The Cambridge Companion to arabic philosophy

Muslims and the state in Britain, France and Germany

Myths of the archaic state

evolution of the earliest cities, states and civilizations

International legal argument in the Permanent Court of international justice

the rise of international judiciary

The International Court of Justice at The Hague is the principal judicial organ of the UN, and the successor of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1923-1946), which was the first real permanent court of justice at the international level. This book analyses the ground-breaking ...

The human genome diversity project

an ethnography of scientific practice

Jews in post-holocaust germany 1945-195

German strategy and the path to verdun

Erich von Falkenhayn and the development of attrition, 1870-1916

Almost 90 years since its conclusion, the battle of Verdun is still little understood. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun is the first detailed examination of this seminal battle in the English language to be based on research conducted in archives long thought lost ...

Dante and renaissance Florence

Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and ...

A history of Nepal

Plagues, priests and demons

sacred narratives and the rise of christianity in the old world and the new

Immigrants at the margins

Law, race, and exclusion in Southern Europe

Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration ...

A world at total war

global conflict and the politics of destrction, 1937-1945

This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the authors ...

Goya's caprichos

aesthetics, perception and the body

This book provides detailed analysis of Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos, a series of eighty etchings published in 1799, by examining the artistic principles that animate these remarkable images, and considering the complex way that they relate to the particular historical moment in which the ...

Tradition and modernity in the Mediterranean

the wedding as symbolic struggle

The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of ...

Customary international humanitarian Law

The poetics of Titian's religious paintings

Titian's decorous, but hardly restrained, paintings became established examples for Baroque painters, suggesting new ways to interpret the Counter Reformation and art. This book examines issues of sensuality and violence in Titian's religious paintings in the context of the changing religious climate of ...

Society and death in Ancient Egypt

mortuary landscapes of the middle kingdom

The Philosophy of Karl Popper

The torture papers

the roas to Abu Ghraib

The Middle East in internatinal relations

power, politics and ideology

Guns for the Sultan

military power and the weapons industry in the Ottoman Empire

Laws of fear

beyond the precautionary principle

What is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law? Cass Sunstein attacks the increasingly influential Precautionary Principle - the idea that regulators should take steps to protect against potential harms, even if causal chains are uncertain and even if we do not know that harms ...