Political science

Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions
Edited by Jordan Landes and Richard Espley
December 13, 2018
Do archivists ‘curate’ history? And to what extent are our librarians the gatekeepers of knowledge?

Libraries and archives have a long and rich history of compiling ‘radical collections’- from Klanwatch Project in the States to the R. D. Laing Archive in Glasgow- but a re-examination of the information professions and all aspects of managing those collections is long overdue.

This book is the result of a critical conference held at Senate House Library in 2017. The conference provided a space to debate the issues and ethics of collection development, management and promotion.

This book brings together some key papers from those proceedings. It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library...
Brazil: Essays on History and Politics
Leslie Bethell
May 31, 2018

Leslie Bethell is the most respected scholar of Brazil of his generation. This has been recognized in Brazil by being made a corresponding fellow of both the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of Sciences. Perhaps best known for his book The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), Leslie Bethell’s scholarship has ranged widely not least in his editorship of the 12-volume Cambridge History of Latin America (1984-2008). In recent years he has continued to research the modern history of Brazil, much of which he has presented in invited lectures and Brazilian journals and remained unpublished in English until now.  In 2010 he presented a provocative paper in the...

Obama's Washington
Edited by Clodagh Harrington
October 1, 2014
Democracy in Mexico
Edited by Salvador Marti i Puig, Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz, M. Fernanda Somuano Ventura, and Claire Wright
June 30, 2014
America's Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics
Edited by Philip D. Davies
June 1, 2007
This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political effects of modern demographic change in the United States. The contributors from the U.S. and the U.K. draw on new research to analyze a wide range of issues pertaining to the diversity of American society.

Topics include:
Latino immigrant incorporation
  • racial and ethnic integration in metropolitan contexts
  • population self-determination, and Native Americans
  • public policy issues relating to immigration
  • growth of the U.S. prison population
  • changing nature of poverty in the United States
  • politics of demographic and social change at national and local levels
  • historical change in the labor force...