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Waves of war

nationalism, State formation, and ethnic exclusion in the Modern world

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy ...

The Sources of Social Power

Vol. 2: The rise of classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain ...

The sources of social power

Vol. 3: Global empires and revolution, 1890-1945

Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century ...

Hobbes today

insights for the 21st Century

Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth-century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we ...

Gnostic religion in Antiquity

Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the ...

Documentary culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account for the dramatic increase in the number of surviving documents, this new investigation reveals the scale and spread of documentary culture beyond the Church. The contributors ...

Sociedades anónimas

INDICE: 1. Concepto y notas caracterizadoras de la Sociedad Anónima. María Enciso Alonso-Muñumer y Ramón Hermosilla Gimeno. 2. Constitución de la Sociedad Anónima. José Luis Pérez Serrabona. 3. Las aportaciones sociales. Carlos Vargas Vasserot. 4. Acciones. Juan Ignacio Peinado Gracia, Isabel Contreras y Patricia Márquez ...

Slaves to Rome

paradigms of Empire in roman culture

This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how ...

The development of dialectic from Plato to Aristotle

The period from Plato's birth to Aristotle's death (427-322 BC) is one of the most influential and formative in the history of Western philosophy. The developments of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and science in this period have been investigated, controversies have arisen and ...

The politics of authoritarian rule

What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using ...

The Spanish Civil War

This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in ...

Solvay

history of multinational family firm

Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out into other chemicals, plastics and ...

La responsabilidad civil por vicios de la construcción en España y Puerto Rico

La presente monografía contiene un estudio comparado sobre la legislación, interpretación y aplicación de las normas referidas al proceso edificatorio en España y Puerto Rico. Dichas normas partes de un tronco común, el Código civil español, parcialmente vigente en Puerto Rico, pero interpretado y aplicado ...

Early Modern Europe

1450-1789

The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support ...

Black Morocco

a history of slavery, race, and Islam

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as ...

The Enlightenment

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and still continues to this day. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, the place of God and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did ...

Tratado práctico de Derecho de la Seguridad Social

Esta nueva edición del Tratado Práctico de Derecho de la Seguridad Social incorpora las sucesivas reformas legales aprobadas en esta materia desde la edición anterior, y contiene una exposición completa, clara y actualizada del sistema español de seguridad social. Dividida en siete grandes apartados, la ...

Nationalism and international society

What is meant by international society? On what principles is the notion of international society based? How has the notion of nationalism influenced its evolution? In this book James Mayall addresses these questions and sheds important new light upon the issues of nation and international ...

Libertas and the practice of politics in the Late Roman Republic

This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on ...