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This important new book deals with the changing nature of war in the post-Cold War era and the em...

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Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament o...

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every ...

The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular c...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wre...

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is t...

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that...

How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called ¿human sciences.¿ But t...

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed'. This phenomenon - the 'gig ...

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing f...