History & Theory
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On Revolution
$18.00 Add to cartA unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hann- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039903
- Language: English
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American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor better or worse–be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally–Americans have had a profound role in shaping the wider world beyond them. The United States has been … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0199899398
- Language: English
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
$23.95 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to the wide-ranging thought of “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bibl
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847032
- Language: English
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Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence
$29.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. and a 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victi
- Author: Ramaswamy, Vivek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1546002960
- Language: English
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American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAn updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration.
Americans have come from every corner of… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gerber, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0197542425
- Language: English
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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
$21.00 Add to cartNamed one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022
“An authoritative and intelligent portrait of the global spread of authoritarianism and its dangers…what sets [this] work apart from books like Timoth- Author: NaÃm, Moisés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 125087582X
- Language: English
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Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do about It
$19.95 Add to cartA trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite–and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize Capital i- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292583
- Language: English
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartCovid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take in
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1642592633
- Language: English
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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
$17.95 Add to cartWhat if we could do better than the family?
We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment- Author: Lewis, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767197
- Language: English
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
$16.00 Add to cartA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil serv- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447601
- Language: English
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
$23.00 Add to cartThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535620
- Language: English
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
$21.00 Add to cartA vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border ri… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078970
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartA landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Ti- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533229
- Language: English
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The Ordeal of Change
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 6, 2006
- ISBN10: 1933435100
- Language: English
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Women in Politics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieve True Representation
$38.99 Add to cart“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s words reflect a reality that has plagued the United States for centuries: We have work to do whe
- Author: Hayashi, Mary Chung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989003921
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Bread
$18.00 Add to cart‘Well-being for all is not a dream.’
In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs – beliefs which surged around the world in- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396113
- Language: English
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The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition
The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless t- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105868
- Language: English
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 2, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062354515
- Language: English
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The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom
$27.95 Add to cartA timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.
Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom exploded in
- Series: Freedom in America #2
- Author: Skousen, W. Cleon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: May 9, 2017
- ISBN10: 1630729221
- Language: English
