This incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic...więcej »
This is one of the few works in any language to concentrate on the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German Federal Republic. By studying a series of legislative case histories of bills presented b...więcej »
This book analyzes in detail the argument that Aeschylus was a great poet whose views on religious and political thought were naive and primitive. The author cites relevant evidence to discount thi...więcej »
Collected in this volume are the most distinguished addresses of Smith--scientist, inventor, educator, religious leader, and humanist. He presents his philosophy of education and raises and attempt...więcej »
This intriguing study shows that a religious revolt, spurred by deep divisions within the church, followed the princely and parlementary rebellions of the French civil war known as the Fronde. The ...więcej »
This comprehensive story of the counterrevolutinary newspapers that flourished in Paris during the First Republic suggests a new interpretation of the connection between the French Enlightenment, t...więcej »
Contributing to the debate about the nature of politics in Weimar Germany, this study supports scholarship emphasizing that inept attempts to solve the intractable problems of stabilization contrib...więcej »
By examining the textile, clothing, coal, automobile, and steel industries, Vittoz shows that a variety of interest-group pressures were responsible for many New Deal labor reforms. The author dem...więcej »
The building of the wall in 1961 occupies the central position in Dulles's book. But she has prefaced it with an excellent review of Berlin's tangled history since the end of World War II with its ...więcej »
In 1800, shoes in the United States were made by craftsmen, each trained to create an entire shoe. A century later, shoes were mass-produced in factories employing dozens of machines and specializ...więcej »
This book deals with the determination of the portion of net income attributable to a state in which a business firm engaging in interstate commerce is located. It studies this problem as it relate...więcej »
Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America fr...więcej »
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of furthe...więcej »
This detailed study of the Wilmot Proviso controversy of the late 1840s analyzes the debate that drew the theoretical battle lines concerning slavery in the territories and that led eventually to t...więcej »
The authors present a new theory of decision-making that provides modes that can be used to describe such widely diverse political entities as the British cabinet, a Quaker meeting, or a village me...więcej »
This book, written from the author's personal knowledge of the district, is a picture of the fabulous and violent past of Pennsylvania's famed coke region and of its uncertain present. In tracing i...więcej »
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Sme...więcej »
This is a heartening and inspiring story of the regeneration of the southern piedmont region after the desolation of war and reconstruction had all but destroyed its economy and disrupted its socia...więcej »
This book is a powerful and convincing attack on modern mechanized thinking, psychology, and progress. Hertz believes that the bourgeois emphasis on the external material must be focused on the inw...więcej »
Seidenberg sees the history of man as a conflict between instinct and intelligence. He regards change as a temporary condition in the development of mankind, and explores in this bold and far-reach...więcej »