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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. North Korea after KimIl Sung Continuity or Change
Book SynopsisInternational scholars debate the state of change or continuity in North Korea's post-Kim II Sung regime - shedding light on one of the world's most closed societies, its potential to adapt to post-cold war realities, and the prospects for a peaceful and stable Korean peninsula.
£17.95
St Martin's Press The Death of Democracy
Book SynopsisA riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time.To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany's leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler's ha
£16.14
National Geographic Society The Good Kings
Book SynopsisWritten in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today. In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs--Khufu, Senwosret III, Akenhaten, Ramses II, and Taharqa--to understand why many so often give up power to the few, and what it can mean for our future. As the first centralized political power on earth, the pharaohs and their process of divine kingship can tell us a lot about the world's politics, past and present. Every animal-headed god, every monumental temple, every pyramid, every tomb, offers extraordinary insight into a culture that combined deeply held religious beliefs with uniquely huma
£20.89
Basic Books 1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year
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£25.60
Michigan State University Press (New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth
Book SynopsisFascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behaviour, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the digital age.Donald Trump is considered here as a case study to illustrate Nietzsche’s untimely claim that, one day, “‘actors’, all kinds of actors, will be the real masters”. In the process, Lawtoo joins forces with a genealogy of mimetic theorists - from Plato to Girard, through Nietzsche, Tarde, Le Bon, Freud, Bataille, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy, among others - to show that (new) fascism may not be fully “new”, let alone original; yet it effectively reloads the old problematics of mimesis via new media that have the disquieting power to turn politics itself into a fiction.
£16.10
University of Massachusetts Press The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary
Book SynopsisBy producing literature in nontraditional forms—books made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publications, and even children’s toys—Chileans have made and circulated literary objects in defiance of state censorship and independent of capitalist definitions of value. In The Labor of Literature Jane D. Griffin studies amateur and noncommercial forms of literary production in Chile that originated in response to authoritarian state politics and have gained momentum throughout the postdictatorship period. She argues that such forms advance a model of cultural democracy that differs from and sometimes contradicts the model endorsed by the state and the market.By examining alternative literary publications, Griffin recasts the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship as a time of editorial experimentation despite widespread cultural oppression and shows how grassroots cultural activism has challenged government-approved corporate publishing models throughout the postdictatorship period. Griffin’s work also points to the growing importance of autogestión, or do-it-yourself cultural production, where individuals combine artisanal forms with new technologies to make and share creative work on a global scale.Trade ReviewA smart, engaging analysis of emergent forms of literary production and distribution in the context of Chile’s violent dictatorship, radical neoliberal restructuring of the economy, and eventual transition to democracy, this book is thoughtful and well written, breaking vital new ground in Latin American cultural studies.""—Alice Nelson, author of Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature
£22.75
Bloomsbury Publishing USA How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in
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BookBaby The Deplorables: America Interrupted
£17.09
Bohlau Verlag Faschismus?: Zur Beliebigkeit eines politischen
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£43.95
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Revolution in Potsdam: Eine Stadt Zwischen
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£35.00
Aschendorff Verlag 'Stellt Die Pfaffen an Die Wand!': Die
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£999.99
Bohlau Verlag Europas Vergessene Diktaturen?: Diktatur Und
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£44.41
Bohlau Verlag Zeitgeschichte der Dinge: Spurensuchen in der
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£46.45
Bohlau Verlag Der Preis der Deutschen Einheit: Michail
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£61.58
Duncker & Humblot Dictatorship Democracy and Transitional Justice
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£91.31
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Junger-Debatte: Band 2 (2019): Zwischen Mythos
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£42.75
Brill Schoningh Moderne Antimoderne: Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck
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£137.60
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Uber Italienischen Faschismus Und Totalitarismus
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£71.91
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Umwelt und Herrschaft in der DDR: Politik,
Book SynopsisDie Umweltbilanz der DDR fällt bitter aus. Doch während die vorhandenen Umweltprobleme in den achtziger Jahren in einen unversöhnlichen Konflikt zwischen dem SED-Staat und Teilen der Gesellschaft mündeten, hatte die Situation gut zwanzig Jahre zuvor ganz anders ausgesehen. Die Verabschiedung des Landeskulturgesetzes im Jahr 1970 markierte einen Aufbruch, der nicht nur eine Verbesserung der Umweltsituation in Aussicht stellte, sondern auch gesellschaftliches Umweltengagement gezielt förderte.Die Studie untersucht die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Aushandlung von Umweltfragen in der sozialistischen Diktatur. Der Fokus ist auf die politische Kommunikation in Eingaben, gesellschaftliche Initiativen und die verschiedenartigen Räume des Mitmachens gerichtet. Auf diese Weise ist es nicht nur möglich, die Hintergründe des ökologischen Niederganges jenseits teleologischer Deutungsmuster ausgewogen darzustellen, sondern auch die Vielfalt des Umwelthandelns im Staatssozialismus zu beleuchten.
£81.04
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Nach Den Diktaturen: Der Umgang Mit Den Opfern in
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£82.32
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 'Anschluss' - Marz/April 1938 in Osterreich
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£44.00
Sandstein Verlag Verurteilt. Inhaftiert. Hingerichtet.: Politische
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£39.75
Sandstein Verlag Museen Und Gedenkstatten Zur Erinnerung an Die
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£999.99
Gerlach Press Political Reforms in Qatar: From Authoritarianism
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£104.92
Viella Editrice Storiografia E Impegno Civile: Studi Sull'opera
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£999.99
Viella Editrice 1940: Il Fascismo Sceglie La Guerra
£26.44
Viella Editrice I Confini Di Una Persecuzione
£29.83
