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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of        Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval        Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle        Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in...

The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil WarSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American...

These three works exemplify the Roman historian Sallust's condemnation of the        excesses of the late Republic. In the conspiracy of Catiline and the war against        Jugurtha he sees moral and political corruption and the tragedy of civil strife.          This new translation captures Sallust's distinctive style and considers his work...

The Global Covenant is a ground-breaking work by one of the world's leading scholars in international relations. The volume is a major study of international society that presents a comprehensive analysis of international peace and security, war and intervention, human rights, failed states, territories and boundaries, and democracy. It...

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever.    In this...

The formation of coalitions to achieve both collaborative and competitive goals is        a phenomenon we see all around us. The list is long and varied: production cartels,        political lobbies, customs unions, environmental coalitions, and ethnic alliances        are just a few everyday instances. Drawing upon and extending his inaugural...