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Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976At a time when Arab revolutionary movements are once again dominating the headlines, Monsoon Revolution offers a fresh reading of the Arab revolutionary tradition, examining one of its foremost case studies: the Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976)....

Galen in the Roman EmpireThe first ever authoritative biography of Galen of Pergamum A.D. (129 - 216) - prodigious polymath, philosopher, shameless self-promoter, caustic wit and polemicist, and the single most influential figure in the history of western medicine from Roman times to the twentieth century....

1798 and 1802Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous Preface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and...

Urban Change and the Irish Past, 1957-1973Provides a new history of the capital of Ireland during the 1960s, examining how an aging eighteenth-century city was rapidly transformed by speculative office construction and suburban development, and exploring how this impacted on the lives of the city's ordinary inhabitants...

International Actors and the Politics of Electoral MisconductElectoral misconduct is widespread, but only some countries are punished by international actors for violating democratic norms. Using an original dataset and country case studies, this book explains variation in international norm enforcement and shows that despite being selective, it...

The Promise of Civic Renewal in AmericaPeter Levine defends the principles that motivate today's best civic renewal efforts, shows that these experiments have already reached substantial scale, analyzes the opposition that they face, and proposes a strategy to turn them into a movement that can tackle America's most serious social...