'From Protest to Parties' provides a unique window into the politics of mobilization and protest in closed political regimes, shedding light on how the choices of political elites affects organizational development--Résumé de l'éditeur.
A fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. --Publisher's description
Can we conceptualise a kind of citizenship that need not be of a nation-state, but might be of a variety of political frameworks? Bringing together political theory with debates about European integration, international relations and the changing nature of citizenship, this book…
Parties of the extreme right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful right-wing ext…
Focusing on the U.S., British and Australian contexts, Object Matters addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives and in particular the lives of adolescents. Addressing AIDS public health campaigns, sex education policies, sex research on adolescence and deba…
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
"Examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period. Takes a chronological and global view to the discussion of evolving consumer practice and culture between 1500 and 1800"
Examining Nietzsche, Burckhardt, Mann and a wide range of visual sources, Martin Ruehl shows how German historians and writers invented the modern concept of the Renaissance, paying close attention to the social and political stakes of the German controversies about the role Ita…
"This is a major new study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the cen…
Introduction: Revisiting Celalzade Mustafa Part One. Celalzade Mustafa and the New Ottoman Empire in Early Modern Eurasia The Formative Years (1490-1523) The Secretary's Progress (1523-1534) The Empire and Its Chancellor (1534-1553) Towards the End (1553-1567) Part Two. Narratin…
This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma -- announced, in February 2000 at CERN. Following th…