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Using decisions by the US Supreme Court as a framework, this book explores the relationship between church and state in the United States since 1945. It shows how the constitutional underpinnings of church-state debates shaped the political, economic, and social debate on the issue, and also explores debates about religion and American society.

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Featuring new archival material, and unpicking the relationship between the CIA, the US government and the Soviet Union, The CIA and the Soviet Bloc sheds new light on espionage, the Cold War, US diplomatic history and the history of 20th century Europe.

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Top scholars contribute to this book of essays on the complex series of battles and political maneuvers for control of Kentucky during the Civil War.

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This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that shows how politics, public perception, geography, and logistics shaped the course of military operations in the East.

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"William J. Bolton's Civil War journal is especially valuable since he served throughout most of the Civil War, steadily rising through the ranks from captain to colonel with the 51st Pennsylvania. Bol"

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The Civil War on Film will inform high school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy.

The nations years of civil war were painful, destructive, and unpleasant.

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This collection of annotated primary documents from the American Civil War presents a wide range of opinions, North and South, on the major political and military controversies of the time.

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This penetrating sociological study of the causes, consequences, and historical meaning of the civil wars in mid- and late-nineteenth century Chile argues that they were abortive bourgeois revolutions fought out among rival segments of Chile's dominant class. Indeed, it concludes that, in general, not only class but also intraclass struggles can be

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The states of the Confederacy in 1861 fielded many units of volunteer troops wearing a variety of uniforms, often reflecting foreign influences. This book studies the archival and pictorial evidence for the infantry, cavalry and artillery of Louisiana and Texas, featuring illustrations and early photographic portraits.

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Part of a series of six titles, this fourth title studies the archival and pictorial evidence for the infantry, cavalry and artillery of Virginia - the heart of the Confederacy and its richest, most populous and militarily strongest state; and of Arkansas, which, despite its much smaller population, fielded several interesting units.

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The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War is dominated by a limited number of photographs of troops wearing the gray and butternut of the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This text examines the variety of uniforms worn by Tennessee and North Carolina militia and volunteers brought together in Confederate field armies.

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This volume explodes the myth of the Conquest of Mexico by examining what factors led to the emergence of the Spanish citizen-soldier. It discusses Cortes and his highly-trained men, as well as their finely-tuned killing methods, and offers a "soldier's eye view" of the Conquest.

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This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present.

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William Medland's The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is outstanding and necessary to a good understanding of the missile crisis. The Daily Mississippian

A wealth of books exist on the Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath but none examines the different historiographical views of what the crisis meant.

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Under Reagan the US was directly involved in the revolutions which were sweeping the Central Americas- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -and in Nicaragua Reagan armed the Contras who fought the Sandinistas. This book seeks to show how the left within the US reacted and protested against these events.

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Since Britain's occupation of Cyprus in 1878 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, ethnic rivalry has dominated the island's divided history. Bringing together material which scrutinises relations between Cyprus and Europe, this book offers an insight into the troubled political conflict of the island.