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  • First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship

    Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers

    by Richard Lachmann ...
    A history of why great powers decline, from Spain to the United StatesThe extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance, and contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Capitalists in Spite of Themselves

    Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe

    by Richard Lachmann ...
    Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others? Finding neither a single cause nor an essentialist unfolding of a state or capitalist system, Lachmann describes the highly contingent development of various polities and economies. He identifies, in particular, conflict among feudal elites--landlords, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • What is Historical Sociology?

    by Richard Lachmann ...
    Series series What is Sociology?
    Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields.This innovative book explores what sociologists gain by ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • States and Power

    by Richard Lachmann ...
    Series series Political Sociology
    States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia.Richard Lachmann traces ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Green New Deal and the Future of Work

    by Richard A. Walker, Hillary Angelo, Raj Patel, Jim Goodman, Alyssa Battistoni, Stephanie Luce, Wilson Sherwin, Dustin Guastella, Mindy Isser, Todd E. Vachon, Harvey Molotch, Daniel Aldana Cohen, J. Mijin Cha, Lara Skinner, Clark A. Miller, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Harry C. Boyte, Trygve Throntveit, Richard Lachmann ...
    Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmental and economic? The promise of the Green New Deal is to tackle the threat of climate change ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Green New Deal and the Future of Work

    by Richard A. Walker, Hillary Angelo, Raj Patel, Jim Goodman, Alyssa Battistoni, Stephanie Luce, Wilson Sherwin, Dustin Guastella, Mindy Isser, Todd E. Vachon, Harvey Molotch, Daniel Aldana Cohen, J. Mijin Cha, Lara Skinner, Clark A. Miller, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Harry C. Boyte, Trygve Throntveit, Richard Lachmann ...
    Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmental and economic? The promise of the Green New Deal is to tackle the threat of climate change ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Trump and the Deeper Crisis

    Edited by Michael Schwartz, Richard Lachmann, Kevin Young ...
    Series Book 39 - Political Power and Social Theory
    While many analysts emphasize Trump’s uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. This collection examines the roots, impacts, and future prospects of Trumpism as well as the possibilities for combatting it.Chapters analyze the role of racism and xenophobia, evangelical religion, and elite support in enabling Trump’s political ascent, demonstrating how both his ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The United States in Decline

    Edited by Richard Lachmann ...
    Series Book 26 - Political Power and Social Theory
    Is the United States in decline? If so, what are the causes and dimensions of that decline and is it irreversible? Will American decline be accompanied by the rise of a new hegemon? To what extent are that rise and decline merely concurrent processes, determined by forces internal to each polity, or are American decline and the rise of its competitors both manifestations of a single global dynamic ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

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    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

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  • The Origin of Capitalism

    A Longer View

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood ...
    **An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Globalization

    A Short History

    by Jürgen Osterhammel, Niels P. Petersson ...
    Translated by Dona Geyer ...
    "Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages.But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after ... Read more

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  • Diplomacy

    The Dialogue Between States

    by Adam Watson ...
    In the first major assessment of diplomatic dialogue since Nicolson's Diplomacy in 1939, Adam Watson traces the changing techniques of diplomacy from ancient times through the 'diplomatic society' of Europe to the present global system. In examining the conventions and institutions which help to shape the international system the author aims not so much to preserve diplomatic order which worked ... Read more

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