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The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Szasz
April 01, 2026
For centuries forced confinement, cruel ‘cures’, political repression and ritualized personal degradation have all been rationalized and justified by appeals to the dogmas of psychiatry. Originally published in 1973 this book, written by one of the twentieth century’s most respected yet ...
The Elizabethan Love Sonnet
1st Edition
By J. W. Lever
April 01, 2026
This classic study of the Elizabethan sonnet, first published in 1956 and as a second edition in 1965, describes the development of the English sonnet from the early poems of Wyatt and Surrey, which were strongly influenced by Petrarch, to the great original sonnets of Sidney, Spenser and ...
The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Rasul B. Rais
April 01, 2026
The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers (1986) provides an analysis of the evolution of superpower strategy and interests in the Indian Ocean. It argues that the priorities of the United States and the Soviet Union are to safeguard their own economic, strategic and security interests by containing ...
The Moral Economy of Trade: Ethnicity and Developing Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader
April 01, 2026
The Moral Economy of Trade (1994) investigates the agents of trade during the process of transformation from an indigenous rural subsistence economy into a cash-crop-producing market economy and a more-or-less integrated market-system in Southeast Asia. Drawing on earlier anthropological and ...
The Politics of Preferences: EEC Policy Making and the Generalised System of Preferences
1st Edition
By Peter Tulloch
April 01, 2026
The Politics of Preferences (1975) examines the development of European Community trade policy between 1963 and 1973 and its impact on developing countries. It also looks at the strategy and tactics pursued by developing countries during the same period in an attempt to get a better deal for their ...
The Power of the Purse: The Role of European Parliaments in Budgetary Decisions
1st Edition
Edited
By David Coombes
April 01, 2026
The Power of the Purse (1976) puts the alleged decline of parliaments’ ‘power of the purse’ to the test. Fourteen experts – political scientists, economists, public lawyers – examined different aspects of parliamentary control of the budget in six European states: Britain, France, Germany, Italy, ...
The Prefect in French Public Administration
1st Edition
By Howard Machin
April 01, 2026
The Prefect in French Public Administration (1976) examines the unique and theoretically powerful position of the Prefect in French local administration, concentrating on the period 1959–1975, the years of the Fifth Republic. It looks at the position of the Prefect and the attempts of governments ...
The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation
1st Edition
By Patricia Springborg
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1981, The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation is a sociological and philosophical exploration of how human needs are understood and addressed within the framework of civilization. It belongs to the author’s life-long study of the presuppositions of, and ...
The Quest for Community: Social Aspects of Residential Growth
1st Edition
By David C. Thorns
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1976, The Quest for Community is a wide comparative study of residential area development which discusses the key components in community formation and persistence. The actions of inhabitants as they have affected the development of the areas are studied and contrasted with ...
The Second Sin
1st Edition
By Thomas S. Szasz
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1973, Thomas Szasz’s collection of aphorisms, definitions and maxims strikes at the heart of confusion, mystification and humbug, in the areas of human relations, language, thought and psychiatry. The book covers the remarkable range of one of America’s most original ...
The Three Rings: The History of the Spanish Jews
1st Edition
By Poul Borchsenius
April 01, 2026
Originally published in 1963, this book covers one of the least known parts of Jewish history: the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain with the interaction of Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultures, the horrors of the Inquisition and the final banishment of the race from the Iberian peninsula. In ...
The Unnatural Scene: A Study in Shakespearean Tragedy
1st Edition
By Michael Long
April 01, 2026
Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean tragedy shows how the Shakespearean tragedies develop the idea of a conflict between nature and social structure. The idea has its roots in Shakespearean comedy, to which the...