Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and…

Explores the first 25 years of cinema’s development, from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s. This encyclopedia covers various aspects of scholarship on early cinema, both traditional and revisionist. It…

Presents the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathe-Freres, the first major corporation in the industry, led the world in film production and…

Based on extensive original research, this book substantially revises what moviegoing meant in the transition to what we now think of as Hollywood.

Reform of the English legal profession, initiated by a Conservative Lord Chancellor during the 1990s and extended by his Labour successor, transformed traditions, over the vigorous objections of the judiciary…

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump's efforts to erode democracy's essential elements and…

All Americans should be deeply troubled by violations of fundamental freedoms in the US ‘war on terror’. This is the only comprehensive account of efforts during the Bush and Obama…

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the…