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No Borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and ResistanceFrom the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!' is a thread connecting a multitude of different struggles for the freedom to move and to stay. But what does it mean to make this...
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Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of IntentWhy have South-East Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam been so successful in reducing levels of absolute poverty, while in African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, despite recent economic growth, most people are still almost as poor as they were half a...
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A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of IslamismThe fear and anxiety aroused by Islamism is not a myth, nor is it simply a consequence of terrorism or fundamentalism. Writing in 1997, before 9/11 and before the austerity that has bred a new generation of far right groups across Europe and the...
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The 1% and the Rest of Us: A Political Economy of Dominant OwnershipWhile the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth and privilege held by 1% of the population in nations across the world. In The 1%...
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Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to PostcapitalismIn this weaving of radical political economy, Omnia Sunt Communia sets out the steps to postcapitalism. By conceptualising the commons not just as common goods but as a set of social systems, Massimo De Angelis shows their pervasive presence in everyday life, mapping out...
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Women in PoliticsWomen the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women's political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women's political...
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SOE in France: AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF THE BRITISH SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE IN FRANCE 1940-1944 History of the Second World WarThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germany. This book, based on a mass of official and hitherto unavailable material, presented for the first time an account and analysis of SOE's work...
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Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law: The Statutes of Livery, 1390-1520A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights. Regulation of the distribution of liveries and the practice of retaining, which underpinned the so-called system of bastard feudalism in late medieval England, are the subject of this...
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Europe and the Decline of Social Democracy in Britain: From Attlee to BrexitThis book explores Britain's gradual disenchantment with both social democracy and the EEC/EU, culminating in the 2016 vote for Brexit. It offers a much-needed historical perspective to the current political crisis in Britain. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner Between about 1957 and...
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The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment EuropeThe mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an 'economic turn' that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of social and material phenomena, the...
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Re-Balancing China: Essays on the Global Financial Crisis, Industrial Policy and International Relations'Re-balancing China' addresses three key sets of issues in China's political economy. Part One provides an analysis of the profound effect of the global financial crisis upon China's economy, as well as the positive impact of the massive rescue package that was implemented in...
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Heroes of the '90s - People and Money. The Modern History of Russian CapitalismHeroes of the 90s is a book composed by journalists of the newspaper Kommersant. The book sheds light on the transformation of the USSR and the country's social, state, financial, economic and civic institutions into a new state - the Russian Federation. The book...
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How to Think Like ObamaBe inspired by Barack Obama and learn how to think big with this unique insight into the mind of one of the world's true innovators and great influencers.Author: Daniel SmithPublisher: Michael O'Mara BooksPublished: 03/01/2019Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9781782439943About...
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The Third World in the Global 1960sDecades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known...
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MoneyMoney is power. It shapes our world in ways that can leave the mind reeling. Indeed, the bank crisis and subsequent recession made clear the influence that it has over our lives. Yet this despite this, money remains and opaque and abstract space, with...
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Writers' Block: The Paris Antifascist Congress of 1935In 1935, 230 writers from 38 countries converged on Paris to consider ways of countering the fascist threat to culture. Held against a background of a rapidly changing political climate, the five-day congress attended by some of Europe's foremost writers -- Andr Gide, Andr...
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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of RaceTraces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United...
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Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second EditionA pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rightsWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence...
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Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After YugoslaviaThis volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical "democracies." The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than...
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State of Insecurity: Government of the PrecariousYears of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the...
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