Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why …
The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the …
This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military …
This is a new study of speakers of official, minority and disputed languages in an ever-changing European context. Broad policy …
This book examines candidate selection in nine liberal democracies -- Belgium, Britain, France, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands …
The politics of major banking crises has been transformed since the nineteenth century. Analyzing extensive historical and contemporary evidence, Chwieroth …
This book challenges existing theories of welfare state change by analyzing pension reforms in France, Germany, and Switzerland between 1970 …
Painting a vivid picture of 1960s counterculture ideas, this new collection of the late Paul Goodman's essential anarchist writings—from utopian …
Recognized as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, from the coming of Islam …
Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British …
This is a study of the political, religious, social and mental worlds of the Catholic aristocracy from 1550 to 1640. …
Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, …
This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a "modern" and to counter …
Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather’s inauguration. …
The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson--unexplored in depth by scholars until this study--was …
Книга Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working... Chants Democratic: New York City and the …
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet …
Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to …
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of …
This biography is an exciting and nuanced portrait of one of FDR's true and closest friends, a man deeply involved …
Using formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the Soviet administrative command system, this study concludes that …
Vox Populi is the long-awaited fourth collection of interviews, editorials, essays, observations and keen insight from legendary New York broadcaster …
In Vox regis: Royal Communication in High Medieval Norway, David Brégaint examines how the Norwegian monarchy gradually managed to infiltrate …
Islamization is commonly seen as the work of Islamist movements who have forced their ideology on ruling regimes and other …
Animal Farm; Burmese Days; A Clergyman's Daughter; Coming up for Air; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Nineteen Eighty-Four
Paul explores both how and why U.S. military intervention decisions are made. Pursuit of that inquiry requires the identification of …
The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's …
How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the …
India-Pakistan rivalry remains one of the most enduring and unresolved conflicts of our times. It began with the birth of …
In a future world where humanity is divided into two radically different groups, the genetically engineered Edenists and the pioneering …
There are two kinds of analphabets: those who don't know read, and those who don't read. When the moral disarray …
When the Afrikaners (Boers) migrated northward from the Cape to escape British rule, they enountered the Zulu people. To protect …
Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said …
