Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China, Paperback - Matthew H. Sommer

Reducere. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing th...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark C. ElliottIn 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's rude northeastern frontier, overthrew t...

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

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Reducere. Statecraft and Society in China. Chinese grassroots politics中国社会政经方略Edition 2021 - Frans VandenboschThe title of this book Statecraft and Society i...

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In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

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The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian ...

Reducere. During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeat...

During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating...

Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and socia...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

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No one drew dames like Baker, pally In fact, no one drew anything quite like Baker. The art of Matt Baker, one of the very first African-American a...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

Publisher: West Academic PublishingAuthor(s): Ralph H. FolsomNumber of pages: 571Collection: Concise Hornbook SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 236Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 22Cover ...

This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the...

Offers an analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of...

A pioneering treatment of the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society, throughout the second and first millennia BC. Explo...

Politics and society in Central and South-East Europe - Zsuzsanna Kopeczny

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Guosong (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China) ShaoNumber of pages: 316Collection:...

An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in Britain, helping you to understand and critically evaluate the key issues.

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us...

DescriptionOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scho...

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DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500-c...

This book presents a poignant account of the current policy approaches to self-determining sex and gender in the UK and beyond, showing how legal, ...

This book is aimed at legal and political scholars and professionals. It will provide them with a coherent explanation of how law is conceived with...

An effort to model U.S.-China economic conflict finds that Washington and Beijing are set on a path of continued escalation. The report makes recom...

This unique publication outlines the development of legal theory from pre-Roman times to the twentieth century, relating the evolution of legal the...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resour...

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