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Explores how transformations in the perception of time shaped American conceptions of democratic society and modern nationhood. This study analyzes cultural artifacts ranging from clocks and scientific treatises to paintings and literary narratives to show how Americans made use of these ideas about time to create visions of American nationhood.

Veto rights can be a meaningful source of power only when leaving an organization is extremely unlikely. For example, small European states have periodically wielded their veto privileges to override the preferences of their larger, more economically and militarily powerful neighbors when negotiating European Union treaties, which require the unanimous consent of all EU members.

Reconstruction policy after the US Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was to save the Union with its republican institutions intact.

Mierzejewski provides the first English-language biography of Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), West Germany's first minister of economics and its second chancellor, who is generally considered the father of West Germany's "economic miracle"--a period of unprecedented job and income growth in the 1950s that contributed to the stabilization of Germany's first successful democracy.

Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession? At the Precipice answers these and related questions by focusing on the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honour during the late antebellum years.

Describes and analyses the steps taken by the Soviet government between 1962 and 1966 in modifying the organization and management of the Soviet economy. Zaleski, by virtue of his profound knowledge of how the Soviet planning system evolved cuts through a mass of detail to a clear picture of recent reforms. Originally published in 1967.

The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced their religion at this pivotal moment in their history.

Thirty-five years after its original publication, Mystical Dimensions of Islam still stands as the most valuable introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism. This edition brings to a new generation of readers Annemarie Schimmel's historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism, from its beginnings through the nineteenth century.

In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popu

Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this volume uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions and settlements that made the plantation South. It explores the myth of an ""Old"", changeless South which only papered over the struggles.

Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials and monitoring systems in the US and Germany.

In a new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.

Combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works.

Provides the first book-length commentary on Plutarch's Life of Sertorius, the work that has shaped most modern interpretations of the man and his career. By analysing Plutarch's method and purpose, C.F. Konrad develops a more critical and less eulogistic view of Sertorius' character and his actions. The Greek text of Plutarch's biography is included in this book.

America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960

"Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader.... Cutrer's research is impeccable, his prose vigorous, and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years." - Civil War

Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as US troops marched off to battle in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Exploring representations of servicemen in the press, government propaganda, museum exhibits, literature, film and television, this work traces the evolution of the combat soldier.

Rachel Devlin argues that postwar culture fostered a father-daughter relationship characterized by new forms of psychological intimacy. The pervasiveness of depictions of father-adolescent daughter eroticism on all levels of culture raises questions about the extent of girls' independence and the character of fatherhood during the 40s and 50s.

In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms "econocide".

An investigation of New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. It incorporates insights from history, literature, art, culture and geography to show how generations of New Englanders created a powerful collective identity.

On 6-8 March 1862, an early pitched battle of the Civil war took place in north-western Arkansas. The Federal victory at Pea Ridge altered the balance of power in the Mississippi region, ensuring Union control of this area. This text offers an account of this significant encounter.

This second volume of the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's published essays draws together 20 of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule.

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence

From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago

The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighbourhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighbourhoods still harbour the signs of continued, systemic racial inequalities.

Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity