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Democracy in China

the coming crisis

With Xi Jinping potentially set as president for life, China’s move toward political democracy may appear stalled. But Jiwei Ci argues that four decades of reform have created a mentality in the Chinese people that is just waiting for the political system to catch ...

North Africa and the making of Europe

governance, institutions and culture

This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping ...

Revolts and the military in the Arab Spring

popular uprisings and the politics of repression

Through detailed exploration of events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, Sean Burns here breaks down the concept of professionalism within the armed forces into its component parts and demonstrates how variation in military structures determines their behaviour. In so doing, and by ...

Capital markets union and beyond

Experts from economics, finance, law, policy, and banking discuss the design and implementation of a future capital market union in Europe. The plan for further development of Europe's economic and monetary union foresees the creation of a capital market union (CMU)—a single market ...

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book ...

The Middle Ages in popular imagination

memory, film and medievalism

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture ...

The making of England

a new history of the Anglo-Saxon world

During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street ...

L'esprit démocratique du populisme

Et si la nature du populisme nous échappait encore ? L’actualité politique voit ce mot ressurgir régulièrement, mais, au-delà de sa charge polémique, que désigne-t-il exactement ? Depuis trente ans, les médias ressassent les mêmes poncifs : le populisme serait démagogique et autoritaire ; ni de droite ni ...

L'économie européenne 2019

L’OFCE propose dans la collection « Repères » un bilan annuel de l’économie européenne. L’édition 2019 s’inscrit dans une actualité particulière : 2019 est l’année des vingt ans de l’euro, une année d’élection au Parlement européen et l’année qui pourrait ...

Nationalism, identity and statehood in Post-yugoslav Montenegro

This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of political and social developments in Montenegro from the processes that led to the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Montenegro's eventful trajectory towards independence and, later, towards Euro-Atlantic integration. Kenneth Morrison ...

L'économie mondiale 2020

Chaque année, le CEPII publie dans la collection « Repères » des analyses inédites des grandes questions économiques mondiales. L’économie mondiale ralentit à l’ombre de tensions commerciales et géopolitiques aiguës alors que la coordination internationale est en lambeaux. Au-delà du protectionnisme de Donald Trump, c ...

Religious evolution and the Axial Age

from shamans to priests to prophets

Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ...

Scribbling through history

graffiti, places and people from Antiquity to Modernity

For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeologists excavating Pompeii in the 19th century and has been embraced by modern street culture: graffiti have been left on natural sites ...

La crise de la représentation

Représenter est un verbe tellement courant que nous oublions de lier trois de ses sens majeurs : les artistes nous représentent le monde, les médias le saisissent dans son actualité, les citoyens enfin se plaignent d’être mal représentés. Le pari de ce livre est d ...

A history of Modern Africa

1800 to the present

A History of Modern Africa explores two centuries of the continent’s political, economic, and social history. This thorough yet accessible text help readers to understand key concepts, recognize significant themes, and identify the processes that shaped the modern history of Africa. Emphasis is placed on ...

Black in America

This title provides a sociology of the Black American experience. To be black in America is to exist amongst myriad contradictions: racial progress and regression, abject poverty amidst profound wealth, discriminatory policing yet equal protection under the law. The book explores these contradictions in the ...

The barbarian invasions

a genealogy of the History of Art

How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion-the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity. The history of art, argues Éric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. Viewed from the nineteenth century, the Germanic-led invasions of the Roman ...

Understanding cultural policy

Understanding Cultural Policy provides a practical, comprehensive introduction to thinking about how and why governments intervene in the arts and culture. Cultural policy expert Carole Rosenstein examines the field through comparative, historical, and administrative lenses, while engaging directly with the issues and tensions that plague ...

La fisonomía del libro medieval y moderno

entre la funcionalidad, la estética y la información

Comprender el libro antiguo difícilmente será posible si atendemos solo a su contenido textual. En los siglos medievales y modernos la fisonomía de los libros tuvo un papel crítico en el modo en que eran producidos y consumidos estos materiales. La elección de una tipografía ...

Experiencing Medieval Art

Experiencing Medieval Art is an extensive revision and expansion of the author's Seeing Medieval Art, originally published in 2004. Renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers often-strange objects and the materials of which they are made, circumstances of production, the conflictual relationship between art ...