This book explores the disconnect between political language and political reality in the United States in the post-Great Recession era of social, political, economic and environmental crisis. It argues that this crisis has called into question the ideology of "American exceptionalism," and outlines..
First published in 1989. Concentrating in particular on the British Commonwealth and the French colonial empire, the author shows how economic and political changes in the mother countries, the awakening national consciousness of the African and Asian peoples, and the effects of two World Wars had a..
The book presents the first survey in English of the system of slavery and of the abolition of the slave trade and of slave emancipation in the Dutch Atlantic...
This study, first published in 1981, examines the Abbasid Caliphs from their coming to power in 750 AD, to the death of the Caliph al-Ma’mun in 833 AD, when the period of Turkish domination began. It looks at the political history of the period, and also considers the social and economic factors, sh..