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Presents sixteen essays addressing important issues, personalities, and movements in Latino religions in America. This book aims to overthrow the longstanding stereotype that Latinos are politically passive and that their churches have

This volume looks at the administration of Venice and Venetia as part of the multinational Habsburg Empire in the years between the collapse of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and the death

This volume of The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke continues the story of Edmund Burke, the Rockingham party in British politics, and the American crisis. By 1774 Burke was already recognized

Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War,

This volume completes the collection of Edmund Burke's "Indian Writings and Speeches" which is both an exposition of Burke's views on India from his coverage of the Hastings trial, and his views

Argues that British politics and political culture in the mid-18th-century have often been poorly understood through over-emphasis on "stability". It reconstructs a political world in which vital issues continued to exercise the

This is an account of the role of Members of Parliament with historical depth and multi-dimensional framework of analysis which uses accounts from memoirs and commentaries along with detailed analysis of participants

"The End of Class Politics?" challenges the prevailing view that class is no longer important in politics. Drawing upon evidence from around the world, the volume argues that we need to radically

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty has long been regarded as the most fundamental element of the British Constitution. It holds that Parliament has unlimited legislative authority, and that the courts have no

The contributors to this volume take the dynamic interaction between law, politics and society as a starting point to think critically about recent developments and future innovations in European integration and EU