Sheds new light on the impact of magazine culture on Irish literature from the 1800s to the present.
The first introduction to writing about intelligence and intelligence services.
What divides and what unites an ethnically diverse citizenry? Do multicultural policies cause ethnic conflict or do they form the basis for wider loyalties? George Vasilev show how group-representative measures provide the incentive structure needed for inter-ethnic cooperation.
Through a series of case studies, Gavin J. Bailey reveals new details of how Britain used American aircraft and... Læs mere
Explores democracy’s remarkable rise from obscurity to centre stage in contemporary international relations, from the rogue democratic state of 18th Century France to Western pressures for countries throughout the world to democratise.
Offers a reappraisal of Mohammed Racim's significance to a multitude of academic fields and debates.
Chris Himsworth analyses the text of the 1985 European Charter of Local Self-Government, traces its historical emergence and... Læs mere
This book, written by experts from Scotland and South Africa, examines exactly how human-rights provisions influence... Læs mere
Andreas Rahmatian explains Kames’ conceptions of legal philosophy, including black-letter law, legal science, legal theory, legal sociology and anthropology in its early stages, setting them in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Focusing on the private law of England, Scotland, France, Quebec and the Netherlands, this volume explores how the private law concepts of trust and patrimony interact in various... Læs mere
This book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe.
The first coherent analysis of the topic of possession from a comparative and historical legal perspective. The volume comprises contributions from some very distinguished... Læs mere