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Book SynopsisCatalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making. Table of ContentsIntroduction / Chapter One Origins, from Pre-History to the Romans / Chapter Two New Influences. Visigoths, Christianity and the Arabs, 400-800 / Chapter Three Consolidation and Expansion 800 to 1150 / Chapter Four Aragon and the Mediterranean Empire 1150 to 1410 / Chapter Five Decline and Revolt 1415 to 1660 / Chapter Six Political incorporation, economic advance 1660 to 1830 / Chapter Seven Social conflict, national revival and ideological dispute 1830-1939 / Chapter Eight Francoism and the Democratic Experience 1939-2008 / Epilogue The failed push for Catalan independence

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice. Considering the establishment of Irish Republican community institutions, prison protests, Republican Feminism, and Provisional IRA media and communications, this volume explores the emergence of Republicanism as a mass social movement in the nationalist Catholic ghettos and rural regions of Northern Ireland in the 1970s a development that helped to sustain the armed struggle of the Provisional Irish Republican Army for three decades. An examination of the emergence and transformative power of the counterpublic discourse and action of the Irish Republican movement, this volume provides a framework for conceptualizing counterpublics in social movement studies. As such it will appeal to sTrade Review"Scholars still know relatively little about the communities of support that stand behind the more visible face of movement activism. In this fascinating volume, the authors show that Northern Irish Republicans’ thirty-year struggle for independence was sustained by a 'counterpublic' forged in tenants associations, prison protests, local broadsheets, street art, and mothers’ support committees. Deeply researched and elegantly argued, the volume provides a genuinely new perspective on the ideas and institutions that fuel movements." -Francesca Polletta, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine"Organizing its detailed, highly innovative empirical investigations around concepts of counterpublic and civil sphere, this volume makes a critical theoretical intervention. Its publication is a major event, not only for studies of Irish Republican resistance but for social movement studies more broadly." -Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Social Movements and Counterpublics: the Northern Irish Republican Movement, 1969-1998 2. The Northern Ireland Republican Movement and Counterpublic Construction, 1969-1976 3. Irish Republican Counterpublics and Media Activism since the Troubles 4. Troubled Mothers: The Mobilization of Republican Motherhood during the Northern Ireland Conflict 5. The Republican Counterpublic in the H-Blocks, 1983-1989 6. The Prisoners' Support Campaign: How Hunger Strikes Facilitated the Counterpublic 7. Commentary

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Book SynopsisMany disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir’s troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and explores exactly why this aspiration has never been fulfilled. In a rare India-Pakistan agreement, they concur that neither J&K, nor any part of it, can be independent.Charting a complex history and intense geo-political rivalry from Maharaja Hari Singh’s leadership in the mid-1920s to the present, this book offers an essential insight into the disputes that have shaped the region. As tensions continue to rise following government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns, Snedden asks a vital question: what might independence look like and just how realistic is this aspiration?Trade Review'Christopher Snedden’s lucidly written and well-researched book engages with the fraught question of the Kashmiri demand for independence for and over which so many have died over the decades. He traces its history, what it has meant to the various parties involved in defining, enabling and thwarting it, and is clear-eyed in presenting both the possibilities and impediments to its realization. The conclusions Snedden reaches may not please everyone but will certainly provoke thought and, in prompting debate, will ensure the question is not closed and forgotten about.'Mridu Rai, Professor of History, Presidency University, Kolkata'In a work that is bound to be fiercely debated, Snedden undertakes a challenging journey through the complexities of Kashmiri identity, the elusive concept of “azadi,” and the uncertainties surrounding the combination of the two.'Rajesh Basrur, Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and author of Rising India: Status and Power'A thought-provoking exploration of Kashmiris’ aspirations for independence (in different forms) over time, of the historic circumstances that helped to create this situation and of the one thing on which India and Pakistan agree – that it must not happen.'Gareth Price, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House'A masterly account of the demand for independence in the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon extensive primary sources, Christopher Snedden explains how the struggle - rooted primarily in the Kashmir valley - originated centuries ago because of the region’s unique location and cultural history, and why it remains a mirage.'Victoria Schofield, biographer, historian, author of Kashmir in Conflict, India, Pakistan and the Unending War -- .Table of ContentsGlossaryMapsIntroduction1 Decolonisation and the departure of the British from India2 Maharaja Hari Singh and his accession issue3 The significance of Kashmir and Kashmiri identity in J&K4 The rise of Kashmiri aspirations, 1924–475 Sheikh Abdullah’s pursuit of independence for ‘Kashmir’, 1946–536 Sheikh Abdullah’s pursuit of independence for ‘Kashmir’, post-19537 Kashmiris and independence since 1988Conclusion: to be independent, or not to be independent? That is the questionAppendix I: Comparison of Jammu and Kashmir with other entitiesAppendix II: Kashmir Valley Muslims in J&K and their numerical dominanceAppendix III: Border or territorial changes, actual or attempted, in South Asia since 15 August 1947NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global politics. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against 'globalist' elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiment of their nation. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality.How and why did this new style of authoritarian leadership arrive? How likely is it to lead the world into war and economic collapse? And what liberal forces are in place, not only to keep these strongmen in check but to reverse the trend? The Age of the Strongman explores these essential questions and offers a bold new portrait of our world.'TIMELY, LASER-SHARP... A MUST-READ' PETER FRANKOPAN'FORCEFUL... A BOOK WHOSE SIGNIFICANCE IS ENHANCED BY UNPREDICTABLE EVENTS' MISHA GLENNY'WIDE-RANGING AND ASTUTE' THE ECONOMISTTrade ReviewEssential reading... Recent events in eastern Europe and beyond make it all the more timely * The Times, *Books of the Year* *Solidly constructed, engaging and factually sound... A penetrating distillation of the essential ingredients of the strongman * Financial Times *Timing is everything. Gideon Rachman has got his spot on with The Age Of The Strongman * Daily Mail *Timely...Rachman... has a journalist's eye for the telling quote combined with a sharp analysis of the factors that enabled them to achieve power and hold on to it * Sunday Times *This is a brilliant, unsettling portrait of our era -- Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good WarWhen it comes to making sense of today's world, Gideon Rachman is in a league of his own. He is sharp, original and unsentimental. -- Ivan Krastev, co-author of The Light that FailedEssential and definitive... To understand the chilling stakes of the global Great Game defining this century - the battle between autocracies and democracies - you need only turn to Rachman's magisterial and deftly written book -- Catherine Belton, author of Putin’s PeopleTimely, laser-sharp and unsettling. In telling us about strongmen who dominate politics around the world, Gideon Rachman paints a picture that is at turns illuminating and terrifying. A must read -- Peter Frankopan, author of The New Silk RoadsA searing analysis... A superb and scintillating portrait, indispensable for understanding our crisis-riven age -- Shruti Kapila, author of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global AgeIn a chaotic world where old definitions of left and right no longer hold, Rachman expertly and artfully surfaces the underlying political, economic and cultural patterns behind the new authoritarianism across the world -- Peter Pomserantsev, author of This Is Not PropagandaA carefully written analysis of strongman leaders all over the world and the threat they pose to liberal democracy... Rachman illuminates the common instincts, tactics and behaviour that link leaders as diverse as Trump, Putin, Xi and Modi -- Anne ApplebaumThis readable book does an admirable job of providing the lay of the land and highlighting the importance of the battle of ideas for the future of our institutions and norms * Daron Acemoglu, coauthor of Why Nations Fail and The Narrow Corridor *Brilliant and profoundly alarming... a comprehensive survey, written with pace, clarity, and a superb, page-turning narrative fluency * Scotsman *Rachman... always prompt[s] deeper thought about how the West should be dealing with the challenge [of the strongman]... [a] lucid, well-argued book -- Roger Boyes * The Times *Fascinating...Rachman uncovers a source of contemporary authoritarian thinking in many places * Literary Review *Wide-ranging and astute... Rachman's most powerful point concerns not the strongmen themselves, but Western politicians' and commentators' wishful thinking about them * Economist *This is a book whose significance is enhanced by unpredictable events... [A] pithy and forceful book -- Misha Glenny * Observer *A series of fluent, well-informed essays about the global rise of authoritarianism -- Simon Tisdall * Guardian *This brilliant and profoundly alarming book...offers a comprehensive survey, written with pace, clarity, and a superb, page-turning narrative fluency * Scotsman, *Summer Reads of 2022* *[A] brilliant and profoundly alarming book... Gideon Rachman offers a comprehensive survey, written with pace, clarity, and a superb, page-turning narrative fluency -- Joyce McMillan * Yorkshire Post *

