attention has been paid to the organisation during the 1960s, despite the fact that the internal divisions culminating in the 1969 split are often seen as key to the...

As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny...

The outbreak of a deadly new form of pneumonia that began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has shown the world that the regime in Beijing poses the most serious threat to world peace and freedom since the Soviet Union. Early missteps by China's ruling...

August Nimtz uncovers attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organization, and as a key way to measure...

The forgotten legacy of religious Jewish anarchism, and the adventures and ideas of its key figures, finally comes to light in this book. Set in the decades surrounding both world wars, No masters but God identifies a loosely connected group of rabbis...

By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604861051Author Stuart ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 183g

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up...

A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's bitterly divided politicsIndividualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike...