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Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German...

Wayne Davis presents a highly original approach to the foundations of semantics, showing how the so-called 'expression' theory of meaning can handle names and other problematic cases of nondescriptive meaning. The fact that thoughts have parts ('ideas' or 'concepts') is fundamental: Davis argues that like other unstructured words, names mean what...

Open Remedies in Human Rights AdjudicationProviding the first empirical analysis of declarations of incompatibility under the UK Human Rights Act and their aftermath in the legislative process, this book details these 'open remedies' and draws comparisons with similar human rights mechanisms in the US, Canada, South Africa, and Australia....

A detailed study of the    Chronicle of Morea, an important and controversial historical narrative written in the late Middle Ages, telling the story of the founding and government of a Crusader State following the conquest by western invaders of the capital - Constantinople - and the provinces of the Byzantine Empire....

In mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into these evocative...

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