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The Making of an American High School
The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939
How have the educational goals of American public high schools changed over time? What can the experiences of one secondary school tell us about the problems they all face today? This book provides an analytical...
Dublin
The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road, with the Phoenix Park
In this uniquely comprehensive guide to the buildings of central Dublin, the city’s churches, public buildings, and streets are described for every district in lively detail. The entire area within the canals is covered as...
Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution
In this ambitious reinterpretation of the early Stuart period in England, Glenn Burgess contends that the common understanding of seventeenth-century English politics is oversimplified and inaccurate. The long-accepted...
Hitler’s Prisons
Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of...
Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice
The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe
A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster...
The Songs of Johannes Brahms
In this highly anticipated book, Eric Sams examines each of Johannes Brahms’s 213 songs, translates the texts into English, and provides original commentary on points of musicology and literary detail. Sams here reveals...
The Voices of the Dead
Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s
The voices of dozens of innocent victims, silenced during Stalin’s Terror and since forgotten, can yet be heard in secret police archives Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937–1938,...
Politics, Law, and Morality
Essays by V.S. Soloviev
Considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers, Vladimir Soloviev (1853–1900) was also a theologian, historian, poet, and social and political critic. His works have emerged to enjoy renewed attention in post–Soviet...
Small Wonder
The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory
The little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive...
Michael Oakeshott
An Introduction
In this book Paul Franco provides an authoritative introduction to the life and thought of Michael Oakeshott, one of the most important philosophical voices of the twentieth century. After sketching a brief biography of...