• Rok vydání 2024

\nWhy has the office of Prime Minister endured longer than any other democratic political office? Sir Anthony Seldon,…

Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain; yet the impact of such belief on determinative…

• Rok vydání 2022

A fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher…

• Počet stran 300
• Rok vydání 2024

A window into the fascinating life and writing of the early nineteenth-century labouring-class poet John Clare, this…

This Element explains how ballot designs affect the behavior of voters, the performance of candidates, and the strategies of…

An investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3.…

\nThe Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading Kerouac scholars, who offer fresh perspectives on his…

\nExamining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as…

\nA comprehensive and timely account of Hong Kong\'s development from precolonial times to the present, City of the Edge…

\nA fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and…

\nDublin: A Writer\'s City can be imagined as a map of one of the world\'s great literary cities, taking the reader,…

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed a revolution in the eating habits of European households with…

• Rok vydání 2011

Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivalled. His lasting legacy is…

• Počet stran 414
• Rok vydání 2024

An innovative resource which shatters tango stereotypes to account for the genre's impact on arts, culture, and society…

• Počet stran 272
• Rok vydání 1979

Red, Black, and Green traces the origins, the struggles, and the accomplishments of black nationalism. Its broad discussion…

• Počet stran 352
• Rok vydání 2023

A detailed study of 60 contentious episodes in European politics where governments' austerity policies and institutional…

\nExamining the practice of \'political technology\', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an…

\nThis volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns…

\nBefore the West presents the first comprehensive account of the international relations in \'the East\', weaving together…

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

Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus…

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\nHow do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people…

\nIn a new interpretation of the past, present and future of climate-related conflicts and threats, this volume explores the…

\nThis book demonstrates that populism\'s threat to democracy is less severe than often feared. The comprehensive,…

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

Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1,000 poems by more than 350 poets.…

In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their…

\nAn engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues. This…

\nWritten in 1774, Edward Long\'s History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and…

\nLibman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of Communism have survived in politics, economic development, culture, and…

\nIn an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference…

\nYatdjuligin introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians. This book addresses the…

\nThis book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenth-century fiction writers influenced the…

\nThis book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It…

\nExplores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and…

\nMaps the politics and processes contributing to the distinct developmental trajectory of Tamil Nadu, southern India.…

Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book deepens our understanding the preindustrial economy, and rethinks…

\nLegal frameworks to \'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation\' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on…