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…

For 300 years, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the power of the Vikings dominate western Europe. Their voyaging extended westwards to America and as far south as the Mediterranean and North Africa. As well as being…

Never before has interest in Ireland and things Irish been so widespread. The Irish have achieved a new wold status exemplified by overseas business entrepreneurs, oceans of writers, filmmakers, and musicians, internationally…

On April 1, 1946, shortly after sunrise, the town of Hilo on the island of Hawai'i was devastated by a scrim, giant tidal waves. Traveling 2,300 miles from the Aleutian Islands in less than five hours, the waves struck without…

"LET CHINA SLEEP, FOR WHEN SHE WAKES, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China…

China's gigantische project op het gebied van social engineering heeft wereldwijd de aandacht getrokken, zowel vanwege de dwingende handhaving van strikte geboortegrenzen als vanwege de opvallende veranderingen die hebben…

Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the…

Why do some welfare state crises trigger comprehensive reforms, while others subside without having exhibited much effect? This book argues that crises are deliberately constructed as an imperative for change. Under certain…