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Law and democracy : contemporary questions
Law and Democracy: Contemporary Questions provides a fresh understanding of law’s regulation of Australian democracy. The book enriches public law scholarship, deepening and challenging the current conceptions of law’s regulation of popular participation and legal representation. The book raises and addresses a number of contemporary questions about legal institutions, principles and practi…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022018
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.994 PAT l
Ten crises: the political economy of China’s development (1949-2020)
This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and measures by the government to resolve or defer the crises. The book offers profound insights into Chinaâ…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811604553
- Collation
- xxxii, 510p: ill..
- Series Title
- Global University for Sustainability Book Series
- Call Number
- 338 WEN t
The Netherlands in a Nutshell: Highlights from Dutch History and Culture
Many think they know the legends behind tulipmania and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history should be passed on to future generations? This overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides a thought-provoking and timely answer. The democratic process behind the volume …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089640390
- Collation
- 129p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 949.2 VAN
In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-century Women Tell Us About I…
This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishersâ€â€¦
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925021974
- Collation
- xxv + 196 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.40994 DAW i
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, diplomat, and patron of the …
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004508453
- Collation
- 571 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 709.2 MEN a
Revolutionary worlds. Local perspectives and dynamics of the Indonesian Indep…
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile per…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463727587
- Collation
- 538p
- Series Title
- Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950,
- Call Number
- 950 REV b
Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030111113
- Collation
- XVII, 295p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 232.91 ALL m
Australian travellers in the South Seas
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464158
- Collation
- 396 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 820.935894 HAL a
Placing the public in public health in post-war Britain, 1948–2012
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health s…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030186852
- Collation
- viii, 141 p: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362.109 ALE p
Himalayan dreaming : Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, 1…
How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666162
- Collation
- 593 hlm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 796.522095496
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