Dorfman Ben Dorfman 
13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights [EPUB ebook] 
Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics

First Published in 2005. How should the »problem of order» associated with weapons of mass destrcution be understood and addressed today? Have the problem and its solution been misconceived and mis …

First published in 1987. This study describes and analyses the published writings of the French philosopher Antoine Destutt de Tracy. The author focuses on the three decades from the calling of the E …

This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1 …

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Cau …

Originally published in 1904. The following »Notes» were not penned in the presumptuous hope of adding materially to the existing knowledge of the subjects with which they deal. The first part of t …

Waged between 1926 and 1929, The Cristero War (also known as The Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada) resulted from a religious insurrectionary movement, which formed in protest of the Mexican Revolut …

The early 17th century was a time of great literature the era of Cervantes and Shakespeare but also of international tension and heightened diplomacy. This book looks at the relations between Spain u …

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi»is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the suppo …

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition. Yet, as this book shows, the slave trade a …

Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the so …