The 100 Greatest British Politics Books
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The 100 Greatest British Politics Books contains a mixture of books on Britain and by Brits from the past and present.
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1. On Liberty
By John Stuart Mill | Used Price: 90% Off
John Stuart Mill is one of the few indisputably classic authors in the history of political thought. On Liberty, first published in 1851, has become celebrated as the most powerful defense of the freedom of the individual and it is now widely regarded as the most ... More »
2. In Praise of Idleness
By Bertrand Russell | Used Price: 60% Off
Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening ... More »
3. The Rule of Law
By Tom Bingham | Used Price: 60% Off
"The Rule of Law" is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilizations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? In this brilliant short ... More »
4. Second Treatise of Government
By John Locke; C. B. Macpherson | Price: $0.01
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right ... More »
5. The English Constitution
By Walter Bagehot; Miles Taylor
Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil war, Bagehot took ... More »
6. Orwell and Politics
By George Orwell; Peter Davison | 70% Off
Orwell's classic satire ANIMAL FARM continues to be an international best seller. For the first time ever, ORWELL AND POLITICS brings this major work together with the author's other works exploring the nature of politics and the Second World War. More »
7. The Concept of Law
By H. L. A. Hart; Leslie Green
Fifty years on from its original publication, Hla Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century. It is a classic book in the field of legal scholarship and remains the starting point for most students ... More »
8. Why We Hate Politics
By Colin Hay
Politics was once a term with an array of broadly positive connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and accountability. Yet today it is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, corruption, inefficiency and undue interference in matters both public and private. How has this come to pass? ... More »
9. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By Mary Wollstonecraft | Used Price: 70% Off
This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody ... More »
10. Casino Capitalism
By Susan Strange | Used Price: 50% Off
Casino Capitalism has finally and deservedly found its way back into print. Susan Strange's critical commentary on the weaknesses of the international financial system as they developed in the 1970s and early 1980s is as timely today as when it first appeared in 1986. The re-issue will be ... More »
11. Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
By Perry Anderson | Used Price: 80% Off
The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theories of major minds of the twentieth-century Right, including Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and Friedrich ... More »
12. Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
By E. H. Carr | Rock-bottom Price: $0.01
E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations published in 1939 was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he developed continue to have relevance ... More »
13. Who Governs Britain?
By Anthony King
The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformation lies at the heart of British politics today. Imagining - or pretending - that the British political system and ... More »
14. Power without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
By James Curran; Jean Seaton | 60% Off
Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. Hailed by the Times Higher as the 'seminal media text', and translated into Arabic, Chinese and other foreign languages, it is an essential guide for media students and critical ... More »
15. Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition ... More »
16. The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order
By David Runciman | Used Price: 80% Off
Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the ... More »
17. Just Law
By Helena Kennedy | Used Price: 80% Off
Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments over the fundamental values of equality, fairness and respect for human dignity. She argues that in ... More »
18. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
By Richard G. Wilkinson; Kate Pickett | 60% Off
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree ... More »
19. Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work
By Gerry Stoker | Rock-bottom Price: $0.01
Achieving mass democracy was the great triumph of the twentieth century. Learning to live with it will be the greatest achievement of the twenty-first century. A rising tide of discontent is posing a major crisis for systems of mass democracy: the evidence is clear to see in reduced ... More »
20. Between Europe and America
By Andrew Gamble | Used Price: 90% Off
British politics has been crucially shaped by England's role as pioneer of capitalism, by the experience of Empire, and by the particular form of its union with Scotland, Ireland and Wales. With the decline of Empire the attempt to bridge Europe and America has become ever more central ... More »
21. NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed - and How We Can Save It
By Raymond Tallis; Jacky Davis
The Coalition Government passed into law an unprecedented assault on the NHS. Doctors, unions, the media, even politicians who claimed to be stalwart defenders failed to protect it. Now the effect of those devastating reforms are beginning to be felt by patients - but we can still save ... More »
22. Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
By George Monbiot | Used Price: 50% Off
A thrilling new route to a better societyA toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a ... More »
23. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
By Mark Blyth | Used Price: 50% Off
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We ... More »
24. The British Way in Warfare 1688 - 2000
By David French
First published in 1990, this title examines British defence policy from 1688 onwards; the year in which Britain was successfully invaded for the final time, and which marked a generation of warfare that lasted until 1714, during which Britain came to be known as a major European power. ... More »
