Julian Swann 
Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy [PDF ebook] 
The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the  »micro-study » approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth na …

The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral histo …

This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known sai …

John Rex is well known as one of Britain »s leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related a …

This Adelphi Paper is the first concise yet comprehensive analysis of the role of the G8 in international peace and security. It argues that the G7/8 has a long and impressive history in the field of …

China emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the fifth largest trading nation in the world in 2002. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) represents a …

This fourth instalment of Harry Redner »s tetralogy on the history of civilization argues that intellectuals have a brilliant past, a dubious present, and possibly no future. He contends that the phi …

This title was first published in 2001. A collection of previously published essays addressed to Leibniz’s metaphysics, philosophy of science, theories of language and logic, philosophy of mind and t …

This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural, urban, …

The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, who maintained their unofficial status as  »foreigners » due to membership in sovereign r …