Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws' Laini Burton

Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws' Laini BurtonThe Spirit of the Laws is the canonical text of modern republicanism and the English translation always deficient heretofore is critical to an appreciation of those deliberations that led to adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The present update recovers the sense of the original French.

it offers a new perspective on Jewish life in Britain and beyond

like painting

focusses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840

Dorothy Koomson

Devotee work roots in serious leisure

The first comprehensive examination of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)

and Tudor and Habsburg rivals abroad

democratic credentials

This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal

Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life

Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century

With a blend of wisdom and wit