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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95Burke supported the American revolution but fought against the French. With his major work Reflections on the Revolution in France, written in 1790, he attacked the revolution and its rationalism and at the same time created a weapon for the counter revolution in England. Burke predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead. more...
Somebody's Darlingby Kent Gramm
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 15.95In his latest book, Kent Gramm examines the meaning of the Civil War experience in our lives and explores philosophical and personal aspects of the War that lie outside the scope of traditional historical study. He probes the meaning of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Antietam; the lives of U. S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, O. O. Howard, and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce; and the legacy of the unknown participant, "somebody's darling," for whom the war would come to encompass all things. The Iron Brigade appears, along with its 20th-century successor, the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division. Readers of Gramm's previous books will... more...
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africaby James McDougall
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 68.95The essays in this volume explore the complexities of the relationship between states, social groups and individuals in contemporary North Africa, as expressed through the politics, culture and history of nationhood. more...
Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reichby Uriel Tal; Saul Friedlander
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 59.95The essays of the late Uriel Tal uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era, to render explicable the deep ideational structure of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. more...
American Presidentsby Melvin I. Urofsky
Taylor & Francis 2000; US$ 210.00This collection of articles evaluates and analyses the presidential careers of men who have occupied the office since its inception in 1789. Leading presidential historians assess what makes a president good, bad or something in between. more...
On the Postcolony by J.-A Mbembé
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. more...
Life after Deathby Richard Bessel; Dirk Schumann; Christof Mauch; David Lazar
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 28.00This collection of essays does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale. more...
Maitland: State, Trust and Corporationby F.W. Maitland; David Runciman; Magnus Ryan; Raymond Geuss; Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00F. W. Maitland (1850-1906) is perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon. This book is a collection of his later essays about the historical origins of the state, and is designed to bring them to the attention of political theorists and political scientists, as well as historians. more...
Almost Chosen Peopleby Michael Zuckerman
University of California Press 1993; US$ 60.00Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures. But Michael Zuckerman is no ordinary historian, and this collection of his essays is no ordinary book. In his effort to remake the meaning of the American tradition, Zuckerman takes the entire sweep of American history for his province. The essays in this collection, including two never before published and a new autobiographical introduction, range from early New England settlements to the hallowed corridors of modern Washington. Among his subjects are Puritans and Southern gentry, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Spock, P. T. Barnum and Ronald Reagan. Collecting scammers and scoundrels, racists and rebels, as well as the purest genius, he writes to... more...
Living on the Edge in Leonardo?s Florenceby Gene Brucker
University of California Press 2005; US$ 40.00In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene Brucker explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice. The ten essays, three of which have never before been published, exhibit Brucker's graceful intelligence, his command of the archival sources, and his ability to make history accessible to anyone interested in this place and period. Whether he is writing about a case in the criminal archives, about a citation from Machiavelli, or the concept of modernity,... more...