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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump's fast-food …
The Politics of Time in China and Japan
Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It …
Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads
This is a fascinating collection of essays about Israeli society and its institutions. It is written by practitioners who have experience and understanding, who are equipped with …
Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia
This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between …
January 6 and the Politics of History
On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from …
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale …
UNSCOP and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
This book provides the first comprehensive account of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), constituted by the United Nations General Assembly in …
The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559.Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common …
The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s–2010s
This book comprehensively investigates the position of China’s working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical …
A World History of Political Thought
In this revised and improved second edition of A World History of Political Thought, the comprehensive comparative analysis of political thought from 600 BC to the present day is …