Trade, aid, and arbitrate

the globalization of Western Law

This text maintains that the philosophies of contemporary international institutional organizations, coupled with the basic tenets of international abitration, hasten legal globalization and abrogate national sovereignty over international trade issues.

The formation of Islamic Law

The 14 studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries ...

Wittgenstein and Law

The papers collected in this volume reflect a focus on the continuing relevance and importance of Wittgenstein's work for philosophy in general, and legal theory in particular.

The philosophy of history

a re-examination

The philosophy of history is an area of interest not only to philosophers, but to historians and to social scientists. It has been of central importance in continental European philosophy since the late 18th century, and for the past half-century has had a significant place ...

Art and identity in thirteenth-Century Byzantium

Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond

Social and economic life in Byzantium

China's Rural Market Development in the Reform Era

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. Previous research ...

The power and patronage of Marguerite de Navarre

Although Marguerite de Navarre's unique position in sixteenth-century France has long been acknowledged and she is one of the most studied women of the time, until now no study has focused attention on Marguerite's political life. Barbara Stephenson here fills the gap, delineating ...

Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th centuries

the archaeology of local, regional and international exchange: papers of the thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John´s College, University of Oxford, March 2004

Edited by Marlia Mundell Mango. The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical ...

High-technology development in regional economic growth

policy implications of dynamic externalities

Korea has had considerable success in developing its high-technology industries and these have become significant employers in this region. By analyzing the situation in Korea, this text explores the effects of dynamic externalities on the growth of regional employment in the high- technology industries. It ...

New forms of urbanization

beyond the urban-rural dichotomy

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Frontiers of Family Law

The essays in this collection are written by academics and practitioners who look at some of the key aspects of family law. Papers include one from Lord Justice Ward, who gave the first judgement in the Court of Appeal on the case of the conjoined ...

The Canso d'Antioca

an occitan epic chronicle of the First Crusade

Critical beings

law, nation, and the global subject

The role of such people as the refugee, the immigrant and the subjugated minority is explored in this book, together with their attendant legal regimes, in the persistent but ever unsettled processes of national/global formation. Challenging accounts that would ascribe to them a transitory ...

The rare anf excellent history of Saladin

or al Nawadir al-Sutaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha'al-Din Ibn- Shaddad

The Crusade against heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437

sources and documents for the Hussite Crusades

This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from ...

Crusade and cinversion on the Baltic frontier

1150-1500

This text represents a contribution to the history of the Northern crusades and the Chritianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages, from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. Topics covered include: discussions of the ideology and practice ...

The song of the Cathar Wars

a history of the albigensian Crusade

Venetian music in the Age of Vivaldi

This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical institutions (academies and conservatories), nine with the life and works ...