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Under the relevant rules of international law, treaties are interpreted in accordance with the ordinary meaning of the language they use, their object and purpose, and the intention of the drafters, but also in light of the subsequent practice of its parties. This subsequent practice can shed light on articles whose meaning is ambiguous and...

The Fluid Identities of Temples, Images, and PilgrimsJacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. Focusing on several important shared and contested pilgrimage places-Ground Zero and Devils Tower in the United States, Ayodhya and Bodhgaya in India, Karbala in Iraq-he poses a number of crucial...

From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman EmpireThis book introduces the reader to the state correspondences of centralized states and empires of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and analyses their role in ensuring the success and stability of these geographically extensive state systems.  Letters play...

With Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, Emma Gee offers a study of the Phaenomena of Aratus and addresses the poem's place within the unique development of Western cosmology....

Diversity, Dealignment, and DisillusionDespite a recent decline in voter turnout, British general elections are still the centrepiece of Britain&'s liberal democracy and their results make a real difference to every British citizen. They command strong media interest long before their dates are announced and even uneventful campaigns dominate the...

John Clare and Three Modern PoetsThis book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets--Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery--who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of lyric, &'Clare&'s lyric&', that emphatically grounds its truth...