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Classics of International Relations
Essays in Criticism and Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Classics of International Relations introduces, contextualises and assesses 24 of the most important works on international relations of the last 100 years. Providing an indispensable guide for all students of IR theory, from advanced undergraduates to academic specialists, it asks why are these works...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Mafia Geheimbund Camorra ‘Ndrangheta Sacra Corona Unita La Cosa Nostra Russische Mafia Albanische Mafia Yakuza Triade (Kriminalistik) Sizilianische Sprache Sarazenen Palermo Sizilianische Vesper Joseph Bonanno Bonanno-Familie I mafiusi di la Vicaria Giuseppe Garibaldi Organisierte Kriminalität...
by Daniel Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Chronicling the emergence of an international society in the 1920s, Daniel Gorman describes how the shock of the First World War gave rise to a broad array of overlapping initiatives in international cooperation. Though national rivalries continued to plague world politics, ordinary citizens and state...
by Walter Ullmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government...
Necro Citizenship
Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized...
Summary & Analysis of We Were Eight Years in Power
A Guide to the Book by Ta-Nehisi Coastes
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.
A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Atlantic essays and musings originally published during President Obama’s administration. These essays concern black America and the shift of presidencies today.
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by Thomas W. Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
'Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck', David Hume writes in A Treatise of Human Nature, 'has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe'. With these words, Hume begins...
by Jonathan Havercroft
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
A picture of sovereignty holds the study of politics captive. Captives of Sovereignty looks at the historical origins of this picture of politics, critiques its philosophical assumptions and offers a way to move contemporary critiques of sovereignty beyond their current impasse. The first part of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'
George Bush
The Life of a Lone Star Yankee
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the first full biography of the former president, award-winning historian and biographer Herbert S. Parmet draws from George Bush's personal papers to look at the man who led America through the end of the Cold War. Enriched by access to Bush's private diaries, the book provides an intimate portrait...
Father Abraham
Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2006
Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the most enigmatic. Was he the Great Emancipator, a man of deep convictions who ended slavery in the United States, or simply a reluctant politician compelled by the force of events to free the slaves? In Father Abraham,...
Harold Wilson
The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson’s birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general...
by Stephen E. Frantzich
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Almost every politician has occasionally misspoken, sometimes with disastrous effect, sometimes with little effect at all. O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble: The Worst Candidate Gaffes and Recoveries in Presidential Campaigns observes and analyzes this phenomenon to document why some gaffes...
The Prince of Providence
The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”
BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince...