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White But Not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt by Ivan Kalmar
RRP: £22.99£17.94Since the 'migration crisis' of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its 'new' Eastern members - Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary - have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against... -
National Liberation, Socialism and Imperialism by V I Lenin 9780717801350
RRP: £14.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717801350Author V I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: £30.00£23.82A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics by Fabio Parasecoli 9780231202077
RRP: £20.00£15.54Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USANominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India,... -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £25.99£22.44Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety... -
The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
RRP: £25.00£16.78In the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, countless words have been written and uttered about nationalism-many accusing nationalists of racism, hatred, and violence. But nationalism wasn't always considered evil. Indeed, such venerated... -
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra
RRP: £27.99£23.66Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an... -
Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain by Ailsa Henderson
RRP: £36.49£31.33Until the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent... -
Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War by Michael Hopkinson 9780717137602
£24.88It will be indispensable reading for those who wish to understand the bloody birth of independent Ireland." Michael Laffan, Irish Historical Studies "Michael Hopkinson has finally broken the taboo on research into this crucial event in Irish... -
Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Richard Bellamy 9780192802538
RRP: £8.99£6.45Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen of a modern, complex community? Why is citizenship important? Can we create citizenship, and can we test for it? In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, Richard... -
The Fenian Rising: James Stephens and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-1867 by Michael T. Foy 9781803992624
RRP: £25.00£18.15Fenianism was the Irish separatist movement committed to winning Irish freedom through revolution. Defeated often, its tremendous resilience enabled it to rise time and again, phoenix-like, until it eventually inspired the 1916 Easter Rising, soon... -
Jewish Statesmanship: Ten Studies in Leadership by Meir Y. Soloveichik 9781641773287
RRP: £21.99£14.83Ever since Plato's Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers have contributed notably to this genre, strikingly few have... -
The Fascist Party in Wales?: Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism by Richard Jones 9781783160563
RRP: £8.99£6.87For decades, otherwise highly respected figures in Welsh life have repeatedly claimed that Welsh nationalists sympathised with Fascism during the dark days of the 1930s and the Second World War. In this path-breaking book, Wales's leading political... -
Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era by Professor Anthony D. Smith 9780745610191
RRP: £17.99£16.04This book provides an original approach to the study of nationalism of relevance to the current debates concerning the nation state and its anticipated demise and to the debates concerning panEuropeanism.About the AuthorAnthony David Stephen Smith was a... -
Antisocial: How Online Extremists Broke America by Andrew Marantz
RRP: £9.99£7.06'An absorbing study of online propaganda and its threat to democracy' - Guardian, Book of the Day'A wonderful record of these haywire times . . . it really explains how we ended up in this mess' - Jon RonsonThis is a story about how the extreme became... -
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia 9781642592696
RRP: £19.99£13.58In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy... -
Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide by Hans-Lukas Kieser 9780691202587
RRP: £28.00£21.36The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the Young Turks' single-party regime in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably a... -
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case by Anatol Lieven
RRP: £9.99£7.11'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world's great powers are far more threatened by climate change than they are by each other' Ivan Krastev,... -
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £19.99£13.33In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country's education system, media, and cinema. In... -
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: £20.00£17.86Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong... -
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer 9780691191560
RRP: £22.00£16.99How 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... -
Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History by Anthony D. Smith 9780745651286
RRP: £15.99£14.41For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: £12.99£8.60As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans... -
People Without Power: the war on populism and the fight for democracy by Thomas Frank
RRP: £9.99£6.70Everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Donald Trump. Brexit. European right-wing extremists. All have been accused of populism. But what does this often thrown about, yet generally misunderstood, term actually mean? The real story of... -
Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism by Simon Brooks 9781786830128
RRP: £16.99£13.09Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the 'progressive'... -
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy by Dmitry Adamsky
RRP: £29.99£25.99A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics,... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker 9780190659240
RRP: £23.49£17.04In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel... -
Representing the Nation: A Reader: Histories, Heritage, Museums by David Boswell
RRP: £35.99£34.00Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation: A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.With an... -
Defending Israel: Against Hamas and Its Radical Left Enablers by Alan Dershowitz 9781510780521
RRP: £19.99£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510780521Author Alan DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hot BooksPublisher Hot BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 28mm -
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History by Niamh Gallagher
£30.33On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to... -
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann
RRP: £21.00£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375311Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
RRP: £15.95£12.80A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."-Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in... -
Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream by Aurelien,Aaron Mondon, Winter 9781788734226
RRP: £70.00£58.28Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for... -
The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations by Nira Yuval-Davis 9781412921305
RRP: £51.00£41.51"This is an in-depth examination of a slippery and contradictory subject. Knowledge alone is not enough for this type of project. It takes breaking out of narrow conceptual cages and unsettling what we think of as stable meanings. The author brings... -
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell
RRP: £22.99£20.11The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist, anti-globalisation and anti-establishment backlash engulfing... -
An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism: Between Turkish Ethnicity and Islamic Identity by Umut Uzer
RRP: £32.95£27.19Turkish nationalism erupted onto the world stage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as first Greeks, then Armenians and other minority groups within the Ottoman Empire began to assert national identity and seek independence. Umut Uzer... -
The Anglosphere: Continuity, Dissonance and Location by Ben Wellings 9780197266618
£55.14The Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community consisting of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK - came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The Anglosphere's origins lie in the British Empire and the conflicts of the... -
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena
£13.33For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey,... -
States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Hagen Schulze
RRP: £33.95£30.38The 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...