Society and Social Sciences

Examines the law governing American education and proposes social constructivist pedagogy as a model for reform efforts.

Contributes to a better understanding of the policy, economic, and legal options of countries struggling with debt problems.

An original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

This book proposes a novel theory of justice in international trade law, examining what justice means and demands in this domain.

A social and political history of Mexico''s first political system after the Revolution that demonstrates the critical influence of regional socialist parties.

Kessler-Mata argues for a constitutive theory of tribal sovereignty based on the interconnected relationships between tribes and non-federal governments.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

This book critically analyses the origins, the creation, and the evolution of an international law on investment contract protection.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.

A guide to the meaning of environmental regulation in an era of transnational cooperation for sustainability.

A critical examination of the effect of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia''s approach to human rights.

This book asks: are politics local?

The first in-depth scholarly analysis of the effects of Western sanctions, and Russia''s response on the Russian economy.

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Using novel data, the book develops a new theory on how European far-right parties establish roots in local societies.

This book explores an emerging type of intellectual property remedy - an injunction that can compel innocent third parties to provide enforcement assistance.

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Captive Anzacs explores the experiences of the 198 Australians who became prisoners of the Ottomans during the First World War.

This book investigates how language, embodiment, objects, and settings in historically shaped communities combine, and form human actions.

A multifaceted study of Turkey''s diplomatic, economic, social and cultural relations with the Middle East in the interwar period.

Pressures emanating from China''s scale, regulatory politics, and need to feed itself has led to its decade''s long food safety crisis.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

Offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the Russian justice system than stereotypes and preconceptions lead us to believe.

A study of state responsibility for acts committed in the course of different stages of adjudicatory process.

This book focuses on socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

This book tells the story of why and how mental health stigma impacts all of us.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the Eurozone, exploring the overlap between its economic and political interdependencies.

The first comprehensive study of the distinction between justification and excuse under the international law of state responsibility.

This book discusses how attention relates to the self, perception, knowledge, consciousness, action, and responsibility.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Tsui reveals the peculiarities of the Guomindang''s revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

Explores citizenship, rights and belonging in post-Independence South Asia, examining the long-term impact of the 1947 Partition.

An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.

This book discusses the nature of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature and culture through the figure of the military man.

Examines the political dynamics of constitutional review in hybrid regimes in the context of China''s Special Administrative Regions.

Who Judges?

Examines President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his response to the year that he characterized as a ''year of a continuous nightmare''.

This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world''s largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

Follows the activist campaign that contested the Botswana government''s removal of indigenous peoples from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Learn how to tackle personal dilemmas and the deadlock of political discourse by using this book''s rational framing techniques.