The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of
planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented …

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However,
the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of …

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography
series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping …

Why is today's world map filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries? The
answer to this question is central to our understanding of international politics, but the …

Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and …

In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall
of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two …

The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the" rule of
freedom". As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns …

This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above
and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes …

In our globalised, interconnected world the impact of borders on space and people is
increasingly debated. This article aims to unpack the complex concept of “thick” and “thin” …

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering
authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume …