Alors que la majorité des membres de la Ligue étaient fondamentalement réactionnaires - leur but étant de rétablir la société française selon le modèle existant avant l'expansion du Protestantisme - quelques-uns des membres étaient de vrais révolutionnaires désireux d'obtenir, par la force, des changements radicaux du gouvernement et de la société. L'étude de la Ligue dans ses contradictions internes a permis à M. Frederic Baumgartner d'y déceler la force historique la plus menaçante pour ...

The novel Hadrian the Seventh has received critical attention in the past, there remain significant gaps in the scholarship regarding Frederick Rolfe's novel which this collection of essays aims to fill, particularly in terms of its political, religious, philosophical, and literary aspects. The topics discussed include the novel's place in literary history, both in terms of bridging Decadence with modernism as well as drawing on the Victorian literary tradition inspiring later aut...

Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American president. It was the first presidential campaign in which the Internet, the electorate, and political campaign strategies for the White House successfully converged to propel a candida...