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Political Ideas in Modern Britain
The rise of the New Right and the collapse of state communism in 1989 has fundamentally changed political thinking in the late twentieth century. Rodney Barker has revised and …
Broken Circle
Dancing with the Devil
In this riveting account of one of the most notorious spy cases in Cold War history, Rodney Barker, the author of The Broken Circle and The Hiroshima Maidens, uncovers startling …
Cultivating Political and Public Identity
Throughout the twentieth century, everyone from Marxists to economic individualists assumed that social and political activity was driven by the rational pursuit of material gain. …
Cultivating Political and Public Identity
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people …
Trouble with Different
Something is missing in Abimbola's life...she stands out when she just wants to blend in. She looks nothing like the girls she sees in magazines, in books, or on television. …
Political Legitimacy and the State
All governments and their supporters attempt to justify their power by the arguments and rituals of legitimacy. The claim to ultimate power authorized by principles of right, …
Legitimating Identities
Rulers of all kinds, from feudal monarchs to democratic presidents and prime ministers, justify themselves to themselves through a variety of rituals, rhetoric, and dramatisations, …
Political Ideas in Modern Britain
The rise of the New Right and the collapse of state communism in 1989 has fundamentally changed political thinking in the late twentieth century. Rodney Barker has revised and …
And the Waters Turned to Blood
In this account, Rodney Barker tells the full and terrifying story of a microorganism popping up along the Eastern seaboardfar closer to home than the Ebola virus and equally …
Political Ideas and Political Action
From foreign policy to environmental protection, from gender equality to the rule of law, politics is constructed by thinking. This book reflects a growing recognition of political …