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Xerxes I of Persia also known as Xerxes the Great was the fourth king of the kings of Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes was crowned and succeeded his father in October–December 486 BC when he was about 36 y……続きを見る

Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country’s first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteori……続きを見る

In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town and sustaining ties with a distant rural home……続きを見る

2015 ISHS Superior Achievement Award What constitutes Lincoln’s political greatness as a statesman? As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the wa……続きを見る

On May 22, 1863, after two failed attempts to take the city of Vicksburg by assault, Major General Ulysses S. Grant declared in a letter to the commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi River ……続きを見る

In 1993, Alan J. Dixon’s political career came to an end with a defeatーthe first one in his forty-three years of elected service. Beginning his legislative career in 1950 as a Democrat in the Illin……続きを見る

The 'ideal type' is Max Weber's hypothetical leading democratic politician, whom the author finds realized in Tony Blair. He is a politician emerging from no obvious mould, treading no well-beaten p……続きを見る

How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the ……続きを見る

From Cairo to Austin: exiled at 12, Michele Kay takes her readers on a gut-wrenching, painfully lonely, but often exhilarating journey to “home.’’ Through this memoir she tells the intensively perso……続きを見る

A new angle on Lincoln and his legacy, exploring the rich and suggestive dialogue between art, image, and politics at the time of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was one of the most photographed figu……続きを見る

Autobiography as selected by the author as a story of her life in which she describes her purpose in life and the experiences of being a public figure続きを見る

In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, e……続きを見る

William Pitt the Younger re-examines Pitt's career in the light of recent research and emphasizes that it should not be stereotyped as having a `reformist' phase in the years to 1793 and a `reaction……続きを見る

A fascinating insight into one of Australia's most powerful and effective political figures. Tony Windsor's understanding of the issues facing his rural and regional constituency motivated him to be……続きを見る

The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the ……続きを見る

The Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers is a wide-ranging, comprehensive guide to the political lives of Britain's prime ministers from Sir Robert Walpole to Tony Blair. Written by so……続きを見る

Gladstone is one of the most important political figures in modern British history. He held the office of Prime Minister four times during a turbulent and changing time in Britain's history. Michael……続きを見る

Containing footnotes and an extensive bibliography, this edition of Franz Mehring's classic biography is designed to assist the English-speaking reader towards a better understanding of Marx, his wo……続きを見る

Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poet, pioneering gay rights activist, environmentalist……続きを見る

Churchill examines the influential career of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951–55. It discusses his early career as Secretary of State for War and Ai……続きを見る

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S……続きを見る

Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising s……続きを見る

As our 27th president from 1909 to 1913, and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930, William Howard Taft was the only man ever to lead two of America’s three governing branches……続きを見る

In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Tho……続きを見る

Éducateur de rue, co-fondateur du Syndicat de la magistrature, en juin 1968, premier directeur de la CNIL, conseiller du Premier ministre durant dix ans, expert indépendant de l'ONU pendant trente-q……続きを見る

Dans le second volume de ses Mémoires, Jacques Chirac aborde avec une grande liberté de ton les deux mandats de sa présidence, la plus longue de la Ve République après celle de François Mitterrand. ……続きを見る

Apa Pant comes of a former ruling family in India, the Pratinidhis of Aundh, who played their part in the stirring history of the Maratha struggle for the failing power of the Moghul Empire. In his ……続きを見る

This is an autobiography of a first generation Indian South African, Goonam, who defied all odds and society norms to go to Edinburg to study medicine. Dr Goonam returned to South Africa in 1936 and……続きを見る

Portrait du héraut d'une société où le mensonge avéré vaut autant que la vérité, où le simplisme des idées - pourvu qu'elles soient flamboyantes - l'emporte sur l'intelligence des faits, où les conn……続きを見る

Dans le combat politique, les femmes n'ont plus rien à envier aux hommes. Elles arrivent ! Les femmes sont encore minoritaires dans le paysage politique français. Mais les voici partout en première ……続きを見る