Thoroughly revised, restructured and updated, A History of British Publishing covers six centuries of publishing in Britain from before the invention of the printing press, to the electronic era of to
Japan’s political stability was shattered after the general election of July 1993 when the conservative Liberal Democratic Party’s thirty-eight year domination ended in defeat. This book examines the
One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception. More
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Women’s life writings provide an incomparable window into the various cultural and historical communities in which we live. This book presents a unique view of this great legacy by critically examinin
Series: Economic HistoryWarfare has shaped the modern history of China more than any other single factor. This book brings together the best recent English language scholarship on warfare in China ove
Series: Economic HistoryWarfare in Japan from the fourth to the nineteenth century has caused much controversy among Western military and political historians. This volume assembles key articles writt
Series: Economic HistoryThis collection of essays on pre-colonial sub-Saharan African military history is drawn from a number of academic journals and includes some which are considered milestones in
Series: Economic HistoryThe essays gathered in this volume focus on some of the most important facets of the Middle Eastern conflicts since 1945. Following a general introduction, the essays are then
Series: Routledge Library EditionsPunishment is a phenomenon which occurs in many contexts. Discussions of punishment assume punishment is criminal punishment carried out by the State. This book conta
Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told.This anthology of biographical essays o
Presenting a detailed explanation of party politics in the European Union, this new book uses the Party of European Socialists (PES) as a key case study, and tests the relevance of existing theoretica
Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, physical geography and resource and hazards geogra
While the subject of Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian interaction is still not a traditional or systematic discipline, interest in the encounter of these two religions has grown considerably over
Series: World Library of EducationalistsThis volume brings together a group of researchers from different European countries and disciplines who are involved in Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC). The
Series: World Library of EducationalistsA new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonica
Given the rise and fall of parties, their mergers and separations, and the results in legislation, contributors to this collection of 11 articles examine the complexities of party relationships within
Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more c
Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or ano
This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms an
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Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable c
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Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the defi
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Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimila
Series: Applied Legal PhilosophyThese three volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977 the New Accents Series rapidly changed the face of literary studies.
Representing the latest thinking in this fast-moving and often emotive field, this book offers a remarkably comprehensive international coverage of the public aspects of archaeology. The process of su
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In The Costs of Crime and Justice, Mark Cohen presents a comprehensive view of the financial setbacks of criminal behaviour. Victims of crime might incur medical costs, lost wages and property damage;
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In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide range of popular novelists, from Sir Wal
Karyn McKinney uses written autobiographies solicited from young white people to empirically analyze the contours of the white experience in U.S. society. This text offers a unique view of whiteness b
In this completely updated edition of 500 Tips on Assessment, the authors look at the questions and the problems that teachers face and provide them with practical guidance. Their advice is down-to-ea
Series: Law, Ethics and GovernanceVictims of crime are still marginalized in criminal law practice, even though a number of legislatures have introduced reforms on their behalf. This collection of pap
Series: The International Library of Essays in TerrorismThis set brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, and the acts and events ascribed to h
Series: The Making of SociologyA new title in an acclaimed Routledge Major Works series, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on gender and the environment.
Science is one of the main features of the contemporary world, and shapes our lives to an extent that has no precedents in history. Yet science as we know it today is the outcome of contingent social
