This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of... Læs mere
This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. By defining our post-historical moment in medieval English literary... Læs mere
Contextualising the emergence of literary and aesthetic modernism and cultural nationalism within the popularity of the Renaissance, this volume offers new insights into high and low culture, as well as historical periodization.
This book explores the widely admitted failure of regional integration in this continent, linking the features of regional institutional arrangements with domestic politics and includes an inquiry into regionalism at the hemispherical level.
The Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope.
The 2008 US presidential election was a 'global event.' Across the world, countries felt they had a major stake in this election. This study investigates... Læs mere
This book provides an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance.
The Nature of Party Government examines relationships between governments and supporting parties on a comparative European basis.
The Politics of Crisis is an interpretation of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history - the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945.
This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America.
This book investigates the responses of companies in Russia's Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) province to the fundamental changes in the economic system and is based primarily on interviews with local managers and decision-makers.
During the presidency of George Bush (1989-93), the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons, and the ballistic missiles capable of delivering them, rose greatly in significance as issues on the American security agenda.