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A survey of the entire record of US expansion - firstly within the North American Continent, then throughout the world. The book offers V.G. Kiernan's writings on ideas and philosophies, as well as of events and people who created them.

Poets, Politics and the People brings together for the first time the most important writings on English literature, culture and politics by one of the leading Marxist historians of our time.The essays collected here consider the work of Shakespeare, Tennyson and Wordsworth, the relation between writers and ‘the people’ in popular protest, and the ideas which have motivated and inspired popular struggles, especially Christianity and socialism....

An analysis of Shakespeare's Tragedies by a distinguished left-wing historian.

A vivid and absorbing portrait of the great dramatist, which reveals how his writings were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age.

A fascinating history of the cultural and political impact of duelling.

Victor Kiernan provides a rich and insightful analysis of eight of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, revealing how they were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age.

This pioneering study provides unparalleled insight into the history, culture, and politics of American imperialism.

A landmark work in the history of Eurocentrism by one of Britain's most distinguished left-wing historians.

In this book the distinguished historian makes a case for seeing Shakespeare as a writer profoundly sensitive to the great social and political upheavals through which he lived. Shakespeare's poetic and dramatic achievement, Kiernan argues, was not something which transcended his environment but was directly enlarged by his civic consciousness and his critical reactions to a changing social fabric. Shakespeare's phase of dramatic activity coin...

This companion volume to "Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen" sets out to rescue Shakespearean studies from the increasingly solipsistic terrain of literary criticism, focusing instead on historical location as a means to understanding Shakespeare's writing.

A major historical account of the evolution of American imperialism.

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A vivid and absorbing portrait of the great dramatist, which reveals how his writings were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age.