This book offers a new type of working tool for Cartesian studies.

James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who established its principles, offering a fresh look at how ideas about representative government, suffrage, and the principles of self-rule and ideals ...

The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures.

This collection of ten essays focuses on the way major schools and individuals have narrated histories of the Middle East.

Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and reclaims the long line of historians who tilled the rich and diverse soil of our past.