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Remembering Rachel
An account by Rose Calally of the tragic death of her daughter Rachel
Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance shows how different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash, on their properties or on their crops. It analyses how, throughout history, wealthy and poor taxpayers have tried to avoid or reduce their tax burden by negotiating with tax authorities, through practices of legal or illegal tax evasion, by filing lawsuits, seeking armed resistance or by migration, and how state author...
Mistrust
This book examines the social practice of mistrust through the lens of social anthropology. In focusing on the citizens of the Caucasus, a region located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Mühlfried counters the postcolonial discourse that routinely treats these individuals, known for their mistrust of the state, as “others.” Combining ethnographic observations presenting mistrust as an observable reality with socio-political issues from a non-Western region, Mühlfried opens up a non-Eurocentric perspective on an underexplored social practice and a major counterpoint to the well-examined social phenomenon of “trust.” This perspective allows for a more profound understanding of pressing issues such as populist movements and post-truth politics.
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing print’s role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres, and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and disruptive force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures. Contributors: Renaud Adam, Martin Christ, Jamie Cumby, Arthur der Weduwen, Nora Epstein, Andreas Golob, Helmer Helmers, Jan Hillgärtner, Rindert Jagersma, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Nina Lamal, Margaret Meserve, Rachel Midura, Gautier Mingous, Ernesto E. Oyarbide Magaña, Caren Reimann, Chelsea Reutchke, Celyn David Richards, Paolo Sachet, Forrest Strickland, and Ramon Voges.
Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts. The book explores individual stories and micro-histories of complaints, requests, rumors, and other mediated and unmediated interactions between political institutions and the subjects they claimed to govern or represent. It challenges the approaches of institutionally oriented political historiography and its attention to the top-down construction of political representation, citizenship, and power and powerlessness. The book discusses more subtle forms of agency and the spaces these pertained to, which could ...
Storm of Deception
Seth Jarret is a police chief in a small beach community in North Carolina. Seths friend is killed in a weapons heist from a military installation. Rachel Dugen, a Naval Intelligence Officer, is the sister of this slain friend. Collaborating to find the killer will take Seth and Rachel on an adventure of unexpected events in NC, Florida, Cuba, and France. What begins with a murder investigation will lead to missing military weapons that involve paramilitary, insurgent, and government webs of deceit.
Banished
This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Through eight chapters, it draws on a transnational approach to analyze migratory movements across European borders. The book reviews the chronology of exile and shows how European states welcomed, selected, and expelled refugees. In addition to presenting the point of view of nation-states, it reflects the experience of those migrating. The book addresses departure into exile, captured through the material circumstances of crossing borders in the 19th century, and examines the emergence of new ways to pursue political commitments from abroad. The outcasts ar...
História Mundial dos Impostos - Da Antiguidade aos Nossos Dias
«Tudo é tributado, exceto o ar que respiramos», dizia a Marquesa de Deffand. Neste livro único no seu género, Éric Anceau e Jean-Luc Bordron contam a história universal da fiscalidade ao longo dos milénios, do Egipto faraónico aos paraísos fiscais contemporâneos, passando pela China Imperial, pela França de Luís XIV e pela América da Lei Seca.
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Comment une institution prend-elle son essor en période de guerre civile, de conflit politique et religieux ? Comment l’information politique et diplomatique circule-t-elle dans le champ de force des relations internationales de l’Europe de la première modernité ? Quelles techniques administratives nouvelles les souverains mobilisent-ils pour faire face aux contestations radicales et violentes de leur légitimité ? Quel rôle, enfin, l’administration joue-t-elle dans la mise en ordre politique d’une réalité rétive et oppositionnelle ? Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu pose ces questions à la foisonnante production écrite des hommes de plume de la monarchie des derniers Valois et du ...
Die Reichskreise im Dreißigjährigen Krieg
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg ist als eine Epoche des Niedergangs und Zusammenbruchs jeglicher politischer Ordnung in die deutsche Geschichte eingegangen. Zumindest auf Ebene der Reichskreise des Heiligen Römischen Reichs ist diese Sichtweise zu korrigieren. Die vorliegende Arbeit weist nach, welche hohe Relevanz die Reichskreise zur Kriegsfinanzierung und für bündnispolitische Projekte diverser Mächte über den gesamten Kriegsverlauf hinweg hatten.
