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This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation…
La jaquette indique : "The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions abou…
The military, in one form or another, are always part of the picture. This study investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years, on the basis of case studies…
Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries. Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but was also motivated by ideas…
A collection of critical biographies of historians, philosophers, political scientists and others from the 16th to the 20th century whose work is in its entirety or in part devoted to the phenomenon/idea of Europe.
"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida."
Questioning the foundations of public law
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Présentation de l'éditeur : "n 2010, Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the LSE, published Foundations of Public Law, 'an account of the foundation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character'. The book has become a landmark in the…
La 4ème de couv. indique :"Les grands écrivains détestent qu'on inscrive leur inspiration et leur oeuvre dans le prolongement d'une doctrine ou dans le cadre d'une école. Pourtant la littérature française ne peut se comprendre que par la connaissance des modèles qui lui ont perm…
