Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain. The Building of the Nation-State, 1780-1931, Paperback - ***

Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between...

Explains the very particular characteristics of Spanish infrastructure policy. The author places the historical perspective in contemporary viewpoi...

Offers a short history of Spain during a crucial period, the reign of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). This book provides fresh insight into the period as...

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie G...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

Contributor(s): Author: David TysonThe Niagara Escarpment is the most significant land form in southern Ontario, designated a UNESCO World Biospher...

In Conservatism and Liberalism in the Christian Faith: Toward a Moderate Approach, William E. Hull-scholar, educator, pastor, preacher, mentor-prov...

Reducere. The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive S...

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Reducere. When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue--the longes...

Declares the end of the nation state as a political proposition predicting the dissolution of the state as an organizing framer of politics.

Reducere. DescriptionWe live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Maria, Ph.D. ThomasIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 234 x 160...

'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the ...

Reducere. In Bear Run, Pennsylvania, a home unlike any other perches atop a waterfall. The water's tune plays differently in each of its sunlight-dappled roo...

50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this 'state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand ...

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition ...

Brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the 'other', taking ...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonja (African Leadership Centre, King's College London, UK) TheronNumber of pages: 216Collection: P...

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and ...

Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they ...

A history of the Alpha movement - how 'God's own spin doctor' repackaged Christianity for a contemporary age.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s):...

Reducere. Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered 'Sleepless.' Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the geneti...

Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1875, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company began taking ste...

'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that...

Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Myron MagnetIllustrati...

DescriptionFirst published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written by Canada's Mazo de la Roche. In The ...

Until the Stormont Assembly collapsed in 2017, Northern Ireland had often been promoted in mainstream media as a newly prosperous, modern, post-con...

This book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil liberties, h...

This Element compares the adaptations of the 1996 and 2018 versions of West Side Story in detail, illuminating issues encountered when translating ...

Reducere. I.A.A.Thompson, Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is the author of War and Government in Habsburg Spain, a seminal study of the impa...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

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Publisher: Gilgamesh PublishingAuthor(s): Baria AlamuddineIllustration(s): 15 Diagrams and graphsNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

DescriptionBuilding the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts ...

Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, ...

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Reducere. Venture back to the Boston of the 1800s, when Back Bay was just a wide expanse of water to the west of the Shawmut Peninsula and merchants peddled ...

A reassessment of the regency of Queen Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) during the minority of her son, King Carlos II of Spain, offering a new persp...

The international community has committed to ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030.

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Lamont DeHaven KingIllustration(s): maps; mapsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2006Dimensions:...

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Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 248Collection: MuseumPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackE...