Right-of-centre democratic ideologies

Examining American policy towards right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War.

Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century s first decades.

With Brexit complete, the European Union unbalanced, and populist national conservatism on the march across the continent, winds of rebellion continue to blow from Central Europe, where Hungarys dynamic leader Viktor Orbn has been building a political alternative to neoliberal statism.

Brilliant.

In Hell to Pay, Olson--a former federal prosecutor--separates fact from fiction and shows us Hillary's often disturbing complicity in her husband's affairs, lust for power, and exposes Clinton's paranoia.

Angesichts einer zunehmenden Globalisierung befinden sich Gesellschaften im Wandel, müssen Werte immer wieder neu verteidigt und ausgehandelt werden und wird gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt durch ein Aufreiben der politischen Mitte zwischen den Rändern bedroht.

A strong and sometimes divisive figure in British and world politics, Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century and the only woman to ever hold the office.

Social movement scholarship has been dominated, until recently, by work on progressive movements.

Matt Dawson and David L.

Donald Trump's 2016 victory shocked the world, but his appeals to the economic discontent of the white working class should not be so surprising, as stagnant wages for the many have been matched with skyrocketing incomes for the few.

Forget what the history textbooks told you about martyrdom being a thing of the past.

Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today's Republicans reject reality-it's just part of who they are.

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization.

Last year, Praxis Peace Institute responded to the libertarian conspiracy film Thrive with a pamphlet titled "e;Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism,"e; carefully and concisely laying out the problems inherent in libertarian philosophy and why it is so appealing to today's society.

First published in 1991, this is a reissue of the path-breaking Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, the first book to examine the ideals and arguments produced by the intellectual traditions of both conservatism and classical liberalism.

This first volume in a new series comprises nine contributions originally presented at a workshop supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin in August, 1994.

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North.

Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time.

Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B.

Is the Democratic Party the ';Party of Death'?

The Uses and Misuses of Politics is a detailed examination of the politics of George W.

Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other.

This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times.

This passionately argued book provides the first in-depth investigation of the religious politics of current American neo-conservatism.

How Red Scare politics undermined the reform potential of the New DealIn the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal.

My great friend and author of 'Dark Agenda,' David Horowitz, is out with a new book, 'Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last.

Marcantonio Colonna's The Dictator Pope has rocked Rome and the entire Catholic Church with its portrait of an authoritarian, manipulative, and politically partisan pontiff.

The renowned journalist charts the chaotic years between 9/11 and Obama's first presidential campaign in this National Book Award-winning collection.

Concerns over the rise of fascism have been preoccupied with the Trump presidency and the Brexit vote in the UK, yet, globally, we are witnessing a turn towards anti-democratic and illiberal forces.

Compared to the United States, it is assumed that religion has not been a significant factor in Canada's political development.

Maloy explores whether and how statecraft and democratic ways of thinking can be reconciled and combined.

The important role of liberal ecumenical Protestantism in American historyThe role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation.

How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar America and BritainBased on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since.

In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W.

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TO REMAIN SILENT Terrifying violence on college campuses across America.

James McGill Buchanan (1919 - 2013) was an American economist best known as a pioneer of public choice theory.

The interwar period was marked in Europe by the rediscovery of corporatism as a possible solution to the crucial problems of modern mass society.

Already tired of the left-wing media spin on the 2008 elections?

'Fantastic' - James O'BrienThe brilliant mind behind the Secret Tory presents 14 years of Tory rule - as told by William Shakespeare'O, for a muse of fire that would ascendThe brightest heaven of pretention!

The words "e;left"e; and "e;right"e; often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfare, taxation, immigration, and the environment.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century presents a historical reconstruction of the ways in which Catholics have justified the recourse to political violence during the twentieth century, a period marked by major wars, nationalisms, decolonization, ideological clashes, and episodes of genocide.

Expose of the hypocrisy, cynicism and extremism of the Obama administration.

In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish progress of change in the Taft Administration.

Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different contexts.

One hundred and two years ago Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican Party to advance his progressive agenda.

A Selection of the History Book ClubNamed One of "e;Six Books for Insight on a Trump Presidency"e; by the Washington PostAs far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Earl Warren.