Introduction: Traditional Alpine Communities and the Challenge of Long-term Sustainability -- The Landholding Foundations of Alpine Farming -- Face to the Sun: the Exploitation of Arable -- The Ties that Bind: Livestock Farming in the Western Alps 1500-1914 -- The Alpine Commons: Resource, Regulation and Exploitation 1500-1914 -- The Alpage of the Western Alps -- Coping with Risk 1500-1914 -- E…
1: Introduction -- 2: The historical and politico-military context of the border -- 3: The refugee problem from an official account -- 4: Reconstructions of social memory by refugees -- 5: Everyday life in refugee camps -- 6: Music and Art as symbols of identity and everyday resistance -- 7: Conclusion. .This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building proce…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752 -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation -- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- Index.Open AccessThis bo…
Adopting a life story approach, this book explores the memories of those who attended Irish secondary schools prior to 1967. It serves to initiate and enhance the practice of remembering secondary school education amongst those who attended secondary schools not just in Ireland, but around the world.
Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitled to jobs, income, equal pay and the right to industrial action, did Magna Carta mean anything? Albeit…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Translations in Times of Disruption; David Hook and Graciela Iglesias-Rogers -- Chapter 2. Can constitutions be translated?: The case of the Cadiz Constitution in German; Horst Dippel -- Chapter 3. From Philos Hispaniae to Karl Marx: The first English translation of a Liberal Codex; Graciela Iglesias-Rogers -- Chapter 4. Distant disruption: Some Italian editions of the …
Introduction: The East Asian Public Sphere -- The Sphere of Privilege: Confucian Culture and the Administration of Buddhism (and Religion) in China -- Conservative and Progressive Models for Buddhism under the Republic of China -- Islamic Charity in China: Its Organizations and Activities in a New Era -- “Knowing the [Confucian] Way” and the Political Sphere -- A Self-Made Outlier in the To…