- Alternative America
- John Thomas
- Hardcover
- Apostles and Agitators
- Richard Drake
- One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary organization, intimidated, maimed, and murdered on a wide scale. In this timely study of the ways in which an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance, examining its origins and internal tensions, the men who shaped it, and its impact and legacy in Italy.
- Hardcover 2003
- Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965
- Donald W. Klein
- Anne B. Clark
- The Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, first published in 1970, provides biographies of 433 influential figures of the Chinese Communist Party in the years from 1921 to 1965. Each biography contains all information then available on the person's family, education, socio-economic status, early revolutionary activity, and career after the Communists came to power in 1949, as well as the dates and purposes of all foreign trips, information about important writings, and involvement in all kinds of Party activities.
- Hardcover 1971
- Blood of Brothers
- With New Afterword
- Stephen Kinzer
- Foreword by Merilee S. Grindle
- Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, as well as a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.
- Paperback 2007
- The Broken Wave
- Roy Hofheinz, Jr
- The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.
- Hardcover 1977
- The Case against Perfection
- Michael J. Sandel
- Genetic breakthroughs present us with a promise but also with a predicament: is it wrong to re-engineer our nature? Sandel explores this and other moral quandaries surrounding the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. He concludes that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery that fails to appreciate human achievements.
- Hardcover 2007
- China and Charles Darwin
- James Reeve Pusey
- This study evaluates Darwin's theory of evolution as a stimulus to Chinese political changes and philosophic challenge to traditional Chinese beliefs. Pusey bases his analysis on a survey of journals issued from 1896 to 1910 and, after a break for revolutionary action, from 1915 to 1926, with emphasis on the era between the Sino-Japanese War and the Republician Revolution.
- Hardcover 1983
- China's Trapped Transition
- Minxin Pei
- In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform strategy--pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule. Combining powerful insights with empirical research, China's Trapped Transition offers a provocative assessment of China's future as a great power.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- China’s New Order
- Hui Wang
- Edited and translated by Theodore Huters
- Translated by Rebecca E. Karl
- Wang Hui is unique in China's intellectual world for his ability to synthesize an insider's knowledge of economics, politics, civilization, and Western critical theory. A participant in the Tiananmen Square movement, he is also the editor of the most important intellectual journal in contemporary China. He argues that the features of contemporary China are elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations of economic growth and development have trumped every other concern, particularly those of democracy and social justice.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao
- Benjamin I. Schwartz
- Paperback
- Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History
- Albert Feuerwerker
- S. Cheng
- Hardcover 1961
- Christianity and American Democracy
- Hugh Heclo
- Mary Jo Bane
- Michael Kazin
- Alan Wolfe
- Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other over the years, and how their relationship is changing in the present day. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Clash Within
- Martha C. Nussbaum
- While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state. Nussbaum's long-standing professional relationship with India makes her an excellent guide to its recent history.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Coffee and Power
- Jeffery M. Paige
- In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as deathsquad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting ended, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. In a landmark book that fuses political economy and cultural analysis, Jeffery Paige shows that both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. His analysis challenges current theories of dictatorship and democracy, and shows that revolution in Central America is deeply rooted in the histories of the coffee elites.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation
- James E. Mace
- Hardcover 1983
- Comrades!
- Robert Service
- Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day, offering vivid portraits of its protagonists and decisive events. Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries, reaching the uncomfortable conclusion that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still alive.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Confucian Transformation of Korea
- Martina Deuchler
- This important new study explores the impact of Neo-Confucianism on Korean society and politics between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Hardcover / Paperback
- Constructing the Monolith
- Marc J. Selverstone
- Hardcover 2009
- The Contested Country
- Aleksa Djilas
- Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996
- Corruption by Design
- Melanie Manion
- This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated.
- Hardcover 2004
- Daniel DeLeon
- L. Glen Seretan
- Hardcover 1979
- Democracies in Development
- Edited by Mark Payne
- Edited by Daniel Zovatto
- Edited by Mercedes Mateo Diaz
- The advance of democracy in Latin America over the past quarter century has helped ensure respect for fundamental political freedoms, civil liberties, and human rights. Democracies in Development highlights how an effective democracy is also essential for sustainable economic and social development. The book analyzes the effects of institutions on democratic systems, identifies regional trends in political reform, and gauges the value and types of reform that may hold promise for strengthening democracy in the future.
