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Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
by Jan-Werner Muller
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300113218
- ISBN 13
- 9780300113211
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, CT, London: Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Near Fine. 6x1x9. [EUROPE]. Muller, Jan-Werner. "Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe." New Haven, CT, London: Yale University Press, 2011. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Text with black and white images. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 3 cm. 24 oz. pp. ix, 281. Smudging on fore-edge of page block. Ink on free front endpaper. Light pencil underlining and marginalia. Very Good Minus in Near Fine jacket. ISBN: 9780300113211."This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes before 1945 and the liberalization of West European politics after the Second World War. He also offers vivid portraits of famous as well as unjustly forgotten political thinkers and the movements and institutions they inspired.
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- Bookseller
- Exchange Value Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0004799
- Title
- Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
- Author
- Jan-Werner Muller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300113218
- ISBN 13
- 9780300113211
- Publisher
- New Haven, CT, London: Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Keywords
- Democracy, Politics, Europe, European History, Yale, Nonfiction, Academic, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Europe;
- X weight
- 24 oz
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Exchange Value Books uses USPS media mail and ships within two days excluding extraordinary circumstances. I will ship to anywhere in the world that the numerous US embargoes do not forbid, however, if the real international shipping cost is in great variance to that listed, additional shipping may need to be charged. If one is purchasing from a prison, please indicate the specific rules for shipping books to the institution. Exchange Value Books encloses ordered books in waterproof mylar and protects books with cardboard and sufficient packaging.
About the Seller
Exchange Value Books
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Brooklyn, New York
About Exchange Value Books
Exchange Value Books sells uncommon art catalogues, academic monographs, photobooks, and political ephemera, shipping from Brooklyn, New York.
The dealer is an alum of the Rare Book School and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.
I started in the trade at the Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore, and previously worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art's Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Besides selling books, I proofread them for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. jamespayne.info.
The dealer is an alum of the Rare Book School and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.
I started in the trade at the Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore, and previously worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art's Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Besides selling books, I proofread them for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. jamespayne.info.
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