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Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times
ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...
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£15,00
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£54,00
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Sites of Pluralism Community Politics in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781787380226, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have focused on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the...
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£25,00
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Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226578507, ISBN: HB: 9780226578477, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 line drawings, 2 tables
America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens re...
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£22,50
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£68,00
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From Grand Duchy to Modern State
ISBN: PB: 9781850654216, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
398 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume traces the political history of Finland from 1809 to 1998, a history that has been dominated by the country's geopolitical situation as a country that lies between Eastern and Western Europe.
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£20,00
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Selling Hitler Propaganda and the Nazi Brand
ISBN: HB: 9781849043526, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, a...
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£35,00
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Petro-Developmental State in Africa Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea
ISBN: HB: 9781849044769, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and arg...
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£45,00
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Watershed of Modern Politics Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)
ISBN: HB: 9780300194432, Yale University Press, August 2015
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oak...
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£65,00
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Egypt on the Brink From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood
ISBN: PB: 9780300198690, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 20 illus.
In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected...
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£10,99
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Out of Many, One Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780226041629, ISBN: HB: 9780226041599, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm
Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In "Out of Many, One", Ruth O'Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting...
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£24,00
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£61,00
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Securing the State
ISBN: PB: 9781849041881, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terro...
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£18,99
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