Genocide and Human Rights

a philosophical guide

Genocide is evil or nothing could be. It raises a host of questions about humanity, rights, justice, and reality, which are key areas of concern for philosophy. Strangely, however, philosophers have tended to ignore genocide. Even more problematic, philosophy and philosophers bear more responsibility for ...

Financial exclusion

This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major international policy issue. There is growing evidence that ...

A chronology of the Byzantine Empire

This work provides a clear and comprehensive chronology of the Eastern Roman Empire from the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD to the extinction of the last Byzantine principality in 1461 AD. Shedding light on a once- obscure period of Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan history ...

Mussolini's Rome

rebuilding the eternal city

The spanish Civil War

origins, course and outcomes

Though it is nearly seventy years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, it still remains a compelling subject surrounded by fierce controversy. Romero Salvado offers an absorbing and vivid analysis of the origins, course and outcomes of the Spanish tragedy. Unravelling the myths ...

A short history of Asia

America since 1945

the american moment

Niklas Luhmann's theory of politics and Law

Niklas Luhmann's social theory stands in direct opposition to the dominant 'anthropocentric' traditions of legal and political analysis. King and Thornhill now offer the first comprehensive, critical examination of Luhmann's highly original theory of the operations of the legal and political systems. They ...

Herbert Butterfield and the interpretation of history

This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself ...

Was the Bayeux tapestry made in France?

the case for St. Florent of Saumur

This book presents the hypothesis that the Bayeux tapestry, long believed to have been made in England, came from the Loire valley in France, from the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur. This is based on a number of different kinds of evidence, the most ...

Religion, social practice, and contested hegemonies

reconstructing the public sphere in Muslim majority societies

This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and practices of the public in modern and contemporary ...

Europe confronts terrorism

Europe Confronts Terrorism examines the institutional, political, security and reforms that have taken place in Europe since the catastrophic terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001. The tragic attacks in Madrid on 11 March 2004 - to date, the worst terror attack on European soil ...

Money, trust, and banking

an integrated approach to monetary theory and banking theory

This book shows how money and banks emerge to efficiently address problems of trust between economic agents. The analysis offers an innovative approach for integrating monetary theory, banking theory, and standard economic theory in a game theoretical framework. The unified perspective of the book contributes ...

Ecstatic transformation

on the uses of alterity in the Middle Ages

Ecstatic Transformation studies the manner in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to ...

Antisemitism

myth and hate from Antiquity to the present

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led ...

Future Jihad

terrorist strategies against America

This book presents a frightening new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future. Phares shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about Al Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Called by the press ...

The origins of the french Revolution

The question of what brought about the French Revolution remains the subject of vigorous debate and perennial interest. This clear collection is an excellent introduction to a complex topic, written by ten distinguished American and British historians at the forefront of their fields. Chapters on ...

Literature in language education

A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education of interest to teachers of English and of modern foreign languages. There are prompts and principles for those who wish to improve their own practice or to engage in projects or ...

The future of Iraq

dictatoriaship, democracy or division?

Reordering Iraq is the lynchpin of America's successful involvement in the Middle East. The challenge may be impossible. "The Future of Iraq" provides a primer on the history and political dynamics of this pivotal state divided by ethnic, religious, and political antagonisms, and provocatively ...

Mixed electoral systems

contamination and its consequences

Using election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll- call data from many mixed systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects party strategy, voting behaviour, legislative cohesion and overall structure of partisan competition.