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Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the [...]
In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and other Great Powers. The crisis was given...
The Political Ideology of Hamas: A Grassroots Perspective
Hamas is typically portrayed in the West as nothing more than a terrorist organisation. Yet as Michael Irving Jensen discovers, it also provides medical clinics, kindergartens, schools, elderly care and...
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a [...]
"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African [...]
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
Left and Right in Global Politics
Few notions are as universal as the idea of a left-right divide in politics. Despite its death being frequently foretold, the left-right metaphor remains the most common lens through which...
Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America
This is the first systematically comparative and historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America, examining business organizing and political activity over the last century in...
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
"Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope
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An Uneasy Relationship: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia
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Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work remains obscure and enigmatic. To fully understand and appreciate...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln is, by tradition, one of American history's quintessential westerners. But Lincoln owed much of his national political success, not to mention his enshrinement in public memory, to his...
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct
Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of...
Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and...
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV
Soon to be a major Channel 4 drama, Brian and MargaretA deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television'What Rob...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in...
Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives
This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to the early Soviet debates about China and its working-class....
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
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Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
Author: Shibani MahtaniFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 560g, 336 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2023Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years...
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Author: Ewa AtanassowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 227mm, 510g, 388 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2013Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew RobertsFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 203mm, 204g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2020A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world...
James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
Author: Daniel KellyFormat: Hardback, 443 pagesPublished: ISI Books, United States, 2002James Burnham (1905-1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist figures of the Cold War era, as Daniel Kelly's fascinating...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Author: Jurg WassmannFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 453g, 458 pagesPublished: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1998The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism...
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States
Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
Places Worth Keeping
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American Politics: A Graphic History
Author: Laura LockerFormat: Paperback, 175mm x 255mm, 525g, 176 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2018Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams...
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45
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Politics Bargain Book Box
Politics Bargain Book Box Explore the complex world of politics with this curated collection of insightful books. From the inner workings of democracy to the global stage, this box offers...
The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War
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Virgin Islands
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Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now
Author: Cynthia E. SmithFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 300mm, 1100g, 240 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2022Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
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We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
Author: Alex Rowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so...
The Whistleblower: The explosive thriller from Britain's top political journalist
Author: Robert Peston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 THE HUNT FOR A KILLER LEADS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP... ________________________ 1997. A desperate government clings to power; a...
The Whistleblower: The explosive thriller from Britain's top political journalist
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My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
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Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
Author: David Corn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's...
Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
Author: John Bercow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the...
Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
Author: Kate Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news...
Truth to Power: (Gift Edition) 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S.
Author: Jess Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'Will ruffle some feathers.' Stylist 'There's nobody else at...