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Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European concep..

This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right which would create legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance...

This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right which would create legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance...

The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case..

The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case..

This book provides an international perspective on the development of co-operatives since the mid-nineteenth century, exploring the economic, political and social factors that explain their varying fortunes and transformation into different forms...

This book provides an international perspective on the development of co-operatives since the mid-nineteenth century, exploring the economic, political and social factors that explain their varying fortunes and transformation into different forms...

The work is a history of doping in sport ranging from the development of anti-doping policy and historical narratives from the initial introduction of doping rules to the case against Lance Armstrong._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History..

The first book on historiography to adopt a comparative, global perspective on the topic, this text looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the non-Western world over the course of the past two and..

A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society. Encompassing Asia, Latin America and Africa, the book centralizes the struggle for self-determination in an attempt to understand how the current nation-states ha..

The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity of problems in the region, revealing the shortcomings of the EU’s architecture. The European Union, perhaps for the first time in its history of more tha..

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’, with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet democracy has multiple meanings, values and significances. The start of the twenty-first century has witnessed a massive revival of interest in the meaning ..