Part of "McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History" series, this brief and accessible volume explores one of the biggest questions of recent historical debate: how among all of Eurasia's interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world. Author Jack Goldstone p[...]

The aim of this book is to highlight and begin to give ‘voice’ to some of the notable ‘silences’ evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The seven co-authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; tempo[...]