Böcker av Donald R. Kelley

The world is becoming more complex, with increasing possibilities for conflict over national rivalries, economic competition, and cultural and ideological fault lines. Understanding a Changing World offers a structured and theoretically grounded way to think about the forces that animate change and the alternative futures they may create.

A critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late-18th century. The author focuses on persistent themes and methodology: myth; national origins; chronology; language; rhetoric; translation; and historical method and criticism.

A collection of essays from some of the world's leading intellectual historians, representing an international spectrum of research into the history of philosophy, intellect, science and music.

An in-depth look at the Russian presidency as a case study of institution building within the context of a mixed presidential-parliamentary regime.

This collection of essays takes the study of history as a starting point, and extends the exploration into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought - confronting some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences, and issues of intellectual, cultural, and political history.

This book examines not the exhaustion but the generation of sentiments, values, ideals, justifications and actions which underlie one spectacular case of profound intellectual and social change: The Protestant Reformation. A case study in the 'beginning of ideology', this book is also a multi-levelled interpretation of modern Europe's first age of revolution.