U.S. Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. The US Economy and Neoliberalism

   Alternative Strategies and Policies

   Edited by Nikolaos Karagiannis, Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, Swapan Sen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics

   In recent times, policy makers, scientists, academics and commentators have become increasingly nervous about the US economic downturn. Discussions have centred around the range and magnitude of the country’s socio-economic problems, its vexing production decline and its unsatisfactory...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. Asia, the US and Extended Nuclear Deterrence

   Atomic Umbrellas in the Twenty-First Century

   By Andrew O'Neil

   Since the end of the Cold War, significant attention has focussed on the issue of nuclear deterrence and in particular whether formal nuclear security guarantees from nuclear weapons states to non-nuclear weapons states involving the possible use of nuclear weapons have a place in the twenty-first...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Post-Racial Society is Here

   Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State

   By Wilbur C. Rich

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. "An Empire of Ideals"

   The Chimeric Imagination of Ronald Reagan

   By Justin D. Garrison

   Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

   Justin D. Garrison provides an original and groundbreaking analysis of Ronald Reagan’s imagination as it was expressed mainly in his presidential speeches. He argues that the predominant strain of Reagan’s imagination is "chimeric," that is, imbued with a high degree of optimism, romantic...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy

   Edited by Steven W. Hook, Christopher M. Jones

   No nation has maintained such an immense stature in world politics as the United States has since the Cold War’s end. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, prompting the global war on terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with American economic and "soft power" primacy, there...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. America and the Third World

   Revolution and Intervention

   By John Girling

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   John Girling’s book, first published in 1980, investigates the relationship between America and the Third World, centring on three main themes: the nature of American involvement in the Third World, the challenge posed by the rival Super-Power; and the Changes both in US-Soviet relations (from...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

   Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
9. New Directions in American Politics

   Edited by Raymond J. La Raja

   Series: New Directions in American Politics

   New Directions in American Politics introduces students not just to how the American political system works but also to how political science works. La Raja brings together top scholars to write original essays across the standard curriculum of American government and politics, capturing...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. American Government (Package)

    with The American Anomaly 2nd Edition

    By Cal Jillson

    Cal Jillson’s American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change shows students how the nation’s past is present in all aspects of contemporary politics, using the dynamics of change as a tool to understand how politics works and how institutions, systems, avenues of participation,...

    Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge