American Political History: A Very Short Introduction

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by  Donald Critchlow

American Political History:
A Very Short Introduction
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ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom
ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANGELS David Albert Jones
AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. THE ANGLO‑SAXON AGE John Blair
AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Richard Rathbone Peter Holland
AFRICAN RELIGIONS Jacob K. Olupona ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds
ALEXANDER THE GREAT ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller
Hugh Bowden ANXIETY
AMERICAN HISTORY Paul S. Boyer Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS
David A. Gerber Paul Foster
AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
G. Edward White ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne
AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY ARISTOCRACY William Doyle
Donald T. Critchlow ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
AND ELECTIONS ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
L. Sandy Maisel ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling
AMERICAN POLITICS Richard M. Valelly ATHEISM Julian Baggini
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick
Charles O. Jones AUSTRALIA Kenneth Morgan
AMERICAN SLAVERY AUTISM Uta Frith
Heather Andrea Williams THE AVANT GARDE David Cottington
THE AMERICAN WEST Stephen Aron THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco
ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes
ANARCHISM Colin Ward BARTHES Jonathan Culler
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw THE BEATS David Sterritt
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART AND BEAUTY Roger Scruton
ARCHITECTURE Christina Riggs BESTSELLERS John Sutherland
ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge THE BIBLE John Riches
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Amanda H. Podany Eric H. Cline
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee
THE BLUES Elijah Wald THE CONQUISTADORS
THE BOOK OF MORMON Matthew Restall and
Terryl Givens Felipe Fernández-Armesto
BORDERS CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm
Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore
THE BRAIN Michael O'Shea CONTEMPORARY ART
THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION Julian Stallabrass
Martin Loughlin CONTEMPORARY FICTION
THE BRITISH EMPIRE Ashley Jackson Robert Eaglestone
BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
BUDDHA Michael Carrithers Simon Critchley
BUDDHISM Damien Keown CORAL REEFS Charles Sheppard
BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CORPORATE SOCIAL
CANCER Nicholas James RESPONSIBILITY Jeremy Moon
CAPITALISM James Fulcher COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins CRITICAL THEORY
CAUSATION Stephen Eric Bronner
Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum THE CRUSADES
THE CELL Christopher Tyerman
Terence Allen and Graham Cowling CRYPTOGRAPHY
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
CHAOS Leonard Smith THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins Richard Curt Kraus
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE DADA AND SURREALISM
Kimberley Reynolds David Hopkins
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Usha Goswami DARWIN Jonathan Howard
CHINESE LITERATURE Sabina Knight THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham Timothy Lim
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick
CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long DERRIDA Simon Glendinning
CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead DESCARTES Tom Sorell
CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy DESERTS Nick Middleton
CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGN John Heskett
David Muir Wood DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
CLASSICAL LITERATURE William Allan Lewis Wolpert
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge
Helen Morales DIASPORA Kevin Kenny
CLASSICS DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone
Mary Beard and John Henderson DINOSAURS David Norman
CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa
CLIMATE Mark Maslin DOCUMENTARY FILM
THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon Patricia Aufderheide
COLONIAL AMERICA Alan Taylor DREAMING J. Allan Hobson
COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN DRUGS Leslie Iversen
LITERATURE Rolena Adorno DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe
COMEDY Matthew Bevis EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly
COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes THE EARTH Martin Redfern
COMPLEXITY John H. Holland ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta
THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince EDUCATION Gary Thomas
CONFUCIANISM Daniel K. Gardner EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch
EIGHTEENTH‑CENTURY BRITAIN GENES Jonathan Slack
Paul Langford GENIUS Andrew Robinson
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball GEOGRAPHY
EMOTION Dylan Evans John Matthews and David Herbert
EMPIRE Stephen Howe GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds
ENGELS Terrell Carver GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle
ENGINEERING David Blockley GERMAN PHILOSOPHY
ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate Andrew Bowie
ENTREPRENEURSHIP GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire
Paul Westhead and Mike Wright GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS Robert C. Allen
Stephen Smith GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger
EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci GOD John Bowker
ETHICS Simon Blackburn THE GOTHIC Nick Groom
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Timothy Rice GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir
THE ETRUSCANS Christopher Smith THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE
THE EUROPEAN UNION NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway
John Pinder and Simon Usherwood HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson
EVOLUTION HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron
Brian and Deborah Charlesworth HEGEL Peter Singer
EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood
EXPLORATION Stewart A. Weaver HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts
THE EYE Michael Land HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson
FAMILY LAW Jonathan Herring HINDUISM Kim Knott
FASCISM Kevin Passmore HISTORY John H. Arnold
FASHION Rebecca Arnold THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
FEMINISM Margaret Walters Michael Hoskin
FILM Michael Wood THE HISTORY OF LIFE
FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak Michael Benton
THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
Michael Howard Jacqueline Stedall
FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
FOOD John Krebs William Bynum
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY THE HISTORY OF TIME
David Canter Leofranc Holford-Strevens
FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside
FOSSILS Keith Thomson HOBBES Richard Tuck
FOUCAULT Gary Gutting HORMONES Martin Luck
FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood
FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham
FREE WILL Thomas Pink HUMANISM Stephen Law
FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons HUME A. J. Ayer
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION HUMOUR Noël Carroll
William Doyle THE ICE AGE Jamie Woodward
FREUD Anthony Storr IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden
FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton
GALAXIES John Gribbin INFORMATION Luciano Floridi
GALILEO Stillman Drake INNOVATION
