Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800 1850
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International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it...
Rhodri Morgan: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster
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This is an entertaining and candid account of the sometimes turbulent political life of Rhodri...
Lincoln's Notebooks: Letters, Speeches, Journals, and Poems
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In addition to being one of the most admired and successful politicians in history, Abraham Lincoln...
Gandhi: An Anti-Biography of a Great Soul
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This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French...
Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics
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Henry M. Jackson ranks as one of the great legislators in American history. With a Congressional...
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
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How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong...
On Cinema
Glauber Rocha, Ismail Xavier, Stepanie Dennison and Charlotte Smith
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Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White...
Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story
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Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English...
Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964
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Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian...
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