Politics, Economics and Law
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Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation [Hardback]
Kurt J Gron (Editor); Peter Rowley-Conwy (Editor); Lasse Sorensen (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781789251401
Published by : Oxbow Books
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All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the s... .... Learn More -
Biopolitics: an Introduction: Power-Knowledge of Life and Government of Persons [Paperback]
Ottavio Marzocca (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869771781
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
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Michel Foucault claimed that the term biopolitics can be fully understood only within the context of modern forms of governing society. From this perspective, the development of modern medical knowledge, the re-organization of the hospital as a he... .... Learn More -
How far Should Tolerance go? [Paperback]
Yves Charles Zarka (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9788869771590
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
What are the limits of tolerance in constitutional or liberal democracies today? This is a crucial question, for if there were no limits to tolerance, it would ultimately destroy itself by accepting the intolerable. The concept of tolerance has to... .... Learn More -
The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation [Hardback]
Joseph R. Fitzgerald (Author)
£37.50ISBN: 9780813176499
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifa... .... Learn More -
Gramsci on Religion: Text and Context [Paperback]
Cosimo Zene (Editor)
£15.00ISBN: 9788869770784
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: SOAS Study in Religions Series (SIRS)
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This edited volume aims to provide a wide-ranging presentation and analysis of Gramsci’s writings on religion for the Anglophone world. While some articles concentrate mainly on the Prison Notebooks (Boothman, Frosini, Green, Prigiotti, Zene), oth... .... Learn More -
College for the Commonwealth: A Case for Higher Education in American Democracy [Hardback]
Michael T. Benson (Author); Hal R. Boyd (Author); E. Gordon Gee (Author)
£26.50ISBN: 9780813176598
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In the past decade, states across the nation have cut higher education spending per student by more than 15 percent. Kentucky has experienced some of the largest cuts in the country, leading many to claim that higher education is in a state of cri... .... Learn More -
More than Munich: The Forgotten Legacy of Neville Chamberlain [Paperback]
Andrew Reekes (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9781905036516
Published by : West Midlands History
In 1938 rapturous crowds greeted Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he proclaimed “Peace for our time” on his return from meeting Adolf Hitler in Munich. Yet today Chamberlain is vilified as a naïve appeaser – an image cynically cultivated by... .... Learn More -
Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964 - Volumes 1-4 [Hardback]
Joseph M. Pirotta (Author)
£232.00ISBN: 9789993276173
Published by : Midsea Books
Series: Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964
In his four-volume study, Pirotta meticulously examines Malta’s twenty-year transformation from Britain’s foremost Mediterranean fortress colony to sovereign State. Acclaimed for its heroic resistance to fascism during the Second World War that os... .... Learn More -
Pilates of the Mediterranean [Paperback]
Joseph Borg (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9789993276081
Published by : Midsea Books
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The book is an analysis of contemporary society with particular emphasis on Maltese society. The book presents a collection of 73 short essays and proposes a vision for local politics based on the concept of Malta as our common home. It discusses ... .... Learn More -
Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia [Paperback]
Bruce E. Stewart (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780813176192
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: New Directions in Southern History
Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alc... .... Learn More