The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie write by Jeff Fynn-Paul. This book was released on 2016. The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the first long-term studies of the Catalonian city of Manresa during the late medieval crisis.
Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia
Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia write by Jeff Fynn-Paul. This book was released on 2017-09-11. Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women householders, and the poor.
Hostile Business and the Sovereign State
Hostile Business and the Sovereign State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hostile Business and the Sovereign State write by Michael J. Strauss. This book was released on 2018-12-14. Hostile Business and the Sovereign State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states’ territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority. The threat arises from the massive worldwide shift of state activities to the private sector since the late 1970s in conjunction with two other modern trends – the globalization of business and the liberalization of international capital flows. The work introduces three new concepts: firstly, the rise of companies that handle privatized activities, and the associated advent of "post-government companies" that make such activities their core business. Control of them may reside with individual investors, other companies or investment funds, or it may reside with other states through state-owned enterprises or sovereign wealth funds. Secondly, "imperfect privatizations:" when a state privatizes an activity to another state’s public sector. The book identifies cases where this is happening. It also elaborates on how ownership and influence of companies that perform privatized functions may not be transparent, and can pass to inherently hostile actors, including criminal or terrorist organizations. Thirdly, "belligerent companies," whose conduct is hostile to those of states where they are active. The book concludes by assessing the adequacy of existing legal and regulatory regimes and how relevant norms may evolve.
Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900
Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 write by . This book was released on 2021-10-11. Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
Disciplined Dissent
Disciplined Dissent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disciplined Dissent write by Autori Vari. This book was released on 2017-01-03T00:00:00+01:00. Disciplined Dissent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by current debates around political confrontation and the exercise of power, Fabrizio Titone offers an interpretation based on the concept of disciplined dissent. This interpretation is centred on the notion of diffused power and is designed to transcend the binary distinction consensus/resistance. The aim is to identify the conservative process involved in mounting a critique, a protest, through which those who object may have intercepted and then deployed on their own account the cultural repertoire of those in a position of authority. This was with a view to obtaining a hearing, or even influencing the activities of the government and decentering the exercise of power. The essays collected here take as their theoretical point of departure the concept of disciplined dissent. In order to ascertain how adaptable the latter is, the decision was taken to include studies relating to wholly distinct political contexts. Contributions by scholars from different backgrounds shed light upon different circumstances prevailing in continental and non-continental medieval Europe. The aim is to offer a broad spectrum of analyses on political confrontation, the formulation of critiques and the attainment of spaces for participation by means of non-violent protest.
