Political ideologies and movements

Perilous Memories makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Saudi "e;ulama"e; are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah.

Analyses why the great battles were won and lost, and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform.

In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking.

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution.

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day.

In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term heterotopias to signify all the other real sites that can be found within the culture"e; which "e;are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.

The Republican People's Party (RPP), also know as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), stands as the main opposition party - one of two major political currents, second only to the Erdooan's AK Party.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe - especially Germany - between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in western democracies today.

A detailed, illustrated exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees.

The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives.

Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS.

This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

';This is the book we've been waiting for!

This book contains a collection of articles on different aspects of EU law written by one of Europe's most distinguished jurists during the past twenty years, some of which appear here for the first time in English.

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

This book, first published in 1986, examines the American economic aid that was a vital factor in enabling Britain's success in the Second World War.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is widely recognized as one of the most influential works of modern political philosophy.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria.

This book is a complete and authoritative English rendition of the last work of the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin.

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption.

Fourteen Quebec federalists dare to re-imagine the province and its defining role within a stronger CanadaQuebecers have been debating their future relative to Canada since before Confederation, though the discussions have been most heated during the past four decades.

As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking documentary Shoah (1985) offers a remarkable opportunity to encounter previously unseen interviews with survivors and other witnesses, recorded in the late 1970s.

The church has a duty to fight corruption and injustice.

The history of sport in socialist Yugoslavia is a peculiar lens through which to examine the country's social, cultural and political transformations.

Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Fras has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support.

This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author's childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary.

We, in the West in general, and the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence.

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts.

As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females.

'History at its scintillating best .

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water.

Given Russias invasion of Ukraine, why do emancipation messages that emanated from Russia count?

In the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world--the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, Massacre in the Punjab and the Croke Park Massacre, the first 'Bloody Sunday', in Ireland.

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary Russia.

How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social orderAfter Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return?

This book provides a critical discussion on how different discourses of nationalism in the Turkish media construct contested concepts of New Turkey's identity, which has great importance for mapping modern Turkey's place in the world of nations.

An examination of how Americas colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled.

Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR).

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.