Winner of the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about ho

This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and

This new edition argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China has evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries.

In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the ide