Society & Social Sciences

Originally published in 1989, this book reviews the history of maritime control measures from before the First World War and provides a critical ex...

Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly enslaved and colonized peoples?This trenchant book brings human rights into conve...

Der Schwerpunkt des Bandes 51 liegt auf der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte, die sich thematisch und inhaltlich unterscheiden. Dazu gehören...

This volume outlines Max Weber’s comparative-historical sociology of "interpretive understanding" (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his comple...

This volume examines the South China Sea’s regional security dynamics, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for both littoral and non-litt...

This unique text encourages young adults to reflect on their prospective longevity for setting goals and making decisions, become aware of the aspi...

This unique text encourages young adults to reflect on their prospective longevity for setting goals and making decisions, become aware of the aspi...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation.Auth...

'Piercingly revelatory ... a tour de force' - Carl Miller, author of The Death of the Gods'...a must-read ' - Eliot Higgins, author of We Are Belli...

Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources argues for a decolonial engagement with Indigenous peoples’...

Kakizaki re-examines the real image of the Thai-Japanese alliance during the Second World War by focusing on the incidents and accidents that occur...

Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These may be premedi...

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research. The "long" fourteenth century saw England ...

Step Into A World "Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, ...

David Bromwich’s portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges...

The book is a study of the state of the Polish democracy and focuses on the years 2012 and 2013. It explores available documents and statistical da...

The smallest and most remote villages in the developing countries are affected by the rapid and seemingly irresistible trend towards globalization....

This book presents insights and understandings on the issue of identities and modernizations, contributed mainly by theoreticians from China and sc...

Moral outrage is one of the most compelling, complex, and powerful emotional responses. It is the affective currency that drives collective acti...

This book provides a novel theoretical framework to understand EU-China diplomatic relations.The existing scholarly literature on EU-China relation...

The Marxist Theory of Dependency (TMD) managed to explain both the insertion of peripheral societies into the international market and the capital ...

This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a compre...