Making the Presidency argues that Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic by establishing the peaceful transition of power and the integrity of the elections.
In this collection of linked essays analysing economic, social, and institutional structures, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla war of defence, then as an increasingly confident regional power.
The first study of petitioning from the late medieval period to the era of e-petitions, Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America explains why these practices have been central to the exercise and contestation of power across North America and Europe.
Forlenza, Rosario (Associate Professor of History and Political Anthropology, Associate Professor of History and Political Anthropology, Luiss University, Rome) & Thomassen, Bjørn (Professor of Social Science, Professor of Social Science, Roskilde University)