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The Ritual of May Day in Western Europe: Past, Present and Future by Abby Peterson 9781472415271
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £87.59Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day, which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International, 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first... -
The Empire of Capital by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.82Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony... -
The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: 1858-1905: The Formative Years by Royden Harrison 9780333968543
Booksplease Price: £90.86Sidney and Beatrice Webb are the most important British contributors to the socialist tradition. They had a hand in founding many of the institutions that form the fabric of British society; notably... -
Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner 9781784537692
Booksplease Price: £21.94In thiscollection of polemical pieces, Foner expounds on the relevance ofAbraham Lincoln's legacy in the age of Obama and on the need foranother era of Reconstruction. In addition to articles in... -
The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism Lucio Magri 9781786635549
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.40The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual figures of the Italian... -
Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume XIV by Keith Gildart 9781137457424
Booksplease Price: £110.92The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history. Volume XIV maintains this standard of original... -
Crisis and Consensus in British Politics: From Bagehot to Blair by Michael Williams 9780333775714
Booksplease Price: £90.56Crisis and Consensus in British Politics focuses on the collapse of the post-war consensus in the mid 1970s crisis and the emergence of a new consensus in the 1990s. It follows this process through... -
Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Goran Therborn
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £54.10The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Goeran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an... -
The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642 Lawrence Stone (Formely of Princeton University, UK) 9781138700550
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.44Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors... -
Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style by Letizia Paoli 9780195375268
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £27.09Relying on previously undisclosed confessions of former mafia members now cooperating with the police, Letizia Paoli provides a clinically accurate portrait of mafia behavior, motivations, and... -
Transnational Dante: Inventing Argentine Cultural Identity Heather Renee Sottong 9781531510435
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Opens the field of Dante Studies to further transnational studies of the Divine Comedy's circulation, translation, and global influence. This fascinating book examines how Dante was repurposed by... -
Transnational Dante: Inventing Argentine Cultural Identity Heather Renee Sottong 9781531510442
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Opens the field of Dante Studies to further transnational studies of the Divine Comedy's circulation, translation, and global influence. This fascinating book examines how Dante was repurposed by... -
The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642 Lawrence Stone (Formely of Princeton University, UK) 9781138700338
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors... -
How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even... -
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Professor Louis Althusser
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Louis Althusser's renowned short text "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of... -
Imperialism and its Contradictions by Harvey Kaye
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51V.G. Kiernan is recognized as one of the most remarkable historians of the twentieth century. Eric Hobsbawm says of Kiernan that his knowledge is "encyclopedic" and Edward Said refers to his writings... -
For Marx by Louis Althusser
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £16.67This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of... -
Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson
Booksplease Price: £14.64This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the... -
Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminist intellectuals in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and... -
Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.44The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in... -
Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel 9781784780418
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.24The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and... -
The Black Man`s Burden - Africa and the Curse of the Nation-state by Basil Davidson 9780852557006
Booksplease Price: £33.22Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. - Roland Oliver in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS ... -
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice by Mary Taylor Huber 9780472109876
Booksplease Price: £83.25Throughout the age of Western colonial expansion, Christian missionaries were important participants in the encounter between the West and peoples throughout the rest of the world. Mission schools,... -
When is the Nation?: Towards an Understanding of Theories of Nationalism Atsuko Ichijo 9780415361217
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This new collection of key authors on nationalism presents the latest thinking on this fundamental aspect of Politics, International Relations and Sociology. John Breuilly, Walker Connor, Steven... -
The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 by David Forgacs 9780814727102
Booksplease Price: £90.87with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM "Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work... -
The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 by David Forgacs 9780814727010
Booksplease Price: £30.78with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM "Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work... -
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £8.62This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so... -
The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration by Montserrat Guibernau 9780745647029
Booksplease Price: £26.90The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a... -
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies by Dennis L. Dworkin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar... -
Presenting History: Past and Present by Peter Beck
Booksplease Price: £33.84Who reads academic histories? Should historians reach out more beyond academia to the general public? Why do Hollywood films, historical novels and television histories prove more successful in... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.04'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of... -
The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838 by Orlando Patterson 9781509550975
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35Orlando Patterson's classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all... -
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy by Göran Therborn 9781788738996
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative... -
Home: A Place in the World by Arien Mack 9780814754832
Booksplease Price: £90.57Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic. Robert Frost's... -
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould 9780749929886
Booksplease Price: £31.53Jonathan Gould's Can't Buy Me Love is more than just a book on the Beatles; it's a stunning recreation of the 1960s in England and America through the prism of the world's most iconic band. The... -
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Policing Chinese Politics: A History by Michael Dutton 9780822334774 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £12.55Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of... -
Policing Chinese Politics: A History by Michael Dutton
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores... -
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read by Andre Schiffrin
Booksplease Price: £15.03Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andre Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in... -
The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838 Orlando Patterson (London School of Economics, UK; University of the West Indies) 9781509550982
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.19Orlando Patterson's classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all...