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Book SynopsisSince the ‘migration crisis’ of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its ‘new’ Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area’s brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s. Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Race, Illiberalism, Central Europe 1. How Eastern Europeans Became Less White 2. How Central Europeans Became Eastern European 3. How Central Europeans Became Central European (Time and Time Again) 4. Central Europe: Half-Truths and Facts 5. The Last of the White Men: Central Europe’s White Innocence 6. ‘Have Eastern Europeans No Shame?’ Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia in Central Europe 7. Imitators Spurned: Why the West Needs Central Europe to Stay in its Eastern European Place 8. ‘We Will Not Be a Colony!’ 9. Slavia Prague v. Glasgow Rangers: Lessons from a Football Match Conclusion: When the Migrants Come Postscript: Confessions of a Canadian Central European

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Book SynopsisAs the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and its historical roots is more pressing than ever. Bearing this in mind, Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail Bakan discuss the historic and contemporary developments in Israel/Palestine, and their international reverberations, from the unique vantage point of 'race', racialization, racism and anti-racism. They therefore offer close analysis of the 'idea' of Israel and the 'absence' of Palestine by examining the concepts of race and identity in the region. With fresh coverage of themes relating to gender, indigeneity, the environment , surveillance and the war on terror, Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race will appeal to scholars in political science, sociology and Middle East studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Social Sciences and the Israel/Palestine Racial Contract 1. The Idea of Israel and the Absence of Palestine: Limits and Possibilities for Scholarship 2. The Racial Contract and Israel/Palestine 3. Israel/Palestine from Local to Global: Palestine in the Post 9/11 Era Part Two: Global Politics and the Israel/Palestine Racial Contract 4. The Paradox of the United Nations: Human Rights, Israel and Palestine 5. Indigenous Palestine: Contested Origin Stories and the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People 6. Global Civil Society and "United Nations from Below": The BDS Movement 7. Israel's Rebranding Campaign and the Politics of Gender 8. Environmental Racism and Contested Territory: Land, Water and Air in Israel/Palestine 9. Israel/Palestine and the apartheid analysis: Toward a one-state solution? Conclusion: Global Response to the Israel/Palestine Racial Contract: BDS from South Africa to Palestine Epilogue: Towards a Politics of Solidarity

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Book SynopsisIn this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the 'slow foundering' of the United Kingdom on the rocks of imperial decline, constitutional anachronism and the gathering force of civic nationalism. Rich in comparisons between the nationalisms of the British Isles and those of the wider world, thoughtful in its treatment of the interaction between nationality and social class, The Break-Up of Britain concludes with a bravura essay on the Janus-faced nature of national identity. Postscripts from the Thatcher and Blair years trace the political strategies whose upshot accelerated the demise of a British state they were intended to serve. As a second Scottish independence referendum beckons, a new Introduction by Anthony Barnett underlines the book's enduring relevance.Trade ReviewThe most forceful and original mind to confront, demask and anatomise the British state. The perception that Great Britain was a multinational state and not a united nation had never quite been lost over the centuries, but it was Tom Nairn who almost single-handedly hammered this truth into the skull of British intellectuals and campaigners until it became - as it is today - practically uncontested by the political class -- Neal AschersonThe Break-Up of Britain is Tom Nairn's greatest book. A potent and long-lasting challenge * Scotsman *Tom Nairn pioneered critical retrospect of the United Kingdom, and scandalised people by looking forward calmly to its disintegration. This in a style of extraordinary vigour and beauty - and not least humour: writing as democratic as his own unswerving politics -- Perry AndersonTom Nairn's fundamental insight was to recognise that the United Kingdom was an imperial construct, and that the ties that once bound the people of these islands were fraying * New Statesman *More than anyone else, Tom Nairn has shaped how we think about the United Kingdom and its creaking constitutional architecture. The national conversation he started, the national journey he so profoundly shaped in his work, is far from over * Herald *Powerful and prophetic. Nairn is perhaps Britain's most perceptive and ambitious national storyteller, an audaciously creative stylist. -- New Statesman * Rory Scothorne *Combines often stunning writing with immense knowledge of literature, history, and political philosophy ... Nairn has made a priceless contribution towards a desperately needed new discourse. * The Hindu *The most significant book on British politics of the past half-century -- Anthony Barnett * openDemocracy *

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Book SynopsisIn the words of Cornel West, Raymond Williams was 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals'. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? was the first collection of Raymond Williams's writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. Published in 2003, it appeared in the early years of Welsh political devolution and offered a historical and theoretical basis for thinking across the divisions of nationalism and socialism in Welsh thought. This edition, appearing in the centenary of Williams's birth, appears at a very different moment in which - after the Brexit referendum of 2016 - Raymond Williams's 'Welsh-European' vision seems to have been soundly rejected and is now a reminder of what might have been. This new edition includes material that was not included in the first edition, with a new afterword in which the editor argues that Williams continues to speak to our moment. Daniel G. Williams's new edition further underlines the ways in which Raymond Williams's engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary international debates on nationalism, class and ethnicity. Who Speaks for Wales? remains essential reading for everyone interested in questions of nationhood and identity in Britain and beyond.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Return of the Native CULTURE 1. Who Speaks for Wales? 2. Welsh Culture 3. The Arts in Wales 4. Wales and England 5. Community 6. West of Offa's Dyke HISTORY 1. The Social Significance of 1926 2. Boyhood 3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews The Black Domain Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon 4. Remaking Welsh History 5. For Britain, see Wales 6. Black Mountains LITERATURE 1. Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices 2. Marxism, Poetry, Wales 3. The Welsh Industrial Novel 4. The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers 5. Freedom and a Lack of Confidence 6. The Tenses of Imagination 7. Region and Class in the Novel 8. Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some Welsh Novels 9. A Welsh Companion 10. All Things Betray Thee 11. People of the Black Mountains POLITICS 1. The Importance of Community 2. Are We Becoming More Divided? 3. The Culture of Nations 4. Decentralism and the Politics of Place 5. The Practice of Possibility Afterword to the Centenary Edition Index

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Book SynopsisSince the referendum, Scottish independence has been captured by conservative forces. Scotland After Britain argues for fidelity to the true meaning of the word independence. It should mean not only a break from the failing British state, but also from the prison of free trade and militarism that has delivered successive crises. Most of all, independence must honestly address the huge injustices of income, wealth and power that continue to define Scottish society, by restoring agency to working class communities and voters.Scotland After Britain shines a spotlight on pro-independence politics since Brexit and the pandemic. The Scottish national question has emerged as the biggest fracture in the British state after Brexit. The independence movement emerged from mass public disenchantment at the status quo, yet the SNP continues governing as if that disenchantment never happened, and the party leadership appears increasingly ambivalent about the risks of demanding independence. Most of all, the British state remains hostile to allowing a second referendum, while the SNP leadership has been unwilling to sanction protest beyond the ballot box.Where do we go from here? Scotland After Britain argues Brexit could force the movement to engage in a reckoning with the true stakes of independence, a process that will inevitably require a breach with the SNP's establishment vision.Trade ReviewThe Scottish independence movement, as the authors show in this tour d'force analysis, has two contending souls. On one hand, the SNP provides yet another classic illustration of Robert Michel's 'iron law of oligarchy' - the tendency following electoral successes for progressive party leaders and politicians to build their own bureaucratic machines based on patronage and more conservative goals. On the other hand, the independence movement, still vividly alive at the grassroots, is the most realistic platform for socialist renewal in the ruins of UKania. -- Mike DavisThe late Peter Mair, who had a period at Strathclyde University and retained a keen interest in Scottish politics long after his departure, was one of the most distinguished students of political parties and movements in Europe. This book would appeal to him, not only because it explores the 'void' between citizens and organised social interests in Scotland that he wrote about but does so eloquently and with precision. While the campaign for an independent Scotland has been stuck in doldrums, the intellectual left associated with the cause has been remarkably fertile, thoughtful and intellectually provocative. This is a book that will be of interest to all, regardless of political or constitutional preference, interested in understanding Scottish and British politics today but also those interested in this 'void'. -- Peter MitchellScotland After Britain is a searching indictment of the complacent dreamworld of Scottish nationalism. As a faltering attempt to escape from the noxious British state, constitutional cretinism put into cold storage the deep-seated class divisions and social inequalities afflicting Scottish society. Davidson, Foley and Wray are dissatisfied with the comforting consolations of the Left in Scotland. Instead they engage in a forensic analysis of the politics of class and nation in order to begin the business of breaking through the frozen ideology of Scottish nationalism towards popular democratic mobilisation. -- Alexander Law, Professor of Sociology at Abertay UniversitySCOTLAND AFTER BRITAIN is a particularly timely book as the rhetoric around a 2023 referendum intensifies. The independence movement is having to live with no convincing strategy to get us to a vote in 2023 and no fresh and coherent programme for post-independence to inspire the public and the movement. Dragging out the decayed corpse of the Growth Commission couldn't be further from what we need.James Foley and Ben Wray (with a tribute to the late Neil Davidson) bring intellectual substance to the left case for Scottish independence. They place it in the context of the various crises in the global economy, the pervasive democratic deficits which have left most populations feeling powerless, and the break-down of class-based politics. They analyse the damage done to the movement and the 'spirit of 2014' by the development of the SNP into a 'cartel' party holding the reins of patronage in Scotland and the extensive cultivation of the party leadership by elite interests who may not support independence but are trying to ensure that they will control it in case it happens. On the positive side, they try to map out how we can make independence work for ordinary Scots and also make us an encouraging example for others. -- Isobel Lindsay, vice-chair of Scottish CND and co-convener of the Scottish Independence Convention.Scottish independence would deserve leftwing support only if it promised popular sovereignty and anti-capitalist social transformation. It could then prove a historic milestone for the whole of Britain currently suffocating under a privileged elite and its reactionary state. Foley and Wray make the case with exemplary clarity. -- Costas LapavitsasExcellent ... those of us on the pro-independence radical left need to build an ideological pole of attraction which gives a critique of the Scottish government and SNP leadership's neoliberal policies, and outlines what needs to be done to build an independent Scotland ... Scotland After Britain does just that and is to be welcomed. -- Chris Bambery * Counterfire *Exceptional ... a rousing cry with a clear strategy for a radical independence movement * rs21 *Very readable * Scottish Left Review *

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Book Synopsis9 February 2016: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) erupted with ''anti-national'' slogans. Arrests of student leaders, the shutdown of the university, a lecture series on ''What the Nation Needs to Know'', a student''s disappearance, another''s suicide and a number of even more disruptive protests ensued. JNU: Nationalism and India''s Uncivil War, by a long-standing JNU professor, is a ringside account of what happened. Delicately and incisively crafted, it is an empathetic insider''s account of JNU''s problems from an expert in the field of higher education. Through this book, the author makes an impassioned plea to transform rather than destroy JNU, as also reform higher education. But more than that, this book is also a history of our times, of India''s ongoing transformation, the story of the changing self apprehension of a nation. Examining the multiple meanings of nationalism in our time, Paranjape delves deeply into what it means to be an Indian today. He offers his perception and understanding of the new India that is fast emerging as India enters its 75th year of Independence.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their creative potential — as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend — turning our thresholds into barricades.Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In each chapter, through detailed reporting, journalist and translator John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders. He adds to those portraits provocative analyses of the economics and ethics of bordering, concluding that if we are to seek justice or sustainability we must fight for open borders.In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a profoundly different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling. Washington’s case shines with the multitudinous voices of people on the move, a portrait in miniature of what a world with open borders will give to our common future.Trade Review“A powerful and convincing case for human solidarity and cooperation for which Washington provides a roadmap. Unlike many commentaries and books about the fraught border, he does not leave out the Indigenous communities whose homelands have existed in the area for centuries before the border was violently imposed by the United States in 1848.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants:” Settler-Colonialism , White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion "John Washington makes a strong, eloquent and even inspiring case for the relaxation and ultimately the abolition of border controls." —JM Coetzee"The Case for Open Borders offers an accessible and passionate case against border controls. Highlighting the complex stories and lived experiences of displaced and immobilized migrants in the crosshairs of violent bordering regimes, Washington shows how borders structure global difference across economies and ecosystems and ends with a multi-faceted and air-tight 21 arguments for open borders for people across the political spectrum." —Harsha Walia"John Washington’s The Case for Open Borders is a compelling, empathetic argument, a far-reaching look into the origins of borders. Washington is one of our most thoughtful, creative, and humane journalists, and this new work will make people think differently about what they think they already know, about what divides and unites the world in new, surprising ways. Highly recommended." —Greg Grandin“John Washington provides us with an essential evidence based, politically sophisticated, and ethically compelling tool to address one of the most important issues of our time.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of PolicingThe Case for Open Borders reveals the extent to which today’s global borders have become, at their very core, irredeemably inhumane. Through riveting reporting and wide-ranging citations and case studies, John Washington deconstructs a host of broken metaphors, facile analogies, and fallacious arguments—deconstructing modern notions of scarcity, enforcement, and “order.” This is essential reading, a powerhouse manual for re-imagining a world without walls." —Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River"The Case for Open Borders is an urgently needed and timely appeal for justice for the expanding flows of migrants and refugees falling victim inside a hardened and darkening complex of enforced border walls, perilous waterways, and spirals of razor wire. A fluid blend of historical analysis, investigative journalism, and illustrative storytelling, this book grabs you immediately and turns your attention to these anti-human regimes jutting the global landscape—and won’t let you look away. Read this book that makes the most complete and comprehensive case for opening the borders—and then take action to make it a reality." —Justin Akers Chacón"Perhaps the most profound book you’ll read this year. Washington cleaves through all the cruel obfuscations and militaristic cant that derange our border and immigration politics and offers a better human alternative. Borders will not save us, or our rapidly broiling planet, but Washington's reportorial courage and ethical clarity just might." —Junot DíazTable of ContentsPrelude: What’s at Stake?Chapter One: Abu Yassin and The Friendship DamChapter Two: The Historical ArgumentChapter Three: Shafa and Hard Kinetic SolutionsChapter Four: The Economic ArgumentChapter Five: Never Merely TheaterChapter Six: The Case for Urgency, or The Environmental CaseChapter Seven: What Would Open Borders Look Like?Chapter Eight: How I Came to Open BordersChapter Nine: Josiel and Iron ObelisksChapter Ten: 22 Arguments for Open Borders