25. Exploring Parliament
By Cristina Leston-Bandeira; Louise Thompson
A fresh perspective on an ancient institution; Exploring Parliament offers an engaging and real-life insight into the inner workings, impact, and relevance of twenty-first century Parliament. Short academic and practitioner chapters are combined with highly relevant and practical case studies, to provide a new and accessible introduction ... More »
26. Power Politics
By Martin Wight | Used Price: 60% Off
This account of state-systems, which derives not from theoretical models but from the study of state-systems that have actually existed, emphasizes their moral or normative bases. It argues that a system of states presupposes a common culture. The essays deal with the concept of systems of states: the ... More »
27. The New Politics of British Trade Unionism: Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy
By David Marsh
The curbing of trade union power is often seen as one of the major achievements of Margaret Thatcher's premiership. David Marsh's book provides a broad-ranging introduction to British trade unionism in the 1990s and an assessment of the last decade's major changes in legislation, policing and attitudes. He ... More »
28. The Cunning Of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics
By John Dunn | Under $1.00
John Dunn is the founding father of the Cambridge school, which introduced an approach to political theory that emphasizes the importance of historical context in the formation and interpretation of arguments and ideas. The Cunning of Unreason makes a powerful case for the application of the Cambridge school ... More »
29. Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
By Nicholas Shaxson | Used Price: 60% Off
A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate mastermindsWhile the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, argues that tax ... More »
30. How Corrupt is Britain?
By David Whyte
Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defense contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it’s high time we ask: just exactly how corrupt is Britain? David Whyte brings ... More »
31. Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
By Nicholas Wheeler | Used Price: 80% Off
The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. ... More »
32. An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict
By Mike Martin | Used Price: 80% Off
An Intimate War tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghani- stan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses - the Soviet intervention, the civil war, the Taliban, and the ... More »
33. The Verdict of Peace
By Correlli Barnett | Used Price: 90% Off
"The Verdict of Peace" evokes the dying embers of Britain's 20th-century influence. Between the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 and the Suez debacle of 1956, Great Britain squandered every opportunity to re-invent herself as an industrial nation. While Japan and Germany progressed and evolved, Britain stagnated. ... More »
34. Hutton and Butler: Lifting the Lid on the Workings of Power
By W. G. Runciman | Under $1.00
These essays offer penetrating insights into the events and controversies that have dominated the news agenda for the last two years. The Hutton and Butler reports lifted the lid on the most intimate working of those who strive to convert information into a weapon - whether they be ... More »
35. Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition
By Alastair McIntosh | Used Price: 80% Off
Climate change is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. In this groundbreaking new book, Alastair McIntosh summarises the science of what is happening to the planet - both globally and using Scotland as a local case study. He moves on, controversially, to suggest that politics ... More »
36. Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses
By Mark Curtis | Used Price: 50% Off
Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people. These are Unpeople - those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain's economic and political goals. In Unpeople, Mark Curtis shows that the Blair government is deepening its support for many states promoting terrorism ... More »
37. The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950
By Avner Offer | Used Price: 60% Off
Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, inequality, economic insecurity, and declining trust. Avner Offer argues that well-being ... More »
38. The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G.D.H. Cole, J.N. Figgis and H.J. Laski
By Paul Hirst; G. D. H. Cole; H.J. Laski
English political pluralism is a challenging school of political thought, neglected in recent years but now enjoying a revival of interest. It is particularly relevant today because it offers a critique of centralized sovereign state power. The leading theorists of the pluralist state were G.D.H. Cole, J.N. Figgis ... More »
39. Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue and Progress
By John Barry | Used Price: 70% Off
Winner of the PSA Mackenzie Prize for best politics book of 1999. Rethinking Green Politics offers a wide-ranging overview and critical analysis of the theoretical framework that underpins the values, principles and concerns of contemporary green politics and the appropriate institutional means for realizing green ends. More »
40. Rights of Man
By Thomas Paine | Used Price: 60% Off
Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the price ... More »
41. The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain
By John Eldridge; Jenny Kitzinger; Kevin Williams
The Mass Media and Power in Britain is a thorough, lievely introduction to the role, importance, and power of the mass media in contemporary British society. What is the mass media, and how does it help shape life in modern Britain? After introducing the student to discussions around ... More »
42. Comparing Welfare States: Britain in International Context
By John Clarke; Sharon Gewirtz | Under $1.00
