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  • Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan

    The María Luz Incident and the Dawn of Modernity

    by Giorgio Fabio Colombo ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective. In July 1872, the María Luz, a barque flying the Peruvian flag, carried Chinese indentured servants from Macau to Peru. After the ship stopped for repairs in Kanagawa Bay, a number of legal issues arose that were destined to change the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Law and Opera

    Edited by Filippo Annunziata, Giorgio Fabio Colombo ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the various connections between Law and Opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (with approaches from jurists, philosophers, musicologist, historians) resource on the subject. Further, it makes a valuable contribution to studies on law and the humanities. While, for example, the relationship between law and literature has been extensively ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD

  • Psychosexual Counseling in Andrological Surgery

    A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Patient and His Family

    by Elena Vittoria Longhi, Giorgio Franco, Fulvio Colombo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book combines concise descriptions of the various andrological surgical interventions in the adolescent and adult with detailed analysis of the pre- and postoperative psychosexual counseling of the patient and his family that is appropriate to each procedure. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to the candidate for andrological surgery that reflects the everyday experiences of an andro ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

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  • The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

    Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Linda Colley ...
    Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio... ... Read more

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  • Sisterhood Is Global

    The International Women's Movement Anthology

    by Robin Morgan ...
    A powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the worldHailed by Alice Walker as "one of the most important human documents of the century," this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women's experiences, from oppression to persecution. Originally published in 1984, the compilation features pieces written by a diverse set of ... Read more

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  • Latin America

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end ... Read more

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  • Once Within Borders

    Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

    by Charles S. Maier ...
    Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide ... Read more

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  • A Colonial Affair

    Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

    by Danna Agmon ...
    Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon's compelling account draws ... Read more

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  • Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800

    by John Thornton ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Colonialism and Its Legacies

    by Taiaike Alfred, Dipesh Chakabarty, Enrique Dussel, Emmanuel Eze, Vicki Hsueh, Margaret Kohn, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jennifer Pitts, Ofelia Schutte, Jessé Souza, Iris Marion Young, Sankar Muthu, Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    by J. Lorand Matory ...
    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... Read more

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