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Book SynopsisA timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational process, inviting us to rethink our current moment through religious and political resources from the Jewish tradition.On many levels, Zionism was conceived as an attempt to “end the exile” of the Jewish people, both politically and theologically. In a series of incisive essays, Magid challenges us to consider the price of diminishing or even erasing the exilic character of Jewish life. A thought-provoking work of political imagination, The Necessity of Exile reclaims exile as a positive stance for constructive Jewish engagement with IsraelPalestine, antisemitism, diaspora, and a broken world in need of repair.

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Book SynopsisTravelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and León and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind some of the biggest political events Spain has witnessed in decades. Whether it is the Indignados left-wing activists rethinking society, the everyday citizens sitting in parliament, or the Catalan separatists fighting for a new nation, The New Spanish Revolutions meets those struggling at the heart of historic change. Spain today finds itself in the grip of immense social upheaval, still shaken by the financial crash of 2008 and still struggling with its fascist past. Against a fragmented and polarised backdrop, Christopher Finnigan discovers how individuals and ideas that were once outside the mainstream are now shaping the nation’s future.Trade Review'Spain has always fascinated and mystified outsiders in equal measure, not least in the intensity of the debates that have polarised its communities over the past decade. At last, we have a companionable and informed guide: whether attending a demonstration in Madrid, listening to arguments for Catalan independence in Barcelona or on a coach trip to the Valley of the Fallen, he reveals a nation moving towards its future, still haunted by its past. * James Attlee, author of Guernica: Painting the End of the World *'Most political analyses are conducted at 10,000 feet. Not so New Spanish Revolutions. Ever eager to get his hands dirty, Christopher Finnigan throws himself into the world of Spain’s grassroot political movements with dexterity and determination. The result is an enormously engaging, politically varied and, above all, vividly lived account of political turmoil currently engulfing the country. A timely reminder in an age of populism and personality that politics is ultimately about people – real people, living real lives, fighting for real change. * Oliver Balch *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Madrid the City 3. Madrid the State 4. The Valley of the Fallen and a City Visit (North or South) 5. Catalonia: Rewriting History 6. Barcelona: An Older Generation Lead

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Book SynopsisIn his new book, Jack Snyder focuses his clear logic on a pressing issue of our times: nationalism.

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Book SynopsisPartitioning Ireland was an experiment that has lasted a century. Now it is time for it to come to an endTrade ReviewThe phrase 'If we don't learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it', seems more apt about Ireland than anywhere else. To look at Ireland through the prism of class is to see not what might have been but what brightness the future might bring. Kieran Allen's new book is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' -- Eamonn McCann, politician, journalist and political activist'Showing how partition was not to separate two hostile cultures but a strategy to defend the British empire, it traces the grisly story through to the return of the national question today when Irish unity can be posed again on a new socialist basis. Essential reading for anyone who wants to change Irish society' -- Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD'An important contribution to a debate that has been reignited. It is an excellent tool for activists who are navigating the arguments in favour of ending partition' -- Gerry Carroll, MLA Stormont Assembly for West Belfast‘Makes a compelling case that Connolly’s class-oriented vision offers a way out of the sectarian maze Ireland has been trapped in since partition’ -- ‘Jacobin’'If there is one book you need to read to grasp what’s going on in Ireland, and Northern Ireland specifically, it must be Kieran Allen’s 32 Counties’ -- ‘Counterfire’Table of ContentsPreface 1. ‘A Carnival of Reaction’: The Origins of Partition 2. Republicans and Loyalists 3. British Imperialism 4. Managed Sectarianism 5. Protestant Workers 6. The Return of the National Question 7. The Left and Irish Unity 8. What Kind of United Ireland? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.Trade Review“Byfield has written a meticulously documented history of women’s political activities during the first half of the twentieth century. The women of Abeokuta played a leading part in the history of economic change, nationalism, and eventual independence in colonial Nigeria, and Byfield’s study is a welcome addition to scholarly analysis of political and economic transformation in Nigeria and Africa in general during this crucial period.”“The Great Upheaval is a brilliant historical sociology of the gendered struggle for ‘a new philosophy of life’ in a colonial context. Judith Byfield reminds us that the erasure of women and gender in nationalist histories of emancipation in Africa diminishes our understanding of the complexity of ‘nation-building,’ including the contradictions of gendered notions of agency and freedom. The author seamlessly interweaves gender and nation with colonial history and political economy in the analysis of how Abeokuta women expanded the vistas of human possibilities in early- to mid-20th century Nigeria.”“Competent, coherent, and captivating, Judith Byfield combines the values of deep research with deep thinking to extend the frontiers of knowledge on gender politics in postwar Nigeria’s late colonial period. City, national, and global ideas converge in The Great Upheaval to locate Yoruba women in complex intersections of economy, politics, and race.”“Judith Byfield has not only shown that women in Abeokuta played important parts in struggles against colonialism and for better social conditions, but that focusing on gender forces us to rethink histories of kingship, urban life, trade, taxation, religion, protest movements, and memorialization—indeed, the entire history of the region and its relationship to Nigeria.”“[A] brilliant book…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *

