Which Lessons Matter?

Which Lessons Matter?Christopher Hemmer offers a model for how U. S. decision makers use the lessons of history to diagnose and make policy choices. As policy makers turn to the lessons of history, to which lessons will they turn? This book offers a model of the analogical reasoning process that helps answer the important question of why some historical analogies are seen as relevant for later decisions, while others are ignored. It explores the previously neglected

while extending beyond

the young Englishman

When colonial rule was established in the region during the nineteenth century

and to larger questions of art theory and literary history

and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing

The Firekeeper is such a book

among other aspects of Shanghai’s approach to culture

writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions

This book argues that the image of medieval England created by writers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was deeply informed by medieval and modern Scandinavia

The essays offer novel insights on education

focusing on those that reflect the behaviour of birds

including the Watts Rebellion