Rethinking Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays

Literature & Fiction

Lance St. John Butler

History & Criticism

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan

Although Robert Kennedy is probably best remembered today for the 1968 presidential campaign and his years as Attorney General in his brother's administration, his real political legacy was forged in the Senate. Without his Senate years, Robert Kennedy would probably not have bid for the presidency in 1968, run in the California primary election, or been assassinated. It was in the Senate that his political development took shape, as he changed from a conservative Democrat in favour of US involvement in Vietnam to a champion of the anti-war movement. Yet this is the first book of its kind to study Kennedy during these critical years, presenting a thoroughly accessible examination of the man who might have become the second President Kennedy.Drawing on interviews with Senate colleagues, former staff members, civil rights activists and political opponents, Brian Dooley focuses on Kennedy's attempts to forge a new coalition during the mid-60s out of the debris of the old New Deal coalition. He concentrates on Kennedy's bid to build a new power-base primarily made up of blacks, the poor, the young, those disillusioned with the Vietnam war, and workers outside the traditional labour union structures. He examines Kennedy's involvement in civil rights, the New Left and foreign policy, and he analyses the 1968 presidential campaign and its tragic end in Bobby's assassination.

Robert Kennedy: The Final Years

History

Brian Dooley

Americas

Money: A History

<i>Money: A History</i> examines the origins, spread and cultural diversity of money throughout the world. From the exchange systems of earliest times to the increasingly cashless society of today, money and currency is set against a background of broader issues such as moral, political and religious attitudes to money in different cultures. Coin specialists from the British Museum trace the development of monetary systems from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt to the invention of coinage in Lydia in the 7th century BC and its dissemination throughout the Greek and Roman empires. They consider money in the medieval West and the Islamic lands, in the ancient civilizations of India and China, and in the early modern period in the West. The book also examines the consequences of the globalization of the world monetary economy in the 19th and 20th centuries from more than a purely Western perspective.<br>

Business & Money

WILLIAMS, Jonathan

Economics

With essays by scholars in planning and development, political science, history, economics, international relations, and international law, this collection offers analyses of the issues facing the Caspian states, now and in the next decade. Contributors examine issues of population, environment, economic development, security, geopolitics, interstate rivalry, pipeline routes, oil and gas reserves, and the legal regime of the sea. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Caspian Region at a Crossroad: Challenges of a New Frontier of Energy and Development

Hooshang Amirahmadi

This collection presents contributions to the debate on development challenges in South Africa made at the Conference on the Transitional and Long-Term Development Issues in South Africa held in Johannesburg in December 1995. The papers provide an overview of the critical issues to be addressed by policy makers as they map a path for the transition process in South Africa. The challenges to South African policy-makers are analyzed with a view to contributing a sustainable process of social, political and economic reform.

Development Issues in South Africa

African Economic Research Consortium

Portrays the experiences of Henry Kingsley, the author of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, discusses his literary career, and describes his travels in Australia

The Passing Guest: A Life of Henry Kingsley

Mellick, J.S.D.

Biographies & Memoirs

'Historian and actress Sandra Billington takes us on an entertaining, illuminating and extremely informative journey. This unique book is essential reading for all serious fools and clowns.' Mike LeighWho is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between 1486 and the 1630s, per his appearances in Shakespeare. But, as Sandra Billington shows in this superb study, the Fool has been with us far longer, and has worn many guises: village idiot and sophisticated comedian, embodiment of Satan and God's own jester.

A Social History of the Fool

Humor & Entertainment

Billington, Sandra

Humor

The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War

Price, Alan

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