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  • International Law and Empire

    Historical Explorations

    Edición de Martti Koskenniemi, Walter Rech, Manuel Jiménez Fonseca ...
    Series series The History and Theory of International Law
    In times in which global governance in its various forms, such as human rights, international trade law, and development projects, is increasingly promoted by transnational economic actors and international institutions that seem to be detached from democratic processes of legitimation, the question of the relationship between international law and empire is as topical as ever. By examining this ... Leer más

    $122.99 USD

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  • Journey to a Hanging

    de Peter Wells ...
    Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core. In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. One name – Kereopa Te Rau (Kaiwhatu: The Eye-eater) – became synonymous with the murder. In 1871 he was captured, tried and sentenced to ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Utopia/Dystopia

    Conditions of Historical Possibility

    Edición de Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
    The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • The Eagle in Splendour

    Inside the Court of Napoleon

    de Philip Mansel ...
    "When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heine The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history. Napoleon's military conquests changed the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of the Application of Islamic Law in Nigeria

    de Yushau Sodiq ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This work analyzes the history of the application of Islamic law (Shari`ah) in Nigeria. It analyzes how Islamic law emerged in Nigeria toward the beginning of the 19th century and remained applicable until the arrival of the British Colonial regime in Northern Nigeria in 1903. It sheds light on how the law survived colonial rule and continues until today.Dr. Yushau Sodiq analyzes progressive ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Imperial Justice

    Africans in Empire's Court

    de Bonny Ibhawoh ...
    Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    de Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, Tracey Lindberg ...
    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Irish War of Independence

    The Definitive Account of the Anglo Irish War of 1919 - 1921

    de Micahel Hopkinson ...
    Within months of first publication, Michael Hopkinson's study of the Irish War of Independence established itself as by far most comprehensive and evocative account of the role played by the conflict in shaping modern Ireland. It has been welcomed both by scholars and the general public alike, and gone further than perhaps any other recent publication in recasting our understanding of Ireland's ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

    Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

    de Theodore Koditschek ...
    This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    de Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series New Histories of American Law
    Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

    de Daniel Högger ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State

    Edición de Gary Foley, Andrew Schaap, Edwina Howell ...
    The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD