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The governance of insurance undertakings : corporate law and insurance regula…
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, ther…
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- 7
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- 9783030858179
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- x; 360p; ill.
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- -
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- 346.4086 GOV P
Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe
Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. …
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- -
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- 9781009040396
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- xiii, 410 p
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- -
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- 342.4082 MIG V
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
In the first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history's two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity. Convinced of the political relevance of their folk tale collections and grammatical studies, the Brothers Grimm argued that they cou…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009063890
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- viii, 268 p
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- -
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- 943.070922 BRO J
Polio Across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, spe…
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- -
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- 9781108355421
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- ix, 268 p ; ill
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- -
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- 616.835009439 POL D
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030980801
- Collation
- xiv; 353p; ill.
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- -
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- 381.094809034 ENC J
Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas gov…
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- -
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- 9783030701314
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- xi, 292 p.
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- -
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- 909.097124106 REL H
Environmental groups and legal expertise : shaping the Brexit process
Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise explores the use and understanding of law and legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it scrutinises environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the referendum on leaving the EU in June 2016 to the debate around the new Environment Bill in the first half of 2020. T…
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- -
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- 9781787358584
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- xxi, 191 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 344.4046 ENV C
Brexit and beyond : rethinking the futures of Europe
Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future of Europe and the European Union, adopting an explicitly regional and future-oriented perspective m…
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- -
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- 9781787352759
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- xv, 291 p.
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- -
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- 341.24220941 BRE B
Histories of experience in the world of lived religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030921408
- Collation
- viii; 305p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 204.2 HIS S
States and statistics in the nineteenth century : Europe by numbers
This book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The book discusses statistics as the field of tension between the scientific claims of neutrality and universality on the one hand and the political and economic reality of the conflicting interests of nation-states on the other. The various paths of state- and nation-building that European coun…
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526147530
- Collation
- 208p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 314.09034 STA r
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