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Acclaimed historian Emory Thomas highlights the delusions that dominated each side's thinking at the beginning of the Civil War....

This study examines the sixth century formation of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Menze shows that the separation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians from Western Christianity occurred due to the divergent political interests of bishops and emperors. Discrimination and persecution forced the establishment of an independent church....

Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the political theorist        Hannah Arendt argued that the plight of stateless people in the inter-war period        pointed to the existence of a 'right to have rights'. The right to have rights was        the right to citizenship-to membership of a political community. Since then,...

In   The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia presents a fascinating accout of the lives in words and music of some of America's greatest popular lyricists. Full chapters are devoted to such golden names as Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Dietz, E. Y. Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robbins and...