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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a [...]
"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African [...]
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
Left and Right in Global Politics
Few notions are as universal as the idea of a left-right divide in politics. Despite its death being frequently foretold, the left-right metaphor remains the most common lens through which...
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
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Author: Stephen Brumwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 514 Winner of the prestigious George Washington Book Prize, George Washington is a vivid recounting of the formative years and military career...
Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America
This is the first systematically comparative and historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America, examining business organizing and political activity over the last century in...
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
"Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
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Women's Constitution?: Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth
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Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
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Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
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K Blows Top
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Generation F: Sex, Power and the Young Feminist
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Lenin on the Train
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An Uneasy Relationship: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia
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Cry Freedom
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Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook
An enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life-its charming culture and sublime food-captured in 100 delectable recipes and captivating stories from the Greek-American Tsakiris family, accompanied by more than 100 visually...
Crisis
We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
The Diary of a Secret Tory MP
The long-awaited diary from Whitehall's most scandalous MP... From Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative government has lurched from crisis to crisis. With a front-row seat on...
The Westminster Corridor: Anglo-Saxon Story of Westminster Abbey and Its Lands in Middlesex
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The Westminster Corridor is a convenient name for the group of districts which lay in a direct line from Westminster to the northern limits of Hendon, where Middlesex ends. It...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work remains obscure and enigmatic. To fully understand and appreciate...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln is, by tradition, one of American history's quintessential westerners. But Lincoln owed much of his national political success, not to mention his enshrinement in public memory, to his...
Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict
In this book, Michael Nicholson outlines social scientific approaches to international relations and then describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations. He shows how rationality is in many...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
And the Pursuit of Happiness
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Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a year-long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is an artist's...
Family Betrayal: Agent Sonya, MI5 and the Kuczynski Network
The remarkable story of the Kuczynskis, a family of Soviet spies under cover in Britain. In 1933, the celebrated German economist Robert Kuczynski and his wife Bertha arrived in Britain....
Birds of Prey
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One Halal of a Story
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The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean
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ISIS: The State of Terror
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Keep the Bastards Honest
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Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500-c.1700
John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law...
The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the...
Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country
"A painstaking and . . . admiring portrait" (Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal) of Hubert Humphrey, one of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century"An outstanding account of the...
Race, Nation, and Empire in American History
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and...
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege
This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites...
Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct
Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...