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Towns Between Empires

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governanc…

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John Carson
The Measure of Merit

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear …

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Markus Hinterleitner
Blaming Bureaucracy

Political life in advanced democracies is steeped in negativity towards bureaucracy. Politicians, parties, and the media routinely blame the bureaucracy for all kinds of political, social, or economic pro…

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Xia Shi
Concubines in Public

Moving beyond familiar narratives of abolition, Xia Shi introduces the contentious public presence of concubines in Republican China. Drawing on a rich variety of historical sources, Shi highlights the sh…

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Stephen Azzi, Patrice Dutil
Statecraft

Statecraft delves into the intricate relationships between Canadian prime ministers and their cabinets since Confederation. Through twenty critical essays, leading scholars systematically analyse the chal…

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Philipp A Schroeder
Putting Courts Under Pressure

Our understanding of the interaction between courts and political branches in modern democracies is incomplete. Courts are traditionally seen as passive but moderating forces in politics, with lawmakers e…

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Richard Parker
The Crossing

"A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of Nort…

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Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich
German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings

Public History in Historical Perspective

German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs--enchanted stones,…

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Shiuon Chu
Reinventing Examination and the State in Twentieth-Century China and Taiwan

Reinventing Examination and the State traces the ideological evolution of civil service and state-organized educational examinations in the twentieth-century China and Taiwan, showing how modern examinati…

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Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change in Africa

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a theoretical framework originally formulated to study US public policy, has been widely applied to western countries and has advanced policy process scholarship ov…

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Robert Wellington
Versailles Mirrored

A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Hakan Seckinelgin
The Armenian Genocide and Turkey

How is official denial of the Armenian genocide maintained in Turkey? In this book, Hakan Seckinelgin investigates the mechanisms by which denial of the events of 1915 are reproduced in official discourse…

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Robert Wellington
Versailles Mirrored

A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.

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Ben Rhodes
All We Say

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Timesbestselling a…

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Pelle Dragsted,
Nordic Socialism

In recent years, the Nordic countries have been the envy of the world for their economic success, their institutional stability, and their consistently high levels of social happiness. But are they social…

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Stephen Azzi, Patrice Dutil
Statecraft

Statecraft delves into the intricate relationships between Canadian prime ministers and their cabinets since Confederation. Through twenty critical essays, leading scholars systematically analyse the chal…

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Alfred Runte
Trains for Nature

Discover how America's abandoned passenger trains hold the key to preserving our nation's scenic treasures and wilderness landscapes.In this timely and provocative work, renowned environmental historian A…

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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Mark J Crowley
Post Office Women at War, 1939-45

The Post Office was central to Britain's effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sen…

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