Annotation Examines the weaknesses and strengths of the two basic positions in ethics: the man-centered model and the God-centered model for deciding between right and wrong behavior.
Annotation Analyzes the relationship between the Venezuelan government of Cipriano Castro and foreign governments and companies during the first decade of the 20th century.
Annotation Refutes the myth that the stock market was overpriced in 1929 and offers an explanation for the crash with implications for the current era of unparalleled stock market gains. Annotation Attempting to reveal the real causes of the 1929 market crash, Bierman refutes t…
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
The most comprehensive reference work in its field, this book covers a broad range of topics--military, politics, economics, society, painting, literature, music, cinema, dance, theater, sports, and daily life--related to France and her empire during World War II. Starting with …
Annotation Demonstrates how Louis XIV's attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how his actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin. Annotation Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the…
Annotation Many problems that plague modern American society, including disappearance of community, decaying inner cities, racial tensions, environmental degradation, declining civic engagement, and the increasing ineffectiveness of government, to name a few, are in many respect…
Wesseling, one of the Netherlands' most respected contemporary historians, offers a great variety of studies and essays on modern French history and historians. The work is unique in its combination of biographical and structural approaches.