History & Theory
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What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
$20.95 Add to cartGrand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring–and so
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0801456738
- Language: English
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
$25.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” –Nig- Author: Dallek, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0143111213
- Language: English
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The Struggle for Palestine
$14.00 Add to cartLeading international solidarity activists offer insight into the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and justice. Includes Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, David Barsamian, Paul D’Amato, Phil Gaspe
- Author: Selfa, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1931859000
- Language: English
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Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice
$15.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli Palestine conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create – legal and cultural – tha
- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1781253765
- Language: English
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Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
$22.95 Add to cartWritten in an engaging and accessible style, Ideas for Action gives activists the intellectual tools to turn discontent into a plan of action. Exploring a wide range of political traditions–including
- Author: Kaufman, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1629631477
- 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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The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
$19.99 Add to cartRyszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades–and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he … [more below]
- Author: Legutko, Ryszard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1594039917
- 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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Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy
$33.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed book, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so.… [more below]
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #1
- Author: Qvortrup, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3111327795
- Language: English
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Lord Acton for Our Time
$19.95 Add to cartLord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Extract
- Series: People for Our Time
- Author: Lazarski, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 150177171X
- Language: English
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50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know
$12.99 Add to cartIn a series of 50 accessible essays, Adam Fleming introduces and explains the history, key ideas and tools of democracy developed by some of the world’s greatest thinkers – spanning from the ancient G… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Adam
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1529434173
- Language: English
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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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George Washington’s Expense Account: Gen. George Washington and Marvin Kitman, Pfc. (Ret.)
$17.00 Add to cartIn George Washington’s Expense Account — the best-selling expense account in history — Kitman shows how Washington brilliantly turned his noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as comman… [more below]
- Author: Kitman, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0802137733
- 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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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
$20.99 Add to cartGuerrilla warfare is not just the tool of modern-day terrorists in the Middle East. Its roots stretch back to our very own revolution.
In Violent Politics, William R. Polk takes us on a concise, brilli
- Author: Polk, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0061236209
- Language: English
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What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics
$41.58 Add to cartPrescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States
Richard Rorty, one of the most influential int- Author: Rorty, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691217521
- 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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Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
$19.95 Add to cartHow climate change will affect our political theory–for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon- Author: Wainwright, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1786634457
- Language: English
