Inside Russian Politics is an intelligent, critical and engaging account of the realities of contemporary Russian politics. It is distinctive in widening our view of Russia beyond the standard account of global power plays and resurgent authoritarian menace. Putin matters, but he is not Russia. Russian military adventurism has had a major effect on contemporary international affairs, but assessing its aims and projecting future intentions and impacts requires analysis within a context deep...

This textbook offers an up-to-date and incisive overview of contemporary Russia. Systematically covering the country’s history, geography, society, politics, economy and culture, it analyses current developments —the headlines and the more everyday— and situates its analysis in the wider historical context to help readers make sense of one of the world’s most important regions. Building on the success of its previous editions and analysing complex questions in the light of expertise gather...

Securitising Russia shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia.The book focuses on the internal security issues common to many states in the early twenty-first-century, and places them...

The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia and beyond. This special issue sets out to launch an interdisciplinary discussion on the Russi...

The "Manual of Ship Subsidies" by Edwin M. Bacon serves as a comprehensive guide to the complex world of maritime subsidies. It delves into the various forms of financial assistance provided by governments to support their shipping industries. The book outlines the historical context and the economic implications of these subsidies, providing readers with a clear understanding of how they influence global trade and shipping practices. Bacon's meticulous research and insightful analysis mak...

In "Manual of Ship Subsidies: An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations," Edwin M. Bacon delivers a comprehensive exploration of maritime economic policies that have shaped naval powers through history. With meticulous detail, Bacon dissects various subsidy systems employed by nations worldwide, providing an extensive analysis within a rich historical context. His erudite literary style blends historical narrative with economic theory, establishing a critical commentary on the mo...

The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary days. All sorts of odd corners are portrayed, besides the well-known landmarks, without which no book on Boston would be complete. Some idea of the volume's scope may be had from these chapter headings, selected at random: "The Storied ...

Manual of Ship Subsidies: An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations is a comprehensive and meticulously researched work by Edwin M. Bacon, offering an in-depth exploration of the development, implementation, and impact of ship subsidy systems across the globe. This authoritative volume traces the evolution of government support for merchant shipping from ancient times through the early twentieth century, examining the economic, political, and strategic motivations behind various ...

The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from spring to early fall. This successful English-Newfoundland migratory fishery evolved into an exc...

The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to ch...

Winner of the Cundill History PrizeWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the AmericasNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of history, capturing both the Fr...

The Guyana StoryFrom Earliest Times to Independence traces the countrys history from thousands of years ago when the first Amerindian groups began to settle on the Guyana territory. It examines the period of early European exploration leading to Dutch colonization, the forcible introduction of African slaves to work on cotton and sugar plantations, the effects of European wars, and the final ceding of the territory to the British who ruled it as their colony until they finally granted it i...