Political Ideologies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862225Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 411g

This book shows how the leaders of the USA, Soviet Union, Europe (East and West), and China viewed the world in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Newly available records reveal what political leaders thought of the shattering, and largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971257Author Francois GuizotFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 781g

What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out...

This highly original contribution to studies of nationalism focuses on its ideological foundations, tracing its historical beginnings and charting its varied manifestations in world politics today. Its broad theoretical and empirical inquiry explores the...

Kenny MacAskill makes the case for a distinctive Scottish version of social democracy that can balance a vibrant economy with quality public services. He argues that Post Devolution Nationalism is about building a nation to be proud of and explores the...

Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350965Author Shlomo SandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents...

Start every day off RIGHT! Try one of our 365 ways to drive a liberal (even more) crazy. Whether you quote from the Constitution (what, that old relic?) or point out the facts about global warming (as in, the planet has been steadily cooling for the past...

A collection of essays on the core values of liberalism which challenges assumptions about liberal theory. By placing it into its original historical context, this text presents an interconnected argument meant to fundamentally change the conception of...

When we think of politics in pluralistic societies, two types of issues come to mind. On the one hand, controversies over affirmative action, race-conscious districting, and racial stereotypes in the media raise questions of justice. On the other hand,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720298Author Ted HalsteadFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Governance is an easy-to read introduction to an increasingly important concept in political science. It provides a clear overview of how the concept has been used in the sub-fields of public administration and public policy, international relations,...

The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the United Stated exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a fascinating social and cultural history covering the...

According to conventional periodization, a profound break in the continuity of Western political theory occurred around 1500 and marked the beginning of "modern" political thought. In Machiavelli to Marx Dante Germino examines the scholars of this period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447424Author Jeff ShantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258243Author Jonathon LouthFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press

"Democracy For The Few" is a provocative interpretation of American Government. It shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, and how popular forces have fought back and occasionally made gains in spite of the system. By...

The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the nature of...

What does it mean to follow Marx? In this examination of Marx's methodology combined with specific applications on topics in political economy such as neo-Ricardian theory, analytical Marxism, the falling rate of profit, crisis-theory, monopoly-capital,...

In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree...

In this book, Anthony Williams investigates the history of Christian Socialist thought in Britain from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Through analysis of the writings of ten key Christian Socialists from the period, Williams reframes the...

One of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices," making it impossible for politicians to solve...

Wily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer's Iliad, long admired and studied as one of the foremost epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684510573Author Ralph ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141934Author Irwin M StelzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787353831Author Peter J. S. DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 400g

First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625393Author Zsuzsa SelyemFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Islamic world has experienced extensive social changes in modern times - the rise of new social classes, the formation of massive bureaucratic and military states, and the incorporation of its economies into the world capitalist structure. Yet...

Communist Parties in the Middle East: 100 Years of HistoryOne hundred years since the Russian Revolution, Communist parties have undergone great changes, in an evolution that has affected the entire Left and the social movements. Given that the impact of...

"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."--Politico In The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism, Alan Dershowitz--New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263132Author Karigo MuchaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 437g

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. 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 Greek Civil...

In 1980, Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity. It was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639270Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackImprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix Press

The first volume of this critical history covers the social, political, and theoretical forces behind the development of Marxian economics from Marx's death in 1883 until 1929, the year marking the onset of Stalin's "revolution from above," which...

An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, "The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time" represents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a...