William Elliot Griffis 
The Mikado 
Institution and Person, a Study of the Internal, Political Forces of Japan

Today over forty million Latin Americans classify themselves as Protestant, of which the overwhelming majority belong to some form of Pentecostalism. The rapid dissemination of Pentecostal beliefs ha …

The vast majority of studies of Hannah Arendt”s thought are concerned with her as a political theorist. This book offers a contribution to rectifying this imbalance by providing a critical …

Controlling Sex in Captivity is the first book to examine the nature, extent and impact of the sexual activities of Axis prisoners of war in the United States during the Second World War. …

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and …

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan”s wartime mobilization, Asia”s first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to …

After describing NAFTA as ‘the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere’, Donald Trump’s election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin for North American economic integration. Followin …

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany’s former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transfo …

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing …

1790 saw the publication of Edmund Burke”s Reflections on the Revolution in France — the definitive tract of modern conservatism as a political philosophy. Though women of the period wrote texts …