Herbert Butterfield and the interpretation of history

This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself ...

Was the Bayeux tapestry made in France?

the case for St. Florent of Saumur

This book presents the hypothesis that the Bayeux tapestry, long believed to have been made in England, came from the Loire valley in France, from the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur. This is based on a number of different kinds of evidence, the most ...

Religion, social practice, and contested hegemonies

reconstructing the public sphere in Muslim majority societies

This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and practices of the public in modern and contemporary ...

Europe confronts terrorism

Europe Confronts Terrorism examines the institutional, political, security and reforms that have taken place in Europe since the catastrophic terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001. The tragic attacks in Madrid on 11 March 2004 - to date, the worst terror attack on European soil ...

Money, trust, and banking

an integrated approach to monetary theory and banking theory

This book shows how money and banks emerge to efficiently address problems of trust between economic agents. The analysis offers an innovative approach for integrating monetary theory, banking theory, and standard economic theory in a game theoretical framework. The unified perspective of the book contributes ...

Ecstatic transformation

on the uses of alterity in the Middle Ages

Ecstatic Transformation studies the manner in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to ...

Antisemitism

myth and hate from Antiquity to the present

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led ...

Future Jihad

terrorist strategies against America

This book presents a frightening new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future. Phares shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about Al Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Called by the press ...

The origins of the french Revolution

The question of what brought about the French Revolution remains the subject of vigorous debate and perennial interest. This clear collection is an excellent introduction to a complex topic, written by ten distinguished American and British historians at the forefront of their fields. Chapters on ...

Literature in language education

A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education of interest to teachers of English and of modern foreign languages. There are prompts and principles for those who wish to improve their own practice or to engage in projects or ...

The future of Iraq

dictatoriaship, democracy or division?

Reordering Iraq is the lynchpin of America's successful involvement in the Middle East. The challenge may be impossible. "The Future of Iraq" provides a primer on the history and political dynamics of this pivotal state divided by ethnic, religious, and political antagonisms, and provocatively ...

Mixed electoral systems

contamination and its consequences

Using election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll- call data from many mixed systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects party strategy, voting behaviour, legislative cohesion and overall structure of partisan competition.

Constructing global civil society

morality and power in International Relations

Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by ...

Europe and the politics of language

citizens, migrants and outsiders

Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acquire full status? Should non-European languages receive recognition from the EU? These are among the many questions explored in this new study of official, regional ...

The historiography of the Holocaust

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust ...

Language ideologies, policies and practices

language and the future of Europe

The contributors to "Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices" investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between public policies and ...

The history of Chile

This book provides an up-to-date historical overview of this complex and fascinating country. Beginning with a survey of the land, people, and current government, the book then traces Chile's chronological story. Ten chapters detail Chilean history from the indigenous peoples to the democratic transition ...

The making of EU foreign policy

the case of Eastern Europe

Beyond structural adjustment

the institutional context of african developmThe institutional context of African development

As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, "underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance". This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role ...

Corporate governance

financial responsibility, controls and ethics

Corporate Governance is a new text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world. The book is intended for board members, corporate executives, regulators, auditors, creditors and analysts seeking a concise analysis of the governance ...

Applying qualitative methods to marketing management research

Qualitative research methodologies are gaining more and more acceptance. This book deals with the application of qualitative methods to marketing management research. It explains different ways of making and analyzing data with qualitative tools, and it describes the generation of results working for researchers as ...

Derivatives and internal models

The successful first edition provided an introduction to the valuation and risk management of modern financial instruments, formulated in a precise mathematical expression and comprehensively covering all relevant topics using consistent and exact notation. In this new edition, Deutsch continues with this philosophy covering new ...