An exploration of the nature of American nationalism and its manipulation by unscrupulous presidents.For nearly four centuries, religion and capitalism have been the central values of the American way
Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nimes, Lyons, and Paris--one of the leading scholars of the Revolu
In an original and evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II, Patrice Higonnet offers a delightful cultural portrait of a multifaceted, continually changin
A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth. Their explanations consider the
