"Explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at ways in which state actors strategically employ emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others." -- Dust jacket.
Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-incre…
The IMF, the World Bank and the African debt
"Freundschaft kann man genausowenig erklären wie Liebe; doch was wären wir, wenn wir es nicht versuchten?" Boyroth ist mutiger, unangepasster, charismatischer als andere. Und er hat eine schöne, geheimnisvolle Schwester. Als Hanspeter ihm zum ersten Mal begegnet, weiß er, dass s…
This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on …
This book retraces the nature and role of credit in the pre-industrial European countryside. As part of an ongoing examination of credit and its provision in European past societies, the nine papers collected in this volume offer further insight into the ways in which credit wa…
