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The fiscal crisis facing the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this book, an inter-disciplinary group of scholars explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941, attempting to understand the political, social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime.

A close examination of what came to be known among collars of any colour as 'the labour problem' with the railroad strikes of the 1870s. The contributors cover the theory and practice of the American labour movement, the promise and demise of industrial jurisprudence, the law of collective bargaining, workplace contractualism, and shop-floor reality in the United States auto industry.

This collection discusses what it means to be 'European', covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics, law, religion, culture, literature and affectivity, this broad account shows how a distinctive European identity has grown over the centuries, and looks at the European Union's future.

Though most governments in Southeast Asia are considered authoritarian, elections have been a feature for many decades. This volume examines the countries that have conducted multi-party elections, identifying common and distinguishing political features.

Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current impact and assess its worth.

This essay collection explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities. The authors consider how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected individual autonomy and associational life.

Some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment, with the primary focus on writers such as Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon.

This collection of essays, first published in 1995, suggests how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than legend and the media would have us believe. By observing a realistic and human genius, the book portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.

This volume provides a historical introduction to the question of whether Russian state and society can be reformed successfully for Russia to become a full-fledged members of the European community of nations, or whether its attempts at modernization are destined to suffer cyclical failures.

Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions.

Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions.

Traditionally, the study of the Middle East has focused on Islam and on the regime, without accounting for the contrary forces of scepticism, liberty, and creativity. This volume examines how Middle Eastern peoples in the past two centuries lived and flourished outside the structures of established religion and the state.

Leading specialists on South Asia assess the progress and problems of India and Pakistan, their foreign and defense policies, and their relations with the United States.

Between the Blocs, published in 1990, examines the phenomenon of Europe's neutral analysis of the phenomenon of Europe's natural and non-aligned states. It features many of the pre-eminent scholars and political figures who have crafted the shape and meaning of the modern policy of neutrality and nonalignment in contemporary Europe.

Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period.

This volume unites the work theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenment's effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, and Eliot.

An episodic history of the revolutionary effect of television news reporting on politics, current events and the print media in the United States over the past four decades.

With contributions from both Russia and the West, this new book aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicion and fear, that of Russian foreign policy. The book claims that the tsar was directly responsible for the formulation of most foreign policy and reveals the complex of motives behind his decisions.

This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analysing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority.

This essay collection explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities. The authors consider how the character of city life shifted after the political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this shift affected individual autonomy and associational life.

Though most governments in Southeast Asia are considered authoritarian, elections have been a feature for many decades. This volume examines the countries that have conducted multi-party elections, identifying common and distinguishing political features.

This collection of essays is the first to examine the impact of the French Revolution. The legacy of the French Revolution extends far beyond the borders of France or even Europe-the ramifications of the Revolution of 1789 are truly global and continue to have an impact today.

This collection of essays addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The approach is comparative, focusing on developments in Britain and the United States.

Although he is best remembered as a man of war, the primary focus of Churchill's long career was his attempt to keep and restore peace throughout the world. In this book, scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and South Africa examine this other facet of his statesmanship.

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the historical process and the conflict on Northern Ireland and Ireland. This book will be useful to the international scholarly community and by the interested general reader.

The fiscal crisis facing the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this book, an inter-disciplinary group of scholars explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941, attempting to understand the political, social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime.

Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays provides a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy, while offering fresh departures for ethically informed, interdisciplinary scholarship.

Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays provides a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy, while offering fresh departures for ethically informed, interdisciplinary scholarship.

This collection discusses what it means to be 'European', covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics, law, religion, culture, literature and affectivity, this broad account shows how a distinctive European identity has grown over the centuries, and looks at the European Union's future.

This book analyzes the social impact of the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.