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“david ibbetson”

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  • The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

    Edited by Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Patrick Olivelle ...
    The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more ... Read more

    $159.89 USD

  • Law and Legal Process

    Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History

    Edited by Matthew Dyson, David Ibbetson ...
    This collection of papers from the Twentieth British Legal History Conference explores the relationship between substantive law and the way in which it actually worked. Instead of looking at what the courts said they were doing, it is concerned more with the reality of what was happening. To that end, the authors use a wide range of sources, from court records to merchants' diaries and lawyers' ... Read more

    $93.49 USD

  • English Legal History and its Sources

    Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker

    Edited by David Ibbetson, Neil Jones, Nigel Ramsay ...
    This volume honours the work and writings of Professor Sir John Baker over the past fifty years, presenting a collection of essays by leading scholars on topics relating to the sources of English legal history, the study of which Sir John has so much advanced. The essays range from the twelfth century to the nineteenth, considering courts (central and local), the professions (both common law and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • The Rise of the West

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  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    by Max Weber ...
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a seminal exploration of the relationship between religious beliefs and economic behavior within the framework of Western society. Max Weber examines how Protestant, particularly Calvinist, values contributed to the development of modern capitalism by fostering a spirit of disciplined labor, frugality, and rational organization. Through his ... Read more

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  • The Bias of Communication

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development ... Read more

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  • Nationalism

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    by Steven Grosby ...
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    This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, ... Read more

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  • Empire and Communications

    by Harold A. Innis ...
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    It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the ... Read more

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  • The Rule of Laws

    A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

    by Fernanda Pirie ...
    **From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations **Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. In* The Rule of Laws*, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall ... Read more

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  • Rome and China

    Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Ancient Empires

    State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

    by Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled ... Read more

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