The religion of the Aztecs boasted a god of espionage –an unusual deity in any other new world religion. The Aztecs were brilliant soldiers and administrators and viewed espionage and intelligence gathering as a key to domination. The successor regimes to the Aztecs also created elaborate and successful entities for political and spiritual control: this monograph discusses the efforts of the Hapsburg and Bourbon administrations to exact information (as well as gold and silver) on a wide scale.

This work is the study of a family’s century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913.

Edmund Burke, the great British statesman, had a long and uncomfortable relationship with Ireland beginning with the circumstances of his birth: He was born an Irishman. As a conservative thinker, as a fierce critic of revolutionary movements and political terrorism, He hoped to knead a British nation from imperial fragments, disparate and fissiparous polities and marginal nonanglophone kingdoms and duchies. This monograph by a distinguished researcher in Burkean language and thought deals with Burke’s attempts to redefine Ireland an integral part of Britain.

With a combination of robust research and coherent overview, Dr. Hutchinson argues that the origins of the Conservative Party in Britain begin with Henry Vll's attempt to define and order a Tudor solution to the chaos and civil war of the preceding century. This order is to begin a conservative political pattern: the capturing of successive revolutions by the forces of order, property and pragmaticism.

It was in 1916 that Patrick Pearse proclaimed Ireland a sovereign nation on the basis of its mourning, stating that "from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations." The concept of creating an Irish nation as a process of mourning has been both popular and prevalent in the writing of politicians, philosophers, artists, and patriots of every kind. This book analyzes Irish literary, political, and nationalist rhetoric as works of mourning. It focuses on a series of interlocking commemorative discourses: obituaries, decommissioning talks, and hunger strike commemorations.

C.C. O’Brien’s early writings contain the early on the mature, magisterial style and substance that have made him one of the finest political philosophers alive and active today. Edited with notes by Professor Edwards, this is the first collection of O’Brien’s precient discourses on Ireland, Ulster, diplomacy,the UNO , the UN and Africa and more.

John Hay’s distinguished national service began when he was Lincohn’s private secretary and continued until up to his death as Secretary of State for two presidents. For a public man under scrutiny (including numerous biographies and Henry Adam’s insightful portrait in THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS) little is known about Hay and his anonymous commentaries, reviews and critiques written during the Civil War. Dr. Hill’s new monograph remedies that situation.

The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change as been demonized by President Robert Mugabe and his regime as a neo-colonial stooge and traitor. Mr. Tvangirai has been imprisoned by British; white Rhodesian and Zimbabwean authorities in the course of a career marked by non violent protest leadership and de facto recognition as the one person who can save his country from complete collapse and chaotic self destruction.

Dr.Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life.

Foreword by Kenneth Parker, Ph.D,Professor of Historical Theology, St.Louis University