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In this famous survey of premarital courting customs in early America, Stiles traces the origin, progress, and decline of bundling in America. He proves that bundling, a pleasant custom brought to America by the Puritans, was common at various times in many lands as far back as ancient Rome and that it arose out of real need rather than licentiousness. Controversial at the time, this book was banned in Boston when it was first published

Ovid's rededication of the Fasti to Germanicus, and its possible connection with Germanicus' Latin 'translation' of Aratus' Phaenomena, is worth further consideration. This thorny issue is important to our understanding of Germanicus' presentation in Ovid's poetry. If a connection can be made, it adds a more personal dimension to his panegyrical passages, and to his choice of Germanicus as a potential patron, even if this was not in itself Ovid's primary reason for composing his calendrical, astrological confection. Furthermore, our understanding of Germanicus' reputation during his lifetime would be altered significantly, particularly in terms of his political and poetic identity, independent of his role in the schematic tableaux of the domus Augusta. The astrological elements of Ovid's treatment of Germanicus in his exilic poetry may have been included partly to draw attention to Ovid's consciousness of Germanicus' apparent personal interest in astrology, as well as being part of a wider trend of Callimachean astral panegyric which was applied to the entire domus.

Do countries keep their promises to the international community? When they sign treaties or learn about new expectations, do they take them seriously and implement them? Since we already know intuitively that not all countries do, the next question - and the topic of this book - is: who complies? By considering a wide range of different rules - each precise enough to allow one to measure state compliance - and a variety of methods, we hope to answer this question once and for all. Including a systematic analysis of 8 different countries selected for the variety of regime type, international en.

Theories of international law compliance have blossomed in recent years and many have been subjected to rigorous testing. In this exercise, we argue that theories based on managerial models are particularly promising in explaining why certain states comply more readily with international rules governing the safety of international shipping. Specifically, we test a wide range of variables drawn from interest-driven theories, as well as society-driven theories of compliance, and compare their explanatory power to governance-driven theories to explain anti-piracy policies and safety aboard ship. While many governance-driven variables correlate with both outcomes, they explain ship safety policies particularly well.