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The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy by Howard Davies 9780745638850
RRP: £16.99£15.22This remarkable book tells the story of how the British economy has been managed over the last 30 years. The story is told by those who should know more about it than anyone else - the former Chancellors of the Exchequer in both Labour and Conservative... -
Failed Fuhrers: A History of the British Extreme Right by Graham Macklin
RRP: £28.99£25.09This 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... -
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933 by Thomas Childers 9780807841471
RRP: £42.95£35.52The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to... -
A Social History of Western Political Thought by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £25.00£16.43In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political... -
Let's Stay Together: Why Yes to Europe by Denis MacShane
RRP: £12.99£12.55From the bestselling author of BREXIT comes a personal and passionate plea for voting 'Remain' on 23rd June. Denis MacShane, former Minister for Europe, is alarmed that the referendum debate so far has been too polite, too restrained. Now is the time for... -
Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
RRP: £16.00£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307951137Author George FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Paid to Predict: Duplicity, Deceit and Dishonesty among ‘Allies’ by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
RRP: £25.00£18.15In 1993 Ewen Southby-Tailyour joined the British Foreign Office for duties with the European Community Monitoring Mission. He was also tasked, informally, by MI6 to report on a few characters. Monitoring the cease-fire violations along the Confrontation... -
Young Marx by Richard Bean
RRP: £11.99£11.66Young Marx is a comedy set in 1850's London, where Karl Marx, is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke and restless, the play portrays the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary as a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann
RRP: £20.95£17.52"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis...Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed more than ever."-Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly refreshes our... -
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit by James Hawes
RRP: £15.95£9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198146Author James HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 23mm -
Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker 9780745313870
RRP: £24.99£16.38Rudolf Rocker's classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain. It remains unsurpassed as a general introduction to... -
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy 9780312293130
RRP: £59.99£41.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm)... -
The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
RRP: £17.00£16.15In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit by Christopher Hill
RRP: £15.99£14.41Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be offset by the United Kingdom's entry into Europe in 1975, with the result that national foreign policy came to rest on... -
Films of Fact - British Cinema and Thatcherism by Lester D. Friedman
RRP: £22.00£18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764717Author Lester FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 664gDimensions(mm) 238mm *... -
The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown by Florence Faucher-King 9780804762359
RRP: £21.99£19.18The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Gales argue that New Labour, in contrast... -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.77In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about... -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: £10.99£7.77Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the... -
The Resistible Rise Of Benito Mussolini by Tom Behan
RRP: £8.00£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876908Author Tom BehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 162g -
Renewing the Republic by Michael D. Higgins 9781907593215
RRP: £13.99£8.77Featuring new essays along with Higgins' best speeches, Renewing the Republic explores six themes: citizenship and the republic; culture, identity and reputation; human rights; language; globalization, emigration and exile; and the public space. These... -
Class War: A Decade of Disorder by Ian Bone
£14.64For ten years, Tory Britain has burned. From Brixton '81 to Oxford, Cardiff, and Tyneside '91 the unforgivable have risen and seized back their streets. With a petrol bomb in one hand a biro in the other, Class War was there. And Class War is... -
Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works by Giovanni Gentile
RRP: £43.99£38.44Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism, supplying its justifi cation and rationale as a developmental form of dictatorship for status-deprived nations languishing on the margins of the Great Powers. Gentile's "actualism"... -
The essential UN by United Nations: Department of Public Information 9789211013726
RRP: £19.95£16.40Everything you always wanted to know about the United Nations - in one book! This primer to the United Nations is designed for all global citizens. It covers the history of the UN, what it does and how it does it. As the world's only truly global... -
Race and Racism in Britain, Third Edition by John Solomos
£45.43The new edition of Race and Racism in Britain builds on the strengths of previous editions of this widely-used text in providing a detailed and critical analysis of race relations and forms of racism in British society today. The book begins by mapping... -
Dismembered: How the Conservative Attack on the State Harms Us All by Polly Toynbee
RRP: £9.99£6.70What is the state? And what's it ever done for you?More than you think.The state houses us, educates us, employs us, protects us on the street and in the wider world. It is the country we created together, and a part of our national identity. However, in... -
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration by David Goodhart
RRP: £24.00£16.96SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE PADDY POWER POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2014 In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people... -
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.40A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family... -
Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy by Christopher Meyer
£12.73A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which... -
Micheline's Three Conditions: How We Fought Gender Inequality at Galway's University and Won by Micheline Sheehy Skeffington 9781739474805
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739474805Author Micheline Sheehy SkeffingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint M3C PressPublisher M3C PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 295mm *... -
Lords of Parliament: Manners, Rituals and Politics by Emma Crewe
RRP: £19.99£17.44This is the only anthropological book about the British Parliament. It marks the first time a researcher has had almost untrammelled access, and every significant aspect of the Upper Chamber has been inquired into. The result is a unique portrait,... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: £85.00£69.28A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or... -
Future War and the Defence of Europe by John R. Allen
£31.22Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will... -
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith 9781787381421
RRP: £30.00£26.43Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from... -
Nigel Farage in His Own Words by Andrew Liddle
RRP: £6.99£5.13Whether you love or loathe him, no one can deny the reinvigorating effect that Nigel Farage has had upon political debate in Britain in recent years. Indeed, it is to him and his energetic leadership that UKIP owes much of its success. Positioning... -
Mad Men & Bad Men: When British Politics Met Advertising by Sam Delaney
RRP: £9.99£6.70How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics?What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and smart-arses invaded Westminster, sprinkling creative fairy dust over earnest politicians? How much did snappy slogans and... -
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
RRP: £25.99£24.69The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical... -
Poland's Memory Wars: Essays on Illiberalism by Jo Harper
RRP: £64.00£57.41This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party... -
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis
RRP: £9.99£6.75"Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb." - Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist What's happening in global politics, and is there a... -
Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game by Stephen Mumford 9781509535323
RRP: £9.99£8.95Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it's so simple to play - but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, behind the straightforward rules of the game there lurks a world of intriguing complexity. Mumford... -
A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic by Clive Bloom
RRP: £15.99£11.96From regicides to revolutionaries; from fascists to anarchists; from Tom Paine to Tom Wintringham, this book is a history of noble ideals and crushing failures in which Clive Bloom takes us on a journey through British history, exploring our often rocky...