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![Policing Chinese Politics: A History by Michael Dutton 9780822334774 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6584678/6661599/9780822334774__66287.1738903411.jpg?c=1 "Policing Chinese Politics: A History by Michael Dutton 9780822334774 [USED COPY]")
Policing Chinese Politics: A History by Michael Dutton 9780822334774 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $26.36Beginning 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... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.88'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 Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read by Andre Schiffrin
Booksplease Price: $31.67Post-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: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Orlando 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... -
Home: A Place in the World by Arien Mack 9780814755266
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22Home, 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... -
On the Heroism of Mortals Allan Cameron 9781908251084
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $16.82This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity,... -
Europe Since 1980 by Ivan T. Berend 9780521129176
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.40This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in... -
How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy by Louis Althusser 9781474280549
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $58.46In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction Orlando Figes 9781847924513
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.43Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.'A modern masterpiece' Andrew... -
How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy Louis Althusser (16 October 1918 - 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher.) 9781474280532
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $188.12In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the... -
The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age by Victor Kiernan 9781783604296
Booksplease Price: $51.72When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact... -
In Praise of the Garrulous by Allan Cameron 9781908251244
RRP: $25.10Booksplease Price: $21.82This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible and conversational tone, which perhaps disguises... -
Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power by Fred Halliday 9780333653296
Booksplease Price: $90.99The relation of revolutions to international relations is central to modern history. Revolutions have, as much as war or nationalism, shaped the development of world politics. Equally, revolutions... -
The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $24.19The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation explores how Hitler... -
Writing the History of Modern Revolutions Dr Gavin Murray-Miller 9781350282261
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $49.41Writing the History of Modern Revolutions provides students with a comprehensive overview of the history of revolutions and how these histories have been framed, debated, and understood since the... -
The Contours of American History by William Appleman Williams 9781844677740
Booksplease Price: $80.93William Appleman Williams was one of America's greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to... -
Arthur Horner: A Political Biography: v. 2: 1944-1968 by Nina Fishman 9781907103087
Booksplease Price: $50.72Arthur Horner (1894-1968) was a miners' leader from the 1926 general strike to his retirement as general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1959. During his life, he played a crucial... -
Writing the History of Modern Revolutions Dr Gavin Murray-Miller 9781350282254
Booksplease Price: $159.20Writing the History of Modern Revolutions provides students with a comprehensive overview of the history of revolutions and how these histories have been framed, debated, and understood since the... -
Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' Since 1800 by Stephanie Cronin 9780755645015
Booksplease Price: $72.39The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower... -
Cultural Resistance Reader by Stephen Duncombe 9781859843796
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $51.01From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has... -
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.83Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael... -
The Comrade from Milan by Rossana Rossanda
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.65In this much-lauded memoir, acclaimed for its blend of literary elegance and political passion, Rossana Rossanda, a legendary figure on the Italian left, reflects on a life of radical commitment... -
After the Fall: Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism by Robin Blackburn
Booksplease Price: $54.03The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the rational grounds... -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 3 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $147.38Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian... -
Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War by Stefan Goebel 9781138273252
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.12Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front... -
What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism by Adrian Daub 9780190885496
RRP: $155.40Booksplease Price: $150.30Over the course of the 19th century, ballads proliferated in German-speaking Europe in a truly remarkable range of contexts. Audiences were of course likely encounter balladry in the volumes of... -
The World: A Beginner's Guide by Goran Therborn 9780745643441
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged,... -
As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution by Chris Freeman 9780199251056
Booksplease Price: $176.69How can we best understand the impact of revolutionary technologies on the business cycle, the economy, and society? Why is economics meaningless without history and without an understanding of... -
Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later Marcello Musto (York University, Canada) 9780415588713
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx's critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes... -
Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen by Victor Kiernan 9781783606719
Booksplease Price: $47.73'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement Although Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the... -
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780822334422
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.76In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and... -
Social Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East by Stephanie Cronin
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.66Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism. In this book, Stephanie Cronin problematizes both... -
The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism by Associate Professor Atsuko Ichijo 9781350183926
Booksplease Price: $74.47What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country.This book explores... -
![When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/62579/8668342/9780140276046__16709.1743278497.jpg?c=1 "When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques")
When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China... -
From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship by Paul Hollander
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $55.17During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western... -
![Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones 9781839760921 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4984663/4983881/9781839760921__59710.1722692790.jpg?c=1 "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones 9781839760921 [USED COPY]")
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones 9781839760921 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $7.90In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless,... -
The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-And-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield by Lewis Mates 9780719090684
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $158.55The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union. Drawing widely on a vast... -
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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones 9781784783778 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $7.67In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless,... -
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless,... -
The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-And-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield by Lewis Mates 9781526145604
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union. Drawing widely on a vast...