Robert English: 5 books

Book cover of Russia and the Idea of the West

Russia and the Idea of the West

Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War

by Robert English
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2000

An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely...
Book cover of Canada 1900-1945
by Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond, John English
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990

Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and contentious survey, Robert Bothwell, lan Drummond, and John English explore the political and economic forces that shaped this era of change. As...
Book cover of Undercurrents

Undercurrents

An Anthology of What Lies Beneath

by Lisa Mangum, Robert J. McCarter, Gregory D. Little
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear—and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented...
Book cover of Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
Book cover of Canada Since 1945

Canada Since 1945

Revised Edition

by Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond, John English
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989

From the preface: "A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and...
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