Roots of the Pax Americana

Roots of the Pax AmericanaThis fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed.

Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeau’s model of a 'second

It studies their commissioning

This book combines written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyse the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict

with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands

and national cinemas

comprising both social and material elements

San Francisco is both fragile and robust

Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago

that computers will have an effect on law (via legal databases and electronic presentation of evidence)

Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem afforded Shakespeare in the British educational system and its evolution throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

the fantasy of a long-lost

full of passion and desire