Politics and Government

During Chinas transition from dynastic empire to nation-state, the crowd emerged as a salient trope. Intellectuals across the ideological spectrum ...

The internal dynamics driving the relationship between the state and local society during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties has both captivated ...

This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history o...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's mos...

This book presents a comprehensive institutional level analysis of a single public institution of higher education in the Republic of Kenya using t...

Michael M. Gunter explains why Recep Tayyip Erdoganthe current populist, charismatic, but divisive president of Turkey and arguably the most conseq...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.S. diplomatic, cultu...

The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fif...

This definitive book on the Sultans of Oman is a thrilling historical account of their action-packed battles, daring expeditions, epic triumphs and...

The Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga played a critical role in the history of his country for more than fifty years until his tragic death in 1940....

News headlines point to a world that has gone stark-raving mad. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Religious liberty is under attack. Gender identi...

Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in defeat are celebrated over winning unabashedly. The pursuit of excell...

Each federal employee takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, but none ...

This book creates (on the one hand) and explores (on the other hand) philosophies of African development suitable for Black sub-Saharan African cou...

Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the citizen is historically rare-and was among America's...

Anyone who experienced the attacks on September 11 cannot forget the imagery: the smoking, falling towers, the Pentagon smoldering, the Shanksville...

How Black Was My Valley is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political, i...

The greatest ideologically motivated violent threat to American democracy is a Church that has lost its soul.How did a Church that purports to foll...

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Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told.THE MATRIARCH tells the rive...

Michael Signer was the idealistic citizen-mayor of Charlottesville, hoping to use values such as civility and prudent governance to help guide his ...

President Trump's former White House Press Secretary and Communications Director analyzes our current political moment through the lens of politics...

[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern history of the rig...