Political History

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Broken Record

The Origins and Evolution of Recorded Voting in the U.S. Congress

By Michael Steven Lynch & Anthony Joseph Madonna
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Yay or Nay? Exploring how roll call voting has contributed to political polarization

From Kosovo to Darfur

The Regional Biases within Humanitarian Military Interventionism

By Sidita Kushi
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political History

Exploring the past, present, and future of military humanitarianism

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942

By Patricia Anne Simpson
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, Political Science, Political History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder

Political Decision-Making in Times of Crisis

By Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Human Rights, Political History
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Examines how the need to appear decisive becomes the paramount consideration for politicians in crisis situations

Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

Book of the Disappeared

The Quest for Transnational Justice

Edited by Jennifer Heath & Ashraf Zahedi
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Political History, International Relations
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

A unique and timely publication, for advocates, academics, and practitioners, providing invaluable insight into the plight of the disappeared

Warping Time

How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present, and Future

By Benjamin Ginsberg & Jennifer Bachner
Subjects: Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political History

Time is a powerful political tool

While Waiting for Rain

Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change

By John Henry Schlegel
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Political Science, Political Economy, Political History

How innovation will save the United States—and Buffalo—from economic decline

Righteous Revolutionaries

Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State

By Jeffrey A. Javed
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political History, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

A reexamination of one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history

Home Field Advantage

Roots, Reelection, and Representation in the Modern Congress

By Charles R Hunt
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Investigates the effects of legislators’ local roots on congressional campaigns, elections, and representation

The Development of Political Institutions

Power, Legitimacy, Democracy

By Federico Ferrara
Subjects: Political Science, Political Psychology, Political History
Series: Emerging Democracies

Human motivation and historical influence in political development

Fragile Dreams

Tales of Liberalism and Power in Central Europe

By John Abley Gould
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political History

A highly readable account of Central Europe’s experience after communism

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

New Edition, Updated

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By Mahbub Rashid
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Political History, African Studies

The conscious construction of urban space

War and Rights

The Impact of War on Political and Civil Rights

By David L Rousseau
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, Comparative Politics, International Relations

Long wars foster democratic freedom in strong states

Informing a Nation

The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

By Mel Laracey
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

How a dynamic, controversially elected president used the media to promote his image and policies

The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900

By Peverill Squire
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, Governance

Telling Congress What To Do

Founding Factions

How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution

By Jeremy C Pope & Shawn Treier
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, Political History

Coalition, not compromise, framed the Constitution

Power over Property

The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China

By Matthew Noellert
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Political Science, Political History
Series: China Understandings Today

Provides an alternative to both capitalist and communist conceptions of modern historical development based on relations to property

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

Keeping Hold of Justice

Encounters between Law and Colonialism

By Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, and Mark David McMillan
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, Law, Law and Society, Legal History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Colonialism is a structural injustice embedded in law; what possibilities for justice remain?

An Independent Empire

Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States

By Michael S. Kochin & Michael Taylor
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Political History

How the United States used methods of imperial diplomacy to recast itself into a global juggernaut

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

The Shape of Populism

Serbia before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

By Marko Grdešic
Subjects: Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political History

Explores how elites help form constructed notions of “the people,” using the case study of socialist Serbia in the late 1980s.

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

By Iver B. Neumann
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political History, Political Theory

An engaging and sophisticated new IR text that will inspire a new generation of scholars and practitioners

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