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Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial ...

Christian identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain

The book series "Studies on the Children of Abraham" focuses on the three Abrahamic Religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Its aim is to publish academic works devoted to relations between these religions, both historical and theological, including confrontations and peaceful encounters. Monographs, textual studies ...

Early Bourbon spanish America

politics and society in a forgotten Era (1700-1759)

Growing out of the first Anglophone academic workshop to focuse exclusively on the early Bourbon Spanish America, this collective volume offers a new perspective on the key changes experienced in Spanish America during the first half of the eighteenth century.

La tutela imperfecta

biología y farmacia en la España del primer franquismo

El sistema científico y tecnológico implantado durante los primeros años del franquismo, en los que la economía estuvo basada en los principios de autarquía, enfatizó los aspectos aplicados de la investigación básica. En este marco, el colectivo farmacéutico adquiere un especial protagonismo y lo hace ...

Peacebuilding in community colleges

a teaching resource

Offering lifelong and developmental learning to over 13 million students at nearly 1,200 schools, community colleges in the United States attract a student body with remarkable economic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. They provide students with skills and foundational knowledge upon which successful professional careers ...

El precio de la guerra

El Estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III (1779-1783)

Este libro pretende avanzar en la comprensión de la naturaleza del Estado borbónico del siglo xviii. La construcción del Estado era un problema político, económico y social porque no se podía realizar simplemente por la coerción, como tradicionalmente se ha argumentado, sino con la colaboración ...

Las abadías cistercienses

historia y arquitectura

En 1098 se fundó el que más tarde sería el monasterio de Citeaux, cuna de la orden del Cister y punto de partida de la expansión de la orden por toda Europa. El ascético modo de vida también encontró reflejo en la arquitectura impregnada de ...

El guardián invisible

«Ainhoa Elizasu fue la segunda víctima del basajaun, aunque entonces la prensa todavía no lo llamaba así. Fue un poco más tarde cuando trascendió que alrededor de los cadáveres aparecían pelos de animal, restos de piel y rastros dudosamente humanos, unidos a una especie de ...

Despachos de guerra

Cuando Michael Herr fue a Vietnam en 1967 como corresponsal de Esquire era un escritor prácticamente desconocido. Pero fue unánimemente alabado tras publicar su famoso artículo «Sorbos infernales», y su reputación fue en aumento con la progresiva aparición de más trabajos suyos. Despachos de guerra ...

Global Business Today

Global Business Today has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international students of business. Written in a refreshing, informative, and accessible style, it has become the most widely used text in the International Business market with its comprehensive and up-to-date contents; focus on ...

La Sagrada Familia, o Crítica de la crítica crítica contra Bruno Bauer y consortes

En 1844 Bruno Bauer atacó a sus antiguos amigos Marx y Engels desde el Die Allgemeine Literaturzeitung, la gaceta literaria que el propio Bauer editaba junto a sus hermanos en Charlottenburg. Reacio a todos los movimientos de la «masa» de la época, Bauer incidió particularmente ...

Manual de instrumentos de renta fija, estructurados y tipos de interés y crédito

Los cambios suscitados en los mercados financieros internacionales en los últimos años a la luz de unas de las mayores crisis en ellos registrados, no ha podido pasar desapercibida en los instrumentos de renta fija. Todo lo contrario, indicadores tales como la prima de riesgo ...

L'interpretazione del contratto

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Le successioni testamentarie

Humanity's Law

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts ...

Competition and entrepreneurship

Competition and Entrepreneurship defines Israel M. Kirzners unique contribution to the economics profession. Pointing out the shortcomings of the traditional microeconomic model, Kirzner offers an alternative and complementary view, which illuminates and enriches the way economists think of the market process. Recognizing that economics cannot ...

Causes, Laws, and free will

why determinism doesn't matter

Common sense tells us that we are morally responsible for our actions only if we have free will - and that we have free will only if we are able to choose among alternative actions. Common sense tells us that we do have free will and ...

The sovereignty of Law

freedom, Constitution, and Common Law

In The Sovereignty of Law Trevor Allan presents an accessible introduction to his influential common law constitutional theory - an account of the unwritten constitution as a complex articulation of legal and moral principles. The British constitution is conceived as a coherent set of fundamental principles ...

Sentencing guidelines

exploring the english model

The politics of criminal sentencing has recently crystallised around the issue of whether and how a system of structured sentencing should inform judicial approaches to punishing criminals. Increasingly, structured sentencing guidelines are being introduce to frame judicial discretion. This volume is the first to examine ...

New perspectives on public services

place and technology

Despite their immense importance for many aspects of public service management, the specific features of places have been largely ignored in recent public management literature. Technologies have received much more attention, but mainly within the specific field of e-government. In this book Christopher Pollitt puts ...