Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1

Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships

Edited by Hans Maier

We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and...

Published October 14th 2004 by Routledge.

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FDR and Lucy

Lovers and Friends

By Resa Willis

The last face FDR saw before he died was that of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress of thirty-one years. Although Eleanor, his children, and the...

Published September 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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British Politics, 1910-1935

The Crisis of the Party System

By David Powell

This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against the background of upheavals such...

Published September 9th 2004 by Routledge.

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Athenian Democracy

By John Thorley

The fifth century BC witnessed not only the emergence of one of the first democracies, but also the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. John Thorley...

Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Politics and Society

The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885-1913

By Peter Gordon

Louisa Mary, Lady Knightley of Fawnsley, was a woman of unusually wide interests, especially in the field of public affairs. In an age when few...

Published August 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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Revolutions in World History

By Michael D. Richards

This broad comparative survey focuses on five big case studies, starting with the English Revolution in the seventeenth century, and going on to the Mexican,...

Published April 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921

Edited by D. George Boyce, Alan O'Day

This wide-ranging collection brings together multiple perspectives on a key period in Irish history, from the Fenian Rising in 1867 to the creation of the...

Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Catalan Nationalism

Francoism, Transition and Democracy

By Montserrat Guibernau

Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does...

Published January 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee

By Hyung-A Kim

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Asian Democracy in World History

By Alan T. Wood

Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian...

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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