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  • Global Matrix

    Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism

    Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical look at three key areas - globalism, nationalism, and state-terror - to confront common mythologies and identify the root causes of the problems we face.Too many commentators still argue that globalization is ... Leer más

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  • The Break-Up of Britain

    de Tom Nairn ...
    The classic text, with a new introduction by Anthony BarnettIn this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the “slow foundering” of the United Kingdom on the rocks of constitutional anachronism, its fall from empire and the gathering force of civic nationalism. Rich in comparisons between the nationalisms of the British Isles and those of the wider world, The Break-Up ... Leer más

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  • Tom Nairn: Old Nations, Auld Enemies, New Times

    Selected Essays by Tom Nairn

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    Tom Nairn has been the most forceful and original mind to confront, de-mask and anatomise the British state. The perception that Great Britain was a multinational state and not a united nation had never quite been lost over the centuries, but it was Nairn who almost single-handedly hammered this truth into the skull of British intellectuals and campaigners until it became – as it is today – ... Leer más

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    One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancyIn this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and ... Leer más

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  • Ireland

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    The seminal history of Ireland’s most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein – or of remaining neutral during the ... Leer más

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  • Anarchy in Action

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    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as ... Leer más

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  • Poverty and Compassion

    The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

    In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative. ... Leer más

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  • Culture

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  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914

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  • The Pursuit of History

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    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

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