A wonderfully illuminating and witty guide to every -ism you could ever
want explained.
Entries include: Absurdism, Altruism, Antidisestablishmentarianism,
Atheism, Bohemianism, Bonapartism, Buddhism, Capitalism, Careerism,
Chauvinism, Colonialism, Cubism, Darwinism, Defeatism, Deism,
Determinism, Eclecticism, Epicureanism, Eurocentrism, Expressionism,
Fanaticism, Feminism, Freeganism, Freudianism, Futurism, Germanism,
Globalism, Gnosticism, Hedonism, Heightism, Historicism, Hitlerism,
Humanitarianism, Idealism, Imperialism, Institutionalism, Islamism,
Isolationism, Jacksonianism, Jingoism, Judaism, Keynesianism,
Lancastrianism, Leninism, Libertarianism, Localism, Maoism, Masculism,
Mazdaism, Militarism, Modernism, Multiculturalism, Nazism,
Neoconservatism, Nihilism, Nudism, Optimism, Orientalism, Paganism,
Pan-Africanism, Phallocentrism, Poststructuralism, Quietism, Racism,
Rastafarianism, Realism, Republicanism, Romanticism, Sikhism, Stoicism,
Structuralism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Teaism, Taoism, Thatcherism,
Unionism, Utilitarianism, Veganism, Vegetarianism, White Nationalism,
Zionism, and Zoroastrianism.
John Andrews is a writer and journalist whose career as a foreign
correspondent has taken him from Washington to Beijing. A graduate from
Cambridge in modern and classical Arabic, he was first an academic in
Libya and Lebanon before turning to journalism. He now divides his time
between London and Provence.
