Political ideologies and movements

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise.

Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades.

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In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.

In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces.

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms and institutional spheres.

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault.

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope.

This is a comprehensive and accessible account of the nature of nationalism, which has re-emerged as one of the fundamental forces shaping world society today.

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world.

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America.

How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today?

Since the end of the Cold War, activists and scholars alike have celebrated the phenomenal growth of transnational social movements across the globe.

Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century.

For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics.

What is national identity?

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited.

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa - South America's most prominent 21st century socialists'.

The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades.

In The Collapse of Liberalism, noted political scientist Charles Noble shows how the American political system frustrates progressive reform while taking liberalism to task for not being radical enough-for what he sees as a long history of accommodating the very same political institutions and corporate interests that it has wanted to challenge.

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution examines what is currently at stake-culturally, politically, and educationally-in contemporary global capitalist society.

Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the educational community.

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world.

Strong, colorful personalities who impose their will upon laws, constitutions, courts, and congresses are an enduring feature of Latin American politics, beginning with the violent regional bosses (caudillos) of the early nineteenth century and continuing with the "e;hyper-presidential"e; systems of today.

In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work.

Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government.

A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes.

How challenger parties, acting as political entrepreneurs, are changing European democraciesChallenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain.

Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremismWhy have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies?

Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment.

Merit has very little to do with the increasing dominance of men in the modern Liberal Party.

How has militarisation come to define Australian valour?

The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.

'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's WeeklyOne family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.

Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.

Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and a born leader.

'This account .

In my humble opinion, Bert Kienzle did more than any other single man to make Australian victory possible.

How do leading Labour figures strive to communicate with and influence the electorate?

How do leading Labour figures strive to communicate with and influence the electorate?

The Third Reich in Power examines how it was possible for a group of ideological obsessive to remould a society famous for its sophistication and complexity into a one-party state directed at war and race hate.

'The most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich' Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler'The most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis' A.

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism.

The United States is known as a country that has been highly antagonistic to Socialism of any form.

Has Texas always been one of the United States most conservative states?

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn January 6, 2021, white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and other supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M.

The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J.