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Understanding Central America
Westview Press 2009; US$ 38.00Authoritative, comprehensive coverage of Central America?s political evolution, including revolution, rebellion, and regime change as well as democratic consolidation. more...
Mad as Hell
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95?I?m mad as hell, and I?m not going to take it anymore!? The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in the 1970s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. From the disgrace of Watergate to the humiliation of the Iran hostage crisis, the American Dream seemed to be falling apart. In this magisterial new history, Dominic... more...
Stalin's Genocides
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 26.95Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument... more...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 20.00About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 18.00Explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century. more...
Munitions of the Mind
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest definition it has also been part of a process of persuasion at the heart of human communication. Stone more...
Signing Their Lives Away
Quirk Books 2010; US$ 19.95In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence—yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic document—and... more...
After Number 10
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 100.00Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first book to look at the lives, political roles and influence of former prime ministers, Theakston analyzes all the former prime ministers from Walpole in the 18th century to Blair today. more...
Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 25.00This comprehensive history examines the varied manifestations of political violence in Europe's extremely violent twentieth century. more...
The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 64.00Robert Mason investigates how Republicans tackled the problem of their party's minority status from the Great Depression until the Reagan years. more...









