William Storm explores the significance of irony in the modern theatre, investigating major works by playwrights including…

\nA history of sterling over half a century, using new archives, data and unseen photographs. This book follows the Bank…

In The State and Poverty in India the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are…

Smith's compelling and convincing analysis of contemporary Japanese society has far-reaching implications for our…

Professor Fage and Professor Oliver, the editors of this collection, are distinguished historians of Africa, and as founding…

The contribution of the overseas Chinese, particularly from Southeast Asia (Nanyang), to China's early modernization…

Zucker examines competency and incompetence in comedies by Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries through histories of…

The Western Isles of Scotland appear to the popular imagination as romantic and remote islands where the inhabitants cling…

The execution of Charles I led to an explosion of pro-Stuart propaganda in the Dutch Republic. In gripping detail, The…

\nThis book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian…

\nExplores the ways in which Aristotle\'s legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and…

\nThis is an elegant, readable narrative of Nauru\'s imperial history that makes a compelling argument for the island\'s…

This new edition of Italy: A Short History presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian…

\nThe first comprehensive history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the…

\nThe first single-authored exploration of the world of public banks. Focusing in on six worldwide case studies, the author…

\nThis book explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza\'s metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early…

Buenos Aires is Argentina's wealthiest, largest, and most populous province. This first account of its political history…

The Xhosa-speaking peoples of south-eastern South Africa have a long tradition of oral poetry, extending back at least two…

The material world of European settlement in Australia has been uncovered not only by historians but also by the work of…

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram, an early supporter of Darwin, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon…

The economic background to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at Munich in 1938 has not received the attention it deserves.…

Professor Bazant describes in detail the implementations of the 1856 Lerdo Law and subsequent decrees. Using selected areas…

This is the first book in English that covers the evolution of Korean law and custom comprehensively from the Choson dynasty…

A complete guide to the phenomena and analyses of the syntax of Dutch. Composed by a leading specialist, the survey…

\nMoving beyond the Eurocentric approach to travel narratives, this comprehensive and transformative account of the…

\nThis textbook summarises the history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000. The book discusses the key themes and…

\nSocial and political polarization has posed novel challenges to U.S. democracy in recent years. Democratic Resilience…

\nCombining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative data from Kenya and India, this book develops a novel explanation…

\nThrough theoretically-grounded case studies and comparative analysis of consolidating, low quality, and failed democracies…

\nThis is a book on public opinion told through the eyes of the pollster. It looks at public opinion as a concept and in…

\nA holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the…

\nThe political and cultural lessons drawn from the collapse of the Weimar Republic are invoked in order to understand…

In 1987 to celebrate the centenary of Schrödinger's birth, leading figures have collaborated to produce this survey of the…

The chapters in this volume reconsider fundamental premises about state and society in advanced capitalist countries. The…

Through the first in-depth analysis in English of the writings of Carl Schmitt, McCormick furnishes a comprehensive account…

The Soviet-American race to land a man on the moon was a technical challenge unlike any other in recent history. Reginald…

The poet Anna Letitia Barbauld and her family (the Aikins) are recognized for their contributions to literature and…

Sevyan Vainshtein describes the economy of the nomadic pastoralists of Tuva, a region on the borders of Mongolia and the…

A comprehensive account of the great chemist and administrator, Antoine Lavoisier, covering his oxygen theory of combustion…

These essays look mainly at the way in which Ireland was represented by English Renaissance writers in the early modern…

The reforging of national identities of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has had a major effect in reshaping the…

\nA comparative analysis of how African states have engaged with fundamentalist Muslim groups between the 1950s and today.…

\nHow do the organizational structure and rules of political parties affect political engagement and its reproduction?…

\nDuring the Antebellum era, thousands of free black sailors were arrested for violating the Negro Seamen Acts. In retelling…

\nA very timely study of Russia\'s emergence as a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. It…

\nThe first to offer an explanation of the levels of reliance on executive decrees in comparative perspective, this book…

\nEngstrom and Roberts show how politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections. This book is of interest to…

\nThe Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain…