NorthCarolina)Hasso FrancesS.(DukeUniversity

Bringing together a rich and vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, and interv

Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and

By reconstructing and contextualizing Schopenhauer's key political ideas, this book challenges the common view that Schopenhauer is an apolitical phil

Sharing Freedom presents the development of French republicanism from an older elitist theory of freedom into an inclusive theory of emancipation. Ret

Sharing Freedom presents the development of French republicanism from an older elitist theory of freedom into an inclusive theory of emancipation. Ret

The first extended study of nationhood in ancient and medieval political thought, this book recovers a distinctly pre-modern conception of the nation

What can the international community do when countries would rather ignore a thorny problem? Scorecard Diplomacy shows that public grades can evoke co

This book sets out to explain the most foundational aspect of international law in international relations terms. By doing so it goes straight to the

This biography covers Strauss's musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage early in the t

How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia purs

This book explores the conflict between national and subnational politicians over the formulation of economic policy. In testing the argument with a c

Using the United States as a basis of comparison, this book makes extensive use of roll call data to explore legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil

For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportun

For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportun

In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the deba

This 1999 book is a systematic, comprehensive gathering of the reviews (primarily in the United States and Britain) of Mark Twain's books published up

Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth

From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a

Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, revealing how the social arrangements of society's institution

In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. W