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Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia by Benedict Anderson
RRP: £35.00£30.74In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history-that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in the... -
Reaction Formations: The Subject of Ethnonationalism by Joshua Branciforte
RRP: £103.00£89.14Today, an international new right has coalesced. Variously described as nativist, right-populist, alt-right, and neofascist, far-right movements in many countries have achieved electoral victories that not long ago seemed highly improbable. They have... -
First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslim Nationalism and Its Bosniak Identity by Mirsad Krijestorac
£44.93First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for... -
Well Played Beau Sia 9781945649394
RRP: £10.99£7.38This book began as an answer to power. In the face of the undeniable, it became a reckoning. Of the lies that are lived to feel belonging. Of the lies that are told to hide shame. Of the lies that are believed to remain within illusions. Well Played is a... -
Nationalism and the Economy: Exploring a Neglected Relationship by Stefan Berger
RRP: £73.00£67.27This book is the first attempt to bridge the divide between studies addressing "economic nationalism" as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic "nation-building," and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic "nationness"... -
Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland by Ofra Bengio
RRP: £27.99£24.14Kurdish Awakening examines key questions related to Kurdish nationalism and identity formation in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The world's largest stateless ethnic group, Kurds have steadily grown in importance as a political power in the Middle East,... -
The 'Civil Society' Problematique: Deconstructing Civility and Southern Nigeria's Ethnic Radicalization by Adedayo Oluwakayode Adekson
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume deftly undertakes both a theoretical deconstruction of the concept of civil society (and related themes, including civility) and an empirical analysis of the radicalization process in Southern Nigeria .Book InformationISBN 9780415648851Author... -
Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together by Alex Danilovich
RRP: £135.00£117.28Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of... -
Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace Peter Daou 9781612197876
RRP: £25.00£16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197876Author Peter DaouFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Reflections on the Extreme Right in Western Europe, 1990-2008 Christopher Husbands 9781138389427
RRP: £37.99£33.38During the last three decades or so there has been a significant growth of extreme right voter support, in Europe and elsewhere in the world. The chapters in this book look at an earlier period before most of this increase. Comprising eight previously... -
Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States by Dovile Budryte
RRP: £130.00£112.11Revisiting the process of political community building in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, this book analyzes the roles that international actors have played in these processes and assesses the unintended consequences of this involvement. The study... -
Soldered States: Nation-Building in Germany and Vietnam by Claire Sutherland
RRP: £19.99£14.28The book, now available in paperback, examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart. In this innovative, cross-continental comparison of nation-building in Germany and Vietnam, the focus is on their... -
Democracy and Foreign Policy by R. Bassett
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Sino-Japanese crisis of 1931-33 provides effective illustrations of wider themes in British Foreign Policy. It might even be said that the general pattern of opinion in the UK at the time was to be reproduced in subsequent crises. The Manchurian... -
Japan's Political Warfare by Peter De Mendelssohn
£38.04After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in the Western world. Overshadowed by the much nearer and... -
Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried-And Failed-To Take Down the President Julie Kelly 9781641771146
RRP: £18.99£12.93The election of Donald Trump in 2016 didn't just shock the country, it jolted the Republican Party and forced an overdue reckoning between rank-and-file Republicans and party leadership. Long-held beliefs promoted by the Republican Party establishment... -
Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home by Nina Glick Schiller
RRP: £23.99£20.84Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain... -
Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House by Mike Wendling
RRP: £85.00£65.36This book is a vital guide to understanding the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, anti-feminist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump's successful election campaign in the United States. It looks at the support for this... -
The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics by Lesley Connors
RRP: £47.99£41.81Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics. His... -
Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds Beyond The Nation-State by Steffen Mau
RRP: £43.99£38.44In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that... -
Minority Nationalisms in South Asia by Tanweer Fazal
RRP: £135.00£117.28South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region's major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times... -
