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Magna Carta

history, context and influence: Papers delivered at Peking University on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta

Edited by Lawrence Goldman

University of London Press, 2018

This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. In a series of essays written by notable British specialists, it considers the origins of the document in the political and religious contexts of the thirteenth century, the relevance of its principles to the seventeenth century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Carta to justify the American Revolution, and its inspiration of the radical-democratic movement in Britain in the early nineteenth century. The introductory essay considers the celebration of Magna Carta's 800th anniversary in 2015 in relation to ceremonials and remembrance in Britain in general. Given as papers to a joint conference of British and Chinese historians in Beijing in 2015, these essays provide a clear and insightful overview of the origins and impact of a medieval document that has shaped the history of the world. The open access edition of this book can be found at http://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/goldman.

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Making Human Rights a Reality for Undocumented and Precarious Migrant Workers

Activist and Legalist Approaches in Context

Jordan Dez

Central European University Press, 2027

This volume captures the gaps and the progress in human rights protection of undocumented and precarious status migrant workers. The contributors look for developments in human rights law, human rights institutions or governance, and in the organizing and experiences of civil society and migrant workers. In doing so, this volume demonstrates how and why international rights regimes (fail to) protect hyper-precarious migrant workers and recommends what is needed to ‘make rights’ a reality. The contributors are academics, legal practitioners, non-profit workers, activists, migrants—writing from around the world. Effective human rights protection is examined in the context of international and regional normative frameworks; diverse national and transnational contexts; and from the bottom-up perspective of workers and civil society.

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Market Failure in Context

Alain Marciano and Steven G. Medema, special issue editors

Duke University Press, 0

This volume explores the social, political, and intellectual contexts in which twentieth-century notions of market failure were developed. Markets can fail to perform in ways that best promote the larger interests of society: this idea is as old as economics itself and is one of the most crucial issues with which economic thinkers have had to grapple. However, while the history of the theory of market failure has received some critical examination, little attention has been paid to the larger contexts in which these theoretical analyses emerged. Contributors to this volume directly examine these contexts to gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the influence of external ideas and events on the development of economic theories and to stimulate additional scholarship around this important facet of the history of economics.

Contributors. Nahid Aslanbeigui, Roger E. Backhouse, Bradley W. Bateman, Sebastian Berger, David Colander, J. Daniel Hammond, Marianne Johnson, Thomas C. Leonard, Alain Marciano, Steven G. Medema, Guy Oakes, Malcolm Rutherford, John D. Singleton

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Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns

Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection

Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch

SBL Press, 2015

A new reading strategy for the Thanksgiving Hymns

Hasselbalch asserts that current theories about the social background of Thanksgiving Hymns are unable to explain its heterogeneous character. Instead the author suggests a reading strategy that leaves presumptions about the underlying social contexts aside to instead consider the collection’s hybridity as a clue to understanding the collection as a whole.

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