America's first treasury secretary and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton is one of the nation's important early statesmen. Michael P Federici's introduction to this Founding Father's political thought firmly places Hamilton among the country's original political philosophers as well.Hamilton remains something of an ......
In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their sights on Baltimore, home port to some of the most rapacious American privateers on the high seas. In The Dawn's Early Light, Walter Lord captures these events during the War of 1812.A native ......
Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct areas of interaction and settlement during the colonial period.Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in North America before the American Revolution. ......
Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct areas of interaction and settlement during the colonial period.Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in North America before the American Revolution. ......
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation helped spark the massive protests that toppled longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, ......
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation helped spark the massive protests that toppled longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, ......
The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been the most heavily exploited due to international ......
In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beautybecause it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocityprovides a model for justice. Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime makes a significant departure from this ......
American Strategies to Change, Contain, or Engage Regimes
In the Bush era Iran and North Korea were branded 'rogue' states for their flouting of international norms, and changing their regimes was the administrations goal. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call the countries nuclear 'outliers' and has proposed means other than regime change to bring them back into 'the community of nations.' ......
