Contemporary peacemaking

Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes.

The monstrous regiment of women

female rulers in early modern Europe

In The Monstrous Regiment of Women, Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The ...

World list of universities and other institutions of higher education

The World List of Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Education in a concise dictionary providing critical contact information for over 14,000 higher education institutions and national academic bodies in over 170 countries. Each entry includes:Name of Institution (in English and the language ...

Microeconomic change in central and east Europe

The realities of work

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lord and Lady

Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender- power relations relegated her to the position of ...

Was greek thought religious?

on the use and abuse of Hellenism from Rome to Romanticism

The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of ...

Antisemitism

myth and hate from antiquity to the present

Gender's place

feminist anthropoligies of Latin America

This collection brings together key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America in order to explore the ways that 'place' - understood both geographically and metaphorically - can serve as a key vehicle for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity ...

Adequate decision rules for portfolio choice problems

The author presents the theory of portfolio choice from a new perspective, recommending decision rules that have advantages over those currently used in theory and practice. Portfolio choice theory relies on expected values. Goodall argues that this dependence has a historical basis and argues that ...

Active fixed income and credit management

The authors provide the reader with an extensive tool set for active and successful management of fixed income portfolios as well as for credits. The focus of discussion is on quantitative and, for credits, qualitative methods of portfolio management. These strategies may be employed for ...

Strategy, value and risk-the real options approach

reconciling innovation, strategy and value management

In the 1990s shareholder value was applied to all aspects of corporate strategy and management decisions as a result of intense competition, globalization, advances in technology, deregulation and the financial markets. As we enter the 21st Century the business environment is one of increasing creative ...

Twentieth-Century Spain

politics and society in Spain, 1898-1998

Representations of Early Byzantine empresses

image and empire

Encountering medieval textiles and dress

objects, texts, images

Eds., Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder Scholars of history, archaeology, literature, and textiles range widely in time, place, medium, and social class as they consider not just how people dressed in the Middle Ages, but also the representation of how they dressed, both ...

European integration

scope and limits

While acknowledging the ability of the European Union to advance towards greater political and economic integration, this book questions the wisdom of the European "project". Economic and monetary union is a risky venture even for the convergent countries of the continent, let alone divergent Britain ...

Religious quest and national identity in The Balkans

This work offers insights into the cultural traditions that have shaped the Balkan region from pagan times, through folk culture, the medieval Christian churches, the encounter between Christianity and Islam, up to the religious and national mythologies that have proved so destructive in the modern ...

The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe

This reference is a guide to a full understanding of the complicated history of Eastern Europe. Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, the volume includes 52 two-colour full page maps which are each accompanied by a facing page ...

Social care and social exclusion

a comparative study of Older People's care in Europe

This text explores the diversity of social care provision for older people in six contrasting European countries. Using a common descriptive and analytical framework, the book examines how the organization and delivery of care are shaped by the wider welfare regime. This is discussed at ...

Rethinking irish history

nationalism, identity and ideology

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the larger perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors demonstrate how national identity was invented and codified by a nationalist intelligentsia in the late 19th century. The trajectory ...