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Introduction to international relations and global politics

The most accessible, succinct introduction to the principal international relations theories, with an emphasis on how theory can be used to analyse key global issues. Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics provides students with a complete understanding of theory and how it applies to ...

The Oxford handbook of legal history

Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly international ...

Histoire constitutionnelle de l'Espange

(1808-1978)

Nous nous trouvons face à une oeuvre dans laquelle José Manuel Vera Santos, Professeur de Droit Constitutionnel à l’Université Rey Juan Carlos. Rend accessible le constitutionnalisme espagnol, tant historique qu’actuel, au chercheur et au lecteur francophone. Pour ce faire, dans cette monographie, l ...

Guía práctica sobre solución extrajudicial de conflictos civil y mediación penal

Análisis de la ley orgánica 1/2025, de 2 de Enero, de medidas en materia de eficiencia del servicio público de la justicia

Esta guía práctica analiza, tanto los medios adecuados de solución de controversias en vía no jurisdiccional en el orden civil, como la justicia restaurativa en el orden penal -introducidos en la Ley Orgánica 1/2025, de 2 de enero, de medidas de eficiencia al servicio ...

La obligación

Concepto y régimen jurídico de los deberes públicos

Esta obra estudia el origen y la evolución histórica de los conceptos de obligación y deber, las fuentes de las que nacen como categorías jurídicas y sus límites. También analiza el estatuto de las personas obligadas, el coste del cumplimiento y las consecuencias del incumplimiento ...

Identidad, dominación y resolución de conflictos

un estudio histórico-antropológico sobre los romaníes spoitori de Rumanía

Este libro analiza las profundas transformaciones de la comunidad spoitor, un subgrupo romaní de Rumanía, desde el periodo comunista hasta el presente. Obligados a abandonar su estilo de vida seminómada, se examina cómo la sedentarización forzada en una localidad rural reconfiguró su estructura social, alterando ...

Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Administrativo 2024

Tomo IV

Este nuevo número, el cuarto, del Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho administrativo continúa la serie dedicada al estudio de instituciones centrales de la disciplina. La panorámica de países que comparten raíces culturales muestra tendencias y convergencias en respuestas legales y jurisprudenciales. Tal seguimiento de su evolución ...

Las niñas asociadas a grupos armados

perspectivas jurídicas, sociológicas y de protección

El libro aborda la alarmante situación de las niñas soldado en conflictos armados, que sufren desproporcionadamente debido a múltiples factores de vulnerabilidad. A través de un enfoque multidisciplinar, la obra recopila el trabajo de académicos, representantes de organismos internacionales, profesionales de campo y víctimas, ofreciendo ...

The Witches of St. Osyth

betrayal and murder in Elizabethan England

An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their ...

The falls of Rome

crises, resilience, and resurgence in late antiquity

Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally considered these crises as defining events, and thus ...

The Company's sword

the East India Company and the politics of militarism, 1644-1858

In the late eighteenth century, it was a cliché that the East India Company ruled India 'by the sword.' Christina Welsch shows how Indian and European soldiers shaped and challenged the Company's political expansion and how elite officers turned those dynamics into a bid ...

Commerce and manners in Edmund Burke's political economy

Although many of Edmund Burke's speeches and writings contain prominent economic dimensions, his economic thought seldom receives the attention it warrants. Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy stands as the most comprehensive study to date of this fascinating subject. In addition ...

Homer and the tradition of political philosophy

encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf explores an overlooked but crucial role that Homer played in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning, notably, the relationship between politics, religion, and philosophy; and in their debates about human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence ...

After Charlemagne

Carolingian Italy and its rulers

After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected period of ...

Natural disaster at the closing of the Dutch golden age

floods, worms, and cattle plague

By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an era of natural disasters. Between the late seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth century, Dutch communities weathered ...

Medieval self-coronations

the history and symbolism of a ritual

Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first ...

Latin and Greek monasticism in the crusader states

Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near East in the period c ...

East and west in the early Middle Ages

the Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective

From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member communities. By bringing together the ...

Forging Leninism in China

Mao and the remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934

Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party from the years 1927 to 1934. Describing the transformation of the party as 'the forging of Leninism', Joseph Fewsmith offers a clear analysis ...

La Inquisición española

Sin caer en juicios simplistas, influencias nacionalistas o motivaciones religiosas, el autor de este ensayo aborda el problema histórico de la Inquisición española. Desde el análisis sereno y fundamentado en documentos históricos, busca esclarecer la leyenda negra creada por la imaginación popular y el trabajo ...