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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...

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When Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray, his political        advancement is complicated by his romantic relations with three powerful women; his        very life is at stake when he is accused of murder. The fourth of Trollope's        Palliser novels, Phineas Redux is a spellbinding achievement, and the first...

An Apartheid Massacre and its ConsequencesA new account of the social and political background to the notorious Sharpeville        Massacre of March 1960, which looks both at the sequence of events that prompted the        shootings and also their long-term consequences for South African politics, both        domestically and in the country's...

A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader...

Many philosophers now define social justice in terms of equal opportunities and economists have incorporated such notions in a new kind of welfare economics in which personal responsibility plays a key role. This book takes a critical perspective and combines philosophical scrutiny with economic analysis to elaborate on these recent developments....