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Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest
ISBN: PB: 9780300244533, ISBN: HB: 9780300211450, Yale University Press, May 2019
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America's bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. f...
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Conservative Innovators How States Are Challenging Federal Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226620312, ISBN: HB: 9780226620282, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 8 tables
As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal on state cooperation, and not all state officials h...
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£25,00
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£79,00
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Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table
Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage
ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...
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£25,00
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Defeat is an Orphan How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
ISBN: PB: 9781787380288, ISBN: HB: 9781849046411, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size a...
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£15,99
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From Politics to the Pews How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226555782, ISBN: HB: 9780226555645, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 59 line drawings, 34 tables
One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "God gap". Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Conventional wisdom suggests that religio...
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£24,50
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£71,50
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Uncivil Agreement How Politics Became Our Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226524542, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 line drawings, 15 tables
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...
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£16,00
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Essay on the Principle of Population
ISBN: PB: 9780300177411, Yale University Press, February 2018
624 pp., 20.8x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Malthus's "Essay on the Principle of Population" remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989....
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Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia
ISBN: HB: 9780857423580, Seagull Books, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bolivia's foremost social and political theorist, Rene Zavaleta Mercado held diplomatic and ministerial posts with the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in the 1950s and '60s, before eventually aligning with the Marxist left, where he developed the...
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Hunger and Fury The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans
ISBN: PB: 9781849048927, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entr...
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