Politics & Theories

Why are some nations more prosperous than others? This book sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. It explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity.

An honest and nuanced exploration of what it means to be biracial in Britain that examines how we construct our identity.

Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American life, made luminous by Agee's nuanced, exploratory understanding of authoritarian drift in a number of world-historical contexts.

Partitioning Ireland was an experiment that has lasted a century. Now it is time for it to come to an end

The defining, best-selling book on the history, origins and development of nationalism

Almost three years after the UK's momentous EU referendum vote, multiple Brexit Secretaries and three rejected deals, the question remains: what exactly does the UK want? Brexit - The Benefit of Hindsight analyses a number of economic indicators to answer the unanswerable question.