This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-
term patterns of global diffusion. Its geographic argument centers on access to the sea …

In The CIA in Ecuador, Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance
documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the …

Cette thèse démontre que les fondements du parlementarisme québécois précèdent l'Acte
constitutionnel de 1791; que les membres du Conseil de Québec (1764-1775) et ceux du …

Recent work has emphasized the role of colonial state structures in the construction and
enforcement of race and gender in the British Empire from the seventeenth century onward …

This article proposes an innovative approach to early modern representative institutions,
from the later fifteenth century to the early eighteenth. It argues that only a transnational …

Britons and Americans seem to have agreed about most constitutional principles in 1776,
apart from who was to be represented and how. It has been argued by many historians of …

Trusting agents, trading partners, and others to fulfill their obligations honestly and in
accordance with expectations stands as the “fundamental problem of exchange.” These …