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  • HOW AUTOCRATS SEEK POWER
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump’s populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Au...

    $1,060.00

  • HOW AUTOCRATS ABUSE POWER
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump’s efforts to erode democracy’s essential elements and opposition to those efforts. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocrats blur or bre...

    $1,100.00

  • HOW AUTOCRATS ATTACK EXPERTISE
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of Trump’s assault on truth and his populist attacks on expertise, as well as scientific and legal opposition to them. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage....

    $1,100.00

  • MOTOR CITY MOVIE CULTURE, 1916-1925
    RICHARD ABEL
    Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—...

    $229.00

  • IMMIGRANT PUBLISHERS
    RICHARD ABEL
    In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in the world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully un...

    $1,320.00

  • THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION
    RICHARD ABEL
    One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without G...

    $1,300.00

  • POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS
    RICHARD ABEL
    Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; black trade union demands for recognition; state terror; censorship; resistance ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE POLITICS OF INFORMAL JUSTICE
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    The Politics of Informal Justice ...

    $970.00

  • SOCIAL POLICIES AND POPULATION GROWTH IN MAURITIUS
    BRIAN ABEL-SMITH / RICHARD M. TITMUSS
    First Published in 1968. This a report of the Ministerial Committee, to advise the Government of Mauritius as to the provisions to be made for social security, bearing in mind the resources of the territory and the needs of its people. ...

    $660.00

  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY CINEMA
    RICHARD ABEL
    This encyclopedia presents a wealth of information on early cinema history, with coverage of the techniques and equipment of film production, profiles of the pioneering directors and producers, analysis of individual films and the rapid growth of distinct film genres, and the emergence of something the world had never seen before - the movie star. The work also focuses on how t...

    $9,000.00

  • HOW AUTOCRATS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the roles that courts and elections played in holding Trump accountable for his actions. This book describes the many lawsuits brought against Trump and his supporters for their autocratic actions. Trump was found liable in two civi...

    $1,160.00

  • HOW AUTOCRATS SUBVERT ELECTIONS
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the response to the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election and bias future elections in their favor. In December 2020, Donald Trump invited supporters to DC for what he promised ...

    $1,100.00

  • EARLY CINEMA AND THE "NATIONAL"
    RICHARD ABEL / GIORGIO BERTELLINI / ROB KING
    Essays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the “National” is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visu...

    $229.00