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The Fall of the House of Labor
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 25.00The changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action. more...
God Interrupted
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 24.95Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In ... more...
The History of Mexico
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 54.95The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from the pre-colonial times to the present, and includes... more...
Diana, A Cultural History
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 48.00This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class,... more...
Roger Casement
The Lilliput Press 2011; US$ 18.94Séamas Ó Sìocháin has written what is the most voluminous biography of Casement and a significant contribution to an understanding of his life.' Frank Callinan, The Irish Times Roger Casement is among the most written about and mythologized figures in Irish history, yet has never, until now, been accorded such an impartial, full-scale documentary... more...
No One Left to Lie to
Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 10.19In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions - of liberals and conservatives alike... more...
The Rise And Fall Of Apartheid
Jonathan Ball Publishers 2010; US$ 30.63On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa will never be the same again after this.' Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying... more...
Auschwitz
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2013; US$ 9.99In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name, now synonymous with mankinds darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz.Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined... more...
A Cold Days in Hell
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 32.00Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison... more...
The United States since 1980
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 18.00Describes the sharp right turn the US has taken following Ronald Reagans election in 1980. more...









