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In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the ”polder model” often used to describe economic and social policymaking based o …

Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the eld …

Mc Lynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a c …

The Heian period (794-1186AD) of Japanese history – the setting of The Tale of Genji – was an era of unsurpassed refinement in art and literature, in which women played a unique role. Dominated by th …

First published in 1969. This is the second edition of this colection of studies on Ethiopia, with a new introduction by F. Nnabuenyi Ugonna of the University of Ibadan in 1966. …

This volume demonstrates the application of the constructivist approach to the analysis of foreign policy (i.e. states” actions in a world of states). Part I introduce constructivism for foreign pol …

David Bonner presents an historical and contemporary legal analysis of UK governmental use of executive measures, rather than criminal process, to deal with national security threats. The work examin …

Daniel Goldhagen”s study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As s …

Few periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as well as the time in which America emerged as an impe …

Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion …