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The Council of Europe
Springer 2006; US$ 159.00The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly took on the special task of monitoring the new Eastern member states and also the elder member states, for their adherence to the commitments they had entered into. This study examines the Council's legal bases, organisation and duties in this regard, basing the work on many legal acts and documents. more...
"The highest of time": Verfassungskrise und politische Theorie in England 1640-1660.
Duncker & Humblot 2009; US$ 63.05Hauptbeschreibung Die englische Revolution von 1640-60 hat wie keine andere Epoche der Geschichte Großbritanniens Anlaß zu weltanschaulich wie wissenschaftlich motivierten Kontroversen gegeben. Mit der Verfassungskrise begann auch die noch immer andauernde Diskussion über die Ursachen, Auswirkungen und historische Bedeutung des Konfliktes. Ob als... more...
Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 48.00In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLaren looks at how Elizabeth I managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition. She examines the political context of Elizabeth's reign and demonstrates the continuities between it and the outbreak of the English civil war. more...
The Politics of the Excluded c. 1500-1850
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 99.95This collection of essays sheds light on the politics of those people who are normally thought of as being outside the political nation. Topics deal with riots, rumours, libels, seditious words, public opinion, and the structures of local government. more...
Dismembering the Body Politic
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 48.00An account of the emergence of local partisan politics in the century after the English Civil War. more...
Bog-Standard Britain
Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 11.65No one would attack equality, would they? Quentin Letts just might. Not the notion of equality itself but the way it has become an industry for lobbyists, class warriors and New Labour's ageing Trots. Egalitarianism is a mania for today's policymakers and the soupy-brained halfwits we contrive to elect to public office. Appalled by free thinking,... more...
The Council of Europe
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00The book provides a succinct and much needed introduction to the Council of Europe from its foundation through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. Founded in 1949 within a month of NATO, the Council of Europe was the hub of political debate about integrating... more...









