... true history of the world must always be the historyof the few; and as we measure the Himâlaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from the poets of the ... Code of Laws, least of all, the Code of Laws of Manu. If you have learned to appreciate the value of recent [31]researches into the antecedents of all law, namely the foundation and growth of ... English? Again, if you are a student of Jurisprudence, there is a historyof law to be explored in India, very different from what is known of the historyof law in Greece, in Rome, and in Germany,...
... Early Russian History in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London) and Docent of Early Russian Culture at the Universityof Helsinki. He is the author of The Sovereign ... editor and co-author of Russia Takes Shape.Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present (2004).robert o. crummey is Emeritus Professor ofHistory at the University of California, Davis, ... 1613–1689 (1983) and The Formation of Muscovy, 1304–1613 (1987).brian davies is Associate Professor ofHistory at the Universityof Texasat San Antonio and the author of State Power and Community...
... (2003).peter waldron is Professor ofHistory at the Universityof Sunderland andthe author of Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal inRussia (1998) and The End of Imperial Russia ... exam-ple of a non-Western polity which had challenged effectively the might of the1 For a historical survey of types of empire within a comparative study of polities seeS. Finer, A Historyof Government, ... zakharova is Professor ofHistory at Moscow Lomonosov State University. She is the author of Samoderzhavie i otmena krepostnogo prava (1984)and the editor (with Ben Eklof and John Bushnell) of Russia’s...
... notandCritique of Pure ReasonCritique of Practical ReasonCritique of Judgment ... seem Historyof Scepticism ... ETHICSSuch is the influence of custom...
... associate of the NBER and the editor of The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations. C G is the Henry LeeProfessor of Economics at Harvard University and director of theDevelopment of ... Henry Lee Pro-fessor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Development of the AmericanEconomy program and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.1. ... was that England, “once the land of liberty—theschool of patriots—the nurse of heroes, has become the land of slavery—the school of parricides and the nurse of tyrants.”27At its root, the...
... Meeting and Dinner of the Order of Indian Wars of the United StatesHeld January Seventeenth Nineteen Hundred and TwentyTo the memory of Don G. Rickey, 1925–2000,Historian of the American Westwe ... the hands of the soldiers, particularly of members of the “Bloodless Third.” Over the next day, theselargely untrained and undisciplined troops, including someofficers, roamed the site of the ... descendants of massacresurvivors speak of the voices they heard in this place. Forthem, those voices were the only proof needed to confirm thatthis area was, indeed, the site of the massacre....
... definition of permitted targets of revolutionary violence gained himthe status of a saint in the gospel of moralistic analysts of terrorism andsomething like a litmus test for a quick identification of ... times of peace over the heads of all who dare to rebel. In the despoticsocieties that make up the major portion ofhistory s fabric, it has servedas the tool of enslavement and guarantor of mass ... has also been true historically of most forms of terrorism, such as that of the Jewish Zealots of the first century c.e.,for example, or of the Isma\ili sect of Assassins from the eleventh to...
... hisneighbors.The modern process of archaeology often begins with a wide-angleview of both the archival historyof a region and an overview of what isalready known of its archaeological record, which here ... the world of the written record— of histories that wereintentionally and self-consciously recorded. Below, the archeologicalrecord offers another form ofhistory an unintentional and often for-gotten ... identification and assessment of archaeological sitesthe arrival of archaeology and the shadow of lincoln31and into the mouth of the Kaskaskia. The subsequent erosion and wid-ening of the new Mississippi...
... in human history. Barter: as old as the hillsThe historyof barter is as old, indeed in some respects very much older,than the recorded historyof man himself. The direct exchange of services ... a more enlightening snapshot of the essence of moneythan the ability it gives us to compare at a glance the relative values of any of the hundreds of thousands of goods and services in which ... distribution of this tremendousgrowth of population is crucial to an understanding of why the study of money is currently of unprecedented importance, a few introductoryTHE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF MONEY...
... Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Alberta School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Lloyd Steier is professor of Strategic Management ... literally, capitalizes thousands of hours of their work.This volume would have been impossible without the financial support of the Universityof Alberta School of Business and especially its much ... verydifficult for impecunious entrepreneurs. Of course, no country is a pure example of any of these flavors of capi-talism. Each variant of capitalism accounts for part of the capital forma-tion in all...