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The Doha Blues

institutional crisis and reform in the WTO

The collapse of the Doha Round hangs heavily over an already troubled world economy. Some have concluded that this failure is simply the result of a lack of political will and a pre-occupation with issues such as terrorism. But as Kent Jones reveals in The ...

Cases, materials and text on Consumer Law

General editors Hans-W. Micklitz, Jules Stuyck, Evelyne Terryn; Coordinating editor Dimitri Droshout. The objective of this casebook, like others in the Ius Commune Series, is to help uncover common roots, notwithstanding differences in approach, of the European legal systems, with a view to strengthening the ...

The future of financial regulation

Eds. Iain MacNeil, Justin O'Brien. "The Future of Financial Regulation" is an edited collection of papers presented at a major conference at the University of Glasgow in spring 2009, co-sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council World Economy and Finance Programme and the ...

Arion´s Lyre

Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry

Arion's Lyreexamines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by ...

Surviving Death

In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates ...

The African Diaspora

a History Through Culture

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these ...

Painting History

Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

In the aftermath of the Revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making sense of its recent past, and no French artist of the 19th century was more inspired by English subjects than Paul Delaroche. His monumental work The Execution ...

Sex and Religion in the Bible

If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error. So contends Calum Carmichael in this original and incisive reading of some of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament#s most famous narratives. Sifting through the imaginative layers ...

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe

Between Market and Laboratory

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences# systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on ...

The Hebrew Republic

Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization#the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in ...

The Second Crusade

Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay ...

Alexander the Great

a Life in Legend

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther#across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. This engaging and handsomely illustrated book ...

Sacred Realism

Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of ...

The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe

Italy, Spain, and Romania, 1870-1945

Dylan Riley reconceptualizes the nature and origins of interwar fascism in this remarkable investigation of the connection between civil society and authoritarianism. From the late nineteenth century to World War I, voluntary associations exploded across Europe, especially among rural non-elites. But the development of this ...

Slavery in Indian Country

the Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder#s pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting ...

Encountering Revolution

Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic

Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American ...

On Courage

What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most admired virtues? Is courage characteristic of all cultures, or only some, and why is it so often portrayed as a #manly# virtue? Is courage an emotion or a capability, a psychological or ...

El zoco medieval

contribución al estudio de la historia del mercado

Históricamente, el mercado no constituye una institución universal, pero sí ha tenido una difusión mundial. Esta monografía es fruto de la minuciosa recogida de datos relativos al zoco musulmán. Su examen ha permitido describir y entender su funcionamiento, rastrear sus precedentes cronológicos, destacar cuál ha ...

Religiosas y ciudades

la espiritualidad femenina en la construcción sociopolítica urbana bajomedieval, (Córdoba, siglos XIII-XVI)

Uno de los rasgos más llamativos de la vida religiosa de la Baja Edad Media fue el espectacular incremento de las mujeres consagradas a Dios, la diversificación de sus formas de vida y el gran peso de lo femenino en la simbología y el lenguaje ...

El Ayuntamiento de Sevilla en el siglo XVIII

Mucho se ha escrito sobre la ciudad de Sevilla pero muy poco sobre la historia de su Ayuntamiento. Por ello debemos felicitar a la autora del presente trabajo por su iniciativa y al mismo tiempo congratularnos todos por el resultado obtenido, un trabajo de investigación ...