Product Description: This two-volume set explores the various ways social media are profoundly changing politics in America.• Covers key political and cultural issues in today's discourse―such as gay marriage, race, gender, "big data," and hyper-surveillance―from a variety of perspectives and a broad range of contributors• Provides informed analysis of social media eruptions and their potential to change and shape political discourse• Supplies an analysis of power that highlights the forgotten core of politics and political communicatio...read more

Product Description: Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery.   Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war or on the brink of it...read more

Product Description: This new study of Tudor international relations is the first in nearly thirty years. Glenn Richardson and Susan Doran have assembled a team of scholars who bring fresh developments in cultural, gender and institutional history to bear upon the question of England's place in Europe and beyond between 1485 and 1603...read more

Product Description: What determined success or failure in Renaissance monarchy? Why was warfare endemic in Europe in the early sixteenth century and how did the great cultural and artistic changes of the period flourish amid this conflict? How did rival kings relate to each other and what steps did they each take to strengthen their monarchies? In short, how did they govern? Renaissance Monarchy approaches these and related issues in a revealing way, providing the first single-volume comparative history of the most renowned kings of the Renaissance: the Holy Roman Empire Charles V, Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)