Dreams can be anything you want them to be, but imagine flying through space doing cartwheels, flying past a giant floating doggy biscuit, or realizing that planet Mars, was in fact a giant chocolate bar. But this is just part of the story. Connor used to be such a happy little boy, but world events had made him sad and confused. Despite the best efforts of his mum and dad, and all the people who loved him, to cheer him up, nothing seemed to work. A new plan was needed, but would it work? ...

A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day.We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civi...

Che cos’è una guerra civile? Tutti noi pensiamo di saperlo, quando ce ne troviamo una di fronte. In realtà, le idee a proposito di cosa essa sia, e cosa non sia, hanno una storia lunga e dibattuta. Quando si parla di guerre le parole stesse vengono brandite come armi, e nessuna forma di guerra è più controversa, anche sul piano linguistico, della guerra civile. In questo campo infatti ogni definizione comporta un atto eminentemente politico: l’applicazione dell’espressione «guerra civile» ...

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor or vanquished, sufferer or outsider; it can also shape a conflict's outcome, determini...

Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage – one of the world's leading historians of political thought – traces the genesis of this international turn in intellectual history. Foundations of Mod...

Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.

Now you may not think a cornflake can be special…… but you would be wrong. Connor is different, very different. He is strong, brave, fearless, a cereal version of James Bond and a really cool dude. But having been thrown in the rubbish, he soon realizes that he is special, but his first mission is to escape the jaws of a four-legged foe who thinks it's snack time. Join Connor the Cornflake and the Mighty Variety team of cereal superheroes on a fast paced, action-packed adventure as they tr...

從全球史的角度重新檢視獨立宣言，也透過獨立宣言看見不一樣的世界史！舉世聞名的《獨立宣言》，不僅是美國最重要的立國文書，更為現代世界立下基礎，對世界各地造成巨大深遠的影響。廣大世界的痕跡，就鑲嵌在一部簡潔而充滿力量的文件中。★全球思想史的典範之作★《泰晤士報文學副刊》年度最佳圖書陳禹仲（中央研究院人文社會科學中心助研究員）【專文導讀】美國《獨立宣言》舉世聞名，相關研究無數。但在本書中，哈佛大學歷史學教授大衛．阿米蒂奇卻另闢蹊徑，提供了理解這份文獻的全新方式：一個全球史的角度。《獨立宣言》的誕生，象徵一個曾經被統治、壓迫的政治社群，採取自力救濟的手段，宣示自己成為國家的意圖。它不...

The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives offers the most comprehensive collective overview of Locke's political thought in over fifty years. It brings together research essays by political theorists, historians of political thought, and intellectual historians to survey Locke's political writings in their immediate historical and intellectual contexts and in the longer perspective of the history of their reception up to the present. Locke's Two Treatises of Govern...

How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shi...

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing how the development of the United States has always depended on its transactions with other n...

«Ci troviamo nel pieno di una crisi della governante globale; siamo in balìa di mercati finanziari completamente deregolati; il cambiamento climatico minaccia la sopravvivenza della nostra stessa specie. Mai prima d’ora la necessità di guardare alla longue durée è stata così vitale. Per collocare in prospettiva tutte queste sfide, e combattere il dominio del “breve periodo” che contraddistingue la nostra epoca, abbiamo urgente bisogno di quello sguardo lungo che solo gli storici posson...