Each title in the "Key Issues" series aims to set the work in its historical context. In this collection of contemporary responses to "Leviathan", attention is focused on its ...

In this 1851 text, George Lawson aims to place before the general reader a popular, yet full and accurate, history of the royal water lily of South America, as well as an ...

1989 signifies the collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War, a moment generally recognized as a triumph for liberal democracy and when capitalism became global ...