Author: Melissa Nobles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: apologies, official, politics
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521872316
ISBN-13: 9780521872317

This book examines the political uses of official apologies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Nobles explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. She argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minorities demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices, the rectification of which, they argue, should guide changes in present-day government policies. When employed by political actors, apologies play an important, if under appreciated, role in bringing certai

Author: Melissa Nobles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: apologies, official, politics
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0521693853
ISBN-13: 9780521693851

This book examines the political uses of official apologies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Nobles explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. She argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minorities demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices, the rectification of which, they argue, should guide changes in present-day government policies. When employed by political actors, apologies play an important, if under appreciated, role in bringing certai

Author: Charles Dillon
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: tool, genealogist, nobles, royals
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0595259383
ISBN-13: 9780595259380

Informative and comprehensive genealogy of Royal and Noble persons in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, and Germany. Presented in the form of charts that display the sequence of descendants, also includes a locator which contains 4,500 names. A Genealogist can readily tie-in his research to the charts.

Author: Maurice Keen
Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
Keywords: middle, ages, men, amp, knights, nobles
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-22
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1852850876
ISBN-13: 9781852850876

The literature of chivalry and of courtly love has left an indelible impression on western ideas. What is less clear is how far the contemporary warrior aristocracy took this literature to heart and how far its ideals had influence in practice, especially in war. These are questions that Maurice Keen is uniquely qualified to answer. This book is a collection of Maurice Keen’s articles and deals with both the ideas of chivalry and the reality of warfare. He discusses brotherhood-in-arms, courtly love, crusades, heraldry, knighthood, the law of arms, tournaments and the nature of nobility,

Author: Heidi Fjeld
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Keywords: institute, asian, studies, nordic, tibet, nobles, hereditary, divisions, commoners
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 8791114179
ISBN-13: 9788791114175

Authors:Niklas Luhmann, Fatima Kastner, Richard Nobles,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: legal, studies, socio, oxford, social, system, law
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0199546126
ISBN-13: 9780199546121

Modern systems theory provides a new method for the analysis of society through an examination of the structures of its communications. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the theory’s leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates within a modern society is seriously deficient. He lays out the theoretical and methodological tools that, he argues, can advance our understanding of contemporary society and in particular of the identity, performance, and function of the legal system within that society. In s

Author: J. Russell Major
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: monarchy, nobles, estates, kings, french, absolute, renaissance
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1997-05-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0801856310
ISBN-13: 9780801856310

Scholars of early modern France have traditionally seen an alliance between the kings and the bourgeoisie, leading to an absolute, centralized monarchy, perhaps as early as the reign of Francis I (1515-47). In From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy, eminent historian J. Russell Major draws on forty-five years of research to dispute this view, offering both a masterful synthesis of existing scholarship and new information concerning the role of the nobility in these changes.Renaissance monarchs, Major contends, had neither the army nor the bureaucracy to create an absolute monarchy; th