The Ethnic Origins of Nations
By: Anthony D. Smith
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
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2. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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3. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
4. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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5. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
By: James C. Scott
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size… read more
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6. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have reinforced the central importance of … read more
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7. Our Oriental Heritage
By: Will Durant
4.02
Format: 293 pages,
This is the classicreference on world history, recognized as the most comprehensive general history… read more
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8. The Politics of the Veil
By: Joan Wallach Scott
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious … read more
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9. Nationalism Its Meaning and History (The Anvil series)
By: Hans Kohn
3.68
Format: 330 pages,
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10. Nations and Nationalism
By: Ernest Gellner , None , None , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From reviews of the first edition: "Brilliant, provocative . . . a great book."--New Statesman "An… read more
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11. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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12. Banal Nationalism
By: Michael Billig
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly … read more
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13. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
By: Steven Levitsky , None
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but … read more
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14. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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15. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
16. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
17. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe
By: Rogers Brubaker
3.72
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern E… read more
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18. The Ethnic Origins of Nations
By: Anthony D. Smith
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have e… read more
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19. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
By: Juan J. Linz
3.98
Format: 504 pages, Paperback
Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz … read more
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20. Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe
By: Miroslav Hroch
3.73
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
This classic work on nationalism, originally published thirty years ago and now reissued with a new… read more
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21. The Craft of Political Research
By: W. Phillips Shively
3.31
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
The Craft of Political Research immerses readers not only in how political scientists work but also… read more
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