Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also drawing on the history of the egalitarian, utilitarian, and liberal traditions in po…
This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles' property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the nation. State interve…
Der Tod seines Onkels bring den Berliner Architekten Nicolas Hollmann in Bedrängnis: Weshalb vererbt er gerade ihm sein Weingut am Rio Douro? Soll er seinen Beruf aufgeben und das Erbe annehmen? Wie gefährlich die Reise nach Portugal wird, ahnt er nicht. Kaum auf dem Weingut, ha…
The break-up of the Soviet Union is a key event of the twentieth century. The 39th IIS congress in Yerevan 2009 focused on causes and consequences of this event and on shifts in the world order that followed in its wake. This volume is an effort to chart these developments in em…
"The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, privatization, rule of law, centrally planned public institutions, and the legacies of totalitarian thought in language and discourse…
