Politics from Goldring Books

London: John Murray, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price-clipped. Internally unmarked.152 pages. There is no wittier guide to the House of Commons than Julian Critchley, none under the arc lights of Thatcherite orthodoxy is more his own man. And no one has a clearer eye for the sense, passion and occasional humbug… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small crease to one corner tip) with no inscriptions. viii + 385 pages. The author develops a liberty theory of freedom of speech, disputing the dominant 'marketplace of ideas' theory of the First Amendment that maintains that the truth will be discovered through… Read more about this item

London: Centre for Policy Studies, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy. 26 pages. This contains the text of the lecture delivered by Lord Blackwell on the occasion of the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Centre or Policy Studies. Comprises: Introduction; Britain's Tradition of Liberty; The Third Way Threat; The Need for a New Wave of the Revolution; Making the Case. … Read more about this item

San Francisco: Working Assets Publishing, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy. 128 pages. Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney, journalist and blogger, was not a political man. Not liberal, not conservative. To his thinking, the United States was generally on track and would remain forever centrist. But that has changed. A creeping extremism has taken hold of the federal government… Read more about this item

London: Pluto Press, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy. 343 pages. In this widely acclaimed study of global politics, Noam Chomsky offers a devastating critique of conventional definitions of the 'new world order'. It is, he argues, nothing more than an ingenious piece of 'historical engineering', wherby the pretexts for the Cold War - nuclear threat, Eastern Bloc menace -… Read more about this item

Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011. A Fine unmarked copy. 199 pages. With his usual verve and sharpness Samir Amin examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalisation. He lays bare the relationship between dominating oligopolies and the globalisation of the world economy. The current… Read more about this item

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has a little creasing to front cover and to the corner of first page, some shelf marking to lower closed edge, internally Fine. 623 pages. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Brandt. Foreword by Howard Zinn. In the book Clara Nieto demonstrates that United States… Read more about this item

Devon: Willan, 2003. A Very Good + clean and unmarked copy which has a mark to the top edge (looks like a small cigarette burn) which does not affect the inside of the book. xi + 260 pages. The political climate in the UK has changed dramatically over the past decade. There have been a number of important policy… Read more about this item

New York: Verso, 2004. A near Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions which has a few minor marks to fore edge. Dustjacket has a crease to front inner flap and to front lower edge. First UK edition. 389 pages. Professor Johnson scrutinises the policies, past and present, that have led to American imperialism and the massive defense spending and… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, First printing. 278 pages. The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe, but the last unarmed spot in our neighbourhood - the skies - as a militarized sphere of influence. Our earth and its… Read more about this item

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with no inscriptions but with top corner creases to 6 pages. 157 pages. Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In the book,… Read more about this item

Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2010. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions. Second edition updated. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the main actors and machinery of American foreign policy. It also offers an assessment of the foreign policy records of the Clinton and the two Bush administrations. It examines how America struggled to find a defining role in the… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with no inscriptions which has a little creasing to corner tips. xiii + 288 pages. Professor Falk has emerged as one of the outstanding thinkers concerned with the major global problems of the late 20th century. He contends that human society is caught between a capital-driven globalization and a territorially-rooted revival… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with no inscriptions but with top corner creases to 4 pages. 320 pages. With this book Professor Ninkovich offers a striking examination of Woodrow Wilson's influence on 20th century US foreign policy. He argues that the Wilsonian outlook, far from being a crusading, utopian doctrine, was a… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions. 328 pages. Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground,… Read more about this item

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 221 pages. Portrait frontispiece. This collection of essays marks the bicentenary of the death of Edmund Burke and brings together the latest international perspectives and research on Burke's legacy from academics and politicians across two continents, acknowledging Burke's considerable legacy to Briish… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Gilt title and motif on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to fore and top edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG and is not price clipped. Willy Brandt (1913-1992) was Vice Chancellor, Foreign… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Colt, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. Foreword by Christopher Patten. Published in association with Conservative Central Office. The M.P. author has assembled prize anecdotes from other Members of Parliament, Ministers, Peers and officials of the Conservative party. Witty, quirky and often hilarious, these anecdotes uncover the humour in all aspects of political life, and are an… Read more about this item

London: The Sherwood Press, 1984. A Very Good clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a little light foxing to inside front cover and a very small indentation to front. A lively analysis of the socialist movement in Britain and other countries and concludes that socialism is bound to fail. Illustrated with cartoons by Michael Cummings. … Read more about this item

Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 2000. A near Fine unmarked copy which has some minor marks to top edge. Foreword by Michael Beloff QC, President of Trinity College. A collection of essays by scholars, politicians and journalists which include Tony Benn, Bernard Weatherill, Roy Jenkins, Peter Carrington, Simon Jenkins, Jonathan Freedland, Peter Hitchens, Norman Tebbitt, Peter Shore. … Read more about this item