Political ideologies and movements

Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon "e;world-historic"e; populations and vanguard party organizations, Vanguardism sets out a new path in investigating the intellectual and historical influences that created extremist politics, the totalitarian movements and regimes of the twentieth century, and a framework for interpreting extremism in the present.

The first book to investigate the relevance of Theodor W.

A close look at post-1968 French thinkers Regis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de BenoistIn The Anthropological Turn, Jacob Collins traces the development of what he calls a tradition of "e;political anthropology"e; in France over the course of the 1970s.

Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day.

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way.

Despite the boycott Hamas was subjected to since its victory in the 2006 parliamentary elections, it has become a significant player on the international stage.

International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism provides 15 cutting-edge chapters probing into the diversity of present-day populist discourse from across the world.

An account of the mass genocide of French Jews under the authority of Alois Bruenner, centering on the plight of two French Jewish families.

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption.

In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues that contemporary judicial review by the U.

This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious institutions.

There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million.

On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men.

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called 'Father of Europe' Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations.

This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and power in contemporary societies.

Piety, Politics, and Pluralism skillfully confronts the question: Is liberal democracy hostile to religion or is it compatible with the rights of believers?

In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness.

England has had a predominantly conservative political culture for some centuries.

This is a book about the struggle of Orthodox Christianity to establish a clear identity and mission within modernity--Western modernity in particular.

John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII.

Mawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South and South East Asia as well as the Middle East.

In 1938, the United States abandoned the constraints imposed by the Washington Teaty and began work on a new class of super-battleships.

In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished.

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism.

After escaping from forced residency on an island off the coast of Italy, Malatesta made his way to London and eventually Paterson, New Jersey, in 1899.

The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism.

First published in 1989, Faith and Economic Practice: Protestant Businessmen in Chicago, 1900-1920 ponders the role that religion played in North American society in the 20th Century.

From the moment that the New Labour government left office in 2010, it became a bone of contention for the party.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how the parties of Lega and Rassemblement National have adjusted their ideologies over a four-decade period to adapt to the new transnational cleavage in Western Europe - the conflict between pro-EU and anti-EU sentiments.

The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy.

Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention.

This book examines what value, if any, the state has for the pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be reimagined and remade to deliver transformative change.

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam ChomskyUnder Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically.

This book interrogates rising fascism in America.

This innovative exploration of Jewish experiences in France and the Francophone world through nuanced questions and representations offers an intertwining of perspectives that challenge geographical, chronological, and theoretical boundaries.

According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order.

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, two groups of radical political theorists-one American and one British-were bound together in a unique ideological relationship.

Disillusioned by communism as a young man, Wolfe devoted his life to the study and writing of Russian history.

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760-1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change.

A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities.

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia.

Post D-Day, with the Allies on the newly created 'Second Front' driving fast eastwards beyond Paris, and the Russians on the 'Eastern Front' pressing westwards, the fervour of the fanatical Fascist Nazi Regime remained undiminished.

This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children's literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences.