Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's…

Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short…

The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book…

This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks…

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.

Much of the existing…

This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged,…

The book examines the social and social psychological processes that led up to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It works from a…

The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations,…

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for…

Previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, this is the first book to link colonialism and genocide in a systematic way in…