The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to
the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity, 1 but Civil, or Social Liberty: the na¬ ture …

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco
earthquake. That in wars there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a …

IN■ N EVERY STATE, not wholly barbarous, a philosophy, good or bad, there must be.
However slightingly it may be the fashion to talk of speculation and theory, as opposed …

A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years
straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire …

Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late
imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily …

Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of
sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his writings have …

" Decarceration" is a word which has not yet entered the dictionary. But it is increasingly
being used to designate a process with momentous implications for all of us. It is shorthand …

For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-
market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In …

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In The Politics of
Jurisprudence, Roger Cotterrell offers a concise introduction to and commentary on Anglo …