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What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and...

500-323 BCThe complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T C W Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues, including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture, head-on in chapters that will be at...

A Century of Waging WarAmerican Arsenal examines the United States' transformation from isolationist state to military superpower by means of sixteen vignettes, each focusing upon an inventor and his contribution to the cause. Beginning with Thomas Edison's developments of WWI submarine technology, and ending with Neal Blue, chairman of...

Discretion in the Spiritual Writings of Saint Catherine of SienaGrazia Mangano Ragazzi offers an in-depth examination of the concept of discretion in the spiritual writings of Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), who is honored as one of the few female ''Doctors'' of the Catholic Church....

Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle EastIn 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "e;end of history."e; The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms,...

Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern EnglandWomen, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England considers the roles women played as literary patrons, dedicatees, readers, and writers in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, and the intimate relationship between these literary activities and what has...