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Madame de Stael's celebrity as a novelist, literary critic, and theorist made her the most famous woman in Europe in her day, on a par with her greatest foe, Napoleon. Yet almost all of her bestselling writings were the product of exile, to which she was repeatedly condemned for her political daring. Angelica Goodden explores the paradoxes of de...

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Between 1760 and 1800, the people of the United States created a new nation, based on the idea that all people have the right to govern themselves. This concise book recreates the experiences that led to the Revolution; the experience of war; and the post-war creation of a new political society....

Using an institutional and empirical approach, this book analyses the role of formal rules (laws and regulations) and informal rules (norms, practices, and shared beliefs) in the Japanese economy.  Through in-depth studies of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, financial regulation, organized crime, and markets for...

The practice of yoga has become hugely popular in the West. Most people assume (and many claim) that 'postural' yoga -- characterized by the familiar, demanding, physical poses -- is an ancient Indian tradition. But in fact, as Mark Singleton shows, this type of yoga is quite a recent development, with its beginnings traceable to the middle of the...