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  • War and the Rise of the State

    by Bruce D. Porter ...
    States make war, but war also makes states.As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties, but also the ability of local communities and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The King of Kings

    by Bruce D. Porter ...
    With worshipful reverence, we sing hymns and bear testimony of the one Being whose omniscience, power, and splendor allow him to reign as the King of Kings. In this eloquent and personal book, Elder Bruce D. Porter teaches and bears witness of Jesus Christ. He explores the feelings and spirit surrounding important events in our Lord's life — his birth and resurrection, his roles as Redeemer and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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    Europe's Twentieth Century

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    An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future."[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book ReviewDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political ... Read more

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  • Conservatism

    The Fight for a Tradition

    by Edmund Fawcett ...
    A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, ... Read more

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  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by S. A. Smith ...
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    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Read more

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  • Omnipotent Government

    by Ludwig Von Mises ...
    Liberty is not, as the German precursors of Nazism asserted, a negative ideal. Whether a concept is presented in an affirmative or in a negative form is merely a question of idiom. Freedom from want is tantamount to the expression striving after a state of affairs under which people are better supplied with necessities. Freedom of speech is tantamount to a state of affairs under which everybody ... Read more

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  • Liberalism

    The Life of an Idea, Second Edition

    by Edmund Fawcett ...
    A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to todayDespite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ... Read more

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  • Anarchism

    From Theory to Practice

    by Daniel Guerin ...
    Translated by Mary Klopper ...

    $11.99 USD

  • Russia: A History, new edition

    by Gregory Freeze ...
    From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s and the uncertainties of the new millennium, this new history offers a fresh and systematic account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. With greater access to previously unobtainable material, and with the gradual depoliticization of what was once an intellectual Cold War ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A Grand Illusion?

    An Essay on Europe

    by Tony Judt ...
    "Tony Judt's elegant essay is a good place to begin discussion of these two large postwar questions: What is Europe? And where is it going?" — Michael Mandelbaum, Johns Hopkins University*"I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite ... Read more

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  • The Shield of Achilles

    War, Peace, and the Course of History

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    "We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of mass destruction. The change in statecraft that will accompany these developments will be as profound ... Read more

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  • German History in Modern Times

    Four Lives of the Nation

    by William W. Hagen ...
    This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD