History & Theory - General
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White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
$29.95 Read moreRising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?
In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-openin- Author: Malm, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1839761741
- Language: English
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Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
$20.00 Add to cartCowards don’t make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, Mujeres Libres mobilized over 20,000 wo
- Author: Ackelsberg, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1902593960
- Language: English
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The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?
$14.95 Add to cartThis is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated (and would be successful) through what he called the “Open Conspiracy”. This conspiracy is ful
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 26 2006
- ISBN10: 1585092754
- Language: English
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Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought – Expanded Edition
$24.95 Read morePolitics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon
- Series: Princeton Classics #23
- Author: Wolin, Sheldon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0691174059
- Language: English
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.
Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrate
- Author: Bishop, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0547237723
- Language: English
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River City Empire: Tom Dennison’s Omaha
$24.95 Add to cartMore than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, “the Rogue who ruled Omaha,” was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no
- Author: Menard, Orville D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803248334
- Language: English
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at history’s losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again
History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argue- Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423195
- Language: English
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Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism
$18.99 Add to cartIn the final volume, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in history-the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. Index.
- Series: Origins of Totalitarianism
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0156906503
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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Soong Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartAn inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.
- Author: Seagrave, Sterling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 19 1986
- ISBN10: 60913185
- Language: English
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On Practice and Contradiction
$24.95 Add to cartThese early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references … [more below]
- Series: Revolutions
- Author: Mao Tse-Tung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675874
- Language: English
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Commentaries on the Republic
$14.95 Add to cartThrough a series of thought-provoking book reviews and public policy essays, the author offers enduring insights concerning the nature of government and its relationship to the governed, particularly
- Author: Headen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1684988942
- Language: English
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A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
$29.95 Add to cartJames Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratifi
- Series: Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture #14
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0806157372
- Language: English
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Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography
$18.00 Add to cartChristopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vivid… [more below]
- Series: Books That Changed the World
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143830
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Add to cartCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum
$21.99 Add to cartHannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism–an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history–now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.
In recent years, The Origi
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063354489
- Language: English
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Political Science, History & Theory, Literary Collections, Philosophy
$33.95 Add to cart“Machiavellianism” is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.
The Catholic Church banned The Prince. Humanist
- Author: Machiavelli, Nicolo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598181637
- Language: English
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México En El Precipicio
$13.95 Add to cartUna esclarecedora revisión de los costos y beneficios de las principales polÃticas públicas, programas y proyectos de la Administración de AMLO.
Por qué llegamos a este precipicio? parecen preg
- Author: Schettino, Macario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 6075693246
- Language: Spanish
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Liberty Before Liberalism
$21.00 Add to cartThis extended essay by one of the world’s leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-mod… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skinner, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107689538
- Language: English
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Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
$56.67 Add to cartSome rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources fo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Weinstein, Jeremy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: October 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0521677971
- Language: English
