Harald Wydra argues that much of the literature on the democratisation of former communist countries has neglected the…

• Rok vydání 1996

This 1996 collection of essays by distinguished scholars explores the range, scope and sheer verve of Lawrence's comic…

Originally published in 1969, this study examines the song repertory of Scotland in the sixteenth century. Mrs Shire…

The authors argue that rather than any carefully delineated allocation of policy jurisdictions, a number of institutional…

A unique and engaging volume which is both a critical evaluation of Giddens' work and a guide to some of the theoretical…

Originally published in 1934, this is the second volume of Kenneth Pickthorn's two-volume assessment of the constitutional…

Why is modern political theory philosophically so feeble and politically so unconvincing? This volume of essays discusses…

Dr Burton argues that a systems approach along with the ibasis of a science of diplomacy will bring more insights into the…

This book investigates Henry James' conception of civilisation as culture and the relationships of this conception to James'…

This book was first published in 1989. The Soviet presence and purposes in Latin America are a matter of great controversy,…

This 1972 book takes Western Pacific island territories as a case study in the behavioural understanding of colonialism. The…

The book aims to reflect characteristic aspects of Dr Picken's study of Oriental and other non-Western musics. Appealing in…

Economic Activity has its origins in a course of lectures given since 1950 to first-year undergraduates at the University of…

• Rok vydání 1954

This 1954 volume analyses the works of Thackeray, examining in particular his authorial approach. Taking as its point of…

The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 polarised French constitutional ideas. Appearing on one side was a radicalised…

This book contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that…

• Rok vydání 1999

During Elizabeth I's reign, love poetry acquired a popularity and brilliance unparalleled in English literary history.…

• Rok vydání 1988

This 1988 book introduces the reader to the literature on the African working class and the main theoretical and social…

The Social in the Global examines the influence of important social ideas on the practices of international organisations.…

Volkskapitalisme analyses the development of Afrikaner nationalism from the early thirties to the election victory of the…

This work is a critical investigation into the relationship between religious affiliation, on the one hand, and fertility,…

• Rok vydání 1990

In this challenging 1990 study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected laboring-class women…

• Rok vydání 1965

This 1965 book is concerned with the process through which the plays of Euripides were transmitted across seventeen…

The chronicle of Makerere is so closely bound up with the history of East Africa that this book will be welcomed by students…

De Republica Anglorum was written by Sir Thomas Smith in 1562-5 when he was Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to France. His…

This compelling book, first published in 1996, is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the…

Why do states in arid regions fail to co-operate in sharing water resources when co-operation would appear to be in their…

First published in 1985, Migrant Laborers addresses the controversies as to the origins of migrancy and its effects on the…

This is a volume of original essays written by philosophers and scientists and dealing with philosophical questions arising…

Professor Beeston's Written Arabic is designed primarily to bring research students and others quickly to a reading…

Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885.…

A collection of essays bringing a range of perspectives on the nature of moral reasoning in medical ethics. 'Many of the…

When John Middleton Murry's "Son of Woman" appeared shortly after Lawrence's death, Catherine Carswell was stung by its…

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is known primarily as a scientist but he was also an influential educationalist. In this…

This examination of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Letters of Paul finds that, in both these bodies of literature, religious…

This book traces the nineteenth-century formation, growth and structure of the central authority for education in England.…

• Rok vydání 1993

This 1993 collection of Malinowski's early writings establishes the intellectual background to his achievement, and shows…

This book offers an alternative understanding to the common interpretation of Hegel's 'end of history', drawing attention to…

The Psychology of Politicians shines psychological insight onto the thoughts and behaviour of politicians, featuring…

This book presents a comprehensive and perceptive study of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh through the first two decades of its…

This work is the first to explore the historical experience of the learned professions in Germany from the time when they…

A new collection of thirteen essays, covering the reception of Aristotle's ethics from the ancient world to the twentieth…

This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a…

In this thoughtful book, Klaus Hurrelmann analyses the concepts of human development underlying the different sociological…

Based on long-secret records, Tales from Spandau describes the four-decade tug of war between the Soviet Union and the…

Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the…

This study reveals the changing conventions of the theatrical space as expressions of the changing attitudes to woman and…

An important new critical analysis of Derrida's theory of writing, based upon close readings of key texts.…