Quentin Skinner 
Families and States in Western Europe [EPUB ebook] 

Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health …

"Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3" is a great ethnographic work authored by way of James Athearn Jones in 1830. This book serves as a pioneering exploration into the wealthy …

How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all …

"Irish Books and Irish People" by Stephen Lucius Gwynn offers an insightful exploration of Irish literature and its cultural context. The book provides a comprehensive literary criticism of …

Continental philosophy has traditionally seen philosophy as historical, claiming that there are no new beginnings in the discipline, and that we must revisit the work of earlier thinkers again and ag …

Simon de Montfort, the leader of the English barons, was the first leader of a political movement to seize power from a reigning monarch. The charismatic de Montfort and his forces had captured most …

This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country”s leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question – Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whit …

Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism. Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reaso …