The radical right
The third edition of this popular text which explains McCarthyism and its successors in terms of conflicts over social status and the shape of American culture.
Jonathan I. Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. From 1789, its impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot.…
Political Islam: a critical reader
This reader provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of Political Islam. It gives the student a clear route to the most influential literature in the field and covers the emergence and development of Islamist groups across the globe, political responses to the phenomen…
"The Modern World System", Immanuel Wallerstein's influential multivolume reinterpretation of global history, traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. -- From publisher's description.
Are political activists connected to the global justice movement simplistically opposed to neoliberal globalization? Is their political vision 'incoherent' and their policy proposals 'naive' and 'superficial' as is often claimed by the mainstream media? Drawing on dozens of inte…
This substantially revised third edition of this text on political ideologies takes full account of the impact of the post-Cold War world order, the challenge of postmodernism, the advance of globalization and the advent of global terrorism, and includes additional coverage of t…