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The fourteenth century is usually portrayed as a period of retrogression and disaster in European history, but for the transalpine state of Savoy it was a period of glory. During this time almost the entire region between Lombardy and Burgundy was brought under the control of Savoyard rulers. The "buffer state" created between France and Italy hind

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One of Italy's most important contemporary poets, Erba is approachable yet complex, distinctively and artfully combining traditional and informal means in his lyrics. This edition contains the comprehensive and representative selection of Erba's poetry. With a preface, introduction, and notes, it serves as an introduction to a modern Italian poet.

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Offers a comprehensive account of the Gross-Zagier formula on Shimura curves over real fields relates the heights of Heegner points on abelian varieties to the derivatives of L-series. This title begins with a conceptual formulation of the Gross-Zagier formula in terms of incoherent quaternion algebras and incoherent automorphic representations.

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Offers a comprehensive account of the Gross-Zagier formula on Shimura curves over real fields relates the heights of Heegner points on abelian varieties to the derivatives of L-series. This title begins with a conceptual formulation of the Gross-Zagier formula in terms of incoherent quaternion algebras and incoherent automorphic representations.

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In contrast to the prevailing view, this book reveals the educational revolution" of the 1500s to have grown from an earlier expansion of elementary and grammar education in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make

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By examining the growth of legal institutions and concepts in Russia from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, Daniel Kaiser shows how the process of legal change reflects a gradual transformation of the political life, social relations, and accepted values of a traditional society. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library us

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The Growth of World Law tells the story of the achievements that constitute an historic trend in the half century since the inauguration of the League of Nations, and documents transition from international law regulating conduct among states to world law for mankind: law transcending states and equally applicable to individuals, corporations, inte

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This book explores the economic impact of two major mid-nineteenth century reforms: the formation of the customs union between Austria and Hungary and the emancipation of the peasantry. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from t

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Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a detailed narrative, this title provides a history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins.

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Presenting interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, this title focuses on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice It offers a counterpoint to conventional arguments about rational choice.

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Presents a critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. The first chapter provides an introduction to experimental economics, with the remaining chapters providing surveys in areas of economics that have seen a concentration of experiments: public goods, coordination problems, bargaining, and others.

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Stepping beyond traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the view of victors, this work focuses on Morisco women. It argues that these women's lives offer insights on the experiences of Moriscos in general, and on how the politics of religion both empowers and oppresses.

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Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead This book tells the story of this putative miracle - why it happened, what it meant, and how we know about it.

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Most Americans know about the "Hare Krishnas" only from encounters in airports or from tales of their activities in the East Village and Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s. This entertaining and sensitive book deepens our knowledge by tracing the paths of those Western Hare Krishnas who eventually traveled to or lived in India. The charismatic leader of t

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The author argues that the Helsinki Final Act (1975) transformed East-West relations and provided a common platform around which opposition could mobilize. This text counters those who believe international norms do not affect domestic political change, and explains why and how they matter.

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One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive