• Rok vydání 1983

The town of Dreux-60 miles from Paris-made history in 1983 when Le Pen's National Front earned startling electoral gains in…

\nThe Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of…

This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without…

Between loyalty and disobedience; between recognition of the law's authority and realization that the law is not always…

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a…

A representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke…

As the postwar U.S. national security establishment required Middle Eastern expertise, it cultivated a beneficial…

Long before sugar and slaves made Jamaica Britain's most valuable colony, its conquest sparked conflicts with European…

In this sweeping history of U.S. policy toward Latin America, Schoultz shows that the U.S. has always perceived Latin…

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…

\nTwenty-five years after his prescient Democracy\'s Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more…

• Rok vydání 2021

• Rok vydání 2022

\nThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of…

\nIn this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian…

\nThe Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy\'s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present…

\nWhat was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories…

Kiely invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the 19th-century novel without pretending to let go of…

This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering a compendium of…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nBobby Kennedy wasn’t the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney…

\nThe fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

\nFrom the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations…

An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media…

\nBefore the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the…

\nThe Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the…

\nLargely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine’s sovereignty in…

\nThe first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec…

\nElizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the…

\nIn US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

\nElectronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

\nIn Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved…

\nThe US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have…

\nLaura J. Martin examines ecological restoration\'s long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted…

\nAvant-Garde Post– follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism.…

The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property…

\nNo major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away…

\nMargarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista…

\nNational security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack…

\nZongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has…

\nIn Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different…

\nIn the age of tenure-denial lawsuits and free speech battles, colleges and universities face more intense legal pressures…

\nVietnam focuses on how the country\'s governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international…

\nThe Painting Master\'s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue…

\nSamantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term…