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European Contexts for English Republicanism
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century English thinkers and political events. Bringing together a range of fresh and original essays by British and European scholars in the field of early modern... more...
Hungary
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Gábor Bátonyi analyzes Hungary's changing role and geopolitical position in Central Europe in the light of long-term historical developments. The book contains chapters on the country's economics, politics, society and the transition from Communist state to democracy. 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...
The Atlantic Imperial Constitution
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its Atlantic colonies under the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, circa 1603-1642. In doing so, it engages directly with a very large body of existing... more...
The Institutional Revolution
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world—with profound effects on socioeconomic and... 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 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...









