Politics and Government

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mysti...

Prize-winning historian Lawrence Freedman takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle East, over the pa...

Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust,but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of H...

'Should be prescribed reading in the Foreign Office and on the foreign desk of newspapers and the BBC' ALLAN MASSIE 'Perfectly placed and wonderfu...

Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of econ...

This is the story of what happens when a liberal minded Prime Minister is caught between two sets of fundamentalists, one Islamic, the other Christ...

In their crusade to modernise public services, New Labour are giving vast amounts of taxpayers' money to management and IT systems consultants. The...

The Unfinished Election of 2000 gathers America's leading historians, political scientists, and constitutional lawyers to examine the strange and u...

Chabal and Daloz's argument is one based on an analysis of culture understood as a system of meanings rather than as values. Hence, the authors off...

A new political history of modern Britain - entertaining, instructive and thought-provoking.The history of democratic politics in Britain since the...

With a new investigative epilogue by a prominent Washington journalist and a new foreword by the author. Ambassador Joseph Wilson recounts more tha...

A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday Independent. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the...

This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establ...

A major trend in recent years in political and economic geography has been the increasingly sophisticated use of the concept of scale. Rescaling In...

What lies behind America's economic and social decline? Can racism explain the ghetto tragedy if two-thirds of America's blacks have made it into t...

China has now taken Great Britain's place as Africa's third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. W...

Propaganda. Manipulation. Spin. Control. It has ever been thus,or has it? On the eve of the 60th anniversary of George Orwell's classic essay on pr...

Since Qaddafi’s ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one mus...

In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the...

From November 2002 to May 2003, Steve Tatham worked alongside American military planners in the Gulf, coordinating the huge media campaign that for...

Heightened fears of terrorism, surging oil prices, and an unsettled Middle East have meant that Saudi Arabia has once again become the focus of int...

Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and ...

Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s. State and federal policies set standards for wha...

The Christian Right never ceases to surprise professional observers of American politics. With the Christian coalition in disarray, many expected t...

Liberal democracies such as the United States face an acute dilemma in the conduct of foreign relations. Many states around the world are repressiv...

A classic and highly controversial exposé of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of ‘Inside...

This satirical and witty first novel is a high-spirited account of the 1866 Fenian 'invasion' of Canada near Ridgeway. Adding spice to the novel ar...

Contemporary capabilities-based approaches to social justice, inspired by the Aristotelian emphasis on human well-being, have tended to separate an...

In "Peace at any Price", Iain King and Whit Mason describe why, despite an unprecedented commitment of resources, the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK),...

The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idea...