States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars hav
What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war.
In The Rise of the States, noted urban historian Jon C. Teaford explores the development of state government in the United States from the end of the nineteenth
In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a