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  • The Invention of Realpolitik, 1848–1871

    by P. E. Caquet ...
    Series series History (R0)
    What is Realpolitik? How did the concept come about, and what does it stand for? This book explores the origins and meaning of a core precept of international history and politics. Statesmen, diplomats, and analysts alike deploy the term as if it were a timeless label. Endlessly, they suppose, states compete with each other for power in a zero-sum game. Yet Realpolitik was born in Germany in the ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Opium’s Orphans

    The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs

    by P. E. Caquet ...
    Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the ‘war on drugs’. A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the USA, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars, followed by Western attempts to atone for them, gave birth to an ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Bell of Treason

    The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia

    by P. E. Caquet ...
    Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined material, this staggering account sheds new light on the Allies’ responsibility for a landmark agreement that had dire consequences.On returning from Germany on September 30, 1938, after signing an agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: “My good friends…I believe it is peace for our ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41

    by P. E. Caquet ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in this landmark crisis, and the importance role played by religion - including, alongside mainstream Christianity, the Protestant ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    Opium’s Orphans

    The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs

    by P.E. Caquet ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 37 min

    Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement's origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness.Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Origins Of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Hannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.The book begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Totalitarianism

    Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

    A Nineteenth-Century Life

    by Jonathan Sperber ...
    Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The German Genius

    Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

    by Peter Watson ...
    A "compelling" history of German cultural and intellectual development from 1750 to the twentieth century ( Financial Times).From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than the British and Americans combined ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weimar Culture

    The Outsider as Insider

    by Peter Gay ...
    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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

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

    $21.99 USD