Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800 (Moore Lindsay R.)(Pevná vazba)

Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800 (Moore Lindsay R.)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women's legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the

Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800 (Moore Lindsay R.)(Paperback)

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women's legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the

End of the Patriarchy (Falk Gerhard)(Pevná vazba)

This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy, education, government, religion, the military, law enforcement, and communications. The author predicts the feminization of American life with particular reference to changes in the American family and the ever increasing

How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 (Scott Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order - and made the Industrial Revolution possible Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part

Swingin' on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles (Vacher Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin' on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles,

The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (Breyer Stephen)(Paperback)

In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private--from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections (Breay Claire)(Pevná vazba)

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books and documents were brought together in the British Library exhibition, 'Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war.' Together, these manuscripts

Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World (Cohen Mark R.)(Pevná vazba)

The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through

Equality in Law: Portugal (Martins de Oliveira Teresa)(Pevná vazba)

Equality in law between men and women in the European Community is an integral part of the EC's social policy and crucial to its economic and social cohesion. This encyclopaedia analyzes the legal framework for equal opportunities in Portugal which now exists in the Community due to the adoption of

Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition (Moore Alan)(Pevná vazba)

A New York Times best-seller In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect Watchmen begins as a murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As

The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped (Banner Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 (Bown Stephen R.)(Pevná vazba)

Women Lifers: Lives Before, Behind, and Beyond Bars (Dye Meredith Huey)(Pevná vazba)

The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men's incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and

Conciliation in International Law: The OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (Tomuschat Christian)(Pevná vazba)

This volume collects the materials underlying the International Colloquium 'Conciliation in the Globalized World of Today', held on 11 and 12 June 2015 in Vienna under the auspices of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE. The aim of the Colloquium was to examine the merits and

Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World (Afshar H.)(Pevná vazba)

The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure flexible employment working for the world market. The feminisation of the labour market has increased the burdens on women, and

English Convents in Catholic Europe, C.1600-1800 (Kelly James E.)(Pevná vazba)

In 1598, the first English convent to be founded since the dissolution of the monasteries was established in Brussels, followed by a further twenty-one foundations, which all self-identified as English institutions in Catholic Europe. Around four thousand women entered these religious houses over

International Law Reports (Lauterpacht Elihu)(Pevná vazba)

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts. Volume 152 reports on, amongst others, the orders and judgment of the

Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Tang Chenxi)(Pevná vazba)

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800: Empire, Dynastic Formations, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia (Van Steenbergen Jo)(Pevná vazba)

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen

Town: Prints & Drawings of Britain Before 1800 (Nurse Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centers such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as

A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas (Moore Clement Clarke)(Pevná vazba)

The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series.''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse' But sit down by the fire with some chocolates to hand, And you'll be welcomed into a magical land. There is snow and some

Night Before Christmas(Pevná vazba)

This classic poem by Clement C. Moore is read on Christmas Eve by families the world over. Re-discover Roger Duvoisin's eye-catching interpretation from 1954, with a tall, narrow format just right for tucking into a Christmas

The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution (Rowland Katherine)(Pevná vazba)

Women and the Vote: A World History (Adams Jad)(Paperback)

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of