GAME THEORY Ken Binmore Mark Dodgson and David Gann
GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell
Khalid Koser MARX Peter Singer
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MATERIALS Christopher Hall
Paul Wilkinson MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THE MEANING OF LIFE
Christopher S. Browning Terry Eagleton
IRAN Ali M. Ansari MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope
ISLAM Malise Ruthven MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster
ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
ITALIAN LITERATURE John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths
Peter Hainsworth and David Robey MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster
JESUS Richard Bauckham METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford
JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves MICHAEL FARADAY Frank A.J.L. James
JUDAISM Norman Solomon MICROBIOLOGY Nicholas P. Money
JUNG Anthony Stevens MICROECONOMICS Avinash Dixit
KABBALAH Joseph Dan THE MIDDLE AGES Miri Rubin
KAFKA Ritchie Robertson MINERALS David Vaughan
KANT Roger Scruton MODERN ART David Cottington
KEYNES Robert Skidelsky MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter
KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner MODERN FRANCE
KNOWLEDGE Jennifer Nagel Vanessa R. Schwartz
THE KORAN Michael Cook MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MODERN JAPAN
Ian H. Thompson Christopher Goto-Jones
LANDSCAPES AND MODERN LATIN AMERICAN
GEOMORPHOLOGY LITERATURE
Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles Roberto González Echevarría
LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson MODERN WAR Richard English
LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark MODERNISM Christopher Butler
LAW Raymond Wacks MOLECULES Philip Ball
THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi
Peter Atkins MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman
LEADERSHIP Keith Grint MUHAMMAD Jonathan A.C. Brown
LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi
LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews MUSIC Nicholas Cook
LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler MYTH Robert A. Segal
LOCKE John Dunn THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
LOGIC Graham Priest Mike Rapport
LOVE Ronald de Sousa NATIONALISM Steven Grosby
MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer
MADNESS Andrew Scull NEOLIBERALISM
MAGIC Owen Davies Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy
MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent NETWORKS
MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro
MALTHUS Donald Winch THE NEW TESTAMENT
MANAGEMENT John Hendry Luke Timothy Johnson
MAO Delia Davin THE NEW TESTAMENT AS
MARINE BIOLOGY Philip V. Mladenov LITERATURE Kyle Keefer
THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips NEWTON Robert Iliffe
MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
NINETEENTH‑CENTURY BRITAIN PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent
Christopher Harvie and PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll
H. C. G. Matthew PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns
THE NORMAN CONQUEST PSYCHOLOGY
George Garnett Gillian Butler and Freda McManus
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS PSYCHOTHERAPY
Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green Tom Burns and Eva Burns-Lundgren
NORTHERN IRELAND PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer
Marc Mulholland THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion
NOTHING Frank Close QUANTUM THEORY
NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine John Polkinghorne
NUCLEAR WEAPONS RACISM Ali Rattansi
Joseph M. Siracusa RADIOACTIVITY Claudio Tuniz
NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins RASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds
NUTRITION David A. Bender THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy
OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger REALITY Jan Westerhoff
THE OLD TESTAMENT THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall
Michael D. Coogan RELATIVITY Russell Stannard
THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman RELIGION IN AMERICA Timothy Beal
ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton
PAGANISM Owen Davies RENAISSANCE ART
THE PALESTINIAN‑ISRAELI Geraldine A. Johnson
CONFLICT Martin Bunton REVOLUTIONS Jack A. Goldstone
PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close RHETORIC Richard Toye
PAUL E. P. Sanders RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany
PEACE Oliver P. Richmond RIVERS Nick Middleton
PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay ROBOTICS Alan Winfield
THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway
PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig THE ROMAN EMPIRE
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Christopher Kelly
Raymond Wacks THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE David M. Gwynn
Samir Okasha ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber
PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
PLAGUE Paul Slack RUSSIAN HISTORY Geoffrey Hosking
PLANETS David A. Rothery RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly
PLANTS Timothy Walker THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
PLATO Julia Annas S. A. Smith
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller SCHIZOPHRENIA
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone
POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young SCHOPENHAUER
POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler Christopher Janaway
POSTSTRUCTURALISM SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Catherine Belsey Thomas Dixon
PREHISTORY Chris Gosden SCIENCE FICTION David Seed
PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Catherine Osborne Lawrence M. Principe
PRIVACY Raymond Wacks SCOTLAND Rab Houston
PROBABILITY John Haigh SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer THEATRE Marvin Carlson
SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt THEOLOGY David F. Ford
THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr
SLEEP THOUGHT Tim Bayne
Steven W. Lockley and Russell G. Foster TIBETAN BUDDHISM
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL Matthew T. Kapstein
ANTHROPOLOGY TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield
John Monaghan and Peter Just TRAGEDY Adrian Poole
SOCIALISM Michael Newman THE TROJAN WAR Eric H. Cline
SOCIOLINGUISTICS John Edwards TRUST Katherine Hawley
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce THE TUDORS John Guy
SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor TWENTIETH‑CENTURY BRITAIN
THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell Kenneth O. Morgan
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THE UNITED NATIONS
Helen Graham Jussi M. Hanhimäki
SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie
SPINOZA Roger Scruton THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake Linda Greenhouse
SPORT Mike Cronin UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent
STARS Andrew King THE VIKINGS Julian Richards
STATISTICS David J. Hand VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford
STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling
David Blockley WORK Stephen Fineman
STUART BRITAIN John Morrill WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY THE WORLD TRADE
Stephen Blundell ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar
SYMMETRY Ian Stewart WORLD WAR II Gerhard L. Weinberg
TEETH Peter S. Ungar WRITING AND SCRIPT
TERRORISM Charles Townshend Andrew Robinson
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Donald T. Critchlow
American
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A Very Short Introduction
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