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Focusing on issues of deviance, class, and gender, Harris reassess the experience of working in the sex trade in early-twentieth-century Germany, touching upon arguments about the meaning of prostitution and what its history tells about wider social developments....

The Euro Area is ten years old. This major new reappraisal by some of the world's leading scholars examines the effects of the new European single currency on the member states of the European Union in its first decade....

Our third president was also one of America's greatest intellectuals. His immense curiosity, deep learning, and unusual vision fuelled his ambition and expanded the possibilities for life in the New World. Kevin Hayes, an expert on the everyday life of colonial America, brings a fresh sensibility to Jefferson's life story. This is a major new...

In a thought-provoking analysis Keating reviews the political, constitutional, and legal issues around Scottish independence and the political economy of independence, surveying the options for a social and economic project for an independent Scotland....

Black shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was seized, exploited, and eventually relinquished, by the ruling Milanese dynasties. Lawyers supported the free use of absolute power at first, but both sides eventually realized that society could not function unless property and other rights were respected....

This book pays to tribute to Jonathan Glover, a pioneering figure whose thought and personal influence have had a huge impact on applied philosophy. The papers collected here, written by some of the most distinguished contemporary moral philosophers, reflect the topics to which Glover has contributed. Glover's replies to these papers constitute an...