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A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants. The power of these images is second only to those derived from Christianity in constructing our modern culture. Originally published in 1987.

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All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling - perhaps even more so - as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic.

In the 1940s, the name Henry J. Kaiser was magic. Based on the success of his shipyards, Kaiser was hailed by the national media as the force behind a "can-do" production miracle. In this book, Stephen Adams offers Kaiser's story as the first detailed case study of "government entrepreneurship".

Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897-1912

Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B.W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes. In 1932 he produced for his Tar Heel audience a revolutionary work on the plant ecology of the state, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina.

Ideologically divided and disorganized in 1960, the conservative wing of the Republican Party appeared to many to be virtually obsolete. However, over the course of that decade, the Right reinvented itself and gained control of the party. Mary Brennan describes how conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds joined forces to make their voices heard.

United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula.

Though preoccupied with the immediate problems of the Great Depression, the generation of economists that came to the forefront in the 1930s also looked ahead to the long-term consequences of the crisis. Theodore Rosenof examines the long-run theories and legacies of four of the leading members of this generation: John Maynard Keynes, Alvin Hansen, Gardiner Means and Joseph Schumpeter.

This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. This first volume of Reckford's defense examines the comedies as a whole in a series of defining essays.

The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work. Originally published in 1991.

In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the politics of enlightenment - the process by which those who sought to set minds free went about their work. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a revolution aimed at liberating bodies and minds had somehow to be explained and defended.

James Fenimore Cooper's "Leather-Stocking" tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them.

This is the first full-scale study of veterans' politics in Germany after World War II. It analyses how German soldiers' organisations behaved in the postwar milieu, providing an invaluable case study in the political culture of the young Federal Republic.

In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs - bridges, radio broadcasting, aeroplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power - inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century.

Morality and Utility in American Antislavery Reform

Jo Ann Argersinger's innovative analysis of the New Deal years in Baltimore establishes the significance of citizen participation and community organisation in shaping the welfare programs of the Great Depression. This book examines the interaction of federal, state, and local policies, and documents the partial efforts of the New Deal to reach out to new constituencies.

In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states these systems, he argues, shared certain characteristics that distinguished them from other attempts to restructure the international political scene.

From A.D. 395 to 404, Claudian was the court poet of the Western Roman Empire, ruled by Honorius. In 399 the eunuch Eutropius, the grand chamberlain and power behind the Eastern Roman throne of Honorius's brother Arcadius, became consul. The poem In Eutropium is Claudian's brilliantly nasty response.

World War II was a turning point in twentieth-century American history, and its effects on American society have been studied from virtually every conceivable historical angle. Until now, though, the role of religion has essentially been overlooked. In A Cautious Patriotism, Gerald Sittser addresses this omission.

Examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 BC). Using agrarian law as a case study and focusing especially on rituals that both validated and gave structure to the administrative process, Gargola demonstrates the fundamental connections between religion, law, and government.

Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars was a particularly volatile period. Philip Jenkins uses developments in Pennsylvania as a case study of the local activities and broader significance of organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Italian Black Shirts, the Silver Legion, and the German-American Bund.

Offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analysing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, Jeffrey Kopstein provides new and essential background to the revolution of 1989.

Examines print culture in an era when the act of reading took on a powerful new meaning. The new media, including penny papers and magazines, aimed to entertain a diversified public and provoked fierce reactions from cultural arbiters who considered them transgressive.

Tracing the formation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early 20th century, Nancy Cohen offers an interpretation of the origins and character of modern American liberalism. She argues that these values and programmes were formulated in the Gilded Age.

Examines the fundamental political cleavage between classical liberalism and the populist Peronist political movements in Argentina, identifying the socioeconomic structural features that led to this division and focusing on changes in social class composition that accompanied major demographic shifts and alterations in economic activity.

This text uses the steel industry to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War I, arguing that the primacy of foreign committments and outdated economic policies of state transformed American liberalism from the progressivism of the New Deal to the policies of the 1990s.