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“dirk heirbaut”

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  • Redefining Codification

    A Comparative History of Civil, Commercial, and Procedural Codes

    by Dirk Heirbaut ...
    More than half of the world's population lives under law codes. Yet, defining the concept of codification remains elusive. Rather than delving into abstract theories, this book provides a rich and contextual comparative legal history of codes in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium from the late eighteenth century to the present. The author starts by examining the evolution of French, ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • The Method and Culture of Comparative Law

    Essays in Honour of Mark Van Hoecke

    Edited by Dirk Heirbaut, Professor Maurice Adams ...
    Awareness of the need to deepen the method and methodology of legal research is only recent. The same is true for comparative law, by nature a more adventurous branch of legal research, which is often something researchers simply do, whenever they look at foreign legal systems to answer one or more of a range of questions about law, whether these questions are doctrinal, economic, sociological, ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea

    by John Laughland ...
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  • Capitalism

    The Story behind the Word

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our ... Read more

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  • Feeling Political

    Emotions and Institutions since 1789

    by Ute Frevert, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Francesco Buscemi, Philipp Nielsen, Agnes Arndt, Michael Amico, Karsten Lichau, Hannah Malone, Julia Wambach, Juliane Brauer, Caroline Moine ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its ... Read more

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  • A Tiny Spot on the Earth

    The Political Culture of the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Translated by Vivien Collingwood ...
    by Piet de Rooy ...
    In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the 'polder model' often used to describe economic and social policymaking based on consensus is a myth. Instead, modern political culture in the Dutch Low Countries began with a revolution and is rife with rivalries among political and ideological factions. De Rooy argues that ... Read more

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  • Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

    by Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent ...
    How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and ... Read more

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  • Catholic Modern

    The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church

    by James Chappel ...
    In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world’s largest religious organization become modern?James Chappel finds an answer ... Read more

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  • Struggle and Mutual Aid

    The Age of Worker Solidarity

    by Nicolas Delalande ...
    Translated by Anthony Roberts ...
    A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the 1970s—worker movements were at the cutting edge of ... Read more

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  • Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900

    Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher

    by Johanna Gehmacher ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the women’s movements that emerged in many countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. It discusses practices such as translating, ... Read more

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  • Before Boas

    The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

    by Han F. Vermeulen ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Nationalism

    A Study in Its Origins and Background

    by Hans Kohn ...
    In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national ideal in the modern West. At its publication, Saturday Review called it an enduring and definitive treatise.... [Kohn] has written a book which is less a history of nationalism than it is a history of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD