History & Theory - General
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The Political Theory of the American Founding
$63.75 Add to cartThis book provides a complete overview of the American Founders’ political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these … [more below]
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1316506037
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
$14.00 Add to cartWhat is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #01
- Author: Beeman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121960
- Language: English
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
$22.99 Add to cartCampaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving “welfare queens” and “strapping young bucks” buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfa… [more below]
- Author: Haney L?pez, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019022925X
- Language: English
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The Prince
$14.00 Read moreRejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Mac… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036335
- Language: English
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On the Social Contract
$6.00 Read more“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don’t k
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0486426920
- Language: English
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Two Treatises of Government
$9.95 Add to cartJohn Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority e… [more below]
- Series: Everyman
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0460873563
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$15.95 Add to cartThe Federalist Papers–85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press–are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0192805924
- Language: English
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
$24.99 Add to cartA guide to the decline of the American empire for individuals, families and communities
The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastr
- Author: Orlov, Dmitry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0865716854
- Language: English
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The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It
$22.00 Read moreThe American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the grou… [more below]
- Author: Hofstadter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723153
- Language: English
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (50th Anniversary Edition)
$9.99 Add to cartIn this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.
The foundations of capitalism are b- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0451147952
- Language: English
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Loa #147): A New Translation by Arthur Goldhammer
$42.50 Read moreAn exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Texas Observer)
This Library of America volume- Series: Library of America #147
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1931082545
- Language: English
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The Portable Hannah Arendt
$24.00 Add to cartA collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem
She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth c- Series: Penquin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437565
- Language: English
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Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
$21.95 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, or “Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppr… [more below]
- Author: Koehler, John O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0813337445
- Language: English
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Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
$22.95 Read moreWhy, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Brown, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1935408038
- Language: English
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
$15.00 Add to cartThe United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called “perpetual war for perpetual peace.” The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incu… [more below]
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 156025405X
- Language: English
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Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing
$29.95 Add to cartBlack Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete material… [more below]
- Author: Burden-Stelly, Charisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 183976497X
- Language: English
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The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
$19.95 Add to cartClimate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?
To answer this question, Ajay- Author: Chaudhary, Ajay Singh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672112
- Language: English
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Miami
$18.00 Add to cartMiami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 679781803
- Language: English
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Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
$16.95 Add to cartA theoretical dissection of capitalism’s ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.
The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She
- Series: Semiotext(e) Intervention (Numbered) #12
- Author: Tiqqun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 22 2012
- ISBN10: 158435108X
- Language: English