This accessible, broad-ranging textbook provides a critical introduction to British and comparative social policy. Drawing on the comparative analysis of welfare regimes, the book show how the welfare systems of individual countries can only be understood thorugh exploring the wider global context. The chapters highlight the richness, complexity ... More »
43. Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
By Nick Davies | Used Price: 70% Off
At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voicemail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for The ... More »
44. Citizenship and Social Class
By T. H. Marshall; Tom Bottomore | 80% Off
Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in postwar Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship -- namely, the possession of civil, political and social rights -- is as ... More »
45. There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
By Paul Gilroy
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive ... More »
46. Democracy and Human Rights
By David Beetham | Used Price: 90% Off
What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy. More »
47. After Neoliberalism?: The Kilburn Manifesto
By Stuart Hall; Doreen Massey; Michael Rustin
This book brings together in one volume contributions made to the public debate that has developed around the Kilburn Manifesto, a Soundings project that seeks to map the political, economic, social and cultural contours of neoliberalism. The manifesto opens with a framing statement and each chapter then analyses ... More »
48. Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty
By Stewart Lansley; Joanna Mack | 50% Off
Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth - is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.Based on exclusive ... More »
49. Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
By James Meek
“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.â€Â In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal ... More »
50. An Introduction to the English School of International Relations
By Barry Buzan
This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School’s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and future avenues of development. Part ... More »
51. Developments in British Politics 10
By Richard Heffernan; Philip Cowley; Meg Russell; Colin Hay
Bringing together an all-new set of chapters by leading authorities, Developments in British Politics 10 provides a systematic, accessible and state of the art account of the legacy of Britain's first coalition government in over thirty years and of politics following the return of the Conservative Party to ... More »
52. The Politics Of Presence: Political Representation of Gender, Race and Ethnicity
One of the most hotly-contested debates in contemporary democracy revolves around issues of political presence, and whether the fair representation of disadvantaged groups requires their presence in elected assemblies. Representation as currently understood derives its legitimacy from a politics of ideas, which considers accountability in relation to declared ... More »
53. Freedom, the Individual and the Law
By Geoffrey Robertson | Under $1.00
Individual freedom is coming under more complicated and sophisticated threats, which only the law can combat. This book analyzes human-rights issues of the moment, such as media invasions of privacy, miscarriages of justice, the Runciman Royal Commission, euthanasia, Iraqgate at the Old Bailey, police and social-work malpractice, the ... More »
54. The Acquisitive Society
By R. H. Tawney
The Acquisitive Society was written by R. H. Tawney and published in 1920. Tawney herein criticizes the selfish individualism of modern industrial societies. He argues that capitalism corrupts via the promotion of economic self-interest, leading to aimless production in response to greed and insatiable acquisitiveness, and hence to ... More »
55. Education and the Social Order: British Eduction Since 1944
By Brian Simon
An examination of the changes and developments in the British education system from World War II to 1999. The text includes coverage of R.A. Butler's 1944 Education Act, the battle between the educational conservatives and the progressives in the 1960s and Kenneth Baker's 1988 Education Act. More »
56. The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy
By Tom Nairn | Used Price: 80% Off
In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is both apex and essence of the British ... More »
57. How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
By Eric Hobsbawm | Used Price: 50% Off
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free ... More »
58. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
By Guy Standing | Used Price: 50% Off
Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, ... More »
59. Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
By Isaiah Berlin | Used Price: 60% Off
Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important-Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an ... More »
60. The Media, the Public and the Great Financial Crisis
By Mike Berry
This book explores the impact of the print and broadcast media on public knowledge and understanding of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. It represents the first systemic attempt to analyse how mass media influenced public opinion and political events during this key period in Britain's economic history. To ... More »
61. Family and Kinship in East London
By Michael Young; Peter Willmott
Although housing in Bethnal Green was often appalling, a complex network of relatives - families of three generations held together by the powerful mother-daughter bond at the centre - was always available to provide mutual aid and a sense of community. It was when families were rehoused ... More »
62. British Politics
By Dennis Kavanagh; David Richards; Andrew Geddes
The fifth edition has been completely restructured and expanded in order to provide the definitive introduction to British Politics. There are 16 new chapters. The book focuses on the international context in which Britain operates and addresses institutions, processes, new issues and policies. The book incorporates student learning ... More »
63. The Republic of Britain: 1760-2000
