The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in international law posit that The Hague s foremost legacy lies in the manner in which the conferences progressed the law of war and the concept and application of international justice.
This volume brings together some of the latest scholarship on the legacies of the Hague peace conferences in a...
The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1...
This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans, Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone West Africans, Kojo Tovalou-Houenou, Lamine Senghor, and Leopold Sedar Senghor, developed during the two world wars by fighting for freedom, equality, and justice for Senegalese and other West African colonial soldiers (known as tirailleurs) who made enormous sacrifices to liberate France from German oppression.
Focusing on the solidarity between this special group of African...
This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans, ...
Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the war only to fail during the fragmented post-war recovery. Based on new research including interviews with retired museum staff, letters, diaries, museum archives and government records, this study reveals a complex picture of both innovation and inertia. At the outbreak...
Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus ...
The Roman Catholic Church's critical stance towards liberalism and democracy following the French Revolution and through the nineteenth century was often entrenched but the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s saw a shift in the Church's attitude towards democracy. In addition, in recent years, a conflict has emerged between Church doctrine and modern liberalism under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
The theme of this book is the Catholic Church's relationship to modern liberal democracy, from the end of the eighteenth century until today, a connection that is situated...
The Roman Catholic Church's critical stance towards liberalism and democracy following the French Revolution and through the nineteenth century was...
For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007-2015 raised questions about the prevention of genocide. This book, while principally analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914-1925 and its implications for the culture and politics of the region, also raises broader questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the Middle East. It...
For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and T...
