Politics and government

With this translation, one of the classics of German historical literature becomes available in English.

This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors.

Gene Banks and the World's Food contributes to the crucial debate on how best to preserve some of society's most valuable raw material.

Most of the schools built in the United States, as well as many public facilities, must be financed by borrowing in the capital markets.

The essays in this book compare and analyze political processes in eight states within the Indian Union.

Justice Douglas surveys our national situation, finds it ominously defective at several points, and with a practicality that matches his sense of alarm and urgency shows what must be done to safeguard the American future.

A down-to-earth and fact-filled discussion of New England state politics based on seven years of research and over 1,000 interviews.

Demonstrating the important role of the Vatican in international affairs during this period, Stewart A.

This is the first comprehensive history of the struggle to win public acceptance of contraceptive practice.

A comprehensive and often controversial account of Japan's foreign and security policy before the Second World War based on War Crimes Trials materials, original Japanese sources, and detailed accounts by Japanese historians.

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Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDonough challenges the conventional notion of elites in authoritarian regimes as unideological pragmatists.

Demonstrating that the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish community to modern Jewish nationalism was far more complex than conventionally thought, Stuart A.

Our preoccupation with the role of the United States in Latin American affairs has obscured the important part played by Canada and the nonhemispheric nations, e.

Here is a comprehensive analysis of rearmament under the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments.

Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire.

Lienesch shows that what emerged from the period of change was an inconsistent combination of political theories.

Combining historical, sociological, and legal expertise, Bruce Frier discloses the reasons for the emergence of law as a professional discipline in the later Roman Republic.

The diplomatic and political events leading to the establishment of the German Empire have been studied extensively, but the social matrix of civic activity has been sadly neglected.

Nicole Ball brings the effects of security expenditure to the center of that debate, examining in detail how the potential negative consequences on development outweigh the potential positive effects.

Australia, confronted by the rise of Communist China, the pressures of United States policy, and articulate interest groups within its own boundaries is attempting to adjust to its role as a "e;Middle Power"e; among major powers.

William Bacchus warns that the American Foreign Service is in serious danger of being unable to meet changing responsibilities unless it reforms its present personnel system.

A complete history of the Finnish Communist Party, one of the most active and popular communist parties outside the Sino-Soviet bloc.

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The work of twenty-two scholars is brought together in this comparative study of the emerging relationships between religion and politics in India, Pakistan, and Ceylon.

Since its independence in 1947, India, as a large, diverse, and rapidly changing country, has had to meet federalizing problems of a magnitude unprecedented in history.

In contrast to the substantial output of Western works on the revival of nationalism among the non-Russians in the USSR, the critical phenomenon of Russian nationalism has been little studied in the West.

This is the first study to apply to the topics of workplace democracy or change in political culture both before"e; and "e;after"e; sample survey data as well as long-term participant observation.

This is a comprehensive study of one of the most startling examples of dollar diplomacy--the effort of the United States and the United Kingdom to monopolize the free world's supply of uranium and thorium during and immediately following World War II.

Examining the Berlin crises of 1948-49 and 1961, the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958, and the Cuban crisis of 1962, the author elucidates various intermediate and highly politicized forms of international coercion.

Wilfred Kohl analyzes the development of France's atomic force, focusing on the role of nuclear weapons in de Gaulle's policies and its impact on French relations with NATO, her key alliance partners (the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany), and the U.

In a historical treatment of Mexico beginning with the pre-Revolutionary period and focusing on the administration of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-1940), Nora Hamilton explores the possibilities and limits of reform in a capitalist society.

The founding, structure, and operations of the League of Arab States since its organization in 1945 are analyzed.

At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life"e; group it is the life of the fetus itself.

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The author explores the defense administration, with thorough criticism of the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the armed services as governmental organizations.

In this study of one group of the new nobility, Jonathan Dewald argues that the origin, attitudes, and behavior of the noblesse de robe were in fundamental ways similar to those of the old nobility.

Challenging the traditional belief that Hitler's supporters were largely from the lower middle class, Richard F.

Although the Soviet Union has the most abundant energy reserves of any country, energy policy has been the single most disruptive factor in its industry since the mid-1970s.

Lars Schoultz proposes a way for all those interested in U.

An analysis of the Irish policy of the Conservative Unionists.

Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence.

Most available literature on foreign aid lacks precise terminology, reliable data, and a theory that; permits profiting from experience.

While Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana from 1962 to 1964, the author personally observed the evolving legal order in Ghana during a crucial period in that country's development.

This is the story of some of the most anguished constitutional controversies of our time, those involving the issue of separation of church and state.

Robert Storey's lively and gracefully written study of Pierrot is the first scholarly history of this fascinating popular figure.

As this study traces the history of the dramatic intra-scientific conflict over nuclear weapons which has developed since World War II, it analyzes the politically relevant ideas, attitudes, and behavior of those scientists who have been influential in the formulation of American policy toward nuclear weapons.

How is it that Sweden has been able to combine political stability with an entrenched multiparty system?

This work on the structure of American parties combines the breadth that has been characteristic of voter analyses and the richness found in case studies of local party organizations.

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "e;real"e; Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid historical religion developed in an area totally different from the Middle East.