Jon Elster 
Tocqueville: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution [PDF ebook] 

"Ancient Civilizations: A Journey Through Time" offers an in-depth exploration of the most influential ancient civilizations that shaped the course of human history. Beginning with the …

This book aims to further a debate about aspects of ‘playing’ and ‘gaming’ in connection with history. Reaching out to academics, professionals and students alike, it pursues a dedicated interdiscipl …

A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic Anna Pavord”s now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of …

Drawing on a rich lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African European Studies engages with contemporary and historical African European formations, positionalitie …

This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two …

This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that …

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE”An incredible work of scholarship” Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how …

This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience. The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walte …

The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world. Known in so many places for a tendency to informal and casual worki …

Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) occupies a unique place in 20th-century philosophy. His view that human beings are not rational but symbolic animals and his famous dispute with Martin Heidegger at Davos i …