Books by David Saunders

Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them.

Anti-Lawyers discusses how we should regard todays's critics of law and government in the light of the historical still unfinished struggle to separate the legal regulation of civil life from the Christian regulation of conscience.

The Russian Empire in the 19th century was a land of extremes, extremes that were too great to be reconciled. This text examines the reasons why compromise was so difficult.

The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. This book indicates that obscenity law is not, as liberals claim, a mistaken attempt to police moral ideas, but rather forms part of the legitimate governmental regulation of a problematic social conduct.