Britain and Europe at a Crossroads: The Politics of Anxiety and Transformation by Andrew Ryder
RRP: £79.99£60.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nationhood, Migration and Global Politics: An Introduction by Raymond Taras
RRP: £23.99£21.85Drawing on extensive research in transnationalism and ethnic conflict around the world, Taras re-evaluates the concepts of nation and nationalism in light of the major demographic changes brought about by global migration. He puts forward a new... -
The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State: Japan and China by Joshua A. Fogel
RRP: £66.00£56.93Japan and China did not begin to emerge as unified political entities until the nineteenth century. Yet scholars and politicians persistently refer to "Japan" and "China" in discussions of earlier periods, as if the modern... -
The Nation and Nationalism in Europe: An Introduction by Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
RRP: £27.99£26.01This book offers an overview of the contending approaches to the nation and nationalism, in a European context. Part One explores a wide variety of theoretical perspectives including the controversial issue of theoretical dichotomy (civic versus ethnic... -
Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership by Paul R. Spickard
RRP: £23.99£20.84In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities... -
Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline by David Leheny
RRP: £37.00£32.42Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about... -
Citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro: Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges by Dr. Jelena Dzankic
RRP: £135.00£117.28What happens to the citizen when states and nations come into being? How do the different ways in which states and nations exist define relations between individuals, groups, and the government? Are all citizens equal in their rights and duties in the... -
This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America by Paul Street
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book examines the Trump phenomenon and presidency as fascist. Fascism here connotes not generically "bad" politics or a consolidated political-economic regime (Mussolini's Italy or Hitler's Germany) but a set of political, movement, and ideological... -
The New Nationalism by Louis L. Snyder
RRP: £43.99£38.84Nationalism, the state of mind in which the individual's supreme loyalty is owed to the nation-state, remains the strongest of political emotions. As a historical phenomenon, it is always in flux, changing according to no preconceived pattern. In The New... -
The Lesser Gods of the Sahara: Social Change and Indigenous Rights by Jeremy Keenan
RRP: £135.00£117.68The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they... -
Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics: An African-Centered Paradigm for the Second Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Botwe-Asamoah
RRP: £43.99£38.44This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his... -
Islam and Nationalism in India: South Indian contexts by M. T. Ansari
RRP: £45.99£40.13Islam in India, as elsewhere, continues to be seen as a remainder in its refusal to "conform" to national and international secular-modern norms. Such a general perception has also had a tremendous impact on the Muslims of the Indian... -
Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Soeren Keil
RRP: £49.99£43.50In 1995 none of the political parties representing the peoples of Bosnia preferred a federal option. Yet, Bosnia became a federal state, highly decentralised and with a complex institutional architecture. This solution was imposed on them by... -
Nationalism and the Multination State by Alain Dieckhoff
RRP: £25.00£22.03Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the following decade confirmed this hypothesis with the rise of... -
Nationalisms in International Politics by Kathleen Powers
RRP: £28.00£21.80How the ideas that animate nationalism influence whether it causes-or calms-conflictWith nationalism on the rise around the world, many worry that nationalistic attitudes could lead to a surge in deadly conflict. To combat this trend, federations like... -
Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country by Richard Gillespie
£47.96Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country offers an exploration of the dynamics behind contemporary shifts in the orientation of nationalist parties and movements with reference to Catalonia and the... -
Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad by James Hughes
RRP: £23.99£20.84The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of... -
Nations and Nationalism: A Reader by Philip Spencer
RRP: £105.00£95.79Nationalism has become a key area of political theory over recent years, with a huge expansion in the amount of literature available. Yet there are very few Readers which bring together the best and most representative of these works in one volume. This... -
The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800 by Stefan Berger 9781571816207
RRP: £27.95£22.58The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1990 and analyzes the most recent... -
Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right – CARR Yearbook 2019/2020 by Eviane Leidig
RRP: £41.00£33.982019 was a defining year for the radical right globally. From national and supranational elections that witnessed a surge in support for radical right parties to transnationally-inspired terrorist attacks in New Zealand, the USA, and Germany, the radical...