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The Western Codification of Criminal Law
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model’s actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes. The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.
Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe
Which works and tenets of early modern natural law reached East-Central Europe, and how? How was it received, what influence did it have? And how did theorists and users of natural law in East- Central Europe enrich the pan-European discourse? This volume is pioneering in two ways; it draws the east of the Empire and its borderlands into the study of natural law, and it adds natural law to the practical discourse of this region. Drawing on a large amount of previously neglected printed or handwritten sources, the authors highlight the impact that Grotius, Pufendorf, Heineccius and others exerted on the teaching of politics and moral philosophy as well as on policies regarding public law, codification praxis, or religious toleration. Contributors are: Péter Balázs, Ivo Cerman, Karin Friedrich, Gábor Gángó, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Knud Haakonssen, Steffen Huber, Borbála Lovas, Martin P. Schennach, and József Simon.
The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century
Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe’s prime river. The book explores how the most fundamental change in the history of international river governance arose from European security concerns. It examines how the CCNR functioned as an ongoing experiment in reconciling national and common interests that contributed to the emergence of European prosperity in the course of the long nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows that modern conceptions and practices of security cannot be understood without ac...
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Der Verleger Johann Friedrich Cotta
Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764--1832) ist der bedeutendste Verleger der Goethezeit. In nur wenigen Jahren machte er seinen Verlag mit Autoren wie Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Herder, Varnhagen von Ense, Alexander von Humboldt, Fichte, Schelling oder Hegel zum führenden Verlag der deutschen "Nationalliteratur" und zum größten Universalverlag seiner Zeit. Zum ersten Mal wird nun die Entwicklung des Cotta-Verlags unter seiner Leitung in einer Bibliographie erschlossen. In insgesamt 2.246 Einträgen ist hier jede Ausgabe oder Auflage eines bei Cotta erschienenen Werks verzeichnet. Die Bibliographie wurde 2006 von der International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) anlässlich der alle vier Jahre stattfindenden Vergabe des ILAB Prize for Bibliography mit einer "Honourable Mention" ausgezeichnet. Die Cotta-Verlagsbibliographie erhielt auch den 10. ANTIQUARIA-Preis für Buchkultur 2004.
