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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
Booksplease Price: $60.19In 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... -
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... -
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... -
History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century by John H. Arnold 9780198768784
RRP: $246.75Booksplease Price: $234.28What does it mean - and what might it yet come to mean - to write 'history' in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what... -
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: $185.98In 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... -
Design and National Identity by Javier Gimeno Martinez 9781472591036
Booksplease Price: $65.75This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the... -
Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power by Fred Halliday 9780333653296
Booksplease Price: $91.90The 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... -
Writing the History of Modern Revolutions Dr Gavin Murray-Miller 9781350282261
Booksplease Price: $60.59Writing 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 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... -
The Contours of American History by William Appleman Williams 9781844677740
Booksplease Price: $80.56William 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: $73.16The 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... -
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... -
Cultural Resistance Reader by Stephen Duncombe 9781859843796
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.53From 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... -
After the Fall: Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism by Robin Blackburn
Booksplease Price: $53.63The 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... -
Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War by Stefan Goebel 9781138273252
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $104.77Cities 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... -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 3 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $147.50Antonio 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... -
Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later Marcello Musto (York University, Canada) 9780415588713
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17Written 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... -
What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism by Adrian Daub 9780190885496
RRP: $155.40Booksplease Price: $142.80Over 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
Booksplease Price: $51.07What 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
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $130.39How 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... -
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: $30.09In 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... -
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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... -
The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism by Associate Professor Atsuko Ichijo 9781350183926
Booksplease Price: $75.24What 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century by Donald Sassoon
Booksplease Price: $65.69This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled... -
De Lubac: A Guide for the Perplexed by David Grumett 9780826493156
Booksplease Price: $75.24Henri de Lubac is a dominating figure in the renewal of catholic theology in the twentieth century, opposing neo-Thomist orthodoxy with a pluriform and historical notion of tradition based on the... -
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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones 9781844678648 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.43In 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,... -
Hitler Youth Michael H. Kater 9780674019911
Booksplease Price: $61.43In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in... -
Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon by Carol Gluck
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen... -
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans 9780141994437
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA History Today Best Book of the Year 2025'Elegantly written and powerfully argued ... it ranks among the best works on this terrible period' Sunday TimesA...