Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Victorian era was one that teemed with multitudinous and sometimes opposing visions of polity yet rarely questioned the very existence of the State. What might be called the pragmatism of the elite gave rise to a form of democratic compromise, allowing the growth of political ideas that may still...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The volume brings together a selection of invited articles and papers presented at the 4th International CILC Conference held in Jaén, Spain, in March 2012. The chapters describe English using a range of corpora and other resources. There are two parts, one dealing with diachronic research and the...
Building Regionalism from Below
The Role of Parliaments and Civil Society in Regional Integration in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
This edited book provides a comprehensive and comparative analytical overview of parliamentary bodies and civil society in Africa, both at the regional and national level, and their role in the ongoing regionalisation processes on the African continent. Gathering contributions from African and European...
The Italians Who Built Toronto
Italian Workers and Contractors in the Citys Housebuilding Industry, 19501980
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to Toronto. This book describes their labour, business, social and cultural history as they settled in their new home. It addresses fundamental issues that impacted both them and the city, including ethnic economic niching, unionization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2016 provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2017 offers an up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level on the subject of...
«Desaparición»
Argentinas Human Rights Trials
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The current situation in Argentina is unprecedented. In compliance with prescribed timings and procedures, the crimes committed by the state in recent history are being prosecuted and penalized. This book traces the path of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the Trial of the...
Fighting for Britain?
Negotiating Identities in Britain During the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Adopting a four nations approach, it contributes to our understanding of how pluralistic identities within the multinational...
Immigration into Spain
Evolution and Socio-educational Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In the last fifty years Spain has experienced major changes regarding population movements and the perception the Spanish have concerning emigration and immigration as well as emigrants and immigrants. In short, in a few years it has gone from emigrating to receiving a significant flow of foreign...
Negotiating Diversity
Identity, Pluralism and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book provides new insights into the negotiation and management of diversity in complex democratic settings. Much debate has been generated recently over questions of human rights and dignity with the aim of empowering and improving the recognition of smaller nations.
The book’s central idea...
Cartographies of Differences
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ‘critical cartography’, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on...
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, un antifascista in America
Attraverso il carteggio inedito con Giorgio La Piana (19321925)
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Le vicende storiche dalla dittatura di Mussolini fino allo scoppio e termine della II Guerra Mondiale con i primi anni della ricostruzione postbellica fanno da macrosfondo al rapporto d'amicizia epistolare tra due intellettuali italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882-1952)...
Abram to Abraham
A Literary Analysis of the Abraham Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Abram to Abraham explores the Abraham saga (11:27-22:24) through a literary lens, following the legendary figure of Abraham as he navigates the arduous odyssey to nationhood. Rather than overlook the textual discrepancies, repetitions and contradictions long noted by diachronic scholars, this study...
by Berise Therese Heasly
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book, based on extensive qualitative research carried out among teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, explores a new approach to teaching virtues, values and ethics in the twenty-first century. Drawing on both education studies and philosophy, the author uses inductive methods of analysis...