Politics, Economics & Law

ISBN: 9781925588866
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Corporate and Trust Structures: Legal and Illegal Dimensions is a collection of essays by experts in company law, trusts and financial crime. It explores the nature of companies and trusts, how they have been utilized for legitimate busines... .... Learn More

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ISBN: 9781789254709
Published by : Oxbow Books
In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783275557
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: Volume 16
Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well as a legal one because it was pivotal in mediating the relationsh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012555
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book sug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781925984064
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
For those who want to understand Australian politics today —

Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Has the job of prime minister become more difficult? It has certainly become more insecure, with six changes in the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783275090
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
Volume: Volume 17
The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy. This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580469791
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 90
After more than fifty years of development, why have interventions and aid failed to yield greater poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why did the agricultural development projects that were transpiring in places like Kenya during the "... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012470
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
In the early 1990s, a wave of democratization swept through many African countries, but its prevailing election-centred liberal approach failed to result in sustainable democracies. Why should this be and what can be done about it? This multi-disc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012517
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: Volume 2
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go &... .... Learn More