Society and culture: general

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

Uncovers the rich diversity and distinctive accomplishments of eighteenth-century German thinking, long overshadowed by Kant''s philosophy.

Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.

Investigates early modern women philosophers'' views on reality, matter, time and mind, uncovering neglected perspectives and demonstrating their historical importance.

Analyzes the political roots of the systems of constitutional justice in Latin America, tracing their development over the last 40 years.

This thought-provoking study examines the backstory and enduring contemporary effects of Australia''s claim to an absolute right to exclude foreigners.

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

Explores in detail an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected.

Provides a unified account of the notion of law - both natural and moral - in Kant''s abstract and empirical philosophy.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Offers an alternative picture of the causes of human violence, showing strategies for change through concerted societal action.

Traces the development of Kant''s views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

New essays on Kant''s complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.

Shows how the scientific question, ''Are we automata?

A path-breaking study of the role played by language in the construction of sexual identities in schools.

A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant''s philosophy.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

A comprehensive and novel interpretation of Spinoza''s political writings that reveals the significance of the affects for political life.

Uses public opinion on LGBT equality to show an evolutionary shift toward deliberative democracy in which everyone has a voice.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

Explores the historical origins and emerging technologies of government profiling and examines law''s role in contemporary technological environments.

Makes a significant contribution to substantive representation, and examines the various political identities of justices in the American political system.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Analyzes current philosophical and scientific debates about animal rights and the ethics of eating meat.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

Maps an apartheid-era Zulu Radio station as it grew to become one of the largest stations in Africa, countering censorship and propaganda.

An explanation of the foundations of Kant''s philosophy of mathematics and its connection to his account of human experience.

This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history, linking masculinity to social and political developments.

Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu''s essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China''s rise.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.