In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with the recently partitioned states of India and Pakistan.
This book explores the process by which constitutional indeterminacies involving reapportionment were resolved through the political process and examines how the current House arrived at its 435-seat limit.
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent.
A sketch of the causes, operations and results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee in 1856 offers a focused exploration of a city overwhelmed by disorder, corruption, and declining trust in its institutions.
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent.
As the general public in Britain read about Egypt's history, visited collections, and viewed the material remains of a past that had not yet been uncovered by Western scholars, the mysterious nature of Egypt's past became fertile ground for literary imaginations.
The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms?
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 23 presents a society on the edge of transformation as widespread dissatisfaction with the monarchy's governance evolves into a structured resistance.
The ancient east presents a structured historical examination of early societies that shaped political organization, cultural exchange, and regional identity.
The history of homes and the way in which they are run reflects changing social and economic conditions as surely, and more fascinatingly, than historical documents.
At first glance, Jessica Ingrams landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints.
Metlakahtla and the North Pacific mission of the church missionary society presents a detailed account of missionary work among the Tsimshean people of British Columbia, exploring the intersection of faith, culture, and colonial influence.
Passing from China, where it was developed over 3,000 years ago, to Japan, where it today commands a vast and enthusiastic following, Go is probably the oldest intellectual game in the world.
Burke's speech on Conciliation with America offers a reflective examination of the growing divide between colonies, presenting a reasoned appeal for renewed understanding during a period of intensifying unrest.
The olynthiacs and the philippics of Demosthenes is a collection of political orations addressing the urgent challenges faced by Athens during the rise of Philip II of Macedon.
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.
Life and death of john of Barneveld, advocate of Holland: With a view of the primary causes and movements of the thirty years' war, 1609-10 offers an examination of political struggle, shifting alliances, and the pressures placed on a developing republic during a period of profound instability.
At first glance, Jessica Ingrams landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints.
Legends, traditions and laws of the Iroquois or six nations and history of the Tuscarora Indians presents a detailed cultural and historical portrait of Indigenous societies shaped by tradition, governance, and collective memory.
Passing from China, where it was developed over 3,000 years ago, to Japan, where it today commands a vast and enthusiastic following, Go is probably the oldest intellectual game in the world.
History of the revolt of the Netherlands Volume 2 introduces the gradual rise of resistance against foreign domination and reflects on how shifting political pressures and growing dissatisfaction encouraged collective action.
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 24 explores a period of mounting tension as political divisions and military pressures reshape the direction of the Netherlands under the weight of the monarchy's authority.
Exciting World War II action The exploits of Britain's wartime commandos Covers fighting in Norway, Italy, France and Germany John Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first Commando unit in 1940, became an outstanding leader of special operations and witnessed some of the most daring exploits of World War II.
A transporting and gloriously entertaining journey through the hidden lives of England s rural parish churches from building conservator and church rescuer Rachel Morley Glorious.
In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of Americanideas about and concern for the union of the states in thepolicymaking of the early republic.
First published in 1986, A Short History of Irish Literature combines the scholarship of exceptional range and depth with the power to persuade us to read authors we have forgotten or neglected, and to re-read sympathetically those we have insensitively undervalued or dismissed.
