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1	Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism more books like this by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	What's So Great about America more books like this by Dinesh D'Souza Culture critic D'Souza debunks what he sees as the standard liberal charges against the United States--such as that it is decadent and an inheritor of the West's colonial heritage. He celebrates the American values of liberty, freedom, and individuality, and shows how they argue against such a view. D'Souza regrets that anti-American views seem to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Assata: An Autobiography more books like this by Assata Shakur This book presents the life story of African American revolutionary, Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $10.81! \| SVS
4	Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence more books like this by Mark Juergensmeyer Beneath the histories of religious traditions - from biblical wars to crusading ventures and great acts of martyrdom - violence has lurked as a shadowy presence. Images of death have never been far from the heart of religion's power to stir the imagination. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Mark Juergensmeyer asks one of the most important ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality more books like this by Eric J Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant enquiry into the question of nationalism won further acclaim for his 'colossal stature ...his incontrovertible excellence as an historian, and his authoritative and highly readable prose'. Recent events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
6	The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 more books like this by Misha Glenny Over 200 years of regional history is recounted here--including the internal divisions and interference by outside forces that provided the roots of the ethnic hatred that erupted so violently following the collapse of the Soviet empire. see all copies from $5.94! new only from $8.89! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Jihad Vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy more books like this by Benjamin R Barber The author casts the world as a battleground between 'jihad', by which he means not simply holy war, but all forms of ethnocentricism, nationalism, fundamentalism, and intolerance, and 'McWorld', meaning mass merchandising, trans-national corporations, global media outlets, and other forms of modern capitalism. He argues that these competing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Modern Middle East: A History more books like this by James L Gelvin In the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between "East" and "West." This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader on a guided tour of the past five hundred years of Middle Eastern history, this book examines ... see all copies from $6.76! new only from $19.99!
9	Nations and Nationalism more books like this by Ernest Gellner Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians ... see all copies from $6.77! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
10	Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism more books like this by Michelle Goldberg Taking the reader on a journey through a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism, in "Kingdom Coming", Michelle Goldberg demonstrates how the growing influence of dominionism - the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule non-believers - is threatening the foundations of democracy. "Kingdom Coming" offers the powerful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity more books like this by Samuel P Huntington In his seminal work "The Clash of Civilizations" and the "Remaking of World Order," Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics. His astute analysis has proven correct. Now Professor Huntington turns his ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.23! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution more books like this by Professor Michael Lind Are we now, or have we ever been, a nation? As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been in our history. Is our society disintegrating into a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution more books like this by Louis A Perez, Jr. If the history of Cuba is, as one observer remarked, the history of sugar, it is also a chronicle of relentless struggle against slavery, racism, injustice and, above all, domination by foreign powers, most notably Spain and the United States. Based on nearly two decades of research, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution offers a sweeping history of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.41! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Winslow Homer more books like this by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. This catalogue for the first major retrospective of Winslow Homer's works examines the immensity of Homer's artistic accomplishments, focusing not only on his masterpieces in various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's essentially modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically. ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $29.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World more books like this by John Isbister In the fifth edition of this broadly adopted text, author John Isbister brings the dilemmas of International poverty and the Third World into the 21st century. Besides including the most current information, data, and discussion of political change around the world, PROMISES NOT KEPT now highlights the divergent paths chosen by different ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.96! \| first editions
16 view cover	International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity more books like this by Professor Paul R Viotti, Mark V Kauppi International Relations and World Politics introduces the issues in an organized and comprehensible way, examining them in relation to two trends; three broad, organizing themes or concepts; key actors; and three basic images or perspectives that provide structure for the pages that follow: / Two trends--increasing globalization and crises of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World more books like this by John Ralston Saul "The Collapse of Globalism follows globalization from its promising beginnings in the 1970s through to the increasing deregulation in industry, and ultimately through the 1990s, when regional economic collapses and concern for the environment and for the rights of workers lead to widespread protest and disillusionment. In the wake of globalism's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism more books like this by Franklin W Knight The Caribbean is now recognized as an authoritative history of the region. This new edition has been substantially revised in the light of comments by scholars and teachers, and now deals with parts of the region in greater detail. There are individual chapters on Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the English Antilles, Dutch and ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $37.44! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Vimy more books like this by Pierre Berton One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the best-defended German bastion on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence more books like this by Judith P Butler Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community. Following the ... see all copies from $5.76! new only from $10.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism more books like this by George McKenna In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotism, shaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential 'errand', has evolved over 350 years and influenced American political culture in both ... see all copies from $19.69! new only from $25.30! \| first editions
22 view cover	Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 more books like this by Professor Linda Colley In this book, Linda Colley recounts how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the Act of Union between England and Wales and Scotland in 1707. She describes how a succession of major wars with Catholic France, culminating in the conflict with Napoleon, served as both a threat and a tonic, forcing the diverse peoples of this Protestant ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East more books like this by Quil Lawrence As Lawrence relates in his fascinating and timely study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and determination grow, their future will be largely dependent on whether America values a budding democracy in the region, or decides to yet again sacrifice the Kurds in the name of political expediency. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism more books like this by Ian Ousby This World War I history focuses on the Battle of Verdun, in which over 700,0000 soldiers lost their lives. Author Ousby tells the military story of this 10-month bloody siege and also explores the French character and the long enmity between the Germans and the French as contributing factors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.80! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	For Love of Country?: A New Democracy Forum on the Limits of Patriotism more books like this by Martha Craven Nussbaum, Joshua Cohen (Editor) For Love of Country is a rare forum: a real conversation among some of our most prominent intellectuals about an issue of urgent public importance. At the center of this lively and utterly readable debate book is Martha Nussbaumi's passionate argument against patriotism. At a time when our connections and obligations to the rest of the world grow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS

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