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The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason

Oddr Snorrason

• Hardcover | Engels | Islandica | nr. 52
• Oddr Snorrason, a Benedictine monk in northern Iceland in the late twelfth century, composed a landmark Latin biography of the legendary Norwegian kin... Lees meer

A Europe Made of Money

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Money
• A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Dru... Lees meer

Democracy's Children

John McGowan

• Hardcover | Engels
• How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan s... Lees meer

The State and American Foreign Economic Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• How has the U.S. government made the nation's foreign economic policy over the last hundred years? Social scientists have traditionally presented the ... Lees meer

International Governance

Oran R Young

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• How can the global environment be safeguarded in the absence of a world government? In the vanguard of efforts to address this critical question, Oran... Lees meer

Decadent Genealogies

Barbara Spackman

• Paperback | Engels
• Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic... Lees meer

How Russia Really Works

Alena V Ledeneva

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Society After Socialism
• During the Soviet era, blat --the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures--w... Lees meer

The Oldest Vocation

Clarissa W Atkinson

• Paperback | Engels
• According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or ... Lees meer

The Order of Genocide

Scott Straus

• Paperback | Engels
• The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Ye... Lees meer

Civilizing the Margins

• Paperback | Engels
• Southeast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate minority ethnic groups into the nation-state. The auth... Lees meer

Russia on the Edge

Edith W Clowes

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Paperbacks
• Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historic... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Carole Levin, John Watkins

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds , Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently a... Lees meer

Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom

Norman Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Myth and Poetics
• Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful ... Lees meer

On Divine Foreknowledge

Luis de Molina

• Paperback | Engels
• Luis de Molina was a leading figure in the remarkable sixteenth-century revival of Scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula. Molina is best known for hi... Lees meer

Japan's Postwar History

Gary D Allinson

• Paperback | Engels
• Reviews of the first edition-- "Allinson promises a comprehensive synthesis... that integrates analysis of political, economic and social topics.... T... Lees meer

Race, Money, and the American Welfare State

Michael K Brown

• Paperback | Engels
• The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating social problems confronting African Americans while failing to improve their economic lot.... Lees meer

Gender and Class in Modern Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Gender figured significantly in the industrial, social, and political transformations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Germany, and Russia. ... Lees meer

War, Revenue, and State Building

Sheldon Pollack

• Hardcover | Engels
• In a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies ... Lees meer

Friendship and Community

Brian Patrick McGuire

• Paperback | Engels
• "I assume that historical sources can convey human feeling, even though it is fruitless to psychologize individual friends or to reach complete explan... Lees meer

Romania's Holy War

Grant T Harward

• Hardcover | Engels | Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
• Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T... Lees meer

Radical Resilience

Othon Alexandrakis

• Paperback | Engels
• Radical Resilience relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies,... Lees meer

Barack Obama

Burton I Kaufman

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrate... Lees meer

Kant's Theory of Justice

Allen Rosen

• Paperback | Engels
• In this accessible interpretation of Kant's political philosophy, Allen D. Rosen concentrates on the relation between justice, political authority (th... Lees meer

The Limits of Autobiography

Leigh Gilmore

• Paperback | Engels
• Memoirs in which trauma takes a major--or the major--role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"--tex... Lees meer