Political Science & Theory

There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect of our inadequate democracy- Polly Toynbee This important book shows the many cha...

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold War proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new account, t...

While much of the political science literature on populism focuses on key political actors within the party system, a good deal less attention has ...

This book offers a fascinating picture of how state censorship affected childrens literature translation in post-Civil War Spain. Focusing on the S...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Required reading for anyone who has an i...

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendts relation to...

There are many answers to the question of why life is worth living, but they all presuppose that good lives are sensuously enjoyable. Time seems to...

Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy roo...

In 1837, a small group of rebels proclaimed the short-lived Republic of Canada. Between then and the Act of Confederation of 1867, colonial Canadia...

William Friedkins film Sorcerer (1977) has been subject to a major re-evaluation in the last decade. A dark re-imagining of the French Director H.G...

This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the forec...

Addressing the relationship among social critique, violence, and domination, Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domi...

With a literary history spanning centuries, the languages of Odisha have found myriad expression in prose, poetry, mythology, history, and politics...

This volume explores the development of political parties in nineteenth-century United States of America through an extensive analysis of the offic...

Progressive New York provides a firsthand portrait of one of the most exciting times in New York's and the nation's history: the progressive era, 1...

Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding t...

Contemporary political struggles often find their origins in conflicts based on race, religion and region, gender and sexuality, or class. Given th...

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the ...

This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geo...

Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category...

Conservative Americanism: Nativism, Unionism, and Slavery in Border South Politics, 1854-1861 explores the history of Conservative Americanist ideo...

The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East an...

Tracking the development of Foucault's key conceptsLemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power an...

Reading Hobbes Backwards treats Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) as a peace theorist, who from early manuscripts of his system made by disciples in Englan...

This book examines the statecraft of former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May as a means of deconstructing her leadership of the United Kingdom. Along...