African American Political History

This Companion is the ideal reference guide for students and teachers of Renaissance Europe. It fills a gap for anauthoritative but accessible resource on political, religious, social, economic as well as cultural developments in this crucial period. There is also detailed coverage of Italy, the Low..

Brings together the essential facts and figures about the Labour Party from its beginnings in 1900 to the spectacular 1997 general election victory and beyond. Harry Harmer provides chronologies on the key events in the party's history as well as Labour's relations with all the main groups, includin..

Brings together the essential facts and figures about the Labour Party from its beginnings in 1900 to the spectacular 1997 general election victory and beyond. Harry Harmer provides chronologies on the key events in the party's history as well as Labour's relations with all the main groups, includin..

This collection of essays focuses on the social, political and cultural transformations witnessed in Spain in the late 1970s. By combining top-down and bottom-up approaches, the volume offers a renewed approach to the peaceful (re-)birth of Spanish democracy and to those actors and factors that made..

The scope and arguments of this book make an innovative contribution to the historiography of modern South Asia, by focusing on the middle-class milieu which was the epicentre of this new political culture...

Drawing on history, economics, anthropology and sociology, the author argues that individuals, not social classes, have been the agents of social change. He looks at how increases in scale necessarily lead to an increasingly small elite gaining disproportionate power...

Drawing on history, economics, anthropology and sociology, the author argues that individuals, not social classes, have been the agents of social change. He looks at how increases in scale necessarily lead to an increasingly small elite gaining disproportionate power...

This text on representive bureaucracy covers topics such as: bureaucracy as a representative institution; bureaucratic power and the dilemma of administrative responsibility; and representative bureaucracy and the potential for reconciling bureaucracy and democracy...

This text on representive bureaucracy covers topics such as: bureaucracy as a representative institution; bureaucratic power and the dilemma of administrative responsibility; and representative bureaucracy and the potential for reconciling bureaucracy and democracy...

Keith Stringer looks at the relationship between government, warfare, and the rise and fall of the medieval states in this reassessment of Stephen's ability as a ruler...

Incorporating international and domestic relations and economic and cultural influences, Shennan surveys the rise of Prussia from the early 17th century to 1740, highlighting and evaluating the role of its rulers and their idiosyncracies...

This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been accounted for in a variety of ways. Dr Adelman examines these explanations and concludes that while ther..