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Political history
Marxism and the French Left
By Tony Judt
Paperback
Published 26-May-2011
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A unique exploration of French Marxist politics over the past 150 years
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Letters to Hitler
By Henrik Eberle
Hardback
Published 18-May-2012
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Politics of the Veil
By Joan Scott
Paperback
Published 02-Aug-2010
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In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of 'conspicuous signs' of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. This book argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to integrate its former colonial subjects as full citizens.
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Captives
By Linda Colley
Paperback
Published 04-Sep-2003
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Ranging over a quarter of a millenium and four continents, this book uncovers the lives, deaths and autobiographical writings of a vital but forgotten constituency: the tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence but who got caught and caught out.
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Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2012
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Definitive edition of the most influential political call to arms ever written, now in paperback.
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Imagined Communities
By Benedict Anderson
Hardback
Published 11-Sep-2006
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Examines the creation and function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.
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Karl Marx
By Paul Thomas
Paperback
Published 16-Mar-2012
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In Karl Marx, Paul Thomas introduces the reader to Marx's life and writings, to show how each cast light on the other. Concise yet detailed, this book concentrates directly on Marx's nineteenth-century life and works to give a clear, precise guide to Marx's own thought and action.
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Unfinished Revolution
By Robin Blackburn
Paperback
Published 13-May-2011
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The impact of the US Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
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Frock-coated Communist
By Tristram Hunt
Paperback
Published 27-Feb-2010
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Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman.
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Hate
By Matthew Collins
Paperback
Published 03-Aug-2011
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