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Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a…
Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a…
Essays on cultural change, economic reform, political development and foreign policy initiated by the 1959 revolution in Cuba - analyses educational policy, health services, food security, social status of women, and evolution of the Catholic Church; examines the emergence of po…
Ute Daniel erzählt eine faszinierende Geschichte vom Widerspruch zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der parlamentarischen Demokratie und fragt, wie diese Regierungsform so umgestaltet werden kann, dass ihr Ziel nicht vor allem darin besteht, handlungsfähige Regierungen zu bilden…
"The only first-hand report on contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, by veteran correspondent Richard Gott, places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. This new edition has a chapter on the attempted…
What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama? How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini? How is a revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar to one founded to a signi…
"The South Caucasus has traditionally been a playground of contesting empires. This region, on the edge of Europe, is associated in Western minds with ethnic conflict and geopolitical struggles. In August 2008, yet, another war broke out in this distant European periphery as Rus…
This book boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. While retaining all the main points of analysis and interpretation, the author has reduced the full complement of statistics, sources, and technical data contained in the original edition to …
