Books in the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs series

Focuses on German political and juridical thought. This book contributes significantly to the history of European ideas, discussing parliamentarism and democracy, academic freedom and cultural criticism, political economy, sovereignty and rationality, and the inter-relationships between law, the constitution and political representation.

What do we learn if we look in parallel at the past of two distinct parts of the world? A novel and stimulating approach, this volume compares the central Sahel of West Africa to Northern Europe to develop our understanding of what life was like for our medieval predecessors.

This detailed analysis of the Qing law codes and of one hundred nineteenth-century case records from Baodi county challenges the view that the traditional Chinese legal system was inappropriate for civil cases and that mediation was preferred instead.