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Law as culture

an invitation

Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered a distinctive domain with strange rules and stranger language, law is actually part of a culture's way of expressing its sense of the order of things. In "Law as Culture", Lawrence Rosen invites ...

The end of Laissez Faire

the economic consecuences of the peace

In THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE (1926), Keynes presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that the marketplace should be free of government interference, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst ...

Fronteras de agua

Tenía que ser Perejil. Bueno, eso y una dichosa plataforma petrolífera en aguas canarias. Unos malentendidos y dos gobiernos quizás algo débiles. Finalmente, España y Marruecos, en guerra. Excelente novela de ficción, cuyo autor Luis Crespo deja muy claro que es un experto conocedor de ...

Magia dei contrari

cinque studi su Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno può considerarsi il più enigmatico pensatore del Rinascimento italiano ed europeo. Vissuto in un'età di crisi e di profondi cambiamenti sul piano filosofico, scientifico, etico-religioso e politico, Bruno è uno dei grandi 'novatori' della prima età moderna. Il presente volume raccoglie degli ...

The essential analects

selected passages with traditional commentary

The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages covering all major themes. An appendix of selected traditional commentaries keyed to each passage provides access to the text and to its reception and interpretation. Also ...

Philosopher-Kingsk

the argument of Plato's republic

This is a reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1988. Reeve's classic work provides an interpretation of Republic that makes a case for the coherence of Plato's argument.

Reading the Middle Ages

sources from Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic world

Following her highly acclaimed A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein now presents a unique edited collection of documents and readings. Spanning the period from c.300 to c.1500, the ambitious Reading the Middle Ages incorporates in a systematic fashion Islamic ...

Nuevos retos de los derechos humanos

En este libro se abordan aquellas otras cuestiones que son específicas de la etapa más reciente de nuestra historia, cuestiones como el multiculturalismo, la globalización, la justicia penal internacional o los llamados derechos de tercera y cuarta generación y, dentro de ellos, toda la problemática ...

Witches, druids and King Arthur

In Stations of the Sun and The Triumph of the Moon Ronald Hutton established himself as a leading authority on the historian of Paganism. His wealth of unusual knowledge, complemented by a deep and sympathetic understanding of past and present beliefs that are often dismissed ...

Rhetoric and reality in early modern Spain

Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially in respect of racial and gender stereotypes, and of a centralized and ostensibly absolutist legislative apparatus did not map unproblematically onto the complex topography of ...

Medieval and renaissance Spain and Portugal

studies in honor of Arthur L.F. Askins

This volume is dedicated to Professor Arthur L-F. Askins, whose scholarship on Spanish and Portuguese literatures of the Medieval and Renaissance periods is esteemed by colleagues around the world. Many North American and European scholars have contributed with essays of an exceptionally high scholarly quality ...

Ethnologie

concepts et aires culturelles

Le monde a changé, l'ethnologie aussi. Son objet s'est profondément modifié : les sociétés réputées « traditionnelles » # qu'il s'agisse des sociétés de l'ailleurs, autrefois appelées primitives ou exotiques, ou bien des paysanneries d'Europe # ont été saisies par la modernité. Dès lors ...

The ancient near east

historical sources in translation

This book provides the reader with the primary sources for the history of the ancient Near East. Covering the period from the earliest historical and literary texts (ca. 2700 bc) to the advent of Alexander the Great (331 bc), it presents new translations of Mesopotamian ...

The politics of egalitarianism

theory and practice

The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding ...

The Bourgeois Revolution in France

1789-1815

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William Doyle as ...

The body of the Queen

gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000

Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical ...

Experiencing nature

the spanish american empire and the early scientific revolution

As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. This amassing of empirical ...

An introduction to competition Law

Competition law is a subject of central importance. An accessible introduction to this legal field is thus indispensable for students and practitioners alike. This book is intended to serve as a first acquaintance with competition law and is written in particular for students who intend ...

Representations of war in ancient Rome

War suffused Roman life to a degree unparalleled in other ancient societies. Although the place of war in ancient Roman culture has been the subject of many studies, this book is the first to examine how Romans represented war, in both visual imagery and in ...

La Monarquía como conflicto en la Corona Castellano-Leonesa

(c.1230-1504)

Suele ser un aspecto particularmente llamativo de la evolución bajomedieval de la Corona castellano-leonesa la repetitiva casuística conflictiva en la que se vio directamente inmersa la propia institución monárquica, no dejando de ser éste un fenómeno igualmente constatado en otros escenarios geopolíticos de la Europa ...