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During World War 2, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill pooled their nations' resources in the desperate race to beat

Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil wars and famines, children born with

This book is a revealing insiders' account of the deteriorating special relationship between the United States and Romania in the last years of the Ce

The remorseless undermining of Imperial China by the Western powers and the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 have too often led to an overstated c

At the approach of the twenty-first century, the United Nations remains the main hope for world peace. This straightforward analysis by longtime obser

This book examines the process by which Keynesianism, with its sympathetic view of the role of government in the economy and society, lost influence a

From the early forms of loans to farmers up to present day credit cards, consumer credit has always been part of human life; however, ever since the B

What conditions the chances of liberty, wealth, and equality at the start of the third Christian millennium? Why did human civilizations develop so sl

This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afg

This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and

Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various construction

Russia's attempt to replace the failed Soviet system and its command economy with a capitalist, democratic society has produced a health and social we

During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Washington policymakers aspired to destabilize the Soviet and East European Communist Party regimes

John Hill's definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach. From his early television work (Cathy Come Home) through to l

Theorizations of globalized media are interrogated through studies of actual media use in transnational contexts, including bloggers in the Iranian di