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The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 38.00Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen. more...
A Very British Revolution
Icon Books 2009; US$ 11.65The revelations over MPs expenses that began in May 2009 ranged from petty thieving to outright fraud and sparked a crisis in confidence unprecedented in modern times. This was a 21st-century Peasants Revolt, an uprising of the people against the political class. Ordinary men and women with political views across the spectrum were by turns amused,... more...
X Marks the Box
Icon Books 2009; US$ 11.65What is politics? And why does it matter? Self-confessed born-again voter Daniel Blythe presents a popular, forceful argument designed to shake up anyone 's apathy. Politics sets the agenda. Climate change, education, crime, housing these are political issues, but for many, party politics is still a turn-off. Daniel Blythe negotiates the political... more...
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 36.00The first comprehensive and truly pan-European study of populist radical right parties in Europe. more...
Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European... more...
Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 138.00The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors details... more...
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99Today, many city-dwellers regard rats as an unavoidable nuisance, but in nineteenth-century England, they were a far more dangerous and pervasive problem. This fascinating volume, penned by one of the UK's foremost rat exterminators, is a cross between a how-to manual and an autobiography. Those with an interest in the dark underbelly of Victorian... more...
Open Government (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems such changes would pose for both politicians and civil... more...
Leadership in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil Service Selection Board which was the key institution... more...
European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries... more...









