Society & Social Sciences

This book examines immigration and settlement patterns in Britain and at the civic position of ethnic minorities by outlining the development of ra...

The tenth edition of this acclaimed text continues to provide a lively, comprehensive and up-to-date account of British political institutions, of ...

This book reveals how the medieval papacy grew from modest beginnings into an impressive institution in the Middle Ages and deals with a wide field...

Edited by members of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham, and bringing together academics in Britain, Ireland, the US...

First published in 1954, this book explores the political ideas of the Middle Ages. It covers the period from the investiture struggle to the end o...

Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores takes the suggestion in Mothers, Monsters, Whores that it is important to see genderings in characterizations of v...

Emboldened by economic strength and growing military power, China is emerging as a challenger to US dominance in the Pacific. But its promised peac...

In her probing book, Empowered by Design, Meg Rincker asks, Under what conditions will decentralization lead to women’s empowerment in countries ar...

The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has exa...

Conventional wisdom holds that the President enjoys the preponderance of foreign policy power, however Congress has influenced China policymaking m...

Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under ei...

This collection of seminal articles illustrates the reasons for the spiraling nuclear race in the Asian subcontinent and introduces the principal d...

First published in 1934, this book explores prominent economic questions on the subject of rearmament and disarmament. Both rearmament and disarmam...

Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, ...

The subject of this book is the domestic and foreign policy of Charilaos Trikoupis, the great 19th-century Greek politician. It deals in particular...

This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin America’s contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of ...

Many of the concepts, values and basic assumptions on which 'modern' economic and business theory is based do not translate into or convey the same...

Christianity and Party Politics aims to discuss and evaluate the contemporary relationship between party politics and religion. The book focuses on...