In deze baanbrekende studie wordt de politiek-culturele benadering, die de laatste twee decennia in Nederland en daarbuiten heeft geleid tot een belangrijke vernieuwing en herwaardering van de politieke geschiedschrijving, voor…

Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of…

The Jacobite story is more than the tale of Bonnie Prince Charlie, his unlucky father and grandfather and a handful of battles - the Boyne, Sheriffmuir, Preston, Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden. It is also one of history's…

The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, fought between the pride of the British Empire at the height of its world-wide power and two small rural republics at the tip of Africa, provoked remarkably vehement reactions not only in Great…

Geen enkel onderzoek kan de breedte en diepte weergeven van het anti-Amerikanisme dat Europa de afgelopen jaren heeft overspoeld. Van ultraconservatieve Beierse grootmoeders tot dertigjarige socialistische activisten in…

That the publics of Western democracies are becoming increasingly disenchanted with their political institutions is part of the conventional wisdom in Political Science. This trend is often equated with the expectation that all…

What is the West? Whose idea is it? And why is it at the centre of Political and cultural debate across the globe? This book provides the first truly international study of the idea of the West. Drawing on sources from Russia to…

​America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 is the first post-Cold War analysis of the origins of the Soviet-American confrontation and its extension from the central arena in Europe to the periphery in the Third World. It…

The essays in this book constitute an analytic survey of the last two centuries of Afro-Bahian history, with a focus squarely on the difficult relationship between Afro- and Euro-Bahia and on the continual Afro-Bahian struggle to…

During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the separation of stare and church was an issue of great importance for liberal politicians and parties in European politics. Liberals all over Europe tried to encourage the…

Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane…

Modern Britain is a nation shaped by wars. The boundaries of its separate parts are the outcome of conquest and resistance. The essence of its identity are the warrior heroes, both real and imagined, who still capture the national…