The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights - Rachel Sturman

The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights - Rachel Sturman

This book focuses on women's human rights in India. Drawing on case studies, it provides a clear overview of the key sources on gender and rights i...

This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their sha...

Reducere. DescriptionEmma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her anarchist i...

"Human rights have never been universal and the costs are still being unequally paid today"--

Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family - Chandra Mallampalli

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

This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, socie...

Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential an...

Despite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force...

A groundbreaking account of the #MeToo movement in Brazil, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia and SwedenIllustrations: 10 black and white int...

A groundbreaking account of the #MeToo movement in Brazil, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia and SwedenPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAu...

Reconstructing Rights will appeal to several audiences because of its deliberative-partnership thesis, including public law scholars for its social...

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for n...

This book will act as a useful overview of key regimes of international law and their regulation of women's rights in conflict to postgraduate stud...

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to...

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In a sweeping narrative spanning 400 years, Ian Dunt tells the story of the liberal ideas that underpin our democracies

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Vincent Phillip MunozIllustration(s): 8 tablesNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism - Justin Jones

The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India - Iqbal Singh Sevea

This book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation.Publisher: Cambridge University...

A polemical history of municipal socialism in London - and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again. A polemical history of munici...

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriag...

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of no...

This book challenges accepted views about the development of liberal thought around the turn of the century, and throws new light on many of the id...

Reducere. In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's...

DescriptionWe live in an age of ideology, propaganda, and tribalism. Political conformity is enforced from many sides; the insidious social control...

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian ...

Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colon...

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Frank, fascinating memoir from Northern Irish peace activist, human rights defender and former politician who has broken the mould in so many ways ...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ipshita NathNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 223 x 40Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twe...

This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this ph...

The New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic argues that waves of Muslim immigration are transforming sexual politics in Eu...

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the i...

Reducere. Following on the heels of the widely hailed False Dawn, this new work by John Gray, &;ldquo;one of Britain's leading intellectuals" (The Wall Stree...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. While some things have changed, others haven't.This book tells the story of American Method...

Shows how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. This bo...

DescriptionWhy do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimension...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

Reducere. "James Luther Adams, one of the most beloved teachers, racontours, scholars and editors of the 20th century, wrote in small rather than full-length...

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the ...

Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and writings of fou...

Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history.Pu...