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  • All in the Family

    The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

    by Robert O. Self ...
    A "brilliant" history of American beliefs about the family, and how those ideas have affected our politics since the 1960s ( Washington Monthly).In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • American Babylon

    Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

    by Robert O. Self ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar OaklandAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • In Search of the Black Panther Party

    New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement

    by Robert O. Self, Rod Bush ...
    Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called “the single greatest threat to the nation’s internal security” has been celebrated and denigrated, deified and vilified. Rarely, though, has it received the sort of nuanced analysis offered in ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Making British Defence Policy

    Continuity and Change

    by Robert Self ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation.Rather than dealing with the substance of defence policy, this study focuses upon the institutional actors involved in this process. This is a subject which has commanded far more interest from ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Daily Show and Rhetoric

    Arguments, Issues, and Strategies

    by Jonathan E. Barbur, C Wesley Buerkle, Josh Compton, Brian T. Kaylor, Ryan Erik McGeough, Lawrence J. Mullen, Stephanie M. Purtle, John W. Self, Robert Spicer, Timothy Steffensmeier, Penina Wiesman, Kelly Wilz, Aaron Hess ...
    The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the ways in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and writers critique mainstream media and politicians. This volume analyzes the nature of The Daily Show, the arguments the program makes about the media and politics, the strategies that are used, and some of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Evolution of the British Party System

    1885-1940

    by Robert C. Self ...
    By the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in organisational structure, electoral competition and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Britain, America and the War Debt Controversy

    The Economic Diplomacy of an Unspecial Relationship, 1917-45

    by Robert Self ...
    Series series British Politics and Society
    This volume throws important new light upon a pivotal period of transition in the Anglo-American relationship and sets the stage for its equally dramatic transformation during and after the Second World War.Based upon extensive research in previously unpublished archival material on both sides of the Atlantic, for the first time this book offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the war ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Neville Chamberlain

    A Biography

    by Robert Self ...
    History has not looked kindly upon Neville Chamberlain. Despite a long and distinguished political career, his trip to Munich in 1938 and the 'appeasement' of Hitler have forever overshadowed his many other achievements and blighted his reputation, his name now synonymous with the futility of trying to reason with dictators and bullies. Yet, as this biography shows, there is much more to this ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • David Lynch and the American West

    Essays on Regionalism and Indigeneity in Twin Peaks and the Films

    by Christine Self, Robert G. Weaver, Rob E. King ...
    This collection convenes diverse analyses of David Lynch's newly conceived, dreamlike neo-noir representations of the American West, a first in studies of regionalism and indigeneity in his films. Twelve essays and three interviews address Lynch's image of the American West and its impact on the genre. Fans and scholars of David Lynch's work will find a study of his interpretations of the West as ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Intimate States

    Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History

    Edited by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, Robert O. Self ...
    Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history.The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same time, studies of the history of intimate life—marriage, sexuality, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters

    Volume 1: The Making of a Politician, 1915–20

    Edited by Robert Self ...
    As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters. They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published. From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential ... Read more

    $48.95 USD

  • The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters

    Volume 2: The Reform Years, 1921-27

    Edited by Robert Self ...
    As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters. They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published. From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential ... Read more

    $73.99 USD