Right on?

Assesses George W Bush's presidency in terms of its historical context, first-term record, and second-term prospects. This book considers his administration from the perspective of its engagement in an ideologically driven project to consolidate conservative ascendancy over US politics and public...

Guilds and association in europe, 900-1900

Children’s experiences of welfare in modern britain

This important book brings the history of childhood and welfare in Britain through the eyes of children to light. Focusing on the period 1830 to 1980, it demonstrates how the young were integral to the making, interpretation, delivery and impact of welfare services. The chapters consider a wide r...

Sicilia nutrix plebis romanae: rhetoric, law & taxation in cicero's verrines (bics supplement 97)

Dilemmas of political change in mexico

'Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico' provides an assessment of Mexico's political dynamics at the turn of the 21st century.

International handbook on clinical tax education

This practical handbook explores the benefits of a clinical tax education and equips readers in the profession with the tools needed to start a clinical tax project. It investigates the ways in which tax clinics can both educate and remedy tax positions for local communities in supporting those w...

Christian felix weiße the translator

Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) is best known as a dramatist and influential children’s writer of the Enlightenment period. This is the first book to explore his singularly extensive output as a literary translator, investigating the conditions which allowed Weiße to become the most prolific Ge...

Shaping knowledge: the transmission of the 'liber floridus'

The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in several later manuscripts. These manuscripts transformed the knowledge assembled by him as their makers not only selected ...

Codices boethiani: portugal and spain v. 4

Refugee reception in southern africa

This book offers an original and unique perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa, through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees in Zambia and South Africa. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registrat...

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

Revisiting the falklands-malvinas question

The conflict over possession of the Falklands-Malvinas Islands was waged in an area remote both geographically and geo-politically in an era of cold war and also of tensions within and between sovereign states of the supposed western bloc. It has been broadly perceived as an absurd confrontation,...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 8 (s to symphorus) (bics supplement 102.8)

Mexican soundings

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century Mexico.

The victoria history of hampshire: mapledurwell

Mapledurwell is the first parish history to be published by the New Victoria History of Hampshire group. Since publication of the first Victoria County History account of the parish in 1911, ideas about what constitutes a good parish history have been transformed. This new history includes much ...

Brazil since 1985

Looking into Brazil's experience of democracy is an arduous task, given the complexities of a country of continental size and great regional contrasts, where areas of prosperity mingle with underdevelopment and poverty. This book looks at some key issues involved in building up a democracy?

The "liber aristotilis" of hugo of santalla

Brazil: essays on history and politics

This volume is published to mark the 80th birthday of Leslie Bethell, a major figure in Brazilian studies. It consists of seven of his essays on important themes in modern Brazilian history and politics. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in ...

Broken government?

Barack Obama's election as president in 2008 generated widespread hope that the United States was entering a new era whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan's famous dictum, would be the solution to the nation's manifold problems amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depress...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 9 (t to eximus) (bics supplement 102.9)

Leasing and lending: the cash economy in fourth-century bc athens (bics supplement 74)

The non-independent territories of the caribbean and pacific: continuity or change?

By the end of the 20th century the once great modern European empires had gone – well, almost! Today, scattered around the world, there are small territories, remnants of empire that for one reason and another have eschewed independence and retain links of various kinds with the former imperial p...

Documenting the roman army: essays in honour of margaret roxan (bics supplement 81)

This volume places on record the proceedings of the colloquium held in honour of Dr. Margaret Roxan at the Institute of Classical Studies in May 2002. The theme of the colloquium was the written record of the Roman army, though the scope of the contributions embraced both historical and archaeolo...

The signature in law

Drawing on cases from common law jurisdictions across the world, this book demonstrates that judges expanded the meaning of a signature as technologies developed and were used in unanticipated ways. It explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the thirteenth century t...

Achieving access to justice in a business and human rights context

This book explores the interplay between access to justice and business and human rights in European civil-law countries. Focusing on Multinational enterprises (MNEs), which are rarely held accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses and environmental damage, it evaluates the extent ...

The victoria history of essex: southend

This new history of Southend describes its growth as a town and resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its thematic chapters chart Southend’s expansion and developments in its infrastructure and economy, determined both by the impact of seasonal visitors and the year-round movement of ...

Logos: rational argument in classical rhetoric (bics supplement 96)

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

Democracy after pinochet

Explores how democracy has developed in Chile since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. This book brings together an examination of international influences on the country's political development with empirically based analyses of Chilean political institutions and change.

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...