For 200 years, many Britons have called themselves republicans. THE REPUBLIC OF BRITAIN surveys the extraordinary variety of British republicanism since the late 18th century, and explores its relationship with a monarchy active in its own defence. It draws on previously unused material from the royal archives and ... More »
64. The Contemporary House of Lords: Westminster Bicameralism Revived
By Meg Russell
As the second chamber of the Westminster parliament, the House of Lords has a central position in British politics. But it is far less well-studied and well understood than the House of Commons. This is in part because of constant expectations that it is about to be reformed ... More »
65. The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies
Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time to take stock of the concept of 'Thatcherism' and the prominent role it has played in the history of post-war Britain. Of course, there is much debate about what Thatcherism actually was or ... More »
66. The Nature of the Right: European and American Politics and Political Thought Since 1789
By Roger Eatwell | Under $1.00
In this selection of essays, an analysis and explanation is given of Right-wing thought and ideology in the western political tradition since the eighteenth century. The book follows a chronological framework with essays on the main strands of Right-wing politics, from the liberal to the extreme Right-wing movements. ... More »
67. A Question of Trust
By Onora O'Neill | Used Price: 90% Off
Can trust be restored by making people and institutions more accountable? Or do complex systems of accountability and control damage trust? Onora O'Neill challenges current approaches, investigates sources of deception in our society and re-examines questions of press freedom. This year's Reith Lectures present a ... More »
68. Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century
By Anthony Sampson | Under $1.00
Government power: Attorney-general and Blair crony, Lord Goldsmith, confirms the legality of war in Iraq in the face of convincing counter-arguments. Media power: Politicians resign regularly to satisfy media bloodlust and sales figures, while long-term democratic endeavour is irreparably damaged. Corporate power: FTSE100 fat-cats enjoy salary hikes of ... More »
69. Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
By Richard Sennett | Used Price: 80% Off
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most difficult challenges facing us today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves. Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the ... More »
70. The Great Divestiture: Evaluating the Welfare Impact of the British Privatizations 1979-1997
By Massimo Florio | Used Price: 70% Off
The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has ... More »
71. What's Wrong with the British Constitution?
By Iain McLean
In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they ought to behave. In fact, it fails to ... More »
72. Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility
By Neil Gilbert | Used Price: 80% Off
How much has really changed in the world of welfare? A great deal, according to Neil Gilbert, one of our most deeply engaged and thoughtful analysts of social welfare policy. In this panoramic inquiry, Gilbert spans the globe to assess, in provocative yet dispassionate fashion, what welfare looks ... More »
73. Criminological Perspectives: Essential Readings
By Eugene Mclaughlin; John Muncie
This revised and expanded Third Edition of the internationally acclaimed Criminological Perspectives is the most comprehensive reader available in the field. Wide-ranging and global in scope and coverage, Criminological Perspectives will enable you to critically engage with the various concepts and theoretical positions that you'll encounter throughout your ... More »
74. Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a ... More »
75. The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010
Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now completely revised and updated, Peter Hennessy's acclaimed account of the secret state includes material from ... More »
76. Guns and Government: The Management of the Northern Ireland Peace Process
By Roger Mac Ginty; John Darby
The book is part of a wider study of the management of contemporary peace processes and has a strong comparative theme. It draws heavily on interviews with key players (politicians and policymakers) in the peace process. Darby and Mac Ginty identify six key strands in the Northern Ireland ... More »
77. Security Without Nuclear Deterrence
By Robert D Green; David Ramsbotham; Hugh Beach
The nuclear-armed states and their allies cite nuclear deterrence as the primary justification for maintaining nuclear weapons. Its fallacies must therefore be exposed and alternatives offered if they are to be eliminated. As a former operator of British nuclear weapons, Commander Green chronicles the history, practical difficulties and ... More »
78. Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Frank Ledwidge | Used Price: 50% Off
Recent British military performances in Iraq and Afghanistan have been widely seen as - at best - disappointing: under British control, Basra degenerated into a lawless city while Helmand province has witnessed heavy civilian and military casualties. This book examines how British involvement in both campaigns has gone ... More »
79. Elections and Voters in Britain
By David Denver; Christopher Carman; Robert Johns
• How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in elections?• Why do smaller parties get more support than they used to?• How do the mass media influence political opinions?The authors examine these and other questions in the third edition of this popular text. They ... More »
80. Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies
Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges-from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European ... More »
81. Pressure Groups and British Politics
By Wyn Grant
Written by one of Britain's leading analysts of pressure groups, this book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of pressure group politics in the UK and of the increasingly important EU dimension. The sleaze scandals surrounding the parliamentary lobby, grass roots direct action, the use of the media ... More »
