Political Science

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a ...

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its securit...

Book by McCormick, R.E., Tollison, Robert D.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsIncome Inequality

Imagine This: A Mere Century Ago, The Purchasing Power Of An Average American Was One-tenth Of What It Is Today. But What Will It Take To Sustain That Growt...

Two Noted Professors Offer Easily Remembered Rules For Using History Effectively In Day-to-day Management Of Governmental And Corporate Affairs To Avoid Cos...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Once A Sleeping Giant, China Today Is The World's Fastest Growing Economy -- The Leading Manufacturer Of Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, And Digital Cameras ...

All Nations Make Themselves Up As They Go Along, But Not All Make Themselves Up In The Same Way. In This Study, Alon Confino Explores How Germans Turned Nat...

Alan Dawley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-386) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Scie...

This book divides the time period since the colonization of America to the present into five parts; within each section, Dolbeare and Cummings have selected...

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible Ame...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the...

Foreword / John W. Hall -- Prospectus And Summary / William W. Lockwood -- Part 1: The Eve Of Modernization -- The Tokugawa Heritage / E. Sydney Crawcour --...

In November 1937, Ishii Itaro, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Bureau of Asiatic Affairs, reflected bitterly on the decline of the ministry's influ...

Why does the United States go to war? America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the...

With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still mi...

Argues That A Global Conspiracy Has Enslaved Americans With Poor Education, A Misguided Mass Media, And A Buffet Of Prescription Drugs, And Issues A Call To...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

A founding work of political philosophy with expanded introduction and added explanatory matter. Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics &...

Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott's classic chronicle has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced, and accessible account of the dr...

the Definitive Book On China's Uneasy Transformation Into An Economic And Political Superpower By Two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Reporters. An ...

Review\“Superb….[Continetti] brings an insider’s nuance and a historian’s dispassion to the ambitious task of writing the American right’s biograp...

“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | "As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should...

Remember When Everything Was Looking Up? When The Government Was Running At A Surplus, Pollution Was Disappearing, Peace Was Breaking Out In The Middle East...

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to u...

Book by Blacker, CarmenCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Political ScienceHistory & Theory

Japan's Informal Empire In China, 1895-1937 : An Overview / Peter Duus -- The Changing Pattern Of Sino-japanese Trade, 1884-1937 / Mizoguchi Toshiyuki -- Ja...

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past f...

Alexander Wendt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 379-419) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyGeneral

if Moore's Earlier Work stupid White Men Didn't Shake Up The Bush Administration, This Latest Exposé Is Another Shout For Attention. Moore, Whose Credits I...

Looking at the historical evolution of the central political institutions, and the social milieu surrounding them, this book helps to explain Britain's pree...

The political and linguistic writings of America's leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language. Library...

This Text Focuses On A Selection Of Case-studies Drawn From Events In The Habsburg, Romanov And Ottoman Empires, As Well As The Nation-states That Arose Fro...

Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the ...

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in da...

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently pr...

Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But the history of suffrage in the U.S. is, in fact,the stor...

In Her Memoir, Power Offers An Urgent Response To The Question What Can One Person Do?--and A Call For A Clearer Eye, A Kinder Heart, And A More Open And Ci...

The State of the Union is no ordinary speech on at least two accounts: it is a fundamental statement of how a president approaches current policy debates, a...

Discourse On The Sciences And Arts -- Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality -- Discourse On Political Economy -- On The Social Contract. Jean-jacques Rousse...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the...

The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspi...

For Many Centuries, The World Of Islam Was In The Forefront Of Human Achievement - The Foremost Military And Economic Power In The World, The Leader In The ...

this Text Provides Students And Scholars With A Sense Of The Distinct Philosophies And Political Cultures That Can Shape Different Forms Of Democracy. Wia...