Legal History category: 1513 books
Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific
Solomon Islands in Transition?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of ‘transition’ as used to describe the recent drawdown of the...
Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law
A Sociological and Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Little has been written on Japanese contract law and anti-trust law in Western languages. This book describes the role of this law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. There have been significant pressures both to lower prices and restructure distribution...
Diversity in Europe
Dilemnas of differential treatment in theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.
Diversity...
by Tass Grivakes
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This richly layered novel is about secrets, conflicts, discovery, friendship, nostalgia, history and culture woven around family and complex legal issues involving business acquisitions, insider trading, tax evasion and fraudulent transactions. Come and experience Montréal in the 1960s as law students...
Lawyers, Guns & Money
A true story of horses & fairies, bankers & thieves
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
It is a story of Hollywood, and movie stars like David Bowie and Tatum O'Neal. It is a story of children's fairytales penned by one of Walt Disney's best-loved animators - the man who created Fantasia. It is a story of the Aga Khan, Robert Sangster, and the battle for control of the world's bloodstock...
Corruption in the Contemporary World
Theory, Practice, and Hotspots
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...
The Politics of National Capitalism
Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists—about the need to break away from the colonial...
The Rule of Law in Central America
Citizens' Reactions to Crime and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
The book is a thorough study that focuses on the impact of the current crime wave on citizens' respect for the law in countries such as Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
The work opens with a brief review of the literature on the rule of law and legal socialization,...
by Nicolas M. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The landmark legal document (parodically) of the Chakerian Reich, the Chakerian Charter comprises the primary law of the Elite. Signed by the members of the Fifth Order in California on September 23, 2016, the Charter outlines the powers of the sole branch of the Meritocratic Government, as well as the basic privileges of the citizens of its encompassing states.
Democracy in Iran
History and the Quest for Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis of Evil,"...
Empires of Trust
How Rome Built--and America Is Building--a New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history
Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an...
by Neil Hamblin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
The United States is the dominant world power today, but that has not always been the case, and may not always be the case. Great Britain, Rome, and ancient Sumer were once leaders in their own time, but their empires dissolved into history. Understanding how a leader emerges is critical to understanding...
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural...
The Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times*, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor,* and more. “A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue” (Associated Press).
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