Altered states

We know Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as two of today's most high-profile African American political figures, but who paved the way for these notable diplomats? More than one h...

An engaging, personalized look at the interplay between people and nature in the northeastern and midwestern United States, from prehistory to the present. The Northeast ...

This chapter examines the case of States that lost their sovereignty to a colonial power and then gained political independence in the twentieth century. Should they be classified ...

The book examines the extent to which States in the Pacific region have put in place legislative and administrative measures designed to promote and protect the rights of minoritie...

Cécile Laborde has argued that the freedom we think of as ‘freedom of religion’ should be understood as a bundle of separate and relatively independent freedoms. This chapter criti...

The emergence of a new market for private force has altered many aspects of war fighting, including those pertaining to victory and post-conflict settings. While some literature su...

This book examines how Stephen Sondheim’s work with several collaborators has altered the course of musical theater history in the United States. Consisting of twenty-seven chapter...

This chapter, beginning Part II, takes as its theme the advent of the regional states—new and broader political formations that replaced city-states from the middle of the fourteen...