Histoire

In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the  »polder model » often used to describe economic and social policymaking based o …

Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today’s European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages c …

In 1995, the Baring Brothers collapsed over a weekend, brought down by the  »rogue trader » Nick Leeson. Utilizing British and American archives, this work charts Baring Brothers development from woo …

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in Englan …

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives? Seeking to expand the …

Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the eld …

Mc Lynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a c …

The Heian period (794-1186AD) of Japanese history – the setting of The Tale of Genji – was an era of unsurpassed refinement in art and literature, in which women played a unique role. Dominated by th …

First published in 1969. This is the second edition of this colection of studies on Ethiopia, with a new introduction by F. Nnabuenyi Ugonna of the University of Ibadan in 1966. …

This volume demonstrates the application of the constructivist approach to the analysis of foreign policy (i.e. states » actions in a world of states). Part I introduce constructivism for foreign pol …