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Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance by Mary Kaldor
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven... -
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang 9780231149648
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution... -
The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail by Steven Pfaff
Booksplease Price: €52.67The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at sea as microcosms; Petri dishes in which larger... -
Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.10In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political... -
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang 9780231149655
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution... -
Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky 9780231172448
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €86.19In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political... -
How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics by Itty Abraham 9780804791632
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international... -
Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University by Diana Rhoten 9780231151146
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.67Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities... -
How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics by Itty Abraham 9781503608412
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €21.43Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international... -
Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World by Hent de Vries 9780823226450
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €50.75What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a... -
Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective by Myra Ferree
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Varieties of Feminism investigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both... -
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town by Rogers Brubaker 9780691136226
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.68Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been... -
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi 9781107432437
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €18.66How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term... -
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanovic
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €20.58Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the YearOne of the world's leading... -
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691163499
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.42Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells... -
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691155678
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.49Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells...