For sale in CIS only! One of Europe's smallest countries, with a population of less than 2 million, Slovenia has an ancient and distinct national culture. It emerged in 1991 after fighting a brief war of independence to leave behind the remnants of...

For sale in CIS only! A plethora of economic, diplomatic, cultural, and other highly pragmatic linkages are making the 'Asianisation' of Asia a reality. Davidson, demonstrates in this book how the powerful connections that are being forged by the ve...

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...

Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons – for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East – but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than...

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...

This is the fourth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work – indeed, "Colledge" (as it is universally known) is still the first stop for anyone wanting more inform...

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...