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This path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.
This is the first full-length study of Browning's lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of many of his well-known poems. Eleanor Cook explores Browning's use of repeated images and themes in the lyrics, examines these patterns in other poems and in his letters, and analyses their growth and change in all his work.
This book is a study at close quarters of Dafoe, the man of politics. It is the biography of a political mind. The impression is of a mind recalled to its full vigour, for no prejudgments have been made about it and no restraints upon it.
The reader will find here a complete and challenging presentation of how the modern world understands its collective life.
Professor Cornell in the present study has been concerned with the question of how far the Canadian parties of 1867 were already identifiable and continuing groups. From careful and extensive study, he has been enabled to draw some definite conclusions about the alignment of members and groups in the assembly.
The history of the Communist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example of the autonomist tendencies in the communist movement after the First World War.
Craigie focuses on proving the existence of a Northern literary culture, comparing English literature with Northern literature, especially that of the Scottish and Scandinavians.
Objectivity in Social Science combats the widespread opinion that objective inquiry is impossible in the social sciences by drawing together and exhibiting the weaknesses of arguments, taken from various concentrations.
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Sir Robert Filmer's thought, its context, and its place in English political thought as a whole.
The work reported in this book represents the first attempt to study a sample of client families with marital and parent-child problems using a systematic framework based on role-theory.
This book examines the varied uses of illusion, deceit, disguise, and manipulation in Shakespeare's plays, both comedies and tragedies, and traces Shakespeare's use of illusion through his career.
A long forgotten novel first published anonymously in 1834 written by Benjamin Disraeli and his sister Sarah.Two appendixes explain the literary detection that proved the book's authorship and the parallels between the politics of Aubrey Bohun and Disraeli.
This dictionary treats some 694 particles, the nuclei, as it were, of the grammar of Classical Chinese.
In this book, Professor Dobson has laid the foundations for a systematic and scientific study of the grammar of Classical Chinese.
The Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire are mainly from Mill's early career as a propagandist for the Philosophic Radicals (a term he himself coined). They provide a contemporary running account of British political issues at home and abroad, with a vigorous and sometimes acerbic commentary.
The 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837. The most important issue to which they speak is the course of Disraeli's political ambitions.
The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967.
This book provides an engrossing account of how between mid-October and mid-November 1944 the conscription crisis was faced and resolved.
This book makes available the lively poetry of a pre-Renaissance world. All Copland's work displays a singularly personal quality: as H.R. Plomer says, 'The voice of Robert Copland imparts life to the faint outline that we have of him.'
This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not only themselves but also their readers.
In an era of steel and glass towers, the graceful and distinctive structures of Victorian Ontario which survive are a pleasing and a valuable link with the past. Some of the finest examples of these buildings can still be found in London, Ontario, and the surrounding towns and villages.
The fourteen chapters of this volume offer guidance for the application of animal studies to human questions. Specific topic areas include mother/infant relationships, learning, aggression, the evolution of interpersonal behaviour, and social organization.
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