The historical literature on the first world war has devoted relatively little attention to the Allied blockade of the Central …
Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did Soviet …
Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to …
What are the global implications of the looming shortage of Internet addresses and the slow deployment of the new IPv6 …
The вЂConfrontation’ between Malaysia and Indonesia in Bornew 20/1/2006 the war against Indonesian raids across a 900-mile border in some …
Abraham Pais's life of Albert Einstein was one of the finest scientific biographies ever written. When it first appeared in …
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of …
In the thirties Jung was at the height of his powers and found himself swept up in the international politics …
Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer’s post–Gravity’s Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon’s representations of global …
This is the story of the last century of the Roman Republic - why and how did the Republic succeed …
"During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the …
A Los Angeles Times and Economist Best Book of the YearWith a New PrefaceThe grandson of an eminent ayatollah and …
On the back of his natural talent for oratory, Cicero set out on the path to a glorious reputation - …
Known to the Greeks as 'opos' or 'opion', as 'afiun' in Persian and Arabic, and 'fuyung' in Chinese, opium is …
Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, …
Many books offer information about the world’s most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. …
The leading textbook by the leading scholar.This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged …
This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, …
Modernism both influenced and was fascinated by the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In examining how four artists and …
Groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Secrets the Jesuits don't want you to know Out of Europe, a voice is heard from the secular world that …
InThe Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how …
The first succinct and authoritative overview of the making of the modern Middle East, this lucid book brings a valuable …
This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the …
The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include …
This is a comparative study of how the societies of late-medieval England and France reacted to the long period of …
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this …
The book examines the ways that rulers, rogues, and rebels have worked together to forge modern Middle Eastern history from …
This book analyzes how modern Jordanian identity was created and defined. Massad studies two key institutions, the law and the …
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s …
Since the publication of the first edition, substantial changes have occurred in the political landscape of Jordan and the Middle …
This study presents the first broad analysis of Maghrebian women's dramatic literature undertaken in English. The book considers sixty-five plays …
The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson has been extensively revised to …
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale …
The welfare states of affluent democracies now stand at the center of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking …
