History & Theory
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Great Political Theories, Volume 1: A Comprehensive Selection of the Crucial Ideas in Political Philosophy from the Greeks to the Enlightenment
$19.99 Add to cartVolume 1 of the classic anthology of political thought: a comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Locke and Montesquieu
As an introduction to po
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Curtis, M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 11, 2008
- ISBN10: 0061351369
- Language: English
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Miami
$18.00 Add to cartMiami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 679781803
- Language: English
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America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay
$28.99 Read moreBetween 1920 and 1950, America saw an unprecedented expansion of wealth and power underwritten by technological innovation, cultural confidence, and victory in war. American elites won World War II, r… [more below]
- Author: Buskirk, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641771747
- Language: English
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Direct Action: An Ethnography
$29.95 Add to cartAnthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1904859798
- Language: English
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A Companion to Marx’s Capital: The Complete Edition
$34.95 Add to cartThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy
In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in an effort to understand the origins of our curren
- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1788731549
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness
$19.95 Add to cartAmerica’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it’s time for us to… [more below]
- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1523002328
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class
$19.95 Add to cartA brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist hi
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635909
- Language: English
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The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State
$24.95 Add to cartBoard of Directors Award for special merit, 2021 Oklahoma Book Awards
Far from being a placid place in the heart of Flyover Country, Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political,- Author: Cobb, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149623040X
- Language: English
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Ideas Have Consequences
$34.83 Add to cartOriginally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagno… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 022609006X
- Language: English
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Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays
$35.00 Add to cartThese wide-ranging essays — on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues — have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained a… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0465022510
- Language: English
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How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
$18.95 Add to cartA primer on campaigning in ancient Rome that reads like a strategy memo from a modern political consultant
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tom- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Quintus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0691154082
- Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
$33.00 Add to cartIn this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best sel… [more below]
- Series: Ideas in Context #17
- Author: Hacking, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0521388848
- Language: English
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Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
$16.95 Read moreA theoretical dissection of capitalism’s ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.
The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She
- Series: Semiotext(e) Intervention (Numbered) #12
- Author: Tiqqun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 22 2012
- ISBN10: 158435108X
- Language: English
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Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIf you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism?
This Very Short Int- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Prichard, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0198815611
- Language: English
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Heartland: Three Essays on Geopolitics
$14.00 Add to cartHeartland is a fascinating introduction to a pioneer of geopolitics. Halford Mackinder’s trailblazing ideas have influenced international politics to this day. His concept that world domination depend
- Author: Mackinder, Halford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0648531570
- Language: English
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American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
$18.00 Add to cartThe author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society
The struggle between- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110004
- Language: English
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Who is the King in America? And Who are the Counselors to the King?: An Overview of 6,000 Years of History & Why America is Unique
$25.00 Add to cartWHO IS THE KING IN AMERICA?
Before you answer, do you know what the most common form of government in world history? From the invention of writing around 3,300 BC, the world has mostly been ruled by k
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0989649121
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$18.99 Add to cartA distinguished religious leader’s ”brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.
With liberal democracy embattled, our public- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675339
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard Beeman
Penguin presents a series- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #03
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121979
- Language: English
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others
$11.00 Add to cartThis concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by the world’s leading revolutionary figures. Spanning three centuries, the works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of I… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0486424650
- Language: English
