Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Building an American Empire
The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation
Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the...
Containment
Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security in the post-September 11 world is reminiscent of George Kennan's historic "Long Telegram,"...
The Korean War
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1997
This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed narrative...
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbols
The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the...
Political Bubbles
Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and...
The Son Also Rises
Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social...
The Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down...
by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top...
The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy...
Out of Ashes
A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.
Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material...
The Cold War and After
History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this...
Wandering Greeks
The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and...
Aftershocks
Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its...
Reluctant Crusaders
Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
In Reluctant Crusaders, Colin Dueck examines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the periods following World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He shows how American cultural assumptions regarding...