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This collection of scholarly essays discusses the internationalization of American drug policy from a variety of perspectives and features articles on Hong Kong, Britain, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, L …

This student-friendly text provides a detailed and up-to-date assessment of Japan”s foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices that Japan faces in the twenty-first century. Usin …

First Published in 1986. This volume is the second of the three-volume edition of the proceedings of an international conference on Legacies of West Indian Slavery held at the University of Hull in J …

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 17 …

This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Cat …

This is a study of the ”secret history”, a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. …

In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the …

Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Wes …

This book takes a new approach to the question, ‘Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?’. Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify …

Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new …