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Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC
The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly controversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the Hellenistic...
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A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
An A to Z companion to 2,000 years of encounter between Judaism and Christianity, A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations is a pioneering work...
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Events of Grace
In the liberal theological tradition dating from Schleiermacher, Events of Grace demonstrates that the Christian faith can be fully compatible with a...
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A History of Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by...
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Christian Pluralism in the United States
Recent immigrant Christians from India are changing the face of American Christianity. They are establishing churches with Orthodox, Protestant and...
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International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans
Today’s international war crimes tribunals lack police powers, and therefore must prod and persuade defiant states to co-operate in the arrest and...
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The Content of Social Explanation
This is a study of the central questions of explanation in the social sciences, and a defence of ‘holism’ against ‘individualism’. In the...
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The Economic Vote
This book proposes a selection model for explaining cross-national variation in economic voting: Rational voters condition the economic vote on...
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Modeling Trade Policy
Applied general equilibrium (AGE) models have received considerable attention and scrutiny in the public debate over the North American Free Trade...
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Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil
Why do social organizations decide to protest instead of working through institutional channels? This book draws hypotheses from three standard...
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The Metaphysics of the Tractatus
In this remarkably clear and original study of the Tractatus Peter Carruthers has two principal aims. He seeks to make sense of Wittgenstein’s...
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Theology in the Russian Diaspora
The author at the centre of this study, Russian priest-theologian Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, was perhaps the most influential thinker about the...
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The Legal Status of Territories Subject to Administration by International Organisations
The international community’s practice of administering territories in post-conflict environments has raised important legal questions. Using...
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Philosophy in a New Century
John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy...
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Business and the State in Africa
The dominant developmental approach in Africa over the last twenty years has been to advocate the role of markets and the private sector in restoring...
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Hegel's Political Theology
This study begins with an examination of Milan Kundera's concept of 'kitsch', which is defined and investigated in his novel The Unbearable Lightness...
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The Idea of Indonesia: A History
Indonesia the nation-state is a miraculous and unlikely construction. At first sight, the material for national unity could not be more unpromising;...
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Political Women and American Democracy
What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women’s...
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The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures...
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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa
Access to land and property is vital to people’s livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy to...
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The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius’ epic poem, the Argonautica, is one of the most important and influential literary productions of the Hellenistic period. This...
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Justin Martyr
This book is a scholarly study of the life and thought of the early Christian apologist Justin Martyr. A Samaritan of Greek education, martyred in...
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Lucian: A Selection
Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for those who wish to...
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The New Testament Text of Saint Ambrose
St Ambrose of Milan (AD 340–97) has always been considered one of the four great doctors of the Latin Church. He was a great ecclesiastical...
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