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The contributors to this volume, grappling with questions about the position of women in political society, investigate whether Machiavelli was truly a misogynist and a proto-fascist or instead a proto-feminist and a democratic republican.

In this study of the culture of opposition, the strategies of the Polish Communist party for remodelling national culture are examined. This is followed by a history of the rise of Solidarity, the circumstances that led to it, and why it did not happen in other communist-run countries.

A collection of essays tracing the history of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. Includes discussions of the diversity of practice and belief within the church, and between the church and the wider national culture.

Reappraises the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union based on the author's 35-year career as a specialist in Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. Explores the psychological universe of Soviet rulers to clarify the nature of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.

This text is an investigation of the notion of interpretation and the strangeness of trying to construct a theory of interpretation, in other words, an interpretation of interpretation.

This historical investigation examines the American Episcopal Church in the 19th century, and how the Evangelical party within the Church - disillusioned over theology, liturgy and cultural direction - broke away to form the Reformed Episcopal Church.

This literary study surveys widely-read and influential adventure tales of the 18th to 20th centuries, considering such authors as Dumas, Scott, Defoe, Verne, Buchan, Kipling and Twain. It advances a theoretical framework whereby the adventure genre can be treated as serious literature.

This volume is a study of the connections between Herman Melville's family and his fictions, between his secrets and their displaced expressions. Secrets Melville was careful never to reveal are unmasked by this text.

Using case studies, this work explains why shifts in voter partisan preferences have occured since the 1950s. The study relies on the actual voting data rather than opinion polls, allowing an in-depth analysis of voting patterns found in individual states not apparent in national surveys.

Based on interviews with several generations of Brazilian scientists, this study of the development of scientific traditions in Brazil offers insight into the motivations, attitudes, values and perceptions of scientists who face challenges and frustrations unknown to industrialized countries.

A treatment of the effects of enforced alienation from the land upon a particular people. It examines how the British enterprise of colonization and Christianization stimulated the formation of Maori renewal movements to hold fast to their threatened land.

This study examines the history of social security policy in two countries - New Zealand and the United States. The system of universal health care and social security for all citizens in New Zealand contrasts sharply with the largely unsuccessful targeting of specific groups in the US.