Publications
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Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
(2024)
Holocene socioeconomic transformations in late-prehistoric China led to regional civilisations. This Element divides prehistoric China into Highlands, Lowlands, and Coastal, arguing that environmental conditions and ...
Staging Class Conflict in the UK
(2025)
This Element focuses on the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry and audiences that are dominated by the middle class. It reflects on the political potential of theatre that ...
Finding a Balance in the Exclusive Economic Zone
(2025)
Offers a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of the exclusive economic zone regime over five groups of activities by different States. It will appeal to a broad international audience across academics, students, ...
Personal Identity and the Self
(2024)
This Element raises the questions What are we? What owns our thoughts and experiences? Are we anything at all? addressing the 'no-bearer' theory of experience and the 'no-self' contention. It discusses the classic challenge ...
Beyond Social Democracy
(2024)
Explores how social democratic parties can win back voters and articulate their ideas through other party channels. This book addresses the core of debates within social democratic parties and left parties more broadly ...
Self-Defence against Non-State Actors
(2019)
This book provides an in-depth and up-to-date study of the international law on self-defence against non-State actors. The 'trialogical' method employs a novel and unique format that reacts to shifting world order. The ...
Gendered Jobs and Local Leaders
(2025)
Men from business are overrepresented in local politics in the United States. The authors propose a theory of gendered occupations and ambition: the jobs people hold—and the gender composition of those jobs-shape political ...
Good Governing
(2024)
Drawing upon law, history, and social science, this book is a close investigation of an important yet neglected area of constitutional law: the state police power and its function in regulatory governance in the US It is ...
Hydrodynamics of Markets
(2024)
Explores an intriguing link between a wide range of problems occurring in physics and financial engineering is presented. These problems include the evolution of small perturbations of linear flows in hydrodynamics and the ...
Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments
(2025)
This Element provides a guide to infrared spectroscopy of archaeological sediments, focusing on their dynamic system and their components. It presents a step-by-step methodological framework, interpreting infrared spectra ...
Sub-Patent Innovation Rights
(2025)
The first book-length study of utility models and other forms of sub-patent protection across jurisdictions in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania and Africa, critically assessing how they are utilized by innovators, ...
Unraveling Abolition
(2022)
This book focuses on the legal origins of the antislavery movement in Colombia, revealing how slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers called for freedom and citizenship during trials and litigation. A wholly ...
Language and Place
(2025)
This Element explores the relationship between language and place in sociolinguistics, focusing on place orientation, gentrification, globalization, and commodification. It introduces concepts and frameworks from geography, ...
A Prolegomenon to Differential Equations and Variational Methods on Graphs
(2025)
A bird's eye view of theoretical developments and concrete applications that will enable newcomers to get a flavour of key results. Provides an exhaustive, at the time of writing, bibliography which will point readers to ...
Jehovah's Witnesses
(2024)
Jehovah's Witnesses began as an informal Bible study group in the 1870s that sought to recover first-century Christian beliefs and practices. While briefly covering controversies, this Element focuses on the culture and ...
Reading with the Burneys
(2024)
This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century Britain. It enriches scholarly understanding of the reception of Frances Burney's fiction, with broader ...
The Welfare Workforce
(2025)
What explains differences in how affluent democracies have deinstitutionalized mental health care? This book highlights how labor-organizing among welfare workers contributes to the success, or failure, of mental health ...
The League of Nations
(2025)
The Element challenges histories of the League of Nations that present it as a meaningful experiment in global governance. Such accounts have largely failed to admit its overriding purpose: to claim control over the globe's ...
Schopenhauer's Politics
(2025)
By reconstructing and contextualizing Schopenhauer's key political ideas, this book challenges the common view that Schopenhauer is an apolitical philosopher. Schopenhauer believed that politics could help mitigate conflict ...
Preference Change
(2024)
In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life. This Element provides an accessible introduction and new contributions to the debates on preference change.