- Paperback 2007
- Democracy Is in the Streets
- James Miller
- On June 12, 1962, sixty young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during the turbulent 1960s. From the ideal of "participatory democracy" to the reality of community organizing, from the most publicized radical leaders to less well known theorists and activists, James Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.
- Paperback 1994
- Democracy and Disagreement
- Amy Gutmann
- Dennis Thompson
- Gutmann and Thompson show how a deliberative democracy can address some of our most difficult controversies--from abortion and affirmative action to health care and welfare--and can allow diverse groups to reason together.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Democracy and Poetry
- Robert Penn Warren
- Hardcover 1975 / Paperback
- Democracy's Discontent
- Michael J. Sandel
- In a searching account of current controversies over morality in politics, Michael Sandel discovers that we suffer from an impoverished vision of citizenship and community. Democracy's Discontent provides a new interpretation of the American political and constitutional tradition that offers hope of rejuvenating our civic life.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Democratic Accountability
- Leif Lewin
- Political leaders often claim they have no control over negative outcomes, citing that history rushes onward oblivious of human will. Lewin examines this reasoning and finds it unconvincing. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, not only do political leaders exert enough control to be assigned responsibility, but also that the meaning of a functioning democracy requires the people to hold their leaders accountable.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Democratic Movement in Italy, 1830-1876
- Clara M. Lovett
- Hardcover 1982
- Dictatorship and Demand
- Mark Landsman
- An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.
- Hardcover 2005
- Divided Memory
- Jeffrey Herf
- A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Early Chinese Revolutionaries
- Mary Backus Rankin
- Paperback
- Eve and the New Jerusalem
- Barbara Taylor
- Paperback
- The First Socialist Society
- Geoffrey Hosking
- Paperback
- Flag Wars and Stone Saints
- Nancy M. Wingfield
- In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a larger single phenomenon. Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Formation of the Soviet Union
- Richard Pipes
- Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area--first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.
- Paperback 1997
- Freedom's Law
- Ronald Dworkin
- Ronald Dworkin argues that Americans have been systematically misled about what their Constitution is and how judges interpret it. In spirited and illuminating discussions of both recent constitutional cases and general constitutional principles, Ronald Dworkin argues that a distinctly American version of government based on the moral reading of the Constitution is in fact the best account of what democracy really is.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- The Friends of Liberty
- Albert Goodwin
- Hardcover 1979
- From Comrade to Citizen
- Merle Goldman
- A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- From the Other Shore
- Andre Liebich
- This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. Russian Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia and their party stripped of legal existence, functioned abroad in the West for an entire generation. For several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet Russia. Bereft of the usual advantages of political actors, the Mensheviks succeeded in impressing their views upon social democratic parties and Western thinking about the Soviet Union.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918
- Mary Gluck
- Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine. Lukács emerges in this generational portrait not only as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a representative figure whose inner dilemmas were echoed in the lives of many other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991
- German Social Democracy, 1905-1917
- Carl E. Schorske
- Paperback
- Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
- Philip D. Zelikow
- Condoleezza Rice
- The ending of the Cold War division of Europe took place largely backstage, and this book lets us in on the strategies and negotiations, the nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations that brought it off. It is the most authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft to appear in decades. In a new Preface, the authors respond to questions raised in interviews, comment on new sources, and reiterate their theme that many outcomes to unification were possible.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
- Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry
- Edited by Merle Goldman
- Observers often note the glaring contrast between China's economic progress and its stalled political reforms. This volume, written by experienced scholars, explores a range of grassroots efforts--initiated by the state and society alike--to restrain corrupt behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities. While the authors offer varying views on the larger significance of these developments, their case studies point to a more dynamic Chinese political system than is often acknowledged.
- Paperback 2007 / Hardcover 2007
- If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?
- G. A. Cohen
- Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, G. A. Cohen argues that egalitarian justice is not only a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Inklings of Democracy in China
- Suzanne Ogden
- Since 1979 China's leaders have introduced reforms that have lessened the state's hold over the lives of ordinary citizens. By examining the growth in individual rights, the public sphere, democratic processes, and pluralization, Ogden seeks to answer questions concerning the relevance of liberal democratic ideas for China and the relationship between a democratic political culture and a democratic political system.
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War
- Vladislav Zubok
- Constantine Pleshakov
- Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who was driven by the dual dream of a Communist revolution and a global empire. They reveal the scope and limits of Stalin's ambitions by taking us into the world of his closest subordinates, the ruthless and unimaginative foreign minister Molotov and the Party's chief propagandist, Zhdanov, a man brimming with hubris and missionary zeal. The authors expose the machinations of the much-feared secret police chief Beria and the party cadre manager Malenkov, who tried but failed to set Soviet policies on a different course after Stalin's death. Finally, they document the motives and actions of the self-made and self-confident Nikita Khrushchev, full of Russian pride and party dogma, who overturned many of Stalin's policies with bold strategizing on a global scale. The authors show how, despite such attempts to change Soviet diplomacy, Stalin's legacy continued to divide Germany and Europe, and led the Soviets to the split with Maoist China and to the Cuban missile crisis.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- The Irony of Free Speech
- Owen Fiss
- How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests in this incisive book, is where the First Amendment comes in. He reframes the debate by showing how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Japan's Political Marketplace
- J. Mark Ramseyer
- Frances M. Rosenbluth
- Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth show how rational-choice theory can be applied to Japanese politics. Using the concept of principal and agent, they construct a persuasive account of political relationships in Japan.
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1997
- Japanese Marxist
- Gail Lee Bernstein
- The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his own unique terms, and, finally, the author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature, Kawakami Hajime is an important figure in the history of modern Japan. Bernstein provides a portrait of Kawakami's complex personality as well as a narrative of the context and content of Japanese left-wing politics in the 1920s.
- Paperback 1990
- The Key of Liberty
- Michael Merrill, Editor
- Sean Wilentz, Editor
- The Key of Liberty offers, better than any book yet published, a grassroots view of the rise of democratic opposition in the new nation. It sheds considerable light on the popular culture--literary, religious, and profane--of the epoch.
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1993
- The Last Revolutionaries
- Catherine Epstein
- Drawing on previously inaccessible sources as well as extensive personal interviews, Catherine Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central European communists. In the service of their party, these communists experienced solidarity and betrayal, power and persecution, sacrifice and reward, triumph and defeat. At once sordid and poignant, theirs is the story of European communism--from the heroic excitement of its youth, to the bureaucratic authoritarianism of its middle age, to the sorry debacle of its death.
- Hardcover 2003
- Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
- Richard A. Posner
- Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by discretion rather than by rules. He emphasizes the institutional and material, rather than moral and deliberative, factors in democratic decision making. Posner argues that democracy is best viewed as a competition for power by means of regular elections. Citizens should not be expected to play a significant role in making complex public policy regarding, say, taxes or missile defense.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
- Joyce Appleby
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- The Limits of Change
- Charlotte Furth, Editor
- The Limits of Change disputes the impression that the conservative ideas and styles of China's Republican period were neither strong nor persuasive enough to counter the ideas or the revolution of Mao. As the contributors to the book point out, these conservative movements reflected a modern outlook and shared a framework of common concepts with the radical movements they opposed. Through its far-reaching, detailed, and sympathetic assessment of the role of conservative ideology in China's modern intellectual experience, it makes a distinguished contribution to Chinese studies.
- Hardcover 1976
- Lost Comrades
- Dan White
- Hardcover
- Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
- Frederick Merk
- John Mack Faragher
- Paperback 1995
- Marxism and Literary History
- John Frow
- Frow's book is a novel contribution to Marxist literary theory, proposing a reconciliation of formalism and historicism in order to establish the basis for a new literary history. Through a critique of his forerunners in Marxist theory, Frow seeks to define the strengths and the limitations of this tradition and then to extend its possibilities in a radical reworking of the concept of discourse.
- Hardcover 1986
- Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887-1912
- Stanley Pierson
- Hardcover
- The May Fourth Movement
- Tse-tung Chow
- Paperback
- Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam
- Hue-Tam Ho Tai
- Hardcover 1983
- A Mirror of England
- Marvin Arthur Breslow
- In this perceptive study of the Puritans' contribution to English nationalism between 1618 and 1640, Breslow analyzes their attitudes toward foreign nations. He demonstrates how their views of the warring European nations also expressed certain aspects of their thinking about England and how in these views there was mirrored an image of England--an image against which they measured the religion and patriotism of the true Englishman.
- Hardcover 1970
- Missionaries of Revolution
- C. Martin Wilbur
- Julie Lien-ying How
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback
- Modern China
- John King Fairbank
- Kwang-Ching Liu
- Hardcover
- Money for Nothing
- Fred S. McChesney
- The increased power of lobbyists in Washington and the excesses of campaign contributions would seem to indicate a government corrupted. But as Fred McChesney shows, payments to politicians are often made not for political favors, but to avoid political disfavor. This book, standing squarely at the intersection of law, political science, and economics, vividly illustrates the patterns of legal extortion underlying the current fabric of interest-group politics.
- Hardcover 1997
- Nationalism
- Liah Greenfeld
- Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- Nationalizing the Russian Empire
- Eric Lohr
- In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular violence. A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of forced migration in history to that time. Based on extensive archival research, much in newly available sources, Nationalizing the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution, and ethnic cleansing.
- Hardcover 2003
- Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism
- Edited by Andrei S. Markovits
- Edited by Frank E. Sysyn
- Throughout the nineteenth century the province of Galicia was noted for political conflicts and the cultural vibrancy of its three major national groups: Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. This volume brings together for the first time eleven essays on various aspects of the last seventy-five years of Austrian Galicia's existence.
- Hardcover 1982
- Nature and History in American Political Development
- James W. Ceaser
- Foreword by Theda Skocpol
- In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, James Ceaser traces the way certain "foundational" ideas--including nature, history, and religion--have been understood and used over the course of American history. Ceaser treats these ideas as elements of political discourse that provide the ground for other political ideas, such as liberty or equality. Three critical commentators challenge Ceaser's arguments, and a spirited debate about large and enduring questions in American politics ensues.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Political Participation in Beijing
- Tianjian Shi
- In this first scientific survey of political participation in the People's Republic of China, Tianjian Shi finds that in a society where communication channels are controlled by the government, access to information from unofficial means becomes the single most important determinant for people's engaging in participatory acts.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Politics of Progressive Education
- Dennis Shirley
- In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers seized control of the Odenwaldschule, a small German boarding school founded in 1910 by educational reformer Paul Geheeb. Shirley explores how Nazi school reforms catalyzed Geheeb's alienation from the regime and galvanized his determination to close the school and leave Germany. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, such as Geheeb's exhaustive correspondence with government officials and transcripts of combative faculty meetings, Shirley is able to reconstruct in detail the entire drama as it unfolded.
- Hardcover 1992
- The Quest for Democracy in Iran
- Fakhreddin Azimi
- The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. In a book that provides essential context for understanding modern Iran, Azimi traces a century of struggle for the establishment of representative government.
- Hardcover 2008
- Religion and Nationalism in Iraq
- Edited by David Little
- Edited by Donald K. Swearer
- Susan Lloyd McGarry, Editorial Assistance from
- Because the situation in Iraq exhibits standard symptoms of religious nationalism, it seems appropriate to relate it to other cases where the impulses of religion and nationalism have collided in a lethal way. This volume provides a comparative consideration of attempts to manage and resolve nationalist conflicts in Bosnia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan--with two prominent thinkers examining each case--and examines how lessons from those situations might inform similar efforts in Iraq.
