Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France

Through a focused and systematic examination of medieval theologians, philosophers, and jurists, Andrew Latham explores how ideas about supreme political authority—sovereignty—firs...

The Cuban Revolutionpresents a mixed record of achievements and failures. In this comprehensive study of Cuban politics, Rhoda Rabkin examines the institutions, policies, and perfo...

This chapter examines the case of States that lost their sovereignty to a colonial power and then gained political independence in the twentieth century. Should they be classified ...

Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites ...

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet – and in today’s performances that...

This thorough narrative examines Emiliano Zapata's life, his role in Mexico's revolutionary movement, and his true motivations and beliefs. Emiliano Zapata is regarded as amon...

Iris Murdoch was one of the first philosophers in English to respond to Sartre’s early works. Initially a sympathetic interpreter, by the time of The Sovereignty of Good, she had t...

Under international laws states may establish sovereignty over a certain territory via the acquisition of an original or derivative title. In the first case their title is independ...