This edited volume examines contemporary global discourses on trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery from a variety of perspectives.

This book explores the early modern interest in conversation.

A comparative portrait of Richelieu and Olivares, as personalities and as statesmen, drawn through study of their policies and their mutual struggle. This book also offers insights into 17th-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.

An examination of how language functions in CLIL, based on a corpus of classroom interactions.

Scholars from several disciplines explore the significance of Rome from the late eighteenth century to 1945.

A major study of the cultural origins of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism in general.

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. Featuring an expanded introduction, a new foreword and an extensive editorial apparatus, the new edition is designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.

This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I.