Category - Political Science
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Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled...
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In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly,...
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When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Real stories of hard-fought battles for social change, told by those on the front lines—with clear lessons and tips for activists on gaining powe...
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Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy ...
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Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our na...
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Russia: Myths and Realities
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story. Churchill remar...
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War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history....
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The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /"Third places," or "great good places," are all the wonderful places where people gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (our first and se...
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The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, a...
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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing i...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by lo...
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The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe: Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Since the 1990s, the economic development of Central and Eastern Europe has maintained high economic growth rates, seemingly leading to an era of ...
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The Communist Women's Movement, 1920-1922: Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /The Communist Women's Movement (CWM), virtually unknown today, was the world's first truly international revolutionary organisation of women. Forme...
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Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France
PaperbackOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government...
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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: 'Electrick Communication Every Where'
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electri...
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Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st c...
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Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home eraFree time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfu...
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply s...
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White Man's Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the ...
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White Man's Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the ...
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their comm...
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A History of China in the 20th Century
HardcoverOriginal price $159.99 - Original price $159.99Original price $159.99$174.99$174.99 - $174.99Current price $174.99| /This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned a...
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Survey of Chinese History in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book presents a panoramic history of the Chinese nation spanning the twentieth century, with the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as i...
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Empire of Lies
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Empire of Lies elucidates the major deceptions that have played a central role in shaping history in the 21st century. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, ...
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