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Our picture of English expansion in the early modern period is being transformed. Earlier in this century the story of overseas enterprise was an imperial story; the historian stood in London, and institutional development dominated the story. Charles M. Andrews led this approach in America, and A.P. Newton was leader of the English school. These historians studied communication between the metropolis and the tiny developing centers in America. The hinterland was important as it contributed tonnage and value. As the colonies developed, the backcountry sometimes entered die story as its setders challenged the now-established governments in the east. Culture, especially religion, was studied as it influenced the peculiar colonial development of key institutions in government and society. And the history of the British colonies was the history of early America.

AbstractThe contributions of EU agencies are significant components of the EU policy response to migration issues. The extent to which this has come to be in the context of migration, and the successive waves of policy and institutional reforms concerning these agencies in the last decade, pose several questions that the existing literature is only partially equipped to answer. This paper addresses this gap by charting the evolution of EU agencies through documentary analysis, reflecting on the meaning of this evolution for current trends in European integration as captured by the recent theorization on de novo bodies. Findings demonstrate that, far from being static entities, these bodies have constantly deepened their reach into the formation and application of migration policy, while posing no substantial erosion of the authority of the Commission. This incremental empowerment has created accountability issues from the beginning, many of which are still far from being resolved.

The article deals with the emergence and development of the theory of geographical determinism, as well as the essence of the main concepts of geographical determinism of the classical post-classical period. The theoretical foundations of geopolitics and the views of its main representatives are analyzed. It is stated that geographical determinism as a conceptual methodological approach does not become obsolete as society develops, but is modernized and modified. The features of modern geographical determinism (neodeterminism) are determined and some of its directions are considered: the concept of sustainable development, the concept of green energy, geographical ethics.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Art of War of the Arabs, and the Supposed Religious Fervour of the Arab Conquerors -- 2. Some Critical and Sociological Remarks on the Arab Conquest and the Theories Proposed on this -- 3. Observations on the Nature and Causes of the Arab Conquest -- 4. The Nomad as Empire Builder: A Comparison of the Arab and Mongol Conquests -- 5. The Arab Expansion: The Military Problem -- 6. The First Expansion of Islam: Factors of Thrust and Containment -- 7. The Conquest -- 8. Another Orientalist's Remarks Concerning the Pirenne Thesis -- 9. Initial Byzantine Reactions to the Arab Conquest -- 10. Only a Change of Masters? The Christians of Iran and the Muslim Conquest -- 11. An Apocalyptic Vision of Islamic History -- 12. The Legendary Futūḥ Literature -- 13. On the Relationship in the Caliphate between Central Power and the Provinces: The 'Ṣulḥ'-''Anwa' Traditions for Egypt and Iraq -- 14. Ibn Abdelḥakam and the Conquest of North Africa -- 15. The Birth of Islam in the Holy Land -- 16. Iṣfahān-Nihāwand. A Source-critical Study of Early Islamic Historiography -- 17. Centralized Authority and Military Autonomy in the Early Islamic Conquests -- 18. The Conquest of Khūzistān: A Historiographical Reassessment -- 19. Syriac Views of Emergent Islam -- Index

In this wide-ranging and insightful work, Soma Marik defends the legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, arguing against many of its detractors that the early communist regime was centrally concerned with both the liberation of women and the expansion of democracy. Soma Marik teaches Women's Studies and History at Jadavpur University

Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity (Max Koedijk and Neville Morley) -- Chapter 2. Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece (Michael Leese) -- Chapter 3. Inequality in the Peloponnesian War (Manu Dal Bo Manu Dal Borgo) -- Chapter 4. Framing Capital: Xenophon's Economic Model and Social System (Sven Günther) -- Chapter 5. Piketty's Dilemma: Taxation in Fourth Century Athens (Dorothea Rohde) -- Chapter 6. Status as a Brake and Accelerant on Wealth Inequality in the Late Roman Republic (Max Koedijk) -- Chapter 7. Rent Controls in the 40s BCE: housing costs, public intervention and inequality in the Roman World (Cristina Rosillo-López) -- Chapter 8. Capital in the Roman Empire: the scope for Pikettian dynamics in an ancient agrarian economy (Myles Lavan and John Weisweiler) -- Chapter 9. Money, Capital and Inequality in the Age of Augustus (Colin Elliott^ g? Evidence from Roman Egypt (Paul Kelly) -- Chapter 11. Wealth, Inequality and Political Culture in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor, 1st to 3rd Centuries CE (Arjan Zuiderhoek) -- Chapter 12. Oligarchy Ancient and Modern (David Singh Grewal) -- Chapter 13. Beyond Capital (Kim Bowes) -- Chapter 14. Piketty Among the Ancients: Capital and Beyond (Walter Scheidel) -- Chapter 15. Afterword: Capital from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Thomas Piketty).

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly overlooked by modern scholars examining the conflicts of these times. This volume addresses that omission by drawing together the work of experts from across the globe. The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study of the role of religion in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Aspects considered in depth will include: Greek writers on religion and war; declarations of war; fate and predestination, the sphagia and pre-battle sacrifices; omens, oracles and portents, trophies and dedications to cult centres; militarized deities; sacred truces and festivals; oaths and vows; religion & Greek military medicine

Examines the work of key figures and institutions in the classical tradition and the agenda they provide for contemporary sociology. It analyzes theories such as those of Karl Marx and Max Weber, and then covers debates on the family, religion, the city, social stratification and citizenship