Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law, Hardcover - Christopher A. Casey

It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made ...

Human dignity is not just gloss. Rather, its protection and amplification should be understood as the overall end to which international human righ...

This book explores the right to religious freedom within international law. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and Non-Western...

Reducere. The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British ...

Reducere. When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitut...

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Reducere. "China Mieville's brilliantly original book is an indispensable guide for anyone concerned with international law. It is the most comprehensive sch...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher J. LebronStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLiv...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

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William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

Reducere. First Things First is a college coursebook like no other. Written by three First Amendment experts and professors, the book provides students with ...

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Mark MazowerNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 44Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of sh...

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This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Takaaki InuzukaIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorTranslator: Haruko LauriePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

Reducere. From the former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, the first biography of advertising maverick David OgilvyFamous for his colorful personality and formidable ...

Reducere. When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of th...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Reducere. Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that ...

By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely collection provides illuminating insights into the emerge...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: "It wouldn't have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around." ... H...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...

Reducere. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The boo...

This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice on the contribution of international organisations and n...

This book addresses how international trade, investment and finance agreements have unintended consequences and result in inequality. It will be of...

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Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

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