The Moral Person of the State. Pufendorf, Sovereignty and Composite Polities, Hardback - Ben (University of Nottingham) Holland

A new history of the idea of the modern state, focusing on the significance of theological ideas concerning freedom to its development, and the cen...

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A biography of Israel's most iconic and controversial statesman.

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Offers the first full-fledged monograph on Dietrich von Hildebrand's moral philosophy available to date. This book will serve as a very good introd...

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovat...

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Presents a philosophical portrait of human persons on which we are entirely irreducible to anything non-personal, by synthesizing claims from many ...

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Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history o...

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A valuable storehouse of information and the first translation of the work into English

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Traces the Nazarene "art of the concept" from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despi...

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To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign st...

A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the flu...

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This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

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Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disin...

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