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  • Sliding Scales

    The Uncertain History of Modern Democracy

    by John Elsom ...
    What does democracy really mean, and how secure is it in the modern world?In Sliding Scales: The Uncertain History of Modern Democracy, John Elsom offers a wide-ranging and deeply considered exploration of democracy's evolving story. Beginning with its ancient Greek origins and moving through British constitutional history, empire, the post-war world, the rise of global institutions, Brexit, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Cold War Theatre (Routledge Revivals)

    by John Elsom ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Cold War Theatre, first published in 1992, provides an account of the theatrical history within the context of East/West politics. Its geographical span ranges from beyond the Urals to the Pacific Coast of the US, and asks whether the Cold War confrontation was not in part due to the cultural climate of Europe.Taking the McCarthy era as its starting point, this readable history considers the ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

  • Post-War British Theatre (Routledge Revivals)

    by John Elsom ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Since the Second World War, we have witnessed exciting, often confusing developments in the British theatre. This book, first published in 1976, presents an enlightening, objective history of the many facets of post-war British theatre and a fresh interpretation of theatre itself.The remarkable and profound changes which have taken place during this period range from the style and content of plays ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Post-War British Theatre Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

    by John Elsom ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre critics. The plays chosen are each, in their different ways, important in their contribution to the development of the British theatre, covering the period from immediately after the Second World War, when ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

  • Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary?

    by John Elsom ...
    This book is an account of a public seminar held in honour of Jan Kott's influential study, Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Attracting international contributors, the seminar focused on the relevance of her study for Shakespearian theatre today. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

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  • The American Theatre Reader

    Essays and Conversations from American Theatre magazine

    Edited by Staff of American Theatre Magazine ...
    In celebration of American Theatre’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors of the nation’s leading theater magazine have chosen their best essays and interviews to provide an intimate look at the people, plays, and events that have shaped the American theater over the past quarter-century. Over two hundred artists, critics, and theater professionals are gathered in this one-of-a-kind collection, ... Read more

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  • How To Be A Liberal - The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

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    The fightback against populism begins with this work explaining liberal values'Required reading for anyone interested in politics and philosophy' – Prospect magazineHow To Be A Liberal is a bracing, beautifully written history of liberalism — and a practical defence of liberal democracy in an era of nationalism, culture wars, and post‑truth politics.Political journalist Ian Dunt (author of How ... ... Read more

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  • Legacy of Violence

    A History of the British Empire

    by Caroline Elkins ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ... Read more

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  • Homelands

    A Personal History of Europe

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    Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragediesWinner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize • A Financial Times Best Book of 2023“An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.”—Neal Acherson, New York Review of BooksTimothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “historian of the present,” has ... Read more

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    The rise of the far right and what we can do to stop it

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  • The Myth of the Strong Leader

    Political Leadership in the Modern Age

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    From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our ... Read more

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