A Moment of Faith - Prijzen

The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an a...

Captain Blood

Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900

Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks a...

Property without Rights

Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs grant...