Richard Butterwick draws on diplomatic and political correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, pastoral letters proclamations, records of local assemblies, and other sources to explore a volatile relationship between altar, throne, and nobility in Poland at the end of Europe…
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African …
Politics of Violence uses ex-militant testimonies from Cyprus and Italy to explore the ways in which political violence is political, the functionality of violence, and the post-conflict consolidation of political authority"
In this book Stanley Aronowitz asks "What is left of the Left?" How is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz provides an analysis of the historical left, arguing that today's Left must envision not merel…
Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and conti…
This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." Investigating the history and tactics of major movements of the past and today's global justice and human r…