Автор: Scheve, Kenneth F., Название: Taxing the rich : ISBN: 0691165459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691165455 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4538 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven`t. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don`t tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising--they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made."--Publisher`s Web site.
Автор: Edited by Roger D. Woodard Название: The Ancient Languages of Europe ISBN: 0521684951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521684958 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7410 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.
Автор: Wawro, Geoffrey Название: Warfare and society in europe, 1792-1914 ISBN: 0415214459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415214452 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8166 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Combining original research with the latest scholarship Wawro examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of WW1. The book highlights the interplay of society, politics and military decision making in Europe.
Автор: Swain, Geoffrey Swain, Nigel Название: Eastern europe since 1945 ISBN: 0230214606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230214606 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4454 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This essential text has been fully revised, updated and expanded to take account of new material and events since the publication of the third edition. The book now features extended discussion of the post 1989 transition to capitalism, additional illustrations, and suggestions for further reading.
Автор: Loughlin, John; Hendriks, Frank; Lidstr?m, Anders Название: The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe ISBN: 0199562970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199562978 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19885 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe is the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It is the only book to analyse subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland.
Автор: Blockmans Название: Introduction to Medieval Europe 300?1550 ISBN: 0415675871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415675871 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5262 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history. Covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianization, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague, and the intellectual and cultural life of the Middle Ages, the book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic World.
Автор: Berend Название: Central Europe in the High Middle Ages ISBN: 0521786959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521786959 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5241 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century when significant changes in social and economic structures occurred. The book presents a series of thematic chapters on every aspect of the early history of the region covering political, religious, economic, social and cultural developments, including an investigation of origin myths that questions traditional national narratives. It also explores the ways in which west European patterns were appropriated and adapted through the local initiatives of rulers, nobles and ecclesiastics in central Europe. An ideal introduction to the essential themes in medieval central European history, the book sheds important new light on regional similarities and differences.
Описание: The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State around the ban on usury, and analyzes the institutions created to eradicate usury and the informal petty financial economy that developed as a result. Laurence Fontaine unpacks the values that structured these lending practices, namely, the two competing cultures of credit that coexisted, fought, and sometimes merged: the vibrant aristocratic culture and the capitalistic merchant culture. More broadly, Fontaine shows how economic trust between individuals was constructed in the early modern world. By creating a dialogue between past and present, and contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit, Fontaine draws attention to the necessity of recognizing the different values that coexist in diverse political economies.
Описание: This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature - Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with leading members of Russia’s intelligentsia, including prominent émigrés such as Vladimir Nabokov, Korney Chukovsky, and Dmitrii Shostakovich. His deep love of the Russian people and their culture has touched the lives of countless students, in particular at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1966. It is these stories of an unassuming Jewish American from Cincinnati, Ohio who rubbed shoulders with some of the most prominent thinkers, writers, and musicians in the Soviet Union that are presented for the first time in this volume.
Автор: Robert Drews Название: Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe ISBN: 1138282723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138282728 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23595 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the Eurasian steppe and from southern Caucasia. First were the copper and silver mines (along with good harbors) in Greece, and the copper and gold mines of the Carpathian basin. By ca. 1500 BC other military men had taken over the amber shores of Scandinavia and the metalworking district of the southern Alps. These military takeovers offer the most likely explanations for the origins of the Greek, Keltic, Germanic and Italic subgroups of the Indo-European language family. Battlefield warfare and militarism, Robert Drews contends, were novelties ca. 1600 BC and were a consequence of the military employment of chariots. Current opinion is that militarism and battlefield warfare are as old as formal states, going back before 3000 BC. Another current opinion is that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe happened long before 1600 BC. The `Kurgan Theory` of Marija Gimbutas and David Anthony dates it from late in the fifth to early in the third millennium BC and explains it as the result of horse-riding conquerors or raiders coming to Europe from the steppe. Colin Renfrew`s Archaeology and Language dates the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe to the seventh and sixth millennia BC, and explains it as a consequence of the spread of agriculture in a `wave of advance` from Anatolia through Europe. Pairing linguistic with archaeological evidence Drews concludes that in Greece and Italy, at least, no Indo-European language could have arrived before the second millennium BC"--Provided by publisher.
Описание: This book analyses the impact of immigration on perceptions of national political systems in Europe and contends that public concern about immigration is undermining trust in national political institutions and elites, as well as satisfaction with the way democracy is working.
Автор: Julius R. Ruff Название: Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500–1800 ISBN: 052159894X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521598941 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5241 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarises a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern Europe. His book, enriched with fascinating illustrations, underlines the fact that modern preoccupations with the problem of violence are not unique, and that late medieval and early modern European societies produced levels of violence that may have exceeded those in the most violent modern inner-city neighbourhoods. Julius Ruff examines the role of the emerging state in controlling violence; the roots and forms of the period’s widespread interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting. This book, in the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History, will be of great value to students of European history, criminal justice sciences, and anthropology.
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