Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the
"No one knows more about Franz Liszt than Alan Walker."—Malcolm Bowie, Times Literary SupplementIn a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but al
Knight (English Literature, Cardiff University) follows on his erudite dissection of the Robin Hood legend with this historical/literary treatment of the character of Merlin. As with Robin and Merlin'
"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething h
San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo
In his case against current sexual predator laws such as Megan's law, Janus (William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota) argues that they are counter-productive, because they focus on the st
"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak,
Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficie
Given that deliberately killing civilians in war is widely viewed as both morally wrong and bad strategy, why do governments still choose to do so? Finding the arguments citing regime type, cultural d
Examining three case studies of hydropower politics in China--one in which opposition to a project succeeded, one in which it failed, and one with a more murky outcome--Mertha (political science, Wash
This is a biography of the automobile in the Soviet Union. Author Siegelbaum (history, Michigan State U.) touches upon a broad range of subjects, giving a concise history of the automobile industry it
Miller (English, Indiana U.) begins by sketching the typical narrative structure of perfectionism from being lost in skepticism to a transfixing and transfiguring attraction to another person. Then he
Schaede (U. of California, San Diego) examines the economic growth of Japan from 2002 to 2008, noting how business reform and lean management principles fostered the longest period of uninterrupted fi
In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between pare
Horticulturist and botanist Bailey (1851-1954) helped found the 4-H movement, started the nature study movement, was a leading advocate of parcel post and rural electrification, and was picked by his
In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecede
In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minorit
Despite the resources at their command, U.S. intelligence services failed to anticipate the fall of the Shah's government in Iran in the late 1970s and, more recently, insisted that Saddam Hussein's r
Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, an
