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Joined-Up Government
'Joined- up government' is a key theme of modern government. The Labour government, first elected in 1997, decided that intractable problems such as social exclusion, drug …
Mexico City through History and Culture
These essays celebrate Mexico City as a centre of cultural creativity, diversity, and dynamism, trace its history from the founding of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan to the present …
Cabinets and the Bomb
The nuclear weapons question runs through post-1940 British history like an irradiated thread. It represents part of the hidden history of twentieth-century Britain, given the high …
British Sociology Seen from Without and Within
These eleven essays look at the current state of sociology in Britain from a number of intriguing perspectives. How important is it for British sociologists to be aware of the …
Britain's Pensions Crisis
British pensions are in crisis. Yet in all the discussion of what exactly the crisis consists of, and how it might be addressed, attention to the history of how the crisis has come …
Dispossession and Displacement
This volume explores the extent to which forced migration has become a defining feature of life in the Middle East and North Africa. The papers present research on refugees, …
Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World
These fifteen papers explore the ways in which recent developments in imaging, image analysis, and image display and diffusion can be applied to objects of material culture in …
Information Technology and Scholarship
The impact of information technology is reviewed by scholars who are leading pioneers in the application of that technology to research in their disciplines. From both a general …
Risk, Democratic Citizenship and Public Policy
In recent years there has been growing concern about the effectiveness and legitimacy of public decision making about risk, sparked by a series of high profile issues that have …
The International Politics of EU-China Relations
In the past 10 years the European Union and China have emerged as new international actors. They have an increasingly diverse relationship covering economy, politics, technology, …
Hutton and Butler
These essays offer penetrating insights into the events and controversies that have dominated the news agenda for the last two years. Never has the path to a British war been …
Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century
Since 1989, there have been many claims that Marxist approaches to history are out of date. As the challenge of more recent events shows, however, history has not stopped and …