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Europe 1780--1830 rapidly established itself as a standard introduction to European history in the age of the French Revolution and its aftermath when it first appeared. Now for the first time the book has been fully revised, updated and expanded. The half-century covered constitutes one of the most complex, eventful and rapidly changing of any in Europe's history. It is a period whose emphasis on conflict and political crisis combines daring innovation with the stubborn persistence of many older attitudes and patterns of human behaviour. Professor Ford explores these tensions throughou.

Eastern European Emerging Markets (EEEM's) have been superficially analysed in the literature. In this paper, the authors use a T-GARCH and E-GARCH approach to model volatility in eleven EEEM's, being one of the most comprehensive analysis in terms of number of markets. Data includes daily returns from 2004 to 2011. Main findings show higher unconditional volatility in EEEM's than in developed markets, but risk premium is statistically negative or non significant in this markets. Almost all markets show an important and significant leverage effect, contrary to previous results in the literature. According to the news impact and decay parameters, volatility is more difficult to predict in EEEM's than in developed markets. Greece, Hungary, Poland and Turkey seem to be the maturest EEEM's markets. Finally, no significant differences are found among countries inside and outside European Union.

"Additional reading" at end of each chapter. ; I. 1500-1815.--II. 1815-1924. Rev. ed. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Additional reading" at end of each chapter. ; I. 1500-1815.--II. 1815-1915. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Additional reading" at end of each chapter. ; "Published July, 1916. Reprinted . September, 1917." ; I. 1500-1815.--II. 1815-1915. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Additional reading" at end of each chapter. ; I. 1500-1815.--II. 1815-1915. ; Mode of access: Internet.

International audience ; Everywhere policies are being developed to increase the access of the disabled to public transport. Comparative analysis of these policies is useful in two respects: content and process, i.e. what to achieve and how to achieve it. The first type of analysis is not unusual, the second type is. Given the general effort and the intensity of international contacts, it would not be strange to expect a convergence in policies but perhaps more so with regard to content than to process. Administrative traditions may differ widely between countries, There is extensive theorising on policy convergence. The essence of the theory is presented and the different policy levels at which convergence may occur are made operational for accessible transport policies. The policies of three European countries (France, the Netherlands and Switzerland) are compared at the level of policy instruments. It shows that in all these countries a range of instruments is used. But there are remarkable differences in the relative importance of these instruments. Both France and Switzerland rely strongly on legal instruments (law and regulations), but the Netherlands more on the transfer of information (not enforcing but convincing). Both the Netherlands and Switzerland support their policies with subsidies for adapting the infrastructure. France seems to present it as a national duty which regional actors have to fulfil. The effectiveness of these strategies is not assessed.

Louis de Jong, who died on 15 March 2005, held a unique position as the official historian for the Netherlands during the Second World War. As head of the Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (RIOD), de Jong effectively came to dictate the research agenda on his country's recent history for more than forty years after the conflict was over. For the Dutch, his name was synonymous not only with RIOD but also with the history of the German occupation from May 1940 to the final liberation in May 1945.

Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers' values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both - the technical effects of values and the political effects of technique. The author reports what social scientists and historians actually do. He sorts out the scientific from the political content in a wide range of old and new work in history, sociology, political science and economics. The overall work is a detailed political and technical criticism of the 'scientistic' programme which would hav.

Intro -- Titles Published -- Titles Forthcoming -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- From Socialism to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Eastern Europe and Hungary -- Introduction -- The Old and New Program of "Catching-Up" Development -- The Renaissance of Totalitarian Theory -- Eastern Europe as a Neoliberal "Laboratory" -- The Marxist Renaissance of the 1960s, Its Context and Its Legacy -- Beyond the Cold War Discourse -- Hungary and Eastern Europe: A "Third Road" Experiment and Its End -- About the Contributions -- State Socialism, Gender and the Western "Magnetic Field" -- The Collapse of State Socialism and Its Aftermath -- State Socialism in the Official memory-And a Proposed Counternarrative -- Notes -- A Third Road in Eastern Europe? -- The Interdependence of Socialist Hungary's External and Internal Balances: The Bridge Model and the Consolidation of the Kádár Era -- The Evolution of the Hungarian Bridge Model -- Hungary's Efforts to Restore External Balance up to the Oil-Price Shock of 1973 -- Hungary's Efforts to Restore Internal Balance up to the Oil-Price Shock of 1973 -- The Effects of the Global Crisis of the 1970s on Hungary's Internal and External Balances -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Neoliberalism as a Legal Project in State Socialist Hungary -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Capitalism and Law: The Commodity Form Theory of Law -- Neoliberalism as a Legal Project -- The Kádár Regime and the Capitalism Mediated by Law -- The Dominance of Socialist Public Law and Socialist Normativism -- The Private Law Revolution -- The Reform Economists as the New Organic Elite -- Consequences: Neoliberalism, Law and Hegemony -- Notes -- Dance Around a "Sacred Cow": Women's Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally.

Introduction -- Unit Outline. Lesson 1: Selfhood and Individualism ; Lesson 2: Education ; Lesson 3: The Self as a Work of Art ; Lesson 4: Women's Roles: Domesticity and/or Liberty? ; Lesson 5: Gender, Power, and Political Theory ; Lesson 6: Faith and Belief ; Lesson 7: Law and Politics ; Lesson 8: Popular Culture -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.