Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this field. It includes excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a paternalistic society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women.

The totalitarian image of the Third Reich has been thoroughly displaced during the past two decades by new research on the social history of the Nazi years which reveals the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. The articles in this textbook address the key debates, include recent revisionist and challenging interpretations and raise methodological and theoretical questions. The book includes several German authors not easily available in English and presents many viewpoints in a coherent structure.

Philip Morgan's selection of essays by leading historians, represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The book opens up areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of methods such as anthropology and historical demography to the study of early America. By fitting these approaches into broader patterns of interpretation, the essays suggest ways of integrating these new findings and synthesizing the vast proliferation of recent research to provide students with a more coherent vision of colonial America.

Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer-participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented.
Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at...

Few periods of English history have been so subject to revisionism' as the Tudors and Stuarts. This volume offers a full introduction to the complex historiographical debates currently raging about politics and religion in early modern England. It
* draws together thirteen articles culled from familiar and also less accessible sources
* embraces revisionist and counter-revisionist viewpoints
* combines controversial works on both politics and religion
* covers Tudor as well as early Stuart England
* includes helpful glossary, explanatory headnotes and suggestions for...

This book explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive encyclopaedia. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.

In Style, John Haynes provides a lively introduction to the study of expression in relation to meaning. Style:

* introduces readers to the key areas in the study of style through practical exercises
* encourages an interest in and sensitivity to words and structures
* enables students to recognize contrasts within and between texts
* heightens awareness with regards to word choice, meaning, communicative purpose and stylistic convention
* examines an enormous variety of text-types; both literary and non-literary, spoken and written
* in addition to...

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Stalinism is a provocative addition to the current debates related to the history of the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together the newest and the most exciting work by young Russian, American and European scholars, as well as some of the seminal articles that have influenced them, in an attempt to reassess this contentious subject in the light of new data and new theoretical approaches.
The articles are contextualized by a thorough introduction to the totalitarian/revisionist arguments and post-revisionist developments. Eschewing an...

Stalinism is a provocative addition to the current debates related to the history of the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together the newest and the most exciting work by young Russian, American and European scholars, as well as some of the seminal articles that have influenced them, in an attempt to reassess this contentious subject in the light of new data and new theoretical approaches.
The articles are contextualized by a thorough introduction to the totalitarian/revisionist arguments and post-revisionist developments. Eschewing an...