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The Age Of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy by David Neiwert
RRP: $77.68$50.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890360Author David NeiwertFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Party Politics in Japan by Hans H. Baerwald
RRP: $62.98$55.94To the outside observer, the character and dynamics of Japan's political parties and Diet (National Assembly) are often obscure. This volume is an invaluable description of party politics in Japan, and a unique analysis of the influence that a changing... -
Principles and Practices of Fiscal Autonomy: Experiences, Debates and Prospects by Giancarlo Pola
RRP: $283.50$247.13This century has seen the continuation of long-term trends in the movement of the territorial boundaries of nation states alongside the emergence of new tensions. The repercussions of the Scottish referendum and the heightened urgency of the Catalonia... -
The Claim of Scotland by H. J. Paton
RRP: $220.50$190.81Originally published in 1968, and at a time when discontent with Westminster was growing along with the desire for an independent Scottish government, this book gives historical background but also discusses 20th Century political, administrative, legal... -
The National Movement in Scotland by Jack Brand
RRP: $220.50$179.07Originally published in 1978, but now re-issued with a new Preface by James Mitchell, this volume traces the rise of the SNP, with special emphasis on explaining the increase of the National Party vote in Scotland from the early 1960s to the late 1970s... -
Mass Media and American Politics by Doris A Graber
RRP: $216.30$201.83A comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking, Mass Media and American Politics is known for its readable introduction to the literature and theory of the field, and for staying current... -
Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia by Benedict Anderson
RRP: $81.90$70.33In 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: $235.20$199.88Today, 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
$93.93First 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 by Beau Sia
RRP: $23.08$15.50This 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: $153.30$138.85This 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... -
Global Resurgence of the Right: Conceptual and Regional Perspectives by Gisela Pereyra Doval
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book provides a broad-ranging analysis of the global resurgence of right-wing forces in the twenty-first century. These parties, organisations and social movements represent a break from right-wing forces in interwar political history in Europe and... -
Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland by Ofra Bengio
RRP: $62.98$54.58Kurdish 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: $92.38$80.72This 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: $283.50$246.29Iraq 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... -
Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War by Daniel A. Sjursen
RRP: $33.58$23.18What is patriotism in our volatile age? This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop... -
Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace by Peter Daou
RRP: $52.50$34.65Apologies 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) 465g -
Global Nationalism: Ideas, Movements And Dynamics In The Twenty-first Century by Pablo De Orellana
RRP: $189.00$164.18The twenty-first century is witnessing a truly transnational revival of a very old set of ideas. Despite romantic attachments to old symbols, these late modern nationalism movements are not simply replicas of the previous two waves of nationalism in the... -
Reflections on the Extreme Right in Western Europe, 1990-2008 by Christopher T. Husbands
RRP: $79.78$70.10During 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: $273.00$235.43Revisiting 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: $41.98$29.99The 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... -
The Political Thought of the Civil War by Alan Levine
RRP: $73.40$62.94Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? If we listen to the most thoughtful, forceful, and passionate voices of that day we find that many of the questions at the heart of that conflict are also central to the very idea of America-and... -
Democracy and Foreign Policy by R. Bassett
RRP: $92.38$82.82The 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
$79.88After 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 by Julie Kelly
RRP: $39.88$27.15The 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: $54.58$46.28Combining 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: $178.50$96.29This 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: $100.78$87.80Saionji 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: $92.38$80.72In 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: $283.50$246.29South 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: $167.98$127.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nationhood, Migration and Global Politics: An Introduction by Raymond Taras
RRP: $50.38$44.23A new introduction to contemporary nationhood that sets it apart from national identity, nationalism and diversity Drawing on extensive research in transnationalism and ethnic conflict around the world, Raymond Taras introduces the concepts of nation and... -
The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State: Japan and China by Joshua A. Fogel
RRP: $151.20$127.93Japan 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: $58.78$53.57This 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: $54.58$46.28In 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: $88.20$75.56Empire 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: $283.50$246.29What 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: $75.58$66.55This 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... -
The New Nationalism by Louis L. Snyder
RRP: $92.38$81.56Nationalism, 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: $283.50$247.13The 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...