Books published by Cambridge University Press

The Element promotes Shakespeare and Neurodiversity, focusing on reasonable adjustments, learning pace, diagnosis, and futures in education. It provides theoretical explanations and activities to help students and educators understand ableism's impact.

The early Industrial Revolution was not ignored by eighteenth-century writers. They addressed it in the Enlightenment Mock Arts, a curious genre of satires that fed into Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy and Belinda. Paddy Bullard traces the oblique strategies that these authors used to avoid the constraints of Enlightenment instrumentalism.

This innovative study explores the financial relationship between the Irish Catholic Church and its laity from about 1850, when the Church grew wealthy. Focusing on the motivations, experiences and emotions of the ordinary people who gave the money, it asserts their agency in the phenomenon of the post-Famine 'devotional revolution'.

To broaden understanding about international economic law and sustainable development, the book examines how the law of international financial institutions (IFIs) treats 'non-economic' issues. It dissects IFIs' environmental and social policies, the independent accountability mechanisms, and the participation therein of project-affected people.

This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people.

Exploring the Romantic period's experiments in individual and national self-consciousness, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes striking connections and contrasts to reveal identities being re-orientated and disorientated in response to historical change from the French Revolution onwards.

The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant 'moderate' Enlightenment?