How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the…

First published in 1980, this book examines the nature of sociological explanation. In providing an account of the problem…

A study in the philosophy of mind, centred on the problem of 'intentionality' the sense in which emotions can be said to…

This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century; it…

This book is a study of Sir Thomas Browne and his work as a whole. Mrs Bennett leads us to a fresh understanding of his…

Originally published in 1964, this book is the first of two volumes in a course for secondary school students on the writing…

Romanticism and the Emotions offers the first essay collection to examine the recent focus on the importance of emotion in…

This book, originally published in 1981, attempts to identify substantive universals that underlie the social diversity…

Originally published in 1991, this study examines the views of politics presented by young people in contemporary Britain.…

Phillippy examines the literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period.…

Alexis de Tocqueville is renowned for his classic book, Democracy in America. These essays employ Tocqueville's writings to…

This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint, reversing…

When it was first published in 1981, this book afforded a group of distinguished social scientists from a wide range of…

The technique of aerial photography had been little used in Ireland, although the relatively slight disturbance of land by…

The debate on the role and influence of the local press on city government and politics has often been seriously hindered by…

Demonstrates how media information interacts with emotion in shaping a wide range of political opinions about government and…

This book is devoted to the writings of the Evangelical and Oxford movements, whose leading members were key figures in the…

First published in 1931, this book contains an abridged translation of Dr De Kat Angelino's analysis of the development of…

The flotation of exchange rates in the early 1970s saw an increase in the importance of foreign exchange markets and in the…

Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others are perpetually prone to…

This book explores major themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, his natural science and biology, and his methodology, informed…

Published in 1958 this book examines the role between the Church and the State at that time. Dr Murray sees the 'Church' as…

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international…

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and 'anti-theatrical' age, yet Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,…

This volume, bringing together studies on the disposal of the dead, explores the frontiers and potential of research and…

Daniel Verdier's book is an analysis of how politics influences financial systems. He shows that differing national…

• Rok vydání 1968

This 1968 two-volume selection of George Santayana's (1863-1952) writing is exceptionally comprehensive; the editor has been…

Henry Kyburg Jr proposes here an original, carefully worked out theory of the foundations of measurement, to show how…

This collection of essays on the economics of fiscal federalism contains original research by leading experts in North…

Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a…

The book is divided into two complementary parts. The first looks at the background to Anglo-Saxon learning, in particular…

This study explores the political evolution of the US labor movement, focusing on its dominant organization, the American…

This book examines the tension between the material, economic pressures motivating poetry as an occupation, and traditional…

Studies of the literature of the British imperialism too often focus on India to the exclusion of other areas. This book…

How did Poland go from an authoritarian one-party state with a faltering centrally planned economy to become a relatively…

This 1991 volume of essays interprets the economic effect of the financing of industry by banks and of the banks' credit…

This book is about the presuppositions of historical knowledge. It rejects the view, held by Hume, Hegel and Vico, that…

Based upon the most extensive early banking archive known to survive, this book is the first major study of Stuart banking…

This study of deliberative politics provides the first extended empirical analysis of the role of conversation and arguments…

In 1952 Bolivia experienced a profound social, economic and political revolution, one of the very few such revolutions which…

This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of…

This book approaches the study of patterns by emphasising the processes responsible for them; it emphasises the logical…

Originally published in 1955, this volume was created to give an account of the lives of a few men and women of the…

Schiller to Derrida is a historical critique of literary theory in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…

The fourth volume to feature Sir Geoffrey Elton's collected articles and reviews contains those published between 1982 and…

Gregory Dart expands upon existing notions of Cockneys and the 'Cockney School' in the late Romantic period by exploring…

• Rok vydání 1987

This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focussing on a detailed study of cooperation in the…

This is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van der Doel's Democracy and Welfare Economics. It presents the economic…