John Girling 
France [PDF ebook] 
Political and Social Change

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black»s research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at it …

By their nature, democracies clearly have greater constraints than autocratic regimes on their freedom of action as they have to meet constitutional, legal and moral criteria in their use of force. T …

Forcing a fundamental rethinking of the Asian American elite, many of whom have attained top positions in business, government, academia, sciences, and the arts, this book will be certain to generate …

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It describes in extensive and colourful detail the way people of all ranks of society …

Modern European History brings together a unique selection of documents covering the period from 1871 to 2000. The collection is organised by topic, and a clear historical context and chronological c …

Working Detroit documents the events in the city»s ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane. Babson recounts Detroit»s odyssey from a bulwark of the ‘open …

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine …

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our ‘common ground’ – that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity. In …

The book draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades, and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. It adopts both an analytical and chronological …