20th anniversary edition of The End of History and the Last Man, a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political Order With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated
Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report.
Putin vs Putin: Vladimir Putin Viewed from the Right. Alexander Dugin is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia, having been active in politics there since the 1980s. Russia is crucial to this effor
Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. The collection includes revolutionary research on Hume's early reading in science and religion and its impact on his philosophy. Each volume of the series is organized around
The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration.
The Last Days of Stalin is an engaging, briskly told account of the dictator's final active months, the vigil at his deathbed, and the unfolding of Soviet and international events in the months after his death. A gripping account of the months b
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom. But that characterization is unfair. Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. Benner relates how Machiavel
And argues that, at a time when they seem to be moving apart, there is a strong link between the city and the nation state. Why are some cities more powerful than others? What makes a capital city different from others in a nation state? In this
Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination is Oltmans's account of his investigation, published here for the first time in English. Kennedy-an undertaking that would bring him into contact with a host of individuals with prominent roles in th
Law and Disorder is a must read for fans of New York history and those interested in how the first police force, untrained and untested, battled to maintain law and order. For the first time, award-winning historian Bruce Chadwick examines how rampant
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As he re-establishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing th
In the years leading up to the Second World War animals were as ubiquitous as they are today, but not only as pets but as part of everyday life, in work and in leisure. In this wonderfully illustrated title, learn about how animals were t
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to the Birds of America. The first accurate transcription of Audubon's 1826 journal, this edition corrects many of the errors, both intentional and unintentional, found in pre
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood.
Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination. Why did rock and roll become "white"? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift
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The book will change our understanding of the nature of Roman comedy and will be of interest to students of ancient theatre and Latin literature, scholars and students working on the history of music and theatre, and performers working wi
This book, which develops ideas originally published in The Brontes' Irish Heritage in 1986, sets the record straight. The Irish heritage of the Bronte family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick
Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-wa
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. A secular, not a religious phenomenon, a literary genre with fixed rhetoric effects, the funeral oration was inextricably linked to the epainos--praise of the c
Brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, joining young men from all over the world intent on making a fortune in the Cali-fornia Gold Rush. Never before published, the Grosh brothers' letters are among the m
Likewise, within Caribbean studies, the Irish presence troubles the orthodox historical models for understanding race and the plantation, the race and class structures, as well as questions of ethnic and religious minorities. There has be
This is a detailed, narrative-based history of Classical Malay Literature. It covers a wide range of Malay texts, including folk literature; the influence of the Indian epics and shadow theatre literature; Panji tales; the t
From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith. He died of wounds received at the Battle of Festubert in May 1915. Smith's account offers a poignant insight into the way in which the privileged world of a
