Title:La censure négociée: Le contrôle du livre a Genève, 1560-1625
Author(s):JOSTOCK, IngeborgDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Control over the Geneva printing trade, readers censorship, and the editorial policy of the local authorities have been little studied. An analysis of primary materials and specific cases reveals that civil powers and ...
Title:Ferdinando Marescalchi (1754-1816) : Un collezionista italiano nella Parigi napoleonica
Author(s):PRETI HAMARD, MonicaDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Stendhal, di passaggio a Bologna nel 1817, segnalava in particolare "la galerie de cet aimable comte Marescalchi, que nous avons vu nous donner des si jolies fêtes dans sa maison des Champs-Élysées". Il mobilio parigino - ...
Title:Global justice, state duties : the extraterritorial scope of economic, social, and cultural rights in international law
Author(s):LANGFORD, Malcolm; VANDENHOLE, Wouter; SCHEININ, Martin; VAN GENUGTEN, WillemDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights ...
Title:La servitude volontaire aujourd'hui : esclavages et modernité
Author(s):CHAIGNOT, NicolasDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Au centre de la crise de la modernité que traversent nos sociétés actuelles se trouve la question du travail. Les transformations récentes du capitalisme, notamment les nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail, remettent ...
Title:Changing rules of delegation : a contest for power in comitology
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MOURY, Catherine; BISCHOFF, Carina S.; BERGSTRÖM, Carl-FredrikDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out ...
Title:The Representation of Place : Urban planning and protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980
Author(s):MILLER, Michael JamesDate:2003Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Detailing place-based protests during the 1970s, one in northern France and another in Scotland, Miller, a peripatetic scholar currently with the UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, argues that the power ...
Title:European competition law annual 2010 : merger control in European and global perspective
Author(s):LOWE, Philip; MARQUIS, MelDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Every year, top-level market regulators, academics and legal and economic practitioners contribute to the Annual Competition Workshop organised at the European University Institute in Florence. The Co-Directors of the ...
Title:Becoming a Subject : Political prisoners during the Greek Civil War
Author(s):VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:2002Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Voglis (New York U.) examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. ...
Title:British Government Policy and Decolonisation, 1945-1963 : Scrutinising the official mind
Author(s):HEINLEIN, FrankDate:2002Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Heinlein revises his 1999 Ph.D. dissertation for the European University Institute in Florence to examine the views of the Empire and Commonwealth held by British policy makers during the two decades after World War II. ...
Title:E-governance: A global journey
Author(s):FINGER, Matthias; SULTANA, Fouzia NasreenDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:No abstract available.
Title:International Handbook of Network Industries: The liberalisation of infrastructure
Author(s):FINGER, Matthias; KÜNNEKE, Rolf W.Date:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In recent decades, all infrastructures have undergone significant restructuring. This worldwide phenomenon is often labelled 'liberalization' and although expectations were high with respect to lower prices, greater ...
Title:The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of social and political movements
Author(s):SNOW, David A.; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KLANDERMANS, Bert; MCADAM, DougDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Non-institutionalized collective action is such a conspicuous feature of today’s social landscape, exemplified by recent events in the Arab world, that a day rarely goes by in which the news does not refer to a social ...