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  • The Transformation of Foreign Policy

    Drawing and Managing Boundaries from Antiquity to the Present

    The study of foreign policy is usually concerned with the interaction of states, and thus with governance structures which emerged either with the so-called 'Westphalian system' or in the course of the 18th century: diplomacy and international law. As a result, examining foreign policy in earlier periods involves conceptual and terminological difficulties, which echo current debates on 'post ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe

    Edited by Thomas Hippler, Miloš Vec ...
    'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping peace' is, and has been, regularly used as a pretext for military intervention, this book traces ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

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  • Shadow Work

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives and presents the concept of the 'vernacular' domain: "...to name those acts of competence, lust or ... Read more

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  • Once Within Borders

    Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

    Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism

    This classic work is an exhaustive philosophical, historical, and religious look at the relationship between Catholic and Protestant religious doctrine and both the historical and ideological growth of capitalism. Starting with a definition of capitalism, Fanfani examines how that definition squares with Catholic and Protestant teaching. He then looks at the historical development of the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Pursuit of Europe

    A History

    The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community. The Pursuit of Europe tells the story of the evolution of the “European project”, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the earliest creation ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A history of International Relations theory

    Third edition

    This introduction to International Relations theory, now in its third edition, shows how discussions of war, wealth, peace and power stretch back well over 500 years. It shows how ancient ideas still effect the way we perceive world politics. By placing international arguments, perspectives, terms and theories in their proper historical setting, it traces the evolution of International Relations ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

    Volume I: Peoples and Place

    Edited by Hamish Scott ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Poverty of Clio

    Resurrecting Economic History

    The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • War

    A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices

    War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necessary to understand the many dimensions war, the continua on which war is situated - from small-scale to large-scale, from limited in time or long, from less to extremely destructive, with varying aims, and degrees of involvement ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook ... Read more

    $80.99 USD