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Robert Tombs's momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world.

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Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when she was forged into the modern nation state. Ingeniously structured, the book begins with a study of national obsessions and attitudes, proceeds with an investigation of power, who had it and how, who didn't and why, and what was done with it, and then investigates social identities, from the individual and family to the nation at large. When every aspect of the period has been ...

On March 15, 1965, at 2:00 p.m., Theodore Poland was in the Newark, New Jersey, at the supreme court of Judge Jocoby Graham, waiting to be sentenced for attempted murder. The two shooting victims in wheelchairs accusing Theodore were quietly speaking with several assistant prosecutors in the courtroom and reviewing the police report, whose recommendations to the court was immediate psychiatric treatment and life imprisonment for the young teen...

The government of Kenya is no longer considered a third world nation. Kenya is now a major trading partner of South Africa, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, India, and China. Suddenly, Dr. Cameron unravels a grassroots plot to take over Franklin Technologies, Kenya's largest employer. Dr. Plazinski exposes the terrorism conspiracy of several African tribal chiefs. Their target-Franklin Technologies. "The supreme hour had finally come. They hel...

Amiri Baraka is, in my opinion, a literary genius: He knew how to write, but he knew it so well that he could make a world of it. Certainly Baraka's ideas prevail within the American literary community, however, from Amiri Baraka comes my contemporary emphasis on revolution and its power to mobilize a student's struggles through liberation. Much of my observations of Baraka have to do with who Baraka is. An African American raised in Newark ra...

Amiri Baraka is, in my opinion, a literary genius: He knew how to write, but he knew it so well that he could make a world of it. Certainly Baraka's ideas prevail within the American literary community, however, from Amiri Baraka comes my contemporary emphasis on revolution and its power to mobilize a student's struggles through liberation. Much of my observations of Baraka have to do with who Baraka is. An African American raised in Newark ra...

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This topical book considers the economic, political and social consequences of the economic crisis, the nature of social protection and the dynamics of the current crisis of regulation. It is unique in documenting how economic and social welfare are inconsistent with corporate freedom.

Leading international historians examine the impact of nationhood and nationalism on French life. World-renowned contributors (many publishing for the first time in English), include Eugene Weber, Zeev Sternill, Pierre Sorlin and Jean-Claude Allain.

Chain of Memories is the first installation of the epic series that makes The Angel of Death. The story follows the main character of Drew - who becomes intertwined with a string of conspiracies and deceit. Fate draws him towards new companions, and they make it their solumn goal to unravel the mysteries that evolve around an ancient mechanism, the Arc. Many other organisations also pursue the secrets of the Arc - some of which prove as allies...

That Sweet Enemy "brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and so...

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