Macmillan imprint: 15028 books
by Professor Paul Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
In serving more than fifty years in public life, Palmerston placed his stamp upon nineteenth-century Britain. Born and bred an eighteenth-century aristocrat, he initially seemed out of place in a world stirred by the twin forces of the French and Industrial Revolutions, and more suited to the dandified...
Young People’s Voting Behaviour in Europe
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book uses various concepts of ‘age’ to examine young people’s voting behaviour in six European countries between 1981 and 2000. It addresses questions such as: what are the determinants of voting choices among young people, and to what extent are these factors different from those of adults?Through...
Unbroken Government
Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
by Professor Hugh Gough
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists. The French Revolution was the first occasion when a democratic government used terror as a political weapon, executing thousands of people for political crimes. What caused reasonable people to implement such a brutal regime?...
by Dermot Keogh
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Jack Lynch is one of the most important and perhaps most underrated Irish political leaders of the twentieth century. A sportsman who won six All-Ireland medals in a row with Cork, he was also a civil servant and a barrister before being elected to Dáil Éireann in 1948. During his thirty-one...
The Right Side of the Sixties
Reexamining Conservatism’s Decade of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national politicians and organizations...
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967
Urban Rebellion in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought waves of urban unrest, street fighting, looting, and arson to black communities in cities from Florida to Wisconsin, Maryland to California. In some...
Gender and Violence in British India
The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.
Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century
Domination, Contestation, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest.
Marx at the Movies
Revisiting History, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive triumph of capitalism and the 'end of cinema', calls for revisiting Marx's writings in order to analyse film theories, histories and practices.
Places
Identity, Image and Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Place branding is happening. A new field of practice and study is in existence and whatever we choose to call it there can no longer be any doubt that it is with us. This collection of intuitive and well-reserached articles examines how places and regions see themselves, and how they reflect this in their branding.
by Di Morrissey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
With millions of copies sold worldwide, Di Morrissey is Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out now.
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother...
Blood on their Hands
General Johan Booysen Reveals His Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
When Johan Booysen hears that the new Provincial Police Chief takes backhanders from a Durban businessman, he decides to give her the benefit of the doubt. But the evidence becomes impossible to ignore and he soon gets dragged down the corridors of power and politics into a web of intrigue, deceit and...
Cold Case Confession
Unravelling the Betty Ketani Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This is the opening line of a letter hidden under a carpet for a decade. The chilling words are followed by a confession to a murder committed nearly 13 years earlier. The chance discovery of the letter on 31 March 2012 reawakens a case long considered to have run cold, and a hunt begins for the men...