7 results for '"David A. Bell"'

The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon acutally began much earlier, in the era of muskets,...

Light wear to boards. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Text contains minor marks and annotations. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. NOT ex-library. Shipped Under 1...

This topical study examines the historic significance of the recent rise to power of the French Socialist party. Newly revised and updated, it traces the transformation of the Party from a marginal...

Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there...

The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major...

"In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell’s description of our predicament...

Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize“Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time ...