Establishing a causal link between historical discourse and political change, this important book describes the role of historical discourse in establishing, maintaining, or destroying elite and mass political identities in Soviet and post-Soviet space.
Is there any justification for Heidegger's famous 'violence' against Kant's philosophy? An independent assessment of the worth... Læs mere
This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish... Læs mere
The Handbook of Public Policy in Europe provides an invaluable overview of the content of public policy across the full range of policy areas in Britain, France and Germany.
This collection of essays is arranged around the central issue raised by a raft of new empirical research - the relationship between social identity, or the 'vision of the self', and the ways in which this can explain historical agency.
This is an interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms by which power corrupts. It incorporates political theory, organizational studies and... Læs mere
Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.
This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more... Læs mere
This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture.
Success out of near disaster, finances taken to the edge of bankruptcy, resignations - this volume tells the dramatic stories of the major new commercial television developments in Britain between 1981-92.
This book examines how the Russian Empire expanded across the barrier of the Caucasus mountains to take control of the Georgian lands at the... Læs mere
The behaviour of many Poles towards the Jewish population during the Nazi occupation of Poland has always been a controversial issue.