- Paperback 2007
- The Republican Moment
- Phillip Nord
- Philip Nord shows how France effected a successful transition from Louis-Napoleon's authoritarian Second Empire to a functioning republic based on universal suffrage and governed by middle-class parliamentarians. His multidimensional narrative encompasses not only history and politics but also religion, philosophy, art, literature, and gender.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- The Return of Civil Society
- Víctor Pérez-Díaz
- Víctor Pérez-Díaz examines the return of civil society in Spain. He covers the transition of Spain from a preindustrial economy, an authoritarian government, and a Roman Catholic-dominated culture to a modern state based on the interaction of economic and class interests, on a market society, on voluntary associations such as trade unions and political parties, and on a culture of moral autonomy and rationality.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa
- Robert I. Rotberg
- Paperback
- The Rumanian National Movement in Transylvania, 1780-1849
- Keith Hitchins
- Long before Rumania existed as a sovereign state, Rumanians struggled for national identity in Transylvania, an area in Eastern Europe of great ethnic and cultural diversity. The growth of their national consciousness between 1780 and 1849 affords an intriguing case study in nationalism. Hitchins gives us in this book the first systematic survey and analysis of the movement--its leadership, techniques, and literary and political manifestations.
- Hardcover 1969
- Ruptured Histories
- Edited by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
- Edited by Rana Mitter
- What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia and how its people have understood their recent history? New and at times aggressive forms of nationalism have affected American policy in the Pacific, posing a challenge to the post-communist world order. These essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture--the wars of the modern era--illuminating regional and global changes in East Asia today, and underscoring the need to redefine the Cold War language that continues to inform U.S.-East Asian relations.
- Paperback 2007 / Hardcover 2007
- Saving Persuasion
- Bryan Garsten
- In Saving Persuasion, Bryan Garsten uncovers the early modern origins of today's suspicious attitude toward rhetoric and seeks to loosen its grip on contemporary political theory. He argues that the artful practice of persuasion ought to be viewed as a crucial part of democratic politics. Against theorists who advocate a rationalized ideal of deliberation aimed at consensus, Garsten argues that a controversial politics of partiality and passion can produce a more engaged and more deliberative kind of democratic discourse.
- Hardcover 2006
- Selections from Cultural Writings
- Antonio Gramsci, Editor
- David Forgacs, Editor
- Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Editor
- William Boelhower, Translator
- Though he died as Benito Mussolini's prisoner, leaving only newspaper articles and fragmentary notes, Antonio Gramsci is now seen as the most significant Marxist thinker since Lenin. This volume is the first English translation of his writings on culture, organically and coherently edited from his journalism and his Prison Notebooks.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991
- The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937, Second Edition
- Parks Coble
- A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture. The study documents major political conflicts between the capitalists and the government and demonstrates that the regime gradually suppressed the main organizations of the capitalists and gained control of many of their financial and industrial enterprises.
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
- A Small City in France
- Françoise Gaspard
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Foreword by Eugen Weber
- The picturesque town of Dreux, 60 miles west of Paris, made history in 1983 when Jean-François Le Pen's National Front candidates made a startling electoral gain in the region making it the forerunner of neofascist advances across the nation. A trained historian who also served as the city's socialist mayor from 1977 to 1983, Gaspard gives us an evocative picture of the town in all its particularity, at the same time fitting it into a broader context.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- Socialism in Galicia
- John-Paul Himka
- Paperback 1983
- The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed
- Linda Cook
- Hardcover
- Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China
- Merle Goldman
- The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Terror in My Soul
- Igal Halfin
- In this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice. Communists were expected to write autobiographies in which they reconfigured their life experience in line with the demands of the Party. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin gives us powerful new insight into the preconditions of the bloodbath that was the Great Purge.
- Hardcover 2003
- Trotsky's Diary in Exile, 1935, Rev. ed
- Leon Trotsky
- Hardcover 1976
- Unmaking the Public University
- Christopher Newfield
- Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities in a campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society.
- Hardcover 2008
- Where Have All the Voters Gone?
- Martin P. Wattenberg
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Worker Resistance under Stalin
- Jeffrey J. Rossman
- Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.
- Hardcover 2005