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Federalism, fiscal authority, and centralization in Latin America

This book explores the politics of fiscal authority, focusing on the centralization of taxation in Latin America during the twentieth century. The book studies this issue in great detail for the case of Mexico. The political (and fiscal) fragmentation associated with civil war at the ...

Public sphere and experience

analysis of the bourgeois and proletarian public sphere

The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In ...

Marx and human nature refutations of a legend

In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both explanatory and ...

Cleopatra VII: La creación de una imagen

representación pública y legitimación política en la Antigüedad

Es indudable que Cleopatra es uno de los personajes más evocadores de la historia y solo el escuchar su nombre transporta a nuestra imaginación a un mundo exótico, casi de ensueño, lleno de riquezas, placeres y aventuras. Sin embargo, esta visión de la reina egipcia ...

Democracy against capitalism

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference", and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical programme of historical materialism by redefining ...

El Consulado de Sevilla de Mercaderes a Indias

un órgano de poder

En 1503 se estableció por decreto real la Casa de Contratación de Indias en Sevilla, creada para fomentar y regular el comercio y la navegación con el Nuevo Mundo. Su denominación oficial era Casa y Audiencia de Indias Su funcionamiento quedó regulado en las Ordenanzas ...

Hold everything dear

dispatches on survival and resistance

From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour ...

The EU an obituary

The European Union is a besieged institution. It is struggling in vain to overcome the eurozone crisis and faces an influx of refugees not seen since World War II. The Schengen Agreement is a dead letter, and Britain stands on the brink of leaving altogether ...

Gas and oil trading

a practical guide

This new guide to oil and gas trading aims to fill a gap not currently supplied by other reference books on sale-of-goods law and charters by focusing on the day-to-day realities of trading in the sector. It examines the way in which the oil and ...

International tax primer

nternational Tax Primer provides an introduction to the policies that countries seek to advance with their international tax rules, with numerous examples drawn from the practices of both developed and developing countries. This third edition has been expanded substantially, as a result of major developments ...

Competition Law in Latin America

a practical guide

In the past few years Latin American countries have taken giant steps to reposition their competition authorities in the global antitrust arena, granting them much greater autonomy both domestically and internationally. This is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of this complex scenario ...

The assignment of contractual rights

This book explains the existence, meaning and application of the rules governing the assignment of contractual rights. The second edition is updated and retains the structure of the first edition, focusing on what is meant by 'assignment', the distinction between legal and equitable assignments, how ...

Tort Law defences

The law of torts recognises many defences to liability. While some of these defences have been explored in detail, scant attention has been given to the theoretical foundations of defences generally. In particular, no serious attempt has been made to explain how defences relate to ...

Ikigai

los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz

Según los japoneses, todo el mundo tiene un ikigai, un motivo para existir. Algunos lo han encontrado y son conscientes de su ikigai, otros lo llevan dentro, pero todavía lo están buscando. Este es uno de los secretos para una vida larga, joven y feliz ...

Summoned

identification and religious life in a jewish neighborhood

On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles traffic. Those who work Jewish jobs teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis will stay enmeshed in the ...

Making Morocco

colonial intervention and the politics of identity

How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912–1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships ...

Mauthausen

memorias de Alfonso Maeso, un republicano español en el Holocausto

Un relato a partir de la dura e inolvidable experiencia de su tío abuelo Tras luchar en el bando republicano durante la Guerra Civil española, Alfonso Maeso Huerta se exilia en Francia. Con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, muchos españoles se unen a ...

Los expedientes secretos de la Guerra Civil

una investigación a fondo sobre las muertes violentas en los dos bandos: de Durruti a José Antonio

Fruto de una ardua investigación en archivos públicos y privados, incluidos valiosos testimonios de familiares de algunas de las víctimas, Zavala reconstruye con admirable intriga y pulso narrativo los últimos momentos de personajes clave de la Guerra Civil española: líderes anarquistas como Durruti y Andreu ...

Memorias comillenses

El presente libro ofrece algo más que unas simples memorias. En efecto, en sus páginas Sádaba habla de lo vivido durante sus cuatro años de estancia en la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, o nos guía por su Primera Comunión, pero el resultado dista mucho de ...

El arte ilustrado de redactar normas con rango de ley

No sólo el oficio de legislar es un arte ilustrado; también lo es el análisis de cómo y por qué deben redactarse ciertas normas. Arte y ciencia, técnica y teoría de la legislación se conjugan en este libro como un esfuerzo tendente a vivificar o ...