The political economy of the public budget in the americas

Provides a multidisciplinary comparison of fiscal and tax policies in Latin America and the United States by political economy specialists from Latin America, the US, and Europe. This title identifies the common budgetary problems of the nations of the Americas in terms of their status as "small ...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 2. b to cerotcus (bics supplement 102.2)

Poets as readers in nineteenth-century france

This volume of essays focuses on how poets approach reading as a notion and a practice that both inform their writing and their relationship to their readers. The nineteenth century saw a broadened and increasingly self-conscious concern with reading as an interpretive and political act, with sig...

Empty spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history

How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, and seeks to foregr...

Images and texts: papers in honour of eric handley (bics supplement 129)

Studies on porphyry (bics supplement 98)

Roman military diplomas: v. 5

Women's movement in international perspective: latin america and beyond

Football in the americas

Football has always provided its players and fans with identity and belonging, whether to a nation or to a particular social group. It has been both a vehicle for the politically ambitious and an arena in which citizens can make sense of national failings and contest existing power structures. Th...

Anti-communism in britain during the early cold war

A revisionist history of anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War, this is the first book to examine how British Cold War anti-communism transpired and manifested. Drawing from a wealth of archival material, it argues that an overreaction to the communist threat occurred and explores, ...

In the age of averroes: arabic philosophy in the sixth/twelfth century

Francisco de miranda

Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816) was a monumental figure in the independence of Venezuela and Latin America. This title reveals how various facets of Miranda's life shaped his constant struggle for Spanish-American independence.

Caciquismo in twentieth-century mexico

Caciquismo (roughly translated as "boss politics") has played a major role in Mexican political and social life. Loosely knit interest groups, or "caciques," of diverse character--syndicates, farmers, left- and right-wingers, white-collar workers--have exercised great power within Mexico's distin...

Ancient approaches to plato's timaeus (bics supplement 78)

Modus operandi: essays in honour of geoffrey rickman (bics supplement 71)

A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of andean culture in retrospective

This edited volume brings together several scholars who produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities between the 1970s and 2000s and asks them to revisit, review, and reassess their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal a...

Electronic evidence and electronic signatures

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence. This edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing ...

Electronic evidence

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence. This edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing ...

Tides and floods: new research on london and the tidal thames from the middle ages to the twentieth century

The lands bordering the tidal river Thames and the Thames Estuary have historically been highly vulnerable to marine flooding. The most severe of these floods derive from North Sea storm surges, when wind and tide combine to drive huge quantities of water against the coast, as happened to devasta...

Waterscapes: reservoirs, environment and identity in modern england and wales

This book explores the impacts of reservoir construction and management in England and Wales from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century. Taking a comparative approach with case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir, it examines...

Aegean seals: an introduction (bics supplement 85)

Envisioning global lgbt human rights

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope is an outcome of a five-year international collaboration among partners that share a common legacy of British colonial laws that criminalise same-sex intimacy and gender identity/expression. The chapters pr...

Heroic chancellor: winston churchill and the university of bristol, 1929 to 1965

"Not only was Churchill the most illustrious and the most distinguished Chancellor that the University of Bristol has ever had, but he was also in his prime, from the 1940s onwards, probably the most famous and the most distinguished chancellor of any university anywhere in the world." David Cann...

The politics of religion in an age of revival: studies in nineteenth-century europe and latin america

By the sweat of your brow – roman slavery in its socio-economic setting (bics supplement 109)

Legal records at risk: a strategy for safeguarding our legal heritage

Why do so few institutions in the legal sector have professional records managers or archivists on their staff? This question is at the heart of a three year project by experienced archivist and records managers on private sector legal records at risk in England at Wales. This volume summarises t...

Liberation theology and praxis in contemporary latin america

Focusing on the lived experiences and spiritual and embodied practices of those engaged in social action in Latin America, this book’s diverse, interdisciplinary contributions seek to re-evaluate the history and legacy of liberation theology in examining religious praxis in the region from the 19...

Medieval londoners

Medieval London was host to a diverse group of people, some born there, others drawn to it from far away. It was a vibrant city, from which rich evidence has survived, including archaeological and documentary sources. This volume brings together archaeologists, historians, art historians and lite...

Fourteenth-century classicism: petrarch and bernat metge

Greek large-scale bronze statuary: the late archaic and classical periods

This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification, and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features a...

The victoria history of leicestershire: buckminster and sewstern

Buckminster and Sewstern, in north-east Leicestershire, are two small villages within a single parish, and although both were established before 1086, they have developed different characters. Buckminster was purely an agricultural village until the 1790s, whereas Sewstern played host to a wide v...

Codices boethiani: austria, belgium, denmark, luxembourg, the netherlands, sweden, switzerland v. 2

Duncan mackenzie: a cautious canny highlander and the palace of minos at knossos (bics supplement 72)

The cosmography of paradise

The Cosmography of Paradise: The Other World from Ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. The focus has been on the way the relationship between ‘the other world’ and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in...

Avicenna's "de anima" in the latin west

The afterlife of ovid

Ovid was the most influential and widely imitated of all classical Latin poets. This volume publishes papers delivered at a conference on the Reception of Ovid in March 2013, jointly organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute, University of London.

Making institutions work in peru

The 2006 Peruvian elections are an appropriate moment to reflect on Alejandro Toledo's term as president and on the broader agenda for building a more inclusive and democratic government. In a country of extreme social inequality, such an aspiration represents an enormous challenge.

The afterlife of plutarch

Plutarch’s writings have had a varied reception history from when he was writing in the second century BCE down to today. This is one of the early volumes in the series of ‘Afterlives’ of the Classics, being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg.

From north africa to france: family migration in text and film

Over the past four decades immigration to France from the Francophone countries of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) has changed in character. For much of the twentieth century, migrants who crossed the Mediterranean to France were men seeking work, who frequently undertook manual labou...

Democracy in mexico

Offers an important contribution to one of the more complex and multifaceted political processes of recent decades in Latin America: Mexico's democratization at the national and subnational levels. This book includes topics such as the quality of democracy, political participation, and insecurity.

Profession and performance: aspects of oratory in the greco-roman world

This volume brings together six papers relating to oratory and orators in public fora of Classical Greece and Rome which explore the performative aspects of rhetoric. The final paper, by Lord Justice Laws, reflects on the continuing relevance of rhetoric in the modern, highly professionalised pra...

Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity in the commonwealth

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth is the first book to focus on experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and all non-heterosexual people in the Commonwealth, where same-sex sexual behaviour is criminalised in 42 states (of the ...

Performances and audiences in pindar's sicilian victory odes (bics supplement 95)