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The Vote - How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined (New edition): Paul Foot The Vote - How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined (New edition)
Paul Foot
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of the hard, long-fought struggle for the right to vote in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. In the tradition of "history from below", Paul Foot examines the great democratic debates that dominated the fight for electoral democracy. Taking readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney debates, to the dramatic arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the struggles for votes for women. Throughout, Foot shows how vested interested first delayed and then hobbled the progress of parliamentary democracy. Concentrating on the vital role played by direct action, he shows how rank-and-file resistance to ruling-class injustice was followed by retreat into parliamentary impotence. Into the twentieth-century, Foot exposes the gaps between the promises of a succession of Labour governments and their actions once in power, and its abandonment of any aspiration to economic democracy. A gripping work of narrative history, written in Paul Foot's inimitable energy and engaged style, this book is a classic work of history, and a must-read for anyone interested in how today's political scene was formed.

The Cossacks and Other Stories (Paperback, New ed): Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks and Other Stories (Paperback, New ed)
Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by Paul Foote; Translated by David McDuff
R402 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader torn apart by a conflict of loyalties. Written at the end of the nineteenth century, it is amongst the last and greatest of Tolstoy's shorter works.

Orwell & 1984 - A Talk by Paul Foot (Paperback): Paul Foot Orwell & 1984 - A Talk by Paul Foot (Paperback)
Paul Foot; Introduction by John Rudge
R122 Discovery Miles 1 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Paul Foot - Ash in the Attic (CD): Paul Foot Paul Foot - Ash in the Attic (CD)
Paul Foot
R142 Discovery Miles 1 420 Ships in 10 - 20 working days
Master and Man and Other Stories (Paperback, New ed): Leo Tolstoy Master and Man and Other Stories (Paperback, New ed)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Ronald Wilks, Paul Foote; Introduction by Hugh McLean; Notes by Paul Foote
R337 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.

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