Adolf M. Birke & Magnus Brechtken 
Kommunale Selbstverwaltung [PDF ebook] 
Geschichte und Gegenwart im deutsch-britischen Vergleich

This student-friendly text provides a detailed and up-to-date assessment of Japan”s foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices that Japan faces in the twenty-first century. Usin …

First Published in 1986. This volume is the second of the three-volume edition of the proceedings of an international conference on Legacies of West Indian Slavery held at the University of Hull in J …

This is a study of the ”secret history”, a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. …

In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the …

Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Wes …

This book takes a new approach to the question, ‘Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?’. Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify …

Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new …

This research collection provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare. It offers a refreshing analysis of key issues in modern …

Analyses the foundation of the San-kuo Wei Dynasty by Ts”ao P”I in 220 CE, using the main historical accounts, a wide range of religious and philosophical writings, epigraphical records, and above …

This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it ex …