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Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility, as seen in their bans on Muslim headscarves. In the… More >>

Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey

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A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies. His considered conclusion is that American institutions have not given agricultural interest groups any particular advantages in the policy process… More >>

The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan

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With this volume, Samuel Eliot Morison recounts the U.S. Navy’s role in the largest and most complicated military operation ever undertaken: the invasion of Normandy. Involving more than a million American soldiers, 124,000 sailors, and 427,000 aviators, Operation Neptune-Overlord encompassed five major landings on the Norman coast. The most famous of these–the Utah and Omaha beach landings–involved the Western Naval Task Force, while the Eastern Naval Task For… More >>

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 11: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945