polity

Prejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have...

Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignifican...

After years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. T...

After years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. T...

There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, Dav...

There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, Dav...

Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a br...

Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a br...

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West sti...

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West sti...

"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue...

Wherever there is life, there are lies. Slick-suited politicians lie on the podium, ready to tell voters what they want to hear. Cheating lovers, s...

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence ...

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence ...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient ...

Bruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in the context of the emerging ...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient ...

Bruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in the context of the emerging ...

This important new book, by one of the leading social historians in France today, analyses the changing meaning of rape through numerous case studi...

This important new book, by one of the leading social historians in France today, analyses the changing meaning of rape through numerous case studi...

Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt ...

Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt ...

Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have c...

Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have c...