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The Cambridge History of China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1240

The Cambridge History of China

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.

Law’s Dominion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Law’s Dominion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Law’s Dominion, Jay Berkovitz offers a novel approach to the history of early modern Jewry. Set in the city of Metz, on the Moselle river, this study of a vibrant prerevolutionary community draws on a wide spectrum of legal sources that tell a story about community, religion, and family that has not been told before. Focusing on the community’s leadership, public institutions, and judiciary, this study challenges the assumption that Jewish life was in a steady state of decline before the French Revolution. To the contrary, the evidence reveals a robust community that integrated religious values and civic consciousness, interacted with French society, and showed remarkable signs of col...

The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1036

The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-01
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial ...

Naval Documents of the American Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1180

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1964
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.

City Bankers, 1890-1914
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

City Bankers, 1890-1914

City Bankers, 1890-1914 is a major contribution to a controversial area of economic history and to the debate about the nature of British society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. It provides a detailed analysis of the banking community of London between 1890 and 1914 when the City of London was the undisputed financial centre of the world.

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1458

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1966
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Playing with Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Playing with Fire

European sculptors of the Neoclassical period often modelled their works in clay before producing finished pieces in marble. This book offers a comprehensive overview of Neoclassical terracotta models by European artists, featuring the works of0. Pajou, Houdon, and Canova, among many others.

The Conseil Privé and the Parlements in the Age of Louis XIV
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

The Conseil Privé and the Parlements in the Age of Louis XIV

This vol., while encompassing the entire reign of Louis XIV & all the parlements of the realm, has the narrow focus of investigating the impact of royal policy on the judicial authority of the parlements as revealed in their relations with the king's councils, notably the one that specialized in judicial affairs, the Conseil Prive. This is above all a study of the evolution of conciliar jurisprudence & judicial procedure, as much an exercise in what the French call "l'histoire du droit" as an opportunity to observe in a novel way the resolution of some of the most pressing political problems in the Age of Louis XIV. But the overall aim is to understand the practical consequences of royal absolutism for the kingdom's highest judicial institutions.