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  • Fugitive Politics

    The Struggle for Ecological Sanity

    by Carl Boggs ...
    Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia.Across eight chapters, Carl Boggs explores how systemic change may be achieved within the current system, while detailing attempts at achieving change within nation-states ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Origins of the Warfare State

    World War II and the Transformation of American Politics

    by Carl Boggs ...
    The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the "warfare state" in terms of a broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies: permanent war economy, national security-state, global expansion of military bases, merger of state, corporate, and military power, an imperial ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Hollywood War Machine

    U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture

    by Carl Boggs ...
    The newly expanded and revised edition of The Hollywood War Machine includes wide-ranging exploration of numerous popular military-themed films that have appeared in the close to a decade since the first edition was published. Within the Hollywood movie community, there has not been even the slightest decline in well-financed pictures focusing on warfare and closely-related motifs. The second ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Impasse Of European Communism

    by Carl Boggs ...
    The major Communist parties in Western Europe claim a commitment to a "democratic road to socialism." Often this is a genuine evolution of traditional Marxist/Leninist ideology based on the assumption that political and economic power can be obtained through gradual change rather than revolution and through the utilization of democratic processes. How well is this strategy working? Not very well, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Drugs, Power, and Politics

    Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy

    by Carl Boggs ...
    This book explores the increasingly broad terrain of drugs in American society with an emphasis on politics. It begins with the War on Drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s and extends to the current day with the vast power of the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), expansion of global criminal syndicates, militarization of the drug war, and struggles between states and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Fascism Old and New

    American Politics at the Crossroads

    by Carl Boggs ...
    Deep historical trends suggest the United States could be moving toward a distinctly novel form of fascism, embracing elements of the historical phenomenon as it appeared in such countries as Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain while departing in significant ways. A twenty-first century fascism would hardly be revolutionary or totalitarian, as it would involve no dramatic break with the past, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Empire Versus Democracy

    The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power

    by Carl Boggs ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    In Empire Versus Democracy, Carl Boggs traces the authoritarian trajectory of American politics since World War II, with emphasis on the growing concentration of corporate and military power that has accompanied the United States assumption of leading superpower on the world scene. The rise of the U.S. as unchallenged imperial nation has meant the steady expansion of a permanent war economy and ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • A World in Chaos

    Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema

    by Carl Boggs, Thomas Pollard ...
    A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions. Through an analysis of films such as American Beauty, Blade Runner, Natural Born Killers, and Thelma and Loiuse, Carl Boggs and Thomas Pollard explore the historical and theoretical shift from the long era of modernity to an emergent ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Masters of War

    Militarism and Blowback in the Era of American Empire

    Edited by Carl Boggs ...
    Series series New Political Science Reader
    Few United States citizens conceive of their country as an empire, but, as the contributors to Masters of War convincingly argue, the U.S. legacy of military power runs long and deep. Often mobilized in the name of spreading democracy, maintaining international order, and creating the conditions for economic self-determination, constantly expanding global U.S. military power is difficult to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Critical Theory and Animal Liberation

    by Aaron Bell, Ted Benton, Susan Benston, Christina Gerhardt, John Sorenson, Dennis Soron, Vasile Stanescu, Zipporah Weisberg, Renzo Llorente, Carol J. Adams, Carl Boggs, Karen Davis, Josephine Donovan, Victoria Johnson, Eduardo Mendieta ...
    Series series Nature's Meaning
    Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Planetary Politics

    Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society

    by Alba Alexander, Drucilla Cornell, Irene Gendzier, Sam Gindin, Philip Green, Dick Howard, Micheline Ishay, Kurt Jacobsen, Leo Panitch, Karsten J. Struhl, Nadia Urbinati, David Held, Ulrich Beck, Carl Boggs, Douglas Kellner, Manfred B. Steger, Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD