Books published by Cambridge University Press

Expropriation is a hotly debated issue in international investment law. This book applies the insights of legal theory to analyse expropriation clauses in investment treaties, clarifying what expropriation is and how to apply the unspecific prescriptions in investment agreements.

"In 2002, decades into the country's civil war, the Colombian government initiated elite-financed security taxes equivalent to an additional one percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP)-a major achievement in a region notorious for stagnant tax-to-GDP ratios (Everest-Philips 2010).2 More surprising than the sharp increase in yearly tax revenue is that the government did so by extracting from the wealthiest taxpayers and that these taxpayers evsupported the tax. Charles Tilly (2009, xiii) observed that taxation, "constitutes the largest intervention of governments in their subjects' private life." Colombia's government not only generated this revenue, but did so from the best politically-connected echelon of society, a group that has historically been able to resist taxation (Atria 2015; Bogliaccini and Luna 2016; Centeno 1997; 2002; Fairfield 2015; Kurtz 2009; 2013; Saylor 2014; Soifer 2009; 2015; Schneider 2012)"--

Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country's educational sector, and students', parents' and teachers' quests for a "good life" in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.

Philosophical pragmatists are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the worrying trend towards 'post-truth' thinking. In this book, Sami Pihlstroem develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James which gives space for a sincere search for truth.

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!

This wide-ranging, accessible handbook reveals the vital role plants have played in literature for two thousand years around the world. Its sections cover historical periods of plant literature, specific global regions and diverse literary forms.

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!

Dethroning the false centrality of certain key texts, this book offers an ambitious, novel perspective on Carl Schmitt and his legal and political thinking by analysing his writings from across his decades-long career. It explores Schmitt's varied and developing thoughts on exceptionalism and societal pluralism.

The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. They reveal how kings and peasants, statesmen and revolutionaries, intellectuals, and activists, have invoked the epic to forge their political visions over the past centuries. The epic has thus contributed to state formation, nationalism, as well as the decolonization and democratization of the modern world. This book helps us understand the non-Eurocentric roots of modern political and social ideas, in India and across Asia and Europe. We thereby understand the global origins of contemporary politics, society, and democracy.

This volume arises from the 2022 edition of the long-running 'Groups St Andrews' conference series and consists of expository papers from leading researchers in all areas of group theory. It provides a snapshot of the state of the art in the field, and will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students.