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  • Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation

    Edited by Derk Venema ...
    Series series War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
    This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the courts always the guardians of democracy and rule of law? What role was there for international law? ... Read more

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  • Imperialism

    Part Two of The Origins of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Series Book 2 - The Origins of Totalitarianism
    In the second volume of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the decline of European colonialism and the outbreak of WWI.Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the "banality of evil", it remains one of the most ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Spring

    Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

    by Christopher Clark ...
    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward“Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously unknown players emerge from the shadows.”—The Times (UK)A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New Yorker, The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • All Against All

    The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

    by Paul Jankowski ...
    "This crisply written, well-documented account . . . examines diplomatic, military, political and economic developments in a crucial period leading up to WWII" ( Publishers Weekly)All Against All is the story of how a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, put the postwar world back on the path to global conflict. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals how domestic passions within various ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Defeat

    On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery

    by Wolfgang Schivelbusch ...
    A fascinating look at history's losers—the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again.History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare—the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • POLITICAL PARTIES

    A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracies

    by Robert Michels ...
    First published in German in 1911, Robert Michels’ ‘Political Parties’ is a classic of political and social science; it analyses the evolution of oligarchical power structures within political parties and trade unions, particularly those, ostensibly, most committed to egalitarian and democratic ideals — socialist parties, organisations and trade unions — including anarcho-syndicalist labour unions ... Read more

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  • The Great Departure

    Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

    by Tara Zahra ...
    "Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign AffairsBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (LOA #389)

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    **A deluxe expanded edition of the masterpiece of political philosophy that transformed how the world thinks about fascism and authoritarianismIncludes two fascinating chapters that were later cut and are available in no other edition**In 1951, a monumental book by a relatively unknown German-Jewish émigré addressed the terrifying new mode of political organization underlying the twin horrors of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Tainted Source

    The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea

    by John Laughland ...
    An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its government, and ignores the importance of the sense of community essential to any democratic debate. ... Read more

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  • Conquering Peace

    From the Enlightenment to the European Union

    by Stella Ghervas ...
    A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace.Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification.Bridging ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Feeling Political

    Emotions and Institutions since 1789

    by Ute Frevert, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Francesco Buscemi, Philipp Nielsen, Agnes Arndt, Michael Amico, Karsten Lichau, Hannah Malone, Julia Wambach, Juliane Brauer, Caroline Moine ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
    Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its ... Read more

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  • Choices in Vichy France

    The French Under Nazi Occupation

    by John Sweets ...
    Post-World War II scholarship and films like The Sorrow and the Pity have frequently replaced the old Gaullist notion of widespread resistance, and cultivated the impression that the French may well have been a "nation of collaborators," embracing the dream of a new authoritarian order in France as embodied by the puppet Vichy regime of Marshall Petain, and hindering the network of the French ... Read more

    $24.89 USD