Lorraine Daston & Katharine Park 
Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science [PDF ebook] 

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 …

This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics. …

Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands explores everyday life and senses of identity and belonging along a contested border whose official functions and local impacts have shifted across the twenti …

This volume throws important new light upon a pivotal period of transition in the Anglo-American relationship and sets the stage for its equally dramatic transformation during and after the Second Wo …

This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics. It ma …

The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. Unlike the …

Private law enforcement and order maintenance have usually been seen as working against or outside of state authority. A History of Private Policing in the United States surveys private policing sinc …

The text examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women”s movement. By showing how leaders of the movement have restated aspects of the tradition, it pr …

Examining the under-theorized relationship between revolution and fascism, this book outlines a politics of resistance to these forms of domination. Through an examination of the psychic conditions c …

The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of the 20th century. Families from the South London ne …