History & Theory
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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartSigned on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treat… [more below]
- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659181
- Language: English
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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations
$32.95 Add to cartWestern Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evide
- Author: Beckeld, Benedict
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501763180
- Language: English
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The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South–and how it shaped our modern world.
“A must-read for all social justice activists, t- Author: Allen, Theodore W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839763922
- Language: English
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The Southern Question
$8.00 Add to cartIt is hard to think of a better point of entry into Gramsci’s thought than his essay on the “Southern Question.” Written on the eve of Gramsci’s arrest and imprisonment, this essay anticipates many of… [more below]
- Author: Gramsci, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1599540975
- Language: English
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Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960
$16.95 Add to cartIPPY Award for Best Regional History
Reader’s Favorite Award
What happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the “Red Scare” swept the country? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Rick Winston
- Author: Winston, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: July 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1578690072
- 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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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307279197
- Language: English
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
$31.00 Add to cartBased on Michel Foucault’s 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collé‘’e de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited seq… [more below]
- Author: Burchell, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 09 1991
- ISBN10: 0226080455
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing
$15.95 Add to cartA new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical questions often left out of works of political theor
- Author: Kinna, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 162963963X
- Language: English
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The Alamo Delegate: The Odyssey of Jesse B. Badgett
$17.99 Add to cartAs the new nation expanded westward in early 1813, a party of travelers set out from coastal North Carolina bound for a journey none could imagine: Jesse B. Badgett and his family would help settle th
- Author: Partee, Albert Lytle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987398104
- Language: English
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The Fourth World War, La Cuarta Guerra Mundial: Wwiv
$20.00 Add to cartWe have already been through the horrors of a Third World War. Today we are in the Fourth, and if we are to stop this war, we need to know what we are fighting, or rather, what is fighting us.
To bet
- Author: Ezln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1737190001
- Language: English
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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
$28.99 Add to cartA new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.
The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly… [more below]- Author: Mandelbaum, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0197746926
- Language: English
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The Second Treatise of Civil Government
$12.99 Add to cartAs one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the origins of civil society.Endeavoring to reconstruct the … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0879753374
- 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 Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
$42.00 Add to cartThe Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as ‘an earthquake, ‘ and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What… [more below]
- Author: Shindler, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 052115166X
- 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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Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age
$25.00 Add to cartIn this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-ri
- Series: Contending Modernities
- Author: Ritchie, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0268105782
- Language: English
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Governance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe word “governance” is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on “good governance.” Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of “global governance… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevir, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199606412
- 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
