Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime.
FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution.
Although it is believed that the process is intimately linked to globalization, the precise links are less well known. This volume offers a... Læs mere
Written by leading scholars in a range of disciplines (from law, philosophy, politics and sociology to media studies and translation studies), this book... Læs mere
This book deals with the theme of political participation in France, focusing on conventional and unconventional forms of political activism over the last... Læs mere
This incisive collection probes the history of colonialism within Europe and posits that Eastern Europe was in fact Germany s true "colonial" empire.
The international context, within which the Union now operates, and the instruments, now available at its disposal,... Læs mere
The book presents authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the role of the Catholic church in France over 50 years of social, political and theological change.
This book defends equality against the objection that, due to its failure to provide incentives, it must conflict with either freedom or efficiency, or both.
This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first half of the Twentieth century. Conflicts over food, however, developed differently in different regions, under different regimes, and within different social groups.
After providing a critical overview of neoliberal capitalist globalization over the past three decades, the book examines the emergence of new forces on the global scene and discusses the prospects of change in the global economy in a multi-polar direction in the decades ahead.
Henry James Narrative Technique situates Henry James famous method within an emerging modernist tradition with roots in philosophical debates between rationalism and empiricism.