Seth Koven & Sonya Michel 
Mothers of a New World [PDF ebook] 
Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain“s place in the world? …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

Between his inauguration and September 11, 2001, George W. Bush“s presidency appeared to lack focus. The rhetoric of the campaign trail did not readily translate into concrete policies and a closely …

Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathem …

This third volume in Michael Kettle“s series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had …

This presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and the differ …

Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is ‚development‘, the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of sustainabili …

For most of the twentieth century, tin was the site of new forms of international regulation which became a model for other commodities. The onset of the depression of the 1930s saw a collapse in com …

This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for adding a global dimension to students“ understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles …