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Postcolonial Sociology by Julian Go 9781781906033
RRP: $138.02Booksplease Price: $115.48Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive. This special volume brings together leading... -
Rethinking Obama by Julian Go 9780857249111
Booksplease Price: $144.78This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations and... -
Postcolonial Sociologies: A Reader by Julian Go 9781786353269
Booksplease Price: $53.10Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into social science. This is a welcome development but poses new challenges... -
Global Historical Sociology by Julian Go 9781316617694
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.80Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and International Relations, this collection lays out the international, transnational, and global dimensions of social change. It reveals the... -
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory by Julian Go
Booksplease Price: $36.13Social scientists have long been resistant to the set of ideas known as "postcolonial thought." Meanwhile, postcolonial scholars have considered social science to be an impoverished discipline that... -
Global Historical Sociology by Julian Go 9781107166646
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $112.66Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and International Relations, this collection lays out the international, transnational, and global dimensions of social change. It reveals the... -
Political Power and Social Theory by Julian Go 9780857243256
Booksplease Price: $148.07"Political Power and Social Theory" is an annual review, committed to advancing our interdisciplinary, critical understanding of the linkages between social relations, political power, and historical... -
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory by Julian Go 9780190625139
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $147.85Social scientists have long been resistant to the set of ideas known as "postcolonial thought." Meanwhile, postcolonial scholars have considered social science to be an impoverished discipline that... -
The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives by Julian Go
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial... -
Perverse Politics?: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity by Julian Go 9781786350749
Booksplease Price: $129.40In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism,... -
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present by Julian Go 9781107600782
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $26.16Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns... -
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present by Julian Go 9781107011830
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $100.84Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns... -
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US by Julian Go 9780197621653
Booksplease Price: $91.37The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper... -
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US by Julian Go 9780197621660
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.84The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper... -
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism by Julian Go 9780822342298
Booksplease Price: $49.42When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government... -
E. H. Carr, Imperialism, War and Lessons for Post-Colonial IR by Haro L Karkour 9783030993597
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $104.13This book highlights important parallels between Carr and three influential figures in the first wave of post-colonialism - DuBois, Cesaire and Fanon - on the analysis of imperialism and the causes... -
Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.15This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines by focusing on American teachers and the Filipinos with whom they lived and worked. While education was... -
Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines Sarah Steinbock-Pratt (University of Alabama) 9781108473125
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $66.94This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines by focusing on American teachers and the Filipinos with whom they lived and worked. While education was... -
E. H. Carr: Imperialism, War and Lessons for Post-Colonial IR by Haro L Karkour 9783030993627
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $64.90This book highlights important parallels between Carr and three influential figures in the first wave of post-colonialism-DuBois, Cesaire and Fanon-on the analysis of imperialism and the causes of... -
Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy: Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier by John M. Hobson 9781108840828
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.09Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalisation with Westernisation and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on the traditional Eurocentric... -
Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy: Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier by John M. Hobson 9781108744034
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.51Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalisation with Westernisation and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on the traditional Eurocentric... -
Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire by Alvita Akiboh 9780226828480
Booksplease Price: $31.99An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency-and the role they played in US imperialism. In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged,... -
Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire by Alvita Akiboh 9780226826363
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $86.82An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency-and the role they played in US imperialism. In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged,... -
Decolonizing Sociology – An Introduction by A Meghji
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.06Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores... -
Global Race War: International Politics and Racial Hierarchy Alexander D. Barder 9780197790595
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $25.59International Relations theory assumes that the struggle for power is not only ahistorical but that international politics is necessarily the realm of a perpetual struggle for power between states... -
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle by Amín Pérez 9781509557851
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French... -
Global Race War: International Politics and Racial Hierarchy by Alexander Barder
RRP: $53.52Booksplease Price: $45.40International Relations theory assumes that the struggle for power is not only ahistorical but that international politics is necessarily the realm of a perpetual struggle for power between states... -
Decolonizing Sociology: An Introduction Ali Meghji 9781509541942
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores... -
Designs on Empire: America's Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism by Andrew J. Priest 9780231197441
RRP: $156.09Booksplease Price: $122.15In the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment... -
Designs on Empire: America's Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism by Andrew J. Priest
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35In the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011 by Michael Mann
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.49Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945... -
Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i by Joanna Poblete
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $49.45In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S... -
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship Yael Berda 9781009054393
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $32.29Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship examines how the legacies of colonial bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire. Focusing on the former British colonies of India,... -
Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i by Joanna Poblete 9780252082610
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S... -
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 by Michael Mann
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $38.92Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical... -
Culture and Order in World Politics by Andrew Phillips 9781108718936
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $43.99Understanding how cultural diversity relates to international order is an urgent contemporary challenge. Building on ideas first advanced in Reus-Smit's On Cultural Diversity (2018), this... -
Culture and Order in World Politics by Andrew Phillips
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $96.66Understanding how cultural diversity relates to international order is an urgent contemporary challenge. Building on ideas first advanced in Reus-Smit's On Cultural Diversity (2018), this... -
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain by Kristin L. Hoganson 9781478006039
RRP: $165.12Booksplease Price: $132.48Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw... -
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines by Victoria Reyes 9781503607996
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83The U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case... -
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain by Kristin L. Hoganson
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw...