History & Theory - General
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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 Read moreCalled “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
$19.99 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
$40.00 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
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How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
$21.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Seller
“Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talking about. And he thinks that the Constitution has somet- Series: Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, & Economics (Hardcover)
- Author: Dahl, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0300095244
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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Quest for the Presidency: The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America
$36.95 Add to cartQuest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020. Bob Riel takes us inside the 1800 clash betwe… [more below]
- Author: Riel, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640122303
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
$19.95 Add to cartThe modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origin
- Series: Princeton Classics #21
- Author: Strayer, Joseph R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169330
- Language: English
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Common Sense
$14.00 Add to cartThe radical pamphlet that helped incite the American Revolution
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and–above all–essential reads from American political history, selected by lead- Series: Penguin Civic Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122002
- Language: English
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Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory
$40.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx’s mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses an… [more below]
- Author: Postone, Moishe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0521565405
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
$25.00 Add to cartConventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking wor… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Micah J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: May 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1107518970
- Language: English
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
$21.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of … [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825252
- Language: English
