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  • Trade, Regulation and Empire State-building in Britain

    The Board of Trade’s Role in Building the British Regulatory State

    by Martha Prevezer, Perri 6, Ed Legon ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the impact of the Board of Trade upon the British state from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. The study argues that for too long historians have overlooked the Board, yet it was a critical force in shaping the British state and in developing its capacity both for economic regulation and for economic development. Focusing on the slave trade and on the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • International Cooperation When Mistrust Deepens

    Britain and the First International Regulatory Regime

    by Perri 6, Eva Heims ...
    In the years leading up to the outbreak of war in 1914, Britain was collaborating closely with Germany on the development of an improved telegraph service, despite preparations for war also being made by both countries. This cooperation rested upon both states' intensive participation in the global regulatory regime for telecommunications. Why states commit to cooperating in such multilateral ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Mary Douglas

    Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

    by Perri 6, Paul Richards ...
    Mary Douglas’s innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mary Douglas

    Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

    by Paul Richards, Perri 6 ...
    Mary Douglas’s innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Principles of Methodology

    Research Design in Social Science

    by Perri 6, Christine Bellamy ...
    This book provides a comprehensive, accessible guide to social science methodology. In so doing, it establishes methodology as distinct from both methods and philosophy.Most existing textbooks deal with methods, or sound ways of collecting and analysing data to generate findings. In contrast, this innovative book shows how an understanding of methodology allows us to design research so that ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II

    The New Durkheimians

    by Perri Six ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays in Anthropology
    These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications. Sometimes called 'grid-group analysis' or 'cultural theory', they derive from the work of Durkheim in the 1880s and 1900s and develop the insights of the anthropologist Mary Douglas and her followers from the 1960s on. First redefined within social ... Read more

    $525.00 USD

  • Mary Douglas

    by Perri 6, Paul Richards ...
    Series Book 4 - Anthropology's Ancestors
    This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century.Her work focused on how human groups classify one another, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise. Classification, she argued, emerges from practices of social life, and is a factor in all deep and intractable human disputes.This biography offers an ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Digital State at the Leading Edge

    by Sandford Borins, Kenneth Kernaghan, David Brown, Nick Bontis, Perri 6, Fred Thompson ...
    The impact of information technology (IT) on government in the last five years has been profound. Using the governments of Canada and Ontario (both recognized as international leaders in the use of IT) as case studies, Digital State at the Leading Edge is the first attempt to take a comprehensive view of the impact of IT upon the whole of government, including politics and campaigning, public ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Principles of Methodology

    Research Design in Social Science

    by Perri 6, Christine Bellamy ...
    This book provides a comprehensive, accessible guide to social science methodology. In so doing, it establishes methodology as distinct from both methods and philosophy.Most existing textbooks deal with methods, or sound ways of collecting and analysing data to generate findings. In contrast, this innovative book shows how an understanding of methodology allows us to design research so that ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Explaining Political Judgement

    by Perri 6 ...
    What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgement, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats

    Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy

    Edited by Patrice Dutil ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as disparate unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea that creates alignment. And because the prime minister is typically the one proposing that idea, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders.Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ... Read more

    $28.79 USD