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Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997 by Colm Murphy 9781009278812
RRP: €101.15€91.63The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism overhauls the story of Labour's modernisation and provides an innovative new history. Diving into the... -
On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau
RRP: €15.46€13.10In this highly prescient work - which has had a big impact on figures such as Pablo Oglesias of Podemos in Spain - Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Here he focuses on the... -
Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era Paul Pierson 9780226836430
RRP: €28.56€21.54A provocative exploration of how America’s democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today’s nationalized, partisan politics. The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics... -
The Fascist Party in Wales?: Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism by Richard Jones 9781783160563
RRP: €10.70€8.18For 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... -
The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left by Stuart Hall
RRP: €15.46€13.10Stuart Hall was one of the most insightful and incisive critics of the Thatcher era. In this essential selection of his essays during the period, he elaborates both how Thatcher's rise to power exploited weakness in the left, but also how the left itself... -
Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot - Reappraising Peter Shore by Kevin Hickson 9781785904738
RRP: €29.75€21.71Peter Shore worked under Hugh Gaitskell, serving in successive Labour Cabinets under first Harold Wilson and subsequently James Callaghan. He wrote the 1964, 1966 and 1970 general election manifestos for the party and stood in both the 1980 and the 1983... -
No 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: €15.46€10.70Behind the world's most iconic front door lies the core of British political power: the Prime Minister's home and office. Designed over three centuries ago as an ordinary residence, 10 Downing Street (or 'No. 10') has undergone a challenging... -
A Woman's Work Is Never Done: Autobiographical and Political Writings by Elizabeth Andrews Elizabeth Andrews 9781870206785
RRP: €10.70€7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206785Author Elizabeth AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 181g -
God's Chaos Code by Lance Wallnau 9780998216423
RRP: €13.79€12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998216423Author Lance WallnauFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Killer Sheep Media IncPublisher Killer Sheep Media IncWeight(grams) 152g -
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: €42.78€34.46In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised-should the governing Conservatives... -
Social Democracy by Professor Eunice Goes 9781788216166
RRP: €22.60€21.31Social democracy emerged in the late nineteenth century and has become a leading political ideology in Europe. This short history approaches the evolution of this ideology as a body of political thought and political practices. It expounds the... -
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America by Lee Drutman
RRP: €19.03€16.54A compelling case for large-scale electoral reform. American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer... -
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy Peters
RRP: €28.56€20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576587Author Jeremy W. PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain? by Polly Toynbee 9781847082503
RRP: €11.89€7.97Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour came to power? If we are, how much do we have to thank Blair and Brown and their cabinets for? In The Verdict, Polly... -
The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master by Chris Clarke
RRP: €11.89€8.46'A splendid critique' James O'Brien, Times Literary Supplement'Richly nuanced, the most stimulating book I have read on Labour in ages' Martin Kettle, Guardian'A brilliant book ... a reading of left-wing politics that suggests a road ahead' Independent A... -
Listen, Liberal: or, what ever happened to the party of the people? by Thomas Frank 9781925228885
RRP: €11.89€7.97With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots. Financial inequality is one... -
A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
RRP: €13.08€8.47The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America'In 1974 Elaine Brown became the first woman leader of the Black Panther... -
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg 9781838606381
RRP: €35.70€26.89"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star "[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a... -
The Labour Party in Post-war Britain by Patrick Diamond
RRP: €30.93€26.93This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party's years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour's sporadic recovery from... -
A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism by Aaron Edwards 9780719086380
RRP: €23.79€20.96Available for the first time in paperback, this book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite... -
Labour's Civil War: How infighting has kept the left from power (and what can be done about it) by Patrick Diamond 9781913368593
RRP: €20.22€14.41The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains sound theological advice. It also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. Though both major parties have been subject to... -
The Cameron Delusion by Peter Hitchens
RRP: €17.84€13.98The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how and why British politics has sunk to this dreary level -... -
Failed Fuhrers: A History of the British Extreme Right by Graham Macklin
RRP: €34.50€29.86This book provides a comprehensive history of the ideas and ideologues associated with the racial fascist tradition in Britain. It charts the evolution of the British extreme right from its post-war genesis after 1918 to its present-day incarnations, and... -
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter 9781400054213
RRP: €20.23€14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400054213Author Ann CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Britain at the Polls 2010 by Nicholas Allen 9781849208468
RRP: €44.02€36.16'The Britain at the Polls series always asks-and answers, often with new insights-the key questions about British general elections. And few elections in living memory pose as many big questions as that of May 2010.' - Martin Kettle, The Guardian 'For... -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: €45.16€43.28A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and... -
Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole
RRP: €42.83€37.71Racism is an endemic feature of the Tory Party. Tracing the history of that racism, Racism and the Tory Party investigates the changing forms of racism in the party from the days of Empire, including the championing of imperialism at the turn of the 20th... -
In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP by David M Drucker
RRP: €17.84€12.08With Trump's four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is concluded. The transition, however, has set off a mad scramble for control of a Republican Party that for so long has reflected the... -
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections by Mollie Hemingway
RRP: €35.69€27.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512591Author Mollie HemingwayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
Hearts and Minds: The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present by Oliver Letwin 9781785903113
RRP: €23.80€17.71An important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal thinkers, Hearts and Minds is part memoir, part political history and part history of ideas. In it, former Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin explains how the central ideas and policies of the... -
Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair by Jon Lawrence 9780199550128
€101.98In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been... -
The West European Party System by Peter Mair 9780198275831
RRP: €70.20€56.13The analysis of party systems in Western Europe has long constituted a major focus of concern in comparative political science. Many of the classic writings in this field have here been collected into a single volume. "The West European Party... -
The Palestinian Communist Party 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism by Musa Budeira
RRP: €23.79€16.14This history of the Palestinian Communist Party upends the caricature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an ancient religious blood feud. Musa Budeiri is a Palestinian political scientist, professor at al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Here, he shows... -
Rethinking Labour's Past Nathan Yeowell 9780755640164
RRP: €26.17€21.54The Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn is charting a new direction. Here, Nathan Yeowell has brought together a remarkable array of contributors to provide expert insight into twentieth-century British history and Labour politics - and how they might shape... -
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg 9781350408630
RRP: €35.70€27.89"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star "[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a... -
Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation by Matthias Dilling 9780226830254
RRP: €30.94€29.57An illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy... -
THE GREATEST SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA with an Introduction by Presidential Historian Craig Shirly by Donald J. Trump
RRP: €42.83€29.35"We will make America strong again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Greater than ever before!" - President Donald J. TrumpThe ultimate collection of President Donald J. Trump's most important speeches and words to... -
Thank You For Your Servitude by Mark Leibovich 9780593296318
RRP: €30.93€20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296318Author Mark LeibovichFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party by Matthew J. Goodwin 9780415465014
RRP: €54.73€47.75The British National Party (BNP) is the most successful far right party in British political history. Based on unprecedented access to the party and its members, this book examines the rise of the BNP and explains what drives some citizens to support far... -
Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered by Jon Davis
RRP: €37.47€27.26Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite'...