About national and international power in the "modern" or PostRenaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen andfallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "newmonarchies" in W. Europe.
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History atHarvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College,Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution,Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper andIron , The House of Rothschild , The Pity of War , The Cash Nexus , Empire , and Colossus , he alsowrites regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world.Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successfultelevision documentary series for British television: Empire , American Colossus , and, most recently, TheWar of the World .
In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their eliteposition as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family inCharleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionismand advocacy of women's rights in the North. After the Civil War,discovering that their late brother had had children with one ofhis slaves, the Grimké sisters helped to educate their nephews andgave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. Thenephews, Archibald and Francis, went on to become well-knownAfrican American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movementand the founding of the NAACP. Spanning 150 eventful years, this isan inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itselfand America.
1 On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act 2 Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical Use of'Genre Criticism 3 Realism and Desire: Balzac and the Problem of the Subject 4 Authentic Resscntiment: Generic Discontinuities and Ideologemes in the "Experimental" Novels of George Gissing 5 Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Joseph Conrad 6 Conclusion: The Dialectic of"Utopia and Ideology INDEX
A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one ofthe epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with manylessons for today." -Henry Kissinger "Captures the drama [with] the 'You are there' storytellingskills of a journalist and the analytical skills of the politicalscientist." - General Brent Scowcroft In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerousplace on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a yearlater, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shapingthe Cold War-and more perilous. For the first time in history,American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed againsteach other, only yards apart. One mistake, one overzealouscommander-and the trip wire would be sprung for a war that would gonuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young, untested U.S.president stil
A brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force ofAmerican politics from one of journalism's most acclaimedcommentators. History turns on a dime. A missed meeting, a different choice ofwords, and the outcome changes dramatically. Nowhere is this truerthan in the field where Jeff Greenfield has spent most of hisworking life, American politics, and in three dramatic narrativesbased on memoirs, histories, oral histories, fresh reporting withjournalists and key participants, and Greenfield's own knowledge ofthe principal players, he shows just how extraordinary thosechanges would have been. These things are true: In December 1960, a suicide bomber pausedfatefully when he saw the young president-elect's wife and daughtercome to the door to wave goodbye...In June 1968, RFK declaredvictory in California, and then instead of talking to people inanother ballroom, as intended, was hustled off through thekitchen...In October 1976, President Gerald Ford made a criticalgaffe in a debate against J
The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Patriot's History of the United States examines tencurrent challenges. America is at a crossroads. Weface two options: continue our descent toward big government,higher taxes, less individual liberty, and more debt or pull ourcountry back on the path our Founding Fathers planned for us. Butthat path isn't always so easy to see. Following the success of his previous books, conservativehistorian Larry Schweikart tackles some of the key issuesconfronting our nation today: education, government bailouts, guncontrol, health care, the environment, and more. For each he asks,"What would the founders say?" and sets out to explore our historyand offer wisdom to help us get back on track. What would really becompatible with the vision that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, andthe other founders had for America? Written in Schweikart's informal yet informative style, WhatWould the Founders Say? is sure to delight his fans and anyonelooking fo
The world looks far different today than it did before theglobal financial crisis struck. Reeling from the most brutalimpacts of the recession, governments, economies, and societieseverywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increasedprotectionism. That's understandable, but it's also dangerous,maintains global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat in World 3.0. Leftunchecked, heightened protectionism could prevent peoples aroundthe world from achieving the true gains afforded by cross-borderopenness. Ghemawat paints a disturbing picture of what could happen--tohousehold income, availability of goods and services, and otherquality-of-life metrics--should globalization continue to reversedirection. He then describes how a wide range of players' privatebusinesses, policy makers, citizens, the press' could help openflows of ideas, people, and goods across borders, but in ways thatmaximize economic benefits for all. World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we thinkwe are, and how pe
The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is writtenfor both the seasoned professional and the student who wants todeepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflictsand their knowledge of how to manage them constructively. Itprovides the theoretical underpinnings that throw light on thefundamental social psychological processes involved inunderstanding and managing conflicts at all levels—interpersonal,intergroup, organizational, and international. The Handbook coversa broad range of topics including information on cooperation andcompetition, justice, trust development and repair, resolvingintractable conflict, and working with culture and conflict.Comprehensive in scope, this new edition includes chapters thatdeal with language, emotion, gender, and personal implicit theoriesas they relate to conflict.
First published in 1923, The Prospects of IndustrialCivilization is considered the most ambitious of BertrandRussell's works on modern society. It offers a rare glimpse intooften-ignored subtleties of his political thought and in it heargues that industrialism is a threat to human freedom, since it isfundamentally linked with nationalism. His proposal for onegovernment for the whole world as the ultimate solution, along withhis argument that the global village and prevailing politicaldemocracy should be its eventual results, is both provocative andthoroughly engaging.
Eugene Fran?ois Vidocq was born in France in 1775 and his lifespanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the 1848revolutions. He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, theJames Bond of his day. A notorious criminal, he turned policeofficer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. Heinvented innovative criminal indexing techniques and experimentedwith fingerprinting, until his cavalier attitude towards the thinblue line forced him out of the police. So he began the world'svery first private detective agency. The cases he solved were high profile and he grew in notoriety.However, his infamy didn't prevent him from becoming a spy andmoving secretly across the dangerous borders of Europe. This is agloriously enjoyable historical romp through the eighteenth centuryin the company of the man whose influence still holds to thisday.
'Magisterial...a biography that is almost as much a personaladventure story as an intellectual treatise.' - Andrew Roberts 'A penetrating interpretation...No one with a serious interestin the Napoleonic period can afford to ignore it. ' - TimesLiterary Supplement
Linking Hamlet's ghost with the opening of the Communist Manifesto, the noted French philosopher (Aporias, LJ 2/15/94) meditates on the state and future of Marxism since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Developing two highly expanded lectures, Derrida notes that the current talk of the "new world order" and "the end of history" is the recurrence of a old debate, an attempt to exorcise the "spirit" represented by Marxism, just as Marx was concerned with the "ghosts" and "conjuring" of capitalism. Derrida argues that the deconstructive doctrine of "differance" and Marxism as an act posit many Marxisms. It is therefore the interpreter's duty to preserve the spirit of Marxism by pursuing the ghosts and laying bare the conjurings. This is Derrida's first major statement on Marx; an important book for academic collections. Written in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and within the context of a critique of a "new world order" that proclaims the death of Marx and Marxism, Jacques Derrida undertakes a re
The most up-to-date, incisive, and accessible reference on theAmerican presidency, with essays by the nation's leadinghistorians. An indispensable resource for the curious reader andthe serious historian alike, The American Presidency showcases someof the most provocative interpretive history being written today.This rich narrative history sheds light on the hubris, struggles,and brilliance of our nation's leaders. Coupling vivid writing withunparalleled scholarship, these insightful essays from well-knownhistorians cover every presidency from the first through theforty-third.
