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The Battle for the Labour Party by David Kogan 9781448217359
RRP: $19.34$15.98The Battle for the Labour Party was first published in 1981 and was referenced by Tony Benn in his 1980-1990 diaries as 'a valuable guide to the developments within the Labour party at this time'. This 1982 updated edition is an essential resource for... -
The Politics of Northern Ireland by Joanne McEvoy
RRP: $21.92$20.34The political scene in Northern Ireland is constantly evolving. This book reflects the most recent changes and synthesises some of the best thinking on the subject. It provides an overview of the politics of Northern Ireland, including detailed coverage... -
The Resistible Rise Of Benito Mussolini by Tom Behan
RRP: $10.32$7.22Apologies 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 -
Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by Sam Warner
RRP: $109.65$96.12Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried - and failed - to reform the system of industrial relations. Designed to tackle Britain's strike problem... -
The Rising (New Edition): Ireland: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin -- it changed the course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was the role of ordinary people in this extraordinary event? What motivated them and what were their aims?... -
The Spanish Anarchists by Murray Bookchin 9781873176047
RRP: $18.00$11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176047Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) 9781324091547
RRP: $23.21$19.85For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts... -
Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination by David Russell 9780719051784
RRP: $25.79$22.72Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how... -
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell by Prof Paul Bew 9780192873705
RRP: $32.25$27.34The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul... -
Dismembered: How the Conservative Attack on the State Harms Us All Polly Toynbee 9781783351206
RRP: $12.89$8.64What 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 General Election of 2001 by D. Butler 9780333740330
RRP: $58.04$58.01The definitive guide to the General Election is now in its sixteenth edition. The renowned series from Nuffield College, Oxford, which covers every postwar British election, provides the authoritative, highly readable description and analysis of the... -
The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy Howard Davies (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745638850
RRP: $21.92$19.63This 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... -
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration by David Goodhart
RRP: $30.96$21.88SHORTLISTED 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... -
Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy by Christopher Meyer
$16.42A 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: $16.76$11.73Apologies 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 *... -
Strategy in the Contemporary World by John Baylis
$48.61Bringing together international experts to provide a comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters readers are... -
The House of Lords by Donald Shell 9780719054440
RRP: $25.79$22.72The House of Lords has undergone significant change in recent years. The exclusion of the great majority of the hereditary peers in 1999 was intended as the first step in a two-stage reform process. But further reform has proved difficult to achieve and... -
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount 9781847399359
RRP: $11.60$7.51This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country struggles financially and switches off politically. We are... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: $109.65$89.37A 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... -
British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony by William D. James 9780198896609
RRP: $98.04$89.14Is the United Kingdom capable of grand strategy? Common wisdom suggests otherwise. Some think it implausible amid the maelstrom of domestic politics, while others believe the UK lacks the necessary autonomy, as a cog in the US-led order. British Grand... -
The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923 by Peter Hart 9780198208068
RRP: $77.40$59.43What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the... -
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith 9781787381421
RRP: $38.70$34.77Eleftherios 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... -
The Failure of the Heath Government by Martin Holmes 9780333716076
RRP: $116.09$115.93Second revised edition of a study of the Conservative government of 1970-74 which discusses and attacks recent revisionist interpretations which exonerate Heath from culpability for the economic and industrial meltdown of 1972-74. Reveals the economic,... -
Dirty Politics, Dirty Times by Michael A. Ashcroft 9781849540094
RRP: $11.60$8.51This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated in a libel action against "The Times" newspaper... -
Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945-1970 by Daniel Gorman
RRP: $38.69$33.46Uniting Nations is a comparative study of Britons who worked in the United Nations and international non-governmental and civil society organizations from 1945 to 1970 and their role in forging the postwar international system. Daniel Gorman interweaves... -
Japan's Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor: Navigating Great-Power Competition by Yuka Koshino
RRP: $24.50$21.76Geo-economic strategy - deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power - has long been a key element of statecraft. In recent years, it has acquired even greater salience given China's growing antagonism with the United... -
This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn by Michael Chessum
RRP: $32.25$24.36The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives. Looking to escape a future of rising debt, falling living standards and climate meltdown, a set of movements were born across the globe, led by students, workers and... -
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
RRP: $33.53$31.23The 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... -
Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game Stephen Mumford 9781509535323
RRP: $12.89$11.55Football 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... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 4: The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859893114
RRP: $28.37$26.15Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life... -
Poland's Memory Wars: Essays on Illiberalism by Jo Harper
RRP: $82.56$75.37This 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... -
Contemporary Ireland by Eoin O'Malley 9780230516700
$47.94In the last quarter century, Ireland has experienced dramatic political and economic change. This broad-ranging text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Irish society, politics and culture, as well as developments in its economy and... -
A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic by Clive Bloom
RRP: $20.63$15.80From 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... -
An Introduction to Fundamental Rights in Europe: History, Theory, Cases Alessandra Facchi 9781788117043
RRP: $33.48$29.97This is a concise and accessible introduction to fundamental rights in Europe from the perspectives of history, theory and an analysis of European jurisprudence. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book equips readers with the tools to understand... -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $21.92$21.49In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the... -
Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years by Andrew Murray
RRP: $19.34$16.19Selected as one of the 15 best political and current affairs books of 2022 by The TimesIs Socialism Possible in Britain? analyses Jeremy Corbyn's tenure as Labour leader and the prospects for parliamentary socialism in a post-Corbyn Britain. Lively and... -
The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way Frank Furedi 9783110996944
RRP: $29.03$22.34Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars... -
Thatcher's Trial: Six Months That Defined a Leader by Kwasi Kwarteng
RRP: $19.34$15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.A fascinating examination of the leadership of Britain's most controversial post-war Prime Minister from politician and historian Kwasi KwartengAbout the AuthorKwasi Kwarteng was... -
English Questions by Perry Anderson 9780860915911
RRP: $30.95$21.05A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published in New Left Review in the sixties; "Origins of the Present Crisis," which suggested a general schema for the... -
Mad Men & Bad Men: What Happened When British Politics Met Advertising by Sam Delaney 9780571312382
$7.92How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics? Sam Delaney wanted to find out more about the strange relationship between British politics and advertising. What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and...