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Book SynopsisEverything we think we know about populism is wrong. Donald Trump. Brexit. European right-wing extremists. All have been accused of populism. But what does this often thrown about, yet generally misunderstood, term actually mean? The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; the story of democracy itself, of its promise of a decent life for us all. Here, acclaimed political commentator Thomas Frank takes us from the emergence of the radical left-wing US Populist Party in the 1890s, through the triumphs of reformers under Roosevelt and Truman, to the present day, reminding us how much we owe to the populist ethos. He pummels the elites, revisits the movement’s provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism. People Without Power is a ringing affirmation of a movement that, Frank shows us, is not the problem of our times, but the solution.Trade Review‘With his usual verve, Frank skewers the elite voices of condescension that vilify the egalitarian and democratic strivings of working people. In so doing, he offers a passionate defense of populism, which he reveals as a deep and wide political tradition that remains as essential as ever for the hopes of a more just and equitable society.’ -- Charles Postel, author of Equality: an American dilemma, 1866–1896‘Political commentator Frank (Rendezvous with Oblivion) urges liberals to reclaim ‘the high ground of populism’ in this fervent and acerbically witty call to action … Frank blends diligent research with well-placed snark to keep readers turning the pages. Liberals will be outraged, enlightened, and entertained.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘The author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? returns with a study of populism … [H]e argues that historically populism has been focused on expanding opportunities for all, and he sees anti-populist sentiment today as being anti-working class. That will stir debate.’ * Library Journal *‘A provocative new book that encompasses historical analysis as well as the present.’ -- Dan Shaw * Happy Magazine *‘Brilliantly written, eye-opening … From 1891 to the rise of Trumpism, Frank walks readers through a minefield of assumptions about populism’s nature and history … Throughout People Without Power, Frank takes pains to look at populism through a broad lens … His reflection on how the jeans-clad Jimmy Carter wrapped himself in populism to avoid being tagged as a socialist, liberal or conservative is spot-on.’ -- Douglas Brinkley * The Washington Post *‘Anyone looking for a compact, highly readable history of the American political movement known as populism, and the determined efforts from both right and left to squelch it, will enjoy prominent progressive journalist Thomas Frank’s People Without Power … Credit goes to Frank for this admirable effort to reclaim the noblest parts of the populist legacy and make them relevant for contemporary Americans.’ -- Harvey Freedenberg * BookPage *‘[A] sprightly crafted survey of populist philosophy over the past century as it contends with more established political forces that have considered its ideas to be backwards and undemocratic … A valuable history of an important political tradition, and what it means for the future.’ -- Ed Goedeken * Library Journal *‘[A] fervent and acerbically witty call to action … Frank blends diligent research with well-placed snark to keep readers turning the pages. Liberals will be outraged, enlightened, and entertained.’ * Kirkus Reviews *‘Rarely do I encounter progressive tracts that I enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed this book … [Takes] aim at the myth of ‘populism’ … Frank has once again written an important book, that leftists everywhere should read in order or understand the moment in which they live.’ -- Anthony Skews * Medium *Praise for Rendezvous with Oblivion: ‘Frank’s combination of insightful analysis, moral passion, and keen satirical wit make these essays both entertaining and an important commentary on the times.’ * Publishers Weekly *Praise for Listen, Liberal: ‘An astute dissection of contemporary Democratic politics that demonstrates, cogently and at times acidly, how the party lost the allegiance of blue-collar Americans.’ * Publishers Weekly *Praise for The Wrecking Crew: ‘A no-holds-barred exegesis on the naked cynicism of conservatism in America.’ STARRED REVIEW * Kirkus Reviews *Praise for Pity the Billionaire: ‘Frank's wit is as sharp as ever, and his eye for detail and his ability to capture a scene reminded me of reading zoologist Dian Fossey on a group of strange political primates.’ * The Washington Post *Praise for What’s the Matter with Kansas?: ‘Very funny and very painful … Add another literary gold star after Thomas Frank's name.’‘Frank unspools a spirited sociocultural history and historiography of populism … His prose is a joy.’ -- Stephen Phillips * The Irish Times *‘Frank describes an indigenous radical tradition that descends from Jefferson and Paine and stretches forward to Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr … Compelling.’ * The New York Times Book Review *‘Rousing … central to the challenge of our times … A call to arms against the plutocratic elites of both America’s main parties … Frank’s real strength lies in his energetic optimism.’ * Financial Times *‘Tom Frank does what few writers today are capable of doing — he criticises his own side.’ * Wall Street Journal *‘Deserves your attention … sees through the sides in today’s acrimonious debate on populism … The People Without Power describes meticulously how over the last 120 years, reigning elites — whether conservative, liberal, or progressive — have regularly attacked populists with the same falsehoods … It shows us that the arguments that pass for wisdom and enlightenment in some circles are really a simple rehashing of old falsehoods.’ -- Milton Ezrati * Forbes *‘A terrific book … damning … eloquently-argued . . . The People Without Power documents the furious elite propaganda response to bottom-up political movements that has recurred in uncannily similar fashion at key moments across nearly a century and a half of American history, and is firing with particular venom today.’ -- Matt Taibbi, journalist and author of Insane Clown President and Hate Inc.‘Brilliant … grand … an urgent plea to liberals and radicals alike to embrace a left populism and universalism — or keep on losing.’ * Jacobin *‘An illuminating book, the best one I've read about the sound and fury of America’s 2020 election campaign.’ -- Lewis H. Lapham, former editor of Harper’s Magazine, founder of Lapham’s Quarterly, and author of Age of Folly‘A real contribution … Frank looks forward to the day when the “liberal” elite and right-leaning populists exhaust themselves — and the Democratic Party reclaims its identity as the voice of workers.’ * City Journal *‘Smart … Thomas Frank is one of the few great American political writers, and his new book The People Without Power is one of his best, if not his most urgent and pressing … We need more Thomas Franks.’ * Splice Today *‘Provocative … powerful … Frank has delivered a defiant challenge to the antipopulist liberals more infatuated with the advice of experts and their own moral virtues than mobilising ordinary Americans on the basis of progressive values.’ * The Progressive *‘Frank brilliantly places populism in the context of seminal historic events … His provocative conclusions, about elites and the people, turn common assumptions upside down — all the better for making readers think.’ * Booklist, starred review *

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Book SynopsisOffers a unique perspective on far right neo-Nazism viewing it as a new form of Western religious heresyTrade ReviewExcellent book provides a lucid and often chilling guide. * Journal of European Studies *Presents a troubling picture of the mindset of the modern Far Right. * Library Journal *[An] important work. * Philadelphia Inquirer *Anyone who remembers the devastation wrought by Nazi fanaticism can only be astonished and dismayed by this book. Who could have foreseen that half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the Jews would once again be perceived as a demonic power intent on destroying the & Aryan race, or that Hitler would be imagined as a divine being who is about to return to earth to complete the Holocaust? For the matter, who could have foreseen that the preposterous & pagan cult developed by Heinrich Himmler would ever be revived? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke shows not only that these things have indeed happened but how and why they have happened. He also suggests what dangers they may portend. Black Sun is both an enthralling and a deeply disturbing work. It deserves the most serious attention and a wide readership. -- Norman Cohn,author of The Pursuit of the Millennium and Warrant for GenocideNicholas Goodrick-Clarke has done pioneering work in the field of the occult roots of Nazism. In the present volume he performs the same invaluable service with regard to the ideological fantasies of post war neofascism. -- Walter Laqueur

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Book SynopsisAlex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.Trade ReviewFor its recovery of utopian thinking as creatively and politically productive in African American literature, however, Zamalin earns high marks. -- Joel Wendland-Liu, Grand Valley State University * Journal of American Ethnic History *What makes this book worth examining are the vivid, detailed dreams envisioned — and made concrete — despite oppression, despite years of torture. -- Rochelle Spencer * On the Sewall *An instructive guide for all those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of American history and thinking critically about American politics. . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Covering considerable ground with unusual eloquence and depth, Alex Zamalin brilliantly elucidates the contours of a black utopian tradition that poses a forceful challenge to our contemporary modes of political theorizing. Like the utopias and dystopias it delineates, Black Utopia both inspires and unsettles the reader in critically productive ways. This is first-rate scholarship. -- Simon Stow, John Marshall Professor of Government and American Studies, College of William and MaryCrisply written and compellingly argued, Black Utopia traces a remarkable genealogy of black utopian and anti-utopian thought from Martin Delany in the early nineteenth century to Octavia Butler in the early twenty-first. A versatile cultural historian and political theorist, Alex Zamalin reveals that the democratic hope for racial equality and social justice has historically overcome dystopian conditions, ranging from slavery to present-day racism, while animating the African American intellectual imagination. -- Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American LiteratureAlex Zamalin's focus in this engaging text is the underside of the more familiar modes of African American writing. From this hidden ground, he captures imaginative creations that have been fed by African American doubts, fears, and despair about democracy and racial equality in America. These creations have been both utopian and dystopian as opposed to strategic and reformist. Beginning with Martin Delany and concluding with Octavia Butler, Black Utopia is an exquisite introduction to this more hidden strain of African American thought. -- Paget Henry, author of Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyAlex Zamalin balances generosity and critique in a careful yet energetic and buoyant manner. -- Joseph Winters, author of Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of ProgressTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first book about the republican internees and prisoners held on Spike Island by the British Army during 1921

