As of January, in Marghera there were 1,052 direct employees with between 4,200 and 4,500 contract workers, depending on the ...

History is more complex than what appears in the Olympian view from great arches. Closer to the ground we may find ups and downs in British history over three hundred years—periods of rapid industrial ...

Many Soviet politicians have attracted the attention of the world’s press over the last ten years but very little has been said or written about Mikhail Suslov. He kept himself to the shadows, ...

The story goes that fanatical Japanese militarists pressured the unwilling Emperor Hirohito into World War II, with a suicidal zeal that it took two atom bombs to destroy; and that American democracy ...

Iran and escalation.

To him, no further regionalization of the country is required; shock therapy is best pursued in national lockstep, with ...

During the seventies, feminist aesthetics and women artists contributed greatly to the questioning of two great cultural boundary divisions. Throughout the twentieth century, inexorably but ...

One issue we debated is the difference between site and context. ‘Might you be so inside your language,’ I asked Serra, ‘so ...

Finally we sat in haste grading our thoughts and words unburying the spent day skull-clippers picking hearts, whispering laughter. A haunted light on sheets and walls our beliefs furiously neglected ...

Elites and Society. T. B. Bottomore. Watts & Co. All societies dominated by scarcity tend to produce elites. For this reason theories which emphasize the importance of elites acquire wide currency ...