Cambridge University Press

The first systematic account of how structures of justice led to the emergence of representative institutions and state-formation in Western Europe. It will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, political economy and economic history, history, historical sociology, political sociology, law and legal history.

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.

The leading Latin course worldwide

The leading Latin course worldwide

The leading Latin course worldwide

Exploring Irish fiction, poetry, and drama through the lens of nationalism, diaspora, and the catastrophes of famine and emigration, this volume offers a new perspective of emergent literature in the Victorian age. This book is a key resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century studies and English literature.

By examining Yeats's worldmaking capacity to engage with the Irish past, this book offers a new understanding of Yeats's revivalism and its relation to his modernism. It considers, through close reading and contextual analysis, the nature of Yeats's achievements and innovations in poetry, drama, essays, autobiography, and occult philosophy.

This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovative study of Irish expatriate novels that situates Irish writing in terms of the country's changing place in an international order in a time of turbulent global change.

This Companion engages with key debates surrounding the interpretation and reception of Elizabeth Bishop's published and unpublished writing in relation to questions of biography, the natural world and politics. Chapters explore the full range of Bishop's artistic achievements and the extent to which posthumous publications have contributed to her enduring popularity.

This book examines the economic thought of Edmund Burke. By exploring Burke's understanding of the relation between commerce and manners, it raises timely ethical questions about capitalism and its limits relevant to contemporary debates over neoliberalism and globalization.

A fresh account of Irish Romanticism and the Irish novel in turbulent political times.

Presenting a vibrant account of Ireland's literary voices, this volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and English romanticism. It offers a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English, taking account of colonial, European, and transatlantic contexts.