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A conceptual analysis of the impact of the socio-political conditions in Egypt on ordinary citizens and identity.

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This memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachv, a cofounder of the Peoples Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachv experienced one of the penal colonys most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document.

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The first of four volumes providing a full collection of these advertisements, this volume covers Pennsylvania from 1729 to 1760, while the following volumes will cover Pennsylvania from 1761 to 1820, South Carolina, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts.

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Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex is the first in-depth study of the Open Skies policy and essential reading for historians of the Cold War and the International Relations of the United States.

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Ahead of the sixtieth anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age, this revisionist study examines the development of space policy during the Eisenhower administration. It challenges traditional scholarly assessments and argues that President Eisenhowers space policies were proactive and activist rather than passive and reactive to Soviet successes.

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Ahead of the sixtieth anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age, this revisionist study examines the development of space policy during the Eisenhower administration. It challenges traditional scholarly assessments and argues that President Eisenhowers space policies were proactive and activist rather than passive and reactive to Soviet successes.

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An analysis of Dwight D. Eisenhower's career before his rise to fame. It examines his intellectual ideas concerning politics, military strategy, and history in the decades between the wars, and details Eisenhower's quest to make himself the best officer in the US Army.

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This book examines the postwar memoir fight over the broad front versus the single thrust strategy, the Allied advance on the Rhine, and the British call for a ground-forces commander other than General Eisenhower.

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When Dwight Eisenhower ran for president he was so confident that he could organize the Executive Office more effectively than his predecessor that he made it an issue in the campaign of 1952. When he entered office he found that Congress had given him just two months to reorganize the Council of Economic Advisers or see it dissolved.

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The Somoza regime, unlike its contemporaries, chose to utilize American institutions and American preferences to subvert the latter's power rather than reinforce it.

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This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. -- .

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Accounts of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life provides a rare glimpse into women's lives during the medieval period, and though an admittedly extraordinary figure, we are able to draw some general conclusions about marriage and motherhood.

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Using her own words, personal documents, past perspectives, and new biographical research, this book introduces young adult readers to this American influencer within her own historical context and connected to contemporary issues.

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Analyzes the election reforms introduced in Nigeria since 2011 as well as their impact on the outcome of elections.

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Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany. -- .

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Why do some elites survive while others do not How do certain institutions manage to preserve their importance in the face of crises, instability, and change How does a democratic society legitimize elitist institutions Combining the use of important social theories--particularly those of Mosca, Schumpeter, Tocqueville, and Pareto--with empirica

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Originally published in 1996 and now available in paperback, a historical account of Anglo-Irish history between 1560 and 1602.

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In this title, Patrick Collinson examines the religious beliefs both of Elizabeth and of Shakespeare, as well as redrawing the main features of the political and religious structure of the reign.

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Explores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain -- .

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Catherine the Great's treatment of the Russian nobility has usually been regarded as dictated by court politics or her personal predilections. Citing new archival sources, Robert Jones shows that her redefinition and reorganization of the Russian nobility were in fact motivated by reasons of state. In 1762, Peter III had "emancipated" the nobility