History & Theory
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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in S… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #37
- Author: Parekh, Bhikhu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854577
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$17.00 Add to cartWritten at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Co… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444955
- Language: English
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Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
$24.95 Add to cartA strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian future
Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic coun- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Chibber, Vivek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839762705
- Language: English
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The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past diff… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Whatmore, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198853726
- Language: English
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From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
$21.23 Read more“What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp. . . was to nonviolent struggle–strategist, philosopher, guru.”–The New York Times
The revolutionary word-of-mouth phenomenon, available for the first- Author: Sharp, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1595588507
- Language: English
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
$23.95 Add to cartA sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic order
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for ‘a new B- Series: Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)
- Author: Steil, Benn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162379
- Language: English
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
$27.00 Read moreThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as “the mo
- Author: Bailyn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975650
- Language: English
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Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
$14.95 Read moreThe organizers of the International Women’s Strike “cut through the corporate feminist ‘Lean In‘ noise to offer a feminism rooted not just in intersectionality . . . but also in economic justice”–for… [more below]
- Author: Arruzza, Cinzia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1788734424
- Language: English
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Report from Iron Mountain
$13.95 Add to cartClaiming to be of the contents of a “secret government report” until it was proven false by the investigative work of journalist and scholars, Report from Iron Mountain outlines the social structure c… [more below]
- Author: Lewin, Leonard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 25 2008
- ISBN10: 143912311X
- Language: English
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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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Kropotkin: ‘The Conquest of Bread’ and Other Writings
$25.00 Add to cartThe Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatz’s introduc… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 1995
- ISBN10: 0521459907
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
$34.99 Add to cart“[A] splendid achievement, as powerful and exciting a book as one is likely to read this year….”–Barry Gewen, New York Times Book Review
“Gripping history.”–Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal
“[M
- Author: May, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0393322599
- 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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Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks
$22.95 Read moreA manifesto calling for a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544539
- Language: English
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Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics
$4.99 Add to cartThe 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring pers
- Series: Brown Democracy Medal
- Author: Tronto, Joan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: October 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1501702742
- 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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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
$29.95 Read moreThe first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, A- Author: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761709
- Language: English