82. What are Universities For?
Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, ... More »
83. The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit and America's Trump
By Anthony Barnett | Used Price: 50% Off
In 2016 two surprising explosions of popular contempt for the existing order drove Britain into Brexit and paved the way for Trump’s presidency of the United States. On both sides of the Atlantic, proud regimes with global pretensions were levelled by justifiable revolts. But in the name of ... More »
84. A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
For over twenty years, at the heart of Whitehall, Sir Stephen Wall worked for British leaders as they shaped Britain's European policy: Margaret Thatcher fighting to get 'her money back'; John Major at Maastricht where the single European currency was born; Tony Blair negotiating the Amsterdam, Nice and ... More »
85. Deception in High Places: A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade
Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years.Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and court papers and documents won by the author in a landmark Freedom of Information Tribunal against the Foreign and Commonwealth ... More »
86. The State in Capitalist Society
Presenting a sustained and concrete challenge to the current political consensus, this reference identifies the radical alternative of adopting socialism as the key issue facing civilization and the crucial condition of making substantial progress. Demonstrating that capitalist control of the state was so comprehensive that partial reforms were ... More »
87. Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader
By Colin Ward; Damian F. White | 50% Off
"Britain's leading anarchist philosopher." —Anne Power, London School of EconomicsDrawing inspiration from the everyday creativity of ordinary people, Colin Ward long championed a unique social and environmental politics that is premised on the possibilities of democratic self-organization and self-management from below. This collection provides a wide-ranging overview of ... More »
88. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By Afua Hirsch
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We ... More »
89. The Modern British Party System
By Paul D. Webb | Used Price: 90% Off
Providing a complete up-to-date overview of the changing nature of contemporary party politics in Britain, this book draws on models of comparative politics and the latest empirical analysis to explain the capacity of British parties to adapt to a changing political environment. A number of broad themes include: ... More »
90. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
'To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.' Godwin's Political Justice is the founding text of philosophical anarchism. Written in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution, it exemplifies the ... More »
91. Marching to the Fault Line: The Miners' Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain
By Francis Beckett; David Hencke
This is a controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners' strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984, Britain was an industrial nation, reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlee's vision ... More »
92. Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics
By Edward Keene
It is commonly argued that the international system is currently in a state of upheaval, as state sovereignty is challenged by a variety of forces. Keene's book questions this assumption, arguing that sovereignty has never existed globally in any case, and suggesting that it has applied only to ... More »
93. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
A narrative history of council housing-from slums to the Grenfell TowerUrgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life. In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history of Britain. Rooted in the ambition to end slum ... More »
94. Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income
By Ailsa McKay
Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all ... More »
95. Dispatches from the Dark Side
By Gareth Peirce | Used Price: 80% Off
In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such as those of Guantánamo detainees Shafiq ... More »
96. Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism
By Sheila Rowbotham; Lynne Segal; Hilary Wainwright
A generation ago, they wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s and facing the imminent triumph of the Right under Margaret Thatcher, they sought to apply our experiences as feminists to creating stronger bonds of solidarity in a new ... More »
97. The Business of Death: Britain's Arms Trade at Home and Abroad
By Neil Cooper | Used Price: 90% Off
Why does a medium-sized European power such as Britain have such an enormous arms industry? In this book, Neil Cooper explores the lingering imperial culture which drives the attitudes behind Britain's arms business. He reviews the perceived economic and political benefits flowing from Britain's arms exports and argues ... More »
98. Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists
The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations.Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark documents how ... More »
99. Social Class in the 21st Century
By Mike Savage
A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'. Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today? How has the meaning of class changed? What does this mean for social mobility and inequality? In this book ... More »
100. Fundamentals in British Politics
By Ian Holliday; Andrew Gamble; Geraint Parry
This important textbook is designed to complement the highly successful Developments in British Politics - with its focus on contemporary features of institutions, policy and issues - by providing a concise and coherent analysis of the enduring features of British politics and the underlying principles of the British ... More »
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