Institutions & Learned Societies: General

Two recent developments created a need for this book, the first is the ratification of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

This series of original case studies, focusing on the proceedings and wider diplomatic significance of lavish banquets held across the period at ic...

American political scientist Robert Putnam wasnt the first person to recognize that social capital the relationships between people that allow com...

Progressive political organizing faces a chicken-and-egg predicament. On the one hand, those who are most impacted by a circumstance should be the ...

A comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding to violence, and its impact o...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they b...

In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums treasures were ac...

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination...

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrids largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and ...

Drawing on research from across Canada and beyond, education policy expert Sue Winton critically analyzes policies encouraging the privatization of...

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a technique and a science that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its ...

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of accidental wilderness on Torontos lakeshore. Initially created as a landfill site on...

Now in its 66th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, en...

Now in its 69th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, en...

Now in its 68th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, en...

In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three yea...

The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, ...

The growth and development of the Lincoln Record Society in its first hundred years highlights the contribution of such organisations to historical...