Law and Empire

Law and EmpireLaw and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built

Michael Drexler

This volume seeks—through the work of a number of experts in various fields—to explore monastic life as embodied by Carthusian monks and nuns

to its Stalinist demise

produce injuries

entrepreneur James Rouse

a figure of pivotal importance in the development of German poetry

she analyzes Alḍāhirī’s maqāma as a rich repository of intellectual history

little historical demographic attention has been paid to the lives of the elderly

a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments

using forgotten archival materials and contemporary sources

Abschließend wird eine Theorie über das Verhältnis von moralischer Verantwortung und Vorwürfen entwickelt und verteidigt

examines the internal crises -- a falling birth rate