Mapping the state

Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Using significant new archival discovery, digital methods and ‘big data’, it provides a major reassess...

A nicaraguan exceptionalism?

In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...

A history of the french in london

This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots...

Medieval arabic thought: essays in honour of fritz zimmermann

Obama's washington

Examines the array of challenges facing the Obama administration and the president himself. This volume includes topics that range from how best to manage a ruptured economy to controlling the budget, the green agenda, foreign policy, and the recalibration of US relations with Britain.

Persuasive language in cicero’s pro milone: a close reading and commentary

This innovative approach to Cicero's persuasive language analyses the style and structure of one of his important speeches in more detail than has ever been done before. It applies ideas from modern linguistics and explores the possibilities and limitations of quantitative analysis in the areas o...

Wars, parties and nationalism

The five papers presented in this volume discuss various aspects of the politics of Latin America during the nineteenth century. Although the scope of the essays is wide including topics such as civil wars, political parties and the use of travel narratives for partisan purposes the overriding co...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 7 p to rxead (bics supplement 102.7)

Books, readers and libraries in fiction

This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...

The margins of late medieval london, 1430-1540

This book explores the complexity of medieval London’s urban fringe communities. Going beyond London’s institutional structures, it casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of...

The new refugees: crime and forced displacement in latin america

In Latin America, recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee from their homes due to the activities of organised criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how...

Electronic signatures in law

This fourth edition of the well-established practitioner text sets out what constitutes an electronic signature, the form an electronic signature can take, and discusses the issues relating to evidence – illustrated by analysis of relevant case law and legislation from a wide range of common law ...

Vita vigilia est: essays in honour of barbara levick (bics supplement 100)

Classical books: scholarship & publishing in britain since 1800 (bics supplement 101)

Codices boethiani: great britain and the republic of ireland v. 1: a conspectus of manuscripts of the works of boethius

Philosophy, science & exegesis: in greek, arabic & latin commentaries (bics supplement 83.1)

Lucian of samosata vivus et redivivus

The poets laureate of the long eighteenth century, 1668–1813

In the eighteenth century the office of the poet laureate of Britain and the British court were evolving and entwined with one another. This book examines the office’s institutional changes and public reception, the mechanics of each laureate’s appointment, and the works they produced before and ...

Los nuevos desplazados

In recent years Latin America has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee their homes due to the activities of organized criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how do the...

Ancient approaches to plato’s ‘republic’

A matter of trust

Producing high-quality data is necessary for progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals initiative to be measured accurately. Flawed statistics can result in misguided decisions. This book explores the substantial challenges for assembling reliable data and statistics to address...

Organized labour and politics in mexico

Analyzing the changes, continuities, and contradictions characterizing labor politics in Mexico, this book provides an assessment of organized labor's role in contemporary Latin America.

The clinical legal education handbook

The Clinical Legal Education Handbook is a good practice guide and practical resource for those engaged in the design and delivery of clinical legal education programmes at university law schools. Primarily aimed at clinics in England and Wales, it is likely to have content that is of interest to...

Hidden paths: self & characterization in greek tragedy: euripides’ bacchae (bics supplement 99)

Giving birth in eighteenth-century england

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. Utilising an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, the volume explores the rituals of chil...

The east pediment of the parthenon - from perikles to nero

The rule of law in latin america

This collection analyses the experience, success and failure of judicial reform processes funded by international donor organisations in Latin America. It also addresses the question of the connection between rule of law reform and broader processes of regime consolidation and state building.

Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in renaissance italy: studies in memory of a. c. de la mare

Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King's College London, was one of the last century's outstanding palaeographers and the world's leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held at King's College and the Warburg Ins...

Law, humanities and the covid crisis

This book views the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics and gender studies. By focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context, and looking at responses to the virus in Europe, South America, Asia and beyond, these e...

The 1922 general election reconsidered

Making use of newly available archival collections and digitised resources, this book captures the high and low politics of the pivotal 1922 General Election to show how it marked the birth of the modern British general election as we know it today.

European religious cultures

First published in 2008, European Religious Cultures is now reissued as an Open Access edition with a new introduction. These essays address a variety of practices in religious life -- among them pilgrimage and the urban cult of saints, the monastic performance of liturgy, the choice to enter the...

Mapping crisis

Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around th...

The creighton century, 1907-2007

This volume offers a selection of ten lectures from the first 100 years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series. Each of the chosen lectures is introduced and set in context by a historian of the modern-day University, providing a fascinating insight into the developmen...

Excess and restraint: propertius, horace and ovid's 'ars amatoria' (bics supplement 89)

The pinochet case

Senator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998 in London on the orders of a Spanish judge seeking his extradition for human rights crimes. Here, political scientists and lawyers analyse the political and historical context of the case and its progress through the courts in the UK and Chile.

Wolf liebeschuetz reflected (bics supplement 91)

Judicial institutions in nineteenth-century latin america

Supervivencia indígena en la nicaragua colonial

Acompañada de una nueva introducción, esta traducción al español del clásico libro, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua, ofrece una descripción detallada de los cambios demográficos y culturales que la conquista española y el dominio colonial trajeron a las sociedades indígenas de Nicaragua.

Territories, commodities and knowledges

Examines emerging methodologies and conceptual debates within the environmental history of Latin America. Issues addressed include the territorial expansion of the state and its impact on environmental resources and indigenous populations; environmental transformation; and landscape ""improvement...

Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of islam

Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The twelve papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the eleventh century AD). They also explore the Arabic reception...

Reading, gender and identity in seventeenth-century england

Offering a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences in seventeenth-century England, this book examines attitudes to women’s reading both within early modern gender discourse and from women readers themselves. It draws on diaries, letters, annotated books and other archival sources to ...

Natural resource development and human rights in latin america

This multidisciplinary collection links local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry into the interaction of state and non-state actors involved in promoting or opposing natural resource development.

Providing for the poor

The Old Poor Law dispensed benefits to paupers in a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Providing for the Poor re-examines the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth century. It bridges the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectru...

The secret of secrets: the east slavic version

The Secret of Secrets, purportedly the advice of Aristotle to Alexander the Great on all the knowledge needed by a great king, has been translated into many languages from its original Arabic. The Hebrew version was translated into a variety of East Slavic, probably in Kiev before 1483. This idio...

Thomas frederick tout (1855–1929)

Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) was arguably the most prolific English medieval historian of the early twentieth century. He also pioneered the use of archival research, welcomed women into academia and augmented the University of Manchester’s growing reputation for pioneering research. This bo...

Pieter geyl and britain

Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Geyl was an early example of a ‘public intellectual’ and remains one of the most influential thinkers on history of all time. This vo...