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The Discovery of Islands
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00The Discovery of Islands presents a series of linked essays by one of the world's leading historians. Each essay presents British history as that of several nations interacting with an imperial state, a view which has been hugely influential in recent studies. more...
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...
Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them, revealing many of their differences to be complementary aspects of an essentially... more...
Supervision of Concrete Construction 2
Spon Press 1987; US$ 170.00These two volumes provide authoritative guidance on all aspects of concrete construction from the point of view of the supervisor responsible for the work on site. more...
Conflict of Laws
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 63.00In this edition, the chapters on tort, jurisdiction, and staying of actions have been almost entirely rewritten. The chapter on the Brussels and Lugano Conventions has been recast and expanded. The growing influence of European Union law on private international law is evident in this new edition. more...
Barbarism and Religion: Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 29.00This is the first in a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas. more...
Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 39.00This book offers a coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy, as well as the relationship between the new Ptolemaic economic institutions and the ancient Egyptian legal traditions of property rights. For the first time the evidence of Greek papyri and Egyptian documentation is combined. more...
Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00This is the third in a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas. more...
International Dispute Settlement
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 63.00The settlement of disputes occupies a key place in international law and international relations, and many methods of handling disputes have been developed. This fourth edition explains what the relevant techniques and institutions are, how they work, and when they are used. more...
Barbarism and Religion: Volume 4, Barbarians, Savages and Empires
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00As Barbarism and Religion develops, its full stature as one of the great scholarly projects of our time becomes apparent: it stands not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, but as the definitive history of history-writing in what Hume called 'the historical age'. more...









