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Theories of Judgment
The exercise of judgement is an aspect of human endeavour from our most mundane acts to our most momentous decisions. In this book Wayne Martin...
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Mahdis and Millenarians
Mahdis and Millenarians is a discussion of Shiite groups in eighth- and ninth-century Iraq and Iran, whose ideas reflected a mixture of indigenous...
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Dividing Lines between the European Union and Its Member States
In the European Union the balance of power between Brussels and the Member State governments is an ongoing matter of contention. With each treaty...
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Social Protection and the Market in Latin America
Social security institutions have been among the most stable post-war social programs around the world. Increasingly, however, these institutions...
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Ideology in a Socialist State
Ideology in a Socialist State describes the changes in the ideology of Poland’s rulers from the October events of 1956 to the lifting of martial...
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Latin America through Soviet Eyes
Latin America through Soviet Eyes provides an original and comprehensive assessment of changing Soviet perceptions of politics in Latin America...
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Legislatures in the Policy Process
The role legislatures play in the public policy-making process is of central concern to political scientists. Conventional wisdom claims that all...
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Social Sciences and Modern States
Modern social sciences have been committed to the improvement of public policy. However, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of...
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in...
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Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical...
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Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in...
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Enduring the Great War
An innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which...
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Revolution and the People in Russia and China
A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of...
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Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence
This book represents a serious and philosophically sophisticated guide to modern American legal theory, demonstrating that legal positivism has been...
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. In this magisterial new study, Rosamond McKitterick re-examines...
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Making a New Deal
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political...
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Forest Farmers and Stockherders
Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most...
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Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt
The Acta Alexandrinorum are a fascinating collection of texts, dealing with relations between the Alexandrians and the Roman emperors in the first...
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Global Lives
This is a fascinating and unique account of Britain’s rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge...
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The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age...
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Stewards, Lords and People
The landed estates were one of the fundamental structures of early modern England. They were omnipresent, for they were not confined to the...
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Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting
This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods. Many of the images...
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Plague and the End of Antiquity
Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars...
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Bakhtin and the Visual Arts
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. First published in the...
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