This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself,
in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have …

In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered
under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a patchwork of laws of nature …

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and
international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914—the first great …

Sociology on the Menu is an accessible introduction to the sociology of food. Highlighting
the social and cultural dimensions of the human food system, from production to …

The last two hundred years have seen a massive increase in the size of the world economy
and equally massive inequalities of wealth and power between different parts of the world …

Can international legitimacy operate even in a deformed balance of power, and when there
is only one dominant state? Conventionally, hegemony has been perceived as a threat to …

Монография является первым комплексным исследованием проблемы времени как
категории исторического дискурса. История не только определяет времяположение …

Un viaje a los recovecos más profundos y enrevesados de la contradictoria derecha chilena
en el siglo XX¿ Son útiles los conceptos de derecha e izquierda para entender la política …

Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870–1913 marked the birth of the first
era of trade globalization and the period 1914–1939 its death. What caused the boom and …

One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick
Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life …