Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800.
Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and con...
A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples.
A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms...
DR. ENG Stefan Amirell PROF DR Hans Hagerdal Bruce Buchan
In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both European and non-European understandings of piracy to the development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation. It explores the significance of 'legal posturing' on the part of those...
In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the...
