Legal History category: 1513 books
by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees...
The Trouble with History
Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative...
A Century of Arab Politics
From the Arab Revolt to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: the idea of a single Arab nation, the reality of multiple Arab states, and the competition between...
Gaza
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Gaza has become synonymous with conflict and dispute. Though only slightly larger than Omaha, Nebraska at 140 square miles, the small territory of Gaza has been a hot spot for bitter disputes between sparring powers for millennia, from the Ancient Egyptians up until the British Empire and even today....
by Moira Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them. It closely examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, and it breaks...
The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller.
Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately—after years of humorously...
The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history...
Colombia and the United States
War, Unrest and Destabilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia....
Engaging Europe
Rethinking a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it....
Cyprus
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
In the troubled island of Cyprus, the national interests and rivalries of Greece and Turkey still collide, the population remains divided between the Greek and Turkish communities and the country is still a cat's paw of outside powers - especially the USA and the now resurgent Russia - as it has been...
Are We Rome?
The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks
The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the...
Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Over the last hundred years the history of capitalism hardly supports the idea of a dynamic equilibrium between democracy and capitalism. The unprecedented triumph of global capitalism and its stronger power of transformation are changing the nature of political community and its institutions, transforming...