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Book SynopsisFeaturing over 100 colour images, this book explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s. Examining the relationship between photography and gender, body, space as well as materiality and language, its six chapters explore how the production and circulation of vernacular photographs contributed to the making of the modern Turkish citizen in the formative years of the Turkish Republic, when nation-building, secularization and modernization reforms took centre stage. Based on an extensive photographic archive, the book shows that individuals actively reproduced, circulated and negotiated the ideal citizen-image imposed by the Kemalist regime, reflecting not only state-imposed directives but also their class aspirations and other, wider social and cultural developments of the period, from Western fashion trends and movies to the increasing availability of modern consumer items. Calafato also reveals that the freedom from sTrade Review"Offering sophisticated analyses of a selection of vernacular photographs, this book traces how the construction of the modern Turkish citizen can be found in such pictures, with a particular emphasis on their articulation of gender, bodies, spaces and language. Although embedded in a social history of Turkey, Ozge Calafato’s complex study will be of interest to anyone who cares about photography and its capacity for individual and collective agency. Highly recommended!" * Geoffrey Batchen, Professor, University of Oxford, UK *"Calafato’s close reading of vernacular photographs offers a refreshingly nuanced, complex and ambivalent picture of early republican Turkish society beyond the cliches of official representations. Like a detective working with visual clues, she analyzes studio portraits, family pictures and ordinary snapshots for the gender and class performativity of their urban middle-class subjects, pointing out subtle negotiations between the normative and the subversive in these images. Drawing on photography theory, visual anthropology, gender and cultural studies, the book represents critical interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. Well researched, well written and delightful to read, it is a most welcome contribution to studies of Turkish modernity and national identity construction." * Sibel Bozdogan, Professor, Boston University, USA *“Özge Calafato has written a ground-breaking study of photo history in Turkey and beyond, placing rarely seen vernacular photographs at the center of a farreaching analysis of the formation of the modern citizen in the new Turkish Republic. Through her extensive research and deft examination of a photo archive she assembled, Calafato demonstrates the value of often overlooked everyday photographs in understanding complex political and social transformations.” * Nancy Micklewright, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, USA *“A fascinating, highly-readable and enjoyable work on the early Turkish Republic that finally gives photography the attention it deserves… Calafato uses photography to demonstrate how Turkish citizens actively participated in the process of making a modern nation.” * Hale Yilmaz, Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University, USA *"Methodologically satisfying and empirically rich, this meticulously-researched study of the mass of everyday photographs demonstrates photography’s integral role in the creation of modern identities. Carefully balanced between macro- and micro historical narratives, it reveals photography to be an incisive and indispensable prism through which to consider larger analytical questions around class, gender and modernity, ideology, politics and social change, not only in Turkey but in the wider historical landscape. Throughout the images, from photo albums to advertisements, are richly revealing of the hopes and desires that clustered around photographs in fast-changing society of the mid-twentieth century." * Elizabeth Edwards, Professor, De Montfort University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Photography, Gender and Modernity Chapter One: The Construction of the New Turkish Woman Chapter Two: Modern Turkish Masculinities Part II: The Making of the Modern Body Chapter Three: Pose, Posture and Props as Worldmaking Chapter Four: The Bodies of the Republic Part III: Photography and Space-Making Chapter Five: Photography’s Domestication Part IV: Photography, Materiality and Language Chapter Six: Disseminating Citizenship Conclusion References

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Book Synopsis"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working... It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."-Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTrade Review"Gandhi's Body introduces Gandhi in a fresh way. . . . This book respects and at the same time revises our understandings of Indian culture, and it connects politics and culture with health, bio-discipline, and governmentality in a manner that is accessible and useful." * David Ludden, editor of Contesting the Nation *"Interesting, provocative, and highly recommended." * Choice *"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working. . . . It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the Party for Freedom (PVV), a political party in the Netherlands, founded and led by Geert Wilders. Attaining between 10 and 18% of the votes, the PVV has become one of the largest parties in the Netherlands and is the only political party worldwide without members. Between 2010 and 2012 the party supported a minority coalition of liberals and christian-democrats in exchange for influence on governmental policy. The PVV can be viewed as the Dutch version of an ideological family of nationalist parties linked by their opposition to immigration and to the political and cultural elites. Within this family, Geert Wilders has played an important role as pioneer of a new master frame, in which Islam is portrayed as the historical arch-enemy of the West. As the main figurehead of European islamophobia, Wilders has inspired political parties and organizations in Europe, North-America, Israel and even Australia.Examining data collected on various aspects of the party (for example, voters, activists, organization and ideology) and employing theoretical insights from sociology, electoral geography and political science, this book analyses this controversial phenomenon and seeks to obtain a clearer picture of the functioning of the PVV. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in European politics and current affairs more generally.Table of ContentsPreface 1. The making of Geert Wilders 1963-20062. The four pillars of the PVV. The PVV’s ideology3. The PVV in action: national and international activities4. A unique party. The PVV as a party organisation5. The many guises of Henk and Ingrid. On PVV voters6. Conclusion7. Appendix

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Book SynopsisIn this scholarly work, Zirakzadeh argues that there is a calculated reasoning behind ETA's political violence that is often overlooked by researchers. His book is a comprehensive account of the Basque region's grassroots politics.Trade ReviewA refreshing and original study that helps place Basque nationalism in a different perspective.” —Stanley G. Payne

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Book SynopsisAcademic research on Christian nationalism has revealed a considerable amount about the scope of its relationships to public policy views in the US. However, work thus far has not addressed an essential question: why now? Research by the authors of this Element advances answers.Table of Contents1. What We Don't Understand about Christian Nationalism in the United States – and Why It Matters; 2. The Fundamentals – Measurement and the Precursors to Mobilization; 3. Christian Nationalism as Partisan Mobilization; 4. Mobilizing a Threatened Worldview into Politics; 5. Christian Nationalist Tensions With Democracy; 6. Conclusion – Putting Christian Nationalism in Context.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's annexation of Crimea and Europe's de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia's obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression. The volume provides a wealth of detail about the inability of Russia, from the time of the Tsarist Empire, throughout the era of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and since the dissolution of the latter in 1991, to accept Ukraine as an independent country and Ukrainians as a people distinct and separate from Russians. The book highlights the sources of this lack of acceptance in aspects of Russian national identity. In the Soviet period, Russians principally identified themselves not with the Russian Soviet Federative Republic, but rather with the USSR as a whole. Attempts in the 1990s to foTable of ContentsPreface.Part I: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives Civic, Ethnic, or Civic-Ethnic States: A Discussion of Theoretical Concepts. Russia and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective. Part II: Russian Nationalism about Ukraine Emigres, Dissidents and Soviets. Boris Yeltsyn: Liberalism, Tanks, and Unions. Vladimir Putin: ‘Gatherer of Russian Lands.’ Part III: Russian Nationalism versus Ukraine Democrats and the ‘Red-White-Brown’ Coalition. Messianism, ‘Holy Rus,’ and the Russian World. Russia’s ‘Jerusalem’: Crimea, and ‘New Russia’. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis collection systematically approaches the concept of Czechoslovakism and its historical progression, covering the time span from the mid-nineteenth century to Czechoslovakia's dissolution in 1992/1993, while also providing the most recent research on the subject. Czechoslovakism was a foundational concept of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic and it remained an important ideological, political and cultural phenomenon throughout the twentieth century. As such, it is one of the most controversial terms in Czech, Slovak and Central European history. While Czechoslovakism was perceived by some as an effort to assert Czech domination in Slovakia, for others it represented a symbol of the struggle for the Republic's survival during the interwar and Second World War periods. The authors take care to analyze Czechoslovakism's various emotional connotations, however their primary objective is to consider Czechoslovakism as an important historical concept and follow its chanTable of ContentsIntroduction: Czechoslovakism: the concept’s blurry history Part One: From Kollár to Masaryk 1. Latent Czechoslovakism: a topic of politicization for 19th century liberal elites 2. Czechoslovakist reasoning at the turn of the 19th and 20th century 3. Hungarian government, administrative and supervisory bodies and the Czechoslovakist movement, 1895-1914: surveillance, misinterpretation and countermeasure 4. “Jews are Slovakia’s misfortune”: Czechoslovakism and antisemitism from the late 19th to the mid-20th century Part Two: Czechoslovakism in the time of “nation-state” building 5. Czechoslovakism in the first half of the Czechoslovak Republic: state-building concept or hackneyed old phrase? 6. Czechoslovakism in the eyes of interwar Slovak political parties 7. The failure of Czechoslovakism as a state-civic concept: the army and its minorities, 1918-1945 8. State festivities and constructing a Czechoslovak national community during the First Republic 9. The idea of Czechoslovakism in Czech history and civic education textbooks published between 1918-1938 10. Czechoslovak visual arts Part Three: Czechoslovakism during the communist dictatorship and democratic transformation 11. Czechoslovak ideology and Slovak communists 12. Discussions of Czechoslovakism and luďák-ness in the reformist era of 1960s 13. Czechoslovakism and Party theory of the so-called “national question” 14. Debating Czechoslovakism and Czechoslovak identity in the federation’s final years, 1989-1992 15. The problem of Czechoslovakism in Slovakia after November 1989 16. Yugoslavism throughout the 20th century: developments and tendencies

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses recent developments concerning the application of the international legal doctrines of recognition and self-determination in relation to the Western Sahara Question. It investigates the emergent shift in favour of Morocco's sovereignty claim to Western Sahara as apparent from the positions adopted by an increasing number of third States in the United Nations and the recent spate of third States establishing consulates in Western Sahara, with Morocco's encouragement. It reflects on what the functioning of the doctrines of recognition and self-determination in this situation reveals about contemporary international law in practice more generally. The work will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students as well as practitioners of public international law who have a particular interest in decolonisation, self-determination disputes, and/or conflicts about natural resource entitlements. It will also appeal to readers with an interest in the worTrade Review'The reader has in [their] hands a specific study on a classic but highly topical question in public international law: does the opening of consular offices in an occupied territory constitute recognition of the sovereignty of the occupying state over the territory? This short and interesting study rigorously analyses this question and serves as an introduction to the Western Sahara conflict for those unfamiliar with it.'Juan Soroeta, Professor of International Law at the University of the Basque Country.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Self-Determination and the Western Sahara Question; 3. The Doctrine of Recognition and Morocco’s Claim to Western Sahara; 4. Recent Developments in UN Practice Concerning Western Sahara; 5. Implications of Growing Support for the Moroccan Position on Western Sahara; 6. Conclusion: The Future of Western Sahara and the Future of International Law

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Book SynopsisThis volume takes on the challenge of understanding nationhood and nationalism's relationships with global phenomena such as imperialism and universalistic religions, as well as with a variety of ideologies and socio-cultural formations such as capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, cuisine, music and literature.Table of ContentsPart I. Imperial and Post-Colonial Settings: 1. Building nation-empires in the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic Fidel J. Tavárez; 2. Nations and nationalisms in the late Ottoman empire Ebru Boyar; 3. The Dutch empire Michael Wintle; 4. The Habsburg monarchy Bálint Varga; 5. The British empire Krishan Kumar; 6. The French empire Eric T. Jennings; 7. Germany as a 'Global nation':1840-1930 Mark Hewitson; 8. The Russian and Soviet empire Ronald Grigor Suny and Valerie A. Kivelson; 9. The Japanese empire Sherzod Muminov; 10. American internationalism Andrew Preston; 11. The Indian subcontinent: From Raj to partition Swarupa Gupta; 12. Middle Eastern and North African nationalisms Jonathan D. Wyrtzen; 13. Sub-saharan Africa Emma Hunter; 14. Bringing empires back in: The imperial origins of nations in Indochina Tuong Vu; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities: 15. Liberalism and nationalism: Trajectories of an entangled relationship Jörn Leonhard; 16. Marxism and the national question Enzo Traverso; 17. The Catholic Church Lawrence C. Reardon; 18. Islam and nationalism John O. Voll; 19. On Jewish nationhood and nationalism: A Historical survey from antiquity to the establishment of the state of Israel Allon Gal; 20. Buddhism Matthew J. Walton; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Intersections: National(Ist) Synergies and Tensions With Other Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Categories, Identities and Practices: 21. Self-determination and national sovereignty Alain Dieckhoff; 22. Citizenship and nationhood: From antiquity to Gaia citizenship Daniele Conversi; 23. Religion and nationhood Peter van der Veer; 24. Nationalism and capitalism Jerry Z. Muller; 25. Economic nationalism in an imperial age, 1846-1946 Marc-William Palen; 26. National identity and the idea of race in the dinaric region Cathie Carmichael; 27. Nationalism, Ethnic cleansing and genocide: A view from below Omer Bartov; 28. Warfare, nation-formation and the legitimacy of states: An ethno-symbolic perspective John Hutchinson; 29. Nationalism, terrorism, and the state: Historical perspectives Bernhard Blumenau; 30. Negotiating national identity through tourism in colonial south asia and beyond Eric G. E. Zuelow; 31. Gendered nations and institutions Joane Nagel; 32. Historiographies and commemorative practices Stefan Berger; 33. Nation and literature Theo D'haen; 34. Food ways and nationhood Peter Scholliers; 35. The dynamics of national music: Opera and classical music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Rutger Helmers; 36. Media and nationalism: Europe and the US, 1500-2000 Frank Bösch; Conclusion to Part III; Index.

