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On the Interface between Public and Private International Law /
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Our understanding of the operation of law beyond the nation State has been deeply shaped by two great disciplines: public and private international law. Yet surprisingly little systematic attention has been devoted to the relationship between the two. The public-private divide operates to separate the law that is concerned with the exercise of political power by States and the policy choices that we make for public purposes - the domain of public international law - from the exercise of economic power by corporations, regulated largely by private international law. In this first panoptic survey of the relation between the two fields, McLachlan argues that the neglect of this interface is highly consequential for our understanding of law's capacity to control the State and the corporation. Both are constructs of the law. But the function of law is not merely to empower and clothe these artificial persons with legal authority; it is also to impose legal responsibility, where the exercise of power gives rise to a breach and causes injury to others. Only by placing these two great systems side-by-side, can we see clearly where that responsibility lies and the necessary development of the law.
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1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004735729
Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism : Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consci...
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Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature appears to be a dispassionate account of nature, life, the psyche, and society, based on the most up-to-date science, but, in fact, it has a Marxist goal: to defend the idea of historical materialism. After developing a thoroughly materialist, determinist view of reality, Bogdanov explains how forms of social labour determine the forms of human ideology. Cognition from the Historical Point of View explains the causal connections between labour, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, The Science of Social Consciousness , written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.
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1 online resource (752 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004745209
La fabrique des elites dans l'egypte pharaonique : essai d'histoire des elites provinciales et de leur formation au temps des pyramides (2700-2160 Avant Notre Ere) /
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"La question du processus de formation des élites est fondamentale pour comprendre la stabilité de la civilisation pharaonique qui est l’une des entités politiques les plus anciennes et durables de l’Histoire. L’Ancien Empire (2700-2160), caractérisé par la construction des pyramides et la mise en place d’un État territorial, représente un champ d’application pertinent en raison de l’accroissement considérable de la documentation épigraphique, papyrologique et archéologique ces dernières années. Les élites provinciales jouaient un rôle essentiel dans le fonctionnement de l’État égyptien et l’accès de la monarchie aux diverses ressources qui se trouvaient dans les provinces ou qui transitaient par celles-ci. À l’aide d’une analyse exhaustive et croisée des sources et des apports issus du renouvellement des études sur les élites en histoire et en sociologie, Émilie Martinet propose une théorie novatrice pour expliquer l’émergence des élites provinciales à cette époque. Composé de cinq chapitres, cet essai historique aborde successivement le concept d’élites en égyptologie, les mécanismes d’émergence et d’enrichissement des élites provinciales, la progressive diffusion de la culture élitaire de la capitale en province durant l’Ancien Empire, les facteurs de la reproduction sociale de ces élites et leurs oppositions, parfois violentes, ainsi que les processus similaires de montée en puissance de groupes élitaires dans les sociétés de l’Orient ancien."--
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240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9782874571404
Professor Challenger and his lost Neolithic world : the compelling story of Alexander Thom and British archaeoastronomy
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'Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World' combines the two great passions of the author's life: reconstructing the Neolithic mind and constructively challenging consensus in his professional domain. The book is semi-autobiographical, charting the author's investigation of Alexander Thom's theories, in particular regarding the alignment of prehistoric monuments in the landscape, across a number of key Neolithic sites from Kintraw to Stonehenge and finally Orkney. It maps his own perspective of the changing reception to Thom's ideas by the archaeological profession from initial curiosity and acceptance to increasing scepticism.