History & Theory
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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 Add to cart“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
$22.95 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 Add to cartThe 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
$42.00 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
$24.00 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
$21.99 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 Add to cartRejecting 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 Add to cartA 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 Add to cartThe 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
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On Solidarity
$19.95 Read moreOn Solidarity clarifies a key idea in struggles for a more just world. What does solidarity mean, and how can diverse movements build enough of it to change society?
Organizer and political theorist M
- Author: Inouye Et Al, Mie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1946511846
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
$5.95 Read moreThe ideal introduction for students, aspiring citizens, and general readers to the documents that are as relevant today as when they were first drafted more than 200 years ago.
In the years since thei- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Cullop, Floyd G.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531302
- Language: English
