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A reassessment of the role of the colonial cities in the coming of the American Revolution....

Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties....

One of the pioneers of democratization studies presents the culmination of a lifetime's study in the form of a far-reaching and profound analysis of the relationship between the state and democracy....

A Brief History of Change from 1970Roy Foster is one of Ireland's leading historians. Now, this brilliant writer        offers a "e;short and combative"e; account of Ireland's astonishing transformation over        the last three decades. Has there really been an "e;economic miracle"e;? Where does the        explosion of cultural...

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This book restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century and Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, and influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge....