This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria. The emphasis in on the legal system, but the ...więcej »
Francis Bacon's comments on communication and rhetoric are scattered throughout his works--in letters and occasional writings, in philosophical, scientific, and literary compositions. The author co...więcej »
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous peop...więcej »
The author presents a comprehensive picture of the furniture manufacturer's marketing policies and the framework of the industry out of which marketing policies evolve. He thoroughly investigates a...więcej »
The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary r...więcej »
With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held ...więcej »
In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daph...więcej »
Explores postcolonialism through the geographies of imagination, knowledge and power, analyses the history of western representations of the "Other", and engages with the important conceptual contr...więcej »
This is a lucid and factual exposition thoroughly documented and supported by references to official publications. The introduction by Fraenkel is an exposition of the labor courts in the German ju...więcej »
In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. ...więcej »
An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific c...więcej »
Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state foll...więcej »
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GI...więcej »
Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions op...więcej »
So strongly associated is the Salvation Army with its modern mission of service that its colorful history as a religious movement is often overlooked. In telling the story of the organization in Am...więcej »
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, ra...więcej »
The proceedings of the first symposium ever held to consider in a comprehensive manner the multiple problems of hemophilia are recorded in this volume. Containing the complete material presented at...więcej »
This volume, based on the second international symposium on hemophilia held in Rome, includes not only the presented material but also other significant contributions by fifty-five of the most outs...więcej »