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Book SynopsisNationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the ''Metamorphoses of the Political'' in the long twentieth century. This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in ''another Indian nationalism'' over the last two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana and its war on terror. The books braids the following three strands together: first, a majoritarian nationalist ideology called Hindutva; second, the making of popular history as a precolonial epic is highlighted, depicting the defeat of the last Hindu Emperor by a conquering Muslim Sultan purportedly leading to eight centuries of Hindu enslavement and third, the ''reconversion'' of a community by the Visva Hindu Parishad with consequences for Lived Hinduism and Indic civilisation with its complex identities.Trade Review'This magisterial book brings together history, ethnography and political theory to compose a remarkable argument about the ways in which colonial administrative knowledge made a deep contribution to the transformation of vernacular nationalism into Hindutva hyper-nationalism. Shail Mayaram's book brings Rajasthan into the deep history of postcolonial Hindu fundamentalism in India and deals a decisive blow to the orientalist fantasy of Rajasthan as an Indian setting for the Game of Thrones.' Arjun Appadurai, New York University'This deeply thoughtful book excavates out of layers of received colonial and national renderings of Indian pasts, practices of popular history and folk religion that shine a ray of hope on an India otherwise consumed by narratives of a struggle-to-death between a hyper-masculine and majoritarian Hindu nationalism symbolised by Savarkar and an ethical one associated with Gandhi. Mayaram offers a judicious blending of fieldwork and historical research in the Merwara region of Rajasthan to find yet another India that comes into view only when we shift our focus away from the state and towards the domain of the everyday and the popular. A remarkable contribution to the history of the present.' Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago'The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism is a fearless exploration into many different archives that have a compelling story to tell of paths taken or not taken in the history of empire and of different nationalisms in India. Shail Mayaram's deep engagement with the dispersed archives that criss-cross with the official archives have much to teach us on questions of theory and method. Accessing experiences that have left indelible traces in vernacular tracts, folklore and stories that grow around local sites, this book opens new paths of discovery and recovery that are thought-provoking even when, and especially when, they challenge settled ideas about Indian political history.' Veena Das, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of illustrations; Note on transliteration; 1. Introduction: colonialism, orientalism, nationalism and the shaping of popular history and religion; 2. James Tod and popular Indian nationalism; 3. War and violence in Savarkar's view of Indian history; 4. The Vishva Hindu Parishad's Fantasmagorical history; 5. The politics of Vishva Hindu Parishad conversion; 6. Another history of religion; 7. Myth and medical pluralism as resistance to Hindu nationalism; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisEuropean Union in the Global Context explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation. It provides essential foundations in these areas, while using stimulating arguments to prompt discussion and provoke interest in the relationships between these processes. It critically analyses the challenges faced by the EU from the contemporary political and economic dynamics of globalisation (IPE), including trading relationships set through the WTO and bilateral relations with emerging markets, especially the BRICS economies.Likewise, pressures from within, such as a resurgence of nationalism, localisation, anti-austerity politics, and Euroscepticism, are examined. While the Union is fundamentally challenged by pressures from above and below, and by its own internal dysfunction, it remains central to the effective management of the international political economy.European Union in the Global ContextTrade Review“European Union in the Global Context is an expert overview of its subject. This new edition of the book is a completely updated and refined version of the previous edition, including significant updates to the scholarship and empirical materials. The revised volume is wide-ranging in its coverage of European foreign affairs and is one of the most accessible yet advanced introductions to European global politics and globalisation currently available on the market. The focus on the historical background, key theories, policies, institutions, interests, and key scholarly debates is excellent. Finally, the book analyses the future of European integration in a global context and the role of the EU as an international actor. European Union in the Global Context is a comprehensive treatment of its subject and should be widely read by subject specialists, students of politics and international relations, practitioners, journalists, and the interested lay leader.”Dr Neil Winn, Senior Lecturer in European Studies, University of Leeds, UK“Simon Sweeney’s latest book, Europe in the Global Context covers the topic of European integration, the Europes that preceded it and the different imaginaries of Europe from the widest possible angle. The breadth of the history and politics of this oeuvre makes it a reference for every student of European integration. The depth of the analysis should turn the book into a prime candidate for becoming a seminal work on our understanding of Europe.”Professor Thomas Hoerber, Jean Monnet Chair for European Studies, ESSCA – School of Management, Angers, France“The highly successful first edition of Simon Sweeney’s Europe, the State and Globalisation is expanded and updated substantially in this second edition. His excellent text combines a deep understanding of core concepts of European politics with chapters on its ever expanding policy processes. In the new edition, Sweeney critically assesses the return of war, conflict and disintegration to Europe by focusing considerably on the impact of the Russian war on Ukraine, and Brexit. In contrast to many other books on Europe, Sweeney critically exposes the weaknesses of European integration without diminishing its achievements. In this tour de force of erudite contextualised knowledge, one can find also chapters on the polycrises of the European Union, in immigration crisis, Economic and Monetary Union, external security, and energy. European Union in the Global Context is an outstanding introduction to European politics in a globalised world. As such it is essential reading for scholars and students dealing with Europe.”Professor José Magone, Professor in Regional and Global Governance, Berlin School of Economics and Law, GermanyTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsPART I: European Union and nationalism 1 Europe’s history – the background to European integration 2 The state, sovereignty, and nationalism 3 Nationalism in Europe PART II: European Union: Theory, process, and implementation4 Integration theory, the European Union, and the state5 European Union institutions and the state 6 EU governance and policymaking 7 International relations theory, the state, and the EU PART III:European Union and contemporary economic globalisation 8 Enlargement: History, achievements, and the EU neighbourhood 9 EU as a global actor: Foreign, security, and defence policy 10 Policing, justice, migration, and internal security 11 Globalisation, the single market, trade, and EU social policy PART IV: European Union and perpetual crisis12 Economic and Monetary Union: Power, unity, discord13 Democratic deficit, Euroscepticism, populism, and contested values14 Sustainability and environmental policy, agriculture, fisheries, energy15 Europe, the state, and globalisationGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisDerek Hastings's Nationalism in Modern Europe is the essential guide to a potent political and cultural phenomenon that featured prominently across the modern era. With firm grounding in transnational and global contexts, the book traces the story of nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. Hastings reflects on various nationalist ideas and movements across Europe, and always with a keen appreciation of other prevalent signifiers of belonging such as religion, race, class and gender which helps to inform and strengthen the analysis. The text shines a light on key historiographical trends and debates and includes 20 images, 14 maps and a range of primary source excerpts which can serve to sharpen vital analytical skills which are crucial to the subject.New content and features for the second edition include:- A chapter examining region, religion, class and gender as alternative markers of identity' throughout the 19th century- An enhancTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Introduction 1. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815 2. Restoration, Romanticism, and Emancipatory Impulses, 1815-1850 3. Industrialization, Ideological Radicalization, and Imperialism, 1850-1890 4. Nationalism and Alternative Markers of Identity across the Long Nineteenth Century 5. European Nationalism between Mass Politics and the Great War, 1890-1920 6. Nationalism, Race, and Belonging in an Age of Extremes, 1920-1945 7. The Fate of Nationalism in a Divided Europe, 1945-1989 8. The Politics of Belonging in Europe after the Cold War Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how affect and emotion create new ways of understanding contemporary Chinese politics

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Book SynopsisRussia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 brought East West relations to a low. But, by selling the annexation in starkly nationalist terms to grassroots nationalists, Putin's popularity reached record heights. This volume examines the interactions and tensions between state and societal nationalisms before and after the annexation.

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Book SynopsisIn them, Kolsto examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions.

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