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  • The Decisionist Imagination

    Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

    Edited by Nicolas Guilhot, Daniel Bessner ...
    In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how “decisionism” emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era. By bringing together ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Rethinking U.S. World Power

    Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cold War Liberalism

    Power in a Time of Emergency

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes ...
    Series series Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
    In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy, and liberal thought across the North Atlantic world. The essays in this volume examine the history of this important ideology from a variety of perspectives. Whereas most prior works that analyze Cold War liberalism have focused on small groupings of canonical intellectuals, this book ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Decisionist Imagination

    Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot ...
    In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how “decisionism” emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era. By bringing together ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Democracy in Exile

    Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual

    by Daniel Bessner ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    In Democracy in Exile**, Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of U.S. defense policy.**Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the expert-driven approach to foreign policymaking that American elites institutionalized during and after ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

    by Ramon Pacheco Pardo ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions – often around a central concept or scheme of argumentation. Morgenthau’s subject was international relations – the ... Read more

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  • The New Deal

    A Global History

    by Kiran Klaus Patel ...
    Series series America in the World
    "The first book to globalize the history of the New Deal, this is an amazing tour de force with fresh insights on virtually every page." —Akira Iriye, Harvard UniversityCo-Winner of the World History Association Jerry Bentley Book PrizeThe New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global ... Read more

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  • Assembly

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    Series series Heretical Thought
    In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

    America and the World in the Free Market Era

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces- ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Erasing History

    How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    by Jason Stanley ...
    From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.In the United States, democracy is under attack by an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Communism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very Short Introduction considers these questions and more in the search to explore and understand ... Read more

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  • The Big Myth

    How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    “[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late.”-EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the myth of the "free market."In their landmark book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the ori... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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