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A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done by Michael Braddick
RRP: $48.75$27.87The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the story of the origins of the UK as if that was the natural endpoint of political development on the island... -
Winning Here: My Campaigning Life: Memoirs Volume 1 by Chris Rennard 9781785903373
RRP: $48.75$34.83Chris Rennard's long relationship with the Liberals, and later the Liberal Democrats, began when a compassionate Liberal candidate helped his disabled mother receive her widowed mother allowance. By his 20s Rennard was the most successful election... -
Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945 by David F. Crew 9780415082402
RRP: $77.98$68.37The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed... -
Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings by Fernando Reinares
RRP: $42.90$33.13In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 192 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an... -
Reaching for Utopia: Making Sense of An Age of Upheaval: Essays and profiles by Jason Cowley 9781784631529
RRP: $25.33$16.77Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade - from the fall of Gordon Brown, to the rise of Corbyn and the radical left, to Brexit. Cowley is... -
The Rise of the Civilizational State by Christopher Coker 9781509534630
RRP: $35.08$31.28In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise... -
March of the Moderates by Dr. Richard Carr
RRP: $68.25$51.13Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way' by analysing... -
France by Chabal 9781509530014
RRP: $87.75$57.82France is the most-visited country in the world. It attracts millions of tourists, most of whom come in search of beautiful architecture, good food, and fine art. But appearances can be deceptive. France is not only a place of culture and glamour; it... -
God and Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours by Jonathan Sandys
RRP: $23.38$16.44When Winston Churchill was a boy of sixteen, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion . . . I shall be in command of the defences of London . . . it will fall to me to save the... -
Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South by Mario Novelli 9780745348926
RRP: $37.03$24.86'Outstanding ... This book is a must-read for scholars and activists interested in the impact of grassroots knowledge-making on individuals, institutions and society' Rebecca Tarlau, author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land 'In social movements,... -
Neil Kinnock: Saving the Labour Party? by Kevin Hickson
RRP: $72.13$63.43The book reappraises Neil Kinnock's policies, impact, legacy and leadership of the Labour Party 30 years on from his defeat in the 1992 general election. It offers comprehensively fresh perspectives and some first-hand accounts - some friendly, others... -
Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal 9780190069513
RRP: $47.76$38.14Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"--newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the... -
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam
RRP: $68.25$53.06Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of... -
The New Snobbery: Taking on modern elitism and empowering the working class by David Skelton 9781785908262
RRP: $19.48$13.77An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change the direction of the country, but in doing so they have been met with disdain and even abuse from elites... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah
RRP: $29.23$25.99In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and... -
Australia’s Security in China’s Shadow by Euan Graham 9781032707860
RRP: $33.13$29.68Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information... -
The Oxford Handbook of International Security by Alexandra Gheciu 9780198854623
$76.32This Oxford Handbook is the definitive volume on the state of international security and the academic field of security studies. It provides a tour of the most innovative and exciting news areas of research as well as major developments in established... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: $48.75$42.49This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker 9781847925404
$33.74"One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read, by one of Britain's most gifted writers. If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation" OWEN JONESNow We... -
On Europe by Margaret Thatcher 9780008257361
RRP: $13.63$10.00First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic. Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate,... -
UK Politics by Andrew Blick 9780198825555
RRP: $83.83$79.56One of the first introductory UK politics textbooks to publish since Brexit and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book combines foundational understanding and critical perspectives to provide a clear overview of the UK political system. UK... -
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble
RRP: $56.53$48.40Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself. Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been... -
32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland by Kieran Allen
RRP: $33.13$22.50'This is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' - Eamonn McCann The 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory... -
The Legacy of Ernest Mandel by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: $38.98$32.96Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) was a member of a very rare breed: a theorist of activist Marxism. Leader of the international Trotskyist movement, lifelong revolutionary, and scholar of world renown, Mandel was one of those few individuals who combined the... -
Ten Thousand Eyes: The amazing story of the spy network that cracked Hitler’s Atlantic Wall before D-Day by Richard Collier 9781804366660
RRP: $25.33$15.95'Without the networks of the French Resistance, the invasion would not have been possible' Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary ForceDays after France fell in June 1940, Charles de Gaulle appointed... -
British Defence Since 1945 by Michael Dockrill 9780631160557
RRP: $79.85$69.99At the end of World War II, Britain faced enormous financial and economic problems, made more intractable by the heavy defence expenditure demanded by colonial presence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and the decision to go ahead with producing a... -
The Regulation of Standards in British Public Life: Doing the Right Thing? by David Hine 9781784992675
RRP: $48.75$34.94One of the most profound changes in British public life over the last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and standards. Some of that concern has been the product of scandals such as the cash for questions affair and the expenses... -
London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race by Kennetta Hammond Perry 9780190909949
RRP: $55.56$44.40Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity... -
Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House by Mike Wendling 9780745337456
RRP: $29.23$19.11This 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... -
Europe's Radical Left: From Marginality to the Mainstream? by Luke March 9781783485369
RRP: $81.90$80.13Although the most pernicious consequences of the crisis have apparently abated, the long-term political repercussions remain unclear. Whereas most attention has focused on the right-wing populist parties, the rejuvenation of the left is an unwritten... -
Illiberal Europe?: Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine by Leon Marc
RRP: $37.03$25.04Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as... -
The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World by Robert Henderson
RRP: $78.00$58.13Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian... -
The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite 9781780965987
RRP: $27.28$24.18In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their quests for the Ark of the... -
The Government and Politics of the European Union by Neill Nugent
RRP: $72.13$66.07The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU. Major changes, recent developments, and the crises that have befallen the... -
How to Steal a Country: State Capture and Hopes for the Future in South Africa by Robin Renwick 9781785903618
RRP: $37.03$26.33The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost decade'. Based on his personal experience of the key protagonists, former British ambassador to South... -
The Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery 9780745333014
RRP: $48.73$34.30The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the... -
The Shocking History of the Eu by Zina Cohen 9781797966915
RRP: $15.58$13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797966915Author Zina CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently Published -
Multilateralism Past, Present and Future: A European Perspective by Mario Telò 9781032245430
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.It provides a critical reconstruction of the history of the idea and praxis of peaceful global governance, a comparative analysis of... -
The Digital Silk Road: China’s Technological Rise and the Geopolitics of Cyberspace by David Gordon
RRP: $52.63$45.75Concerns about China's ambitions to return to global centre stage as a great power have recently begun to focus on the Digital Silk Road (DSR), an umbrella term for various activities - commercial and diplomatic - of interest to the Chinese government in... -
Seamus Mallon: A Shared Home Place by Seamus Mallon
$36.84As one of Northern Ireland's most prominent nationalist politicians, Seamus Mallon has always sought the genuine reconciliation of conflicting traditions using only peaceful means. This is his personal testament. In A Shared Home Place, Mallon evokes...