...0 25 05 2023 This chapter will examine the aesthetics of the design, arrangement and siting of two post-war power stations: West Burton, which was built on the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire border between 1961 and 1969, and Didcot in Oxfordshire, which was completed in 1970. It will firstly...

... festivals were instruments of power and products of a civic culture. CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique Paris festivals Warburg Institute London Yates F Strong R Wölfflin H art Cicerone The Burckhardt 1855 Procession of the Magi Gozzoli 1459 Huizinga J imagination Ruehl M...

...Figure 1. The Peters World Map. This lecture discusses the British Empire and how it has generally been imagined and presented in history books and atlases. It draws attention to the connections over the centuries between size, national self-image, power, and British Empire. The lecture...

...This chapter concludes the volume. In normative terms, the Judiciary revisions imposed on CEE since 1989 (and now the West) exhibit an unmistakable pattern: they transfer political power away from majoritarian institutions to non-majoritarian ones, from elected officials to judges; exclude...

..., at the risk of being seen as devil’s advocate, to start by examining why some politicians and their linked circle of supporters, including policy makers and journalists have become irritated by and critical of judicial power. An understanding of this is important if we are to find a way forward that minimises...

... culture representation authority power collective action protest democracy state formation In 1852, following a public meeting, the women of Sheffield petitioned the UK House of Commons against a proposed plan to form militias. The petition bluntly informed MPs that ‘we have...

... centre and they assumed the role of capital for a new age. The chapter suggests that their establishment was significantly influenced by political power and that they negatively affected other towns. Alexander the Great Ammianus Marcellinus Apollodorus of Artemita Parthian Histories Appian on Seleucus...

... the means became available to turn rural surpluses into something like treasure. The movement of two separate economies towards convergence increased the potentiality of kingship. rural wealth England international trade coinage kingship prosperity power Bede Beowulf It is fairly clear...

...This chapter engages with debates in liberal political philosophy. It asserts that contemporary forms of liberalism have blinded us to alternative conceptions of liberty and seeks to recover a conception of international liberty before Kantian and Wilsonian accounts denounced the balance of power...

... to provide an explanation for their continued significance through the early medieval period. Particular emphasis is given in this discussion to the role of elite power, and its appropriation of the symbolic landscape. assembly assembly site and meeting place Brookes Stuart cemeteries Anglo Saxon...

... to project power over the surrounding landscape can be seen as a case of imperial ownership, over time, providing an unbreakable stability and anchoring a centre of power even through changed historical contexts. ecclesiastical context Fentress Elizabeth Goodson Caroline Italy reuse of sites villa...

... places and long-term political continuity in early medieval South-East Wales. It concludes by considering some of the contrasts between patterns of power in South-East Wales and Anglo-Saxon England. Book of Llandaf Seaman Andy Wales ‘barbarians’ Cyfraith Hywel Law of Hywel Hywel Dda King...

... (FBOs) focused on the prevention of AIDS through education. This case study shows that the contestations over sexuality, and the strategies employed to overcome these contestations, are based on conflicting power claims as well as shared concerns. It is argued that a narrow focus on the colliding...

... organizations, occasional (national) players, (national) traditionalists, EU players, and multilevel players. The results confirm the implications of the ‘capacity’ hypothesis: in general, the changes in the institutional opportunity structure have not led to a major reshuffling of the domestic power structure...

...Race, ethnicity, and gender played an important role in the complex relationship between export agriculture, labour, and state power in Chiapas during the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1914). This case study of tropical plantation development and major regional study of modern Mexico analyzes...

...This volume brings together a series of case studies of spatial configurations of power among the early medieval societies of Europe. The geographical range extends from Ireland to Kosovo and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean world and brings together quite different scholarly traditions...

..., judicial power, and the legitimacy of human rights law. The UK example is employed to illustrate these outcomes in practice, and also to highlight the potential pitfalls of extensive dialogue with a supranational court. Department of Constitutional Affairs DCA dialogue model Human Rights Act 1998...

... of ideas and goods. Finally, they advocated the establishment of a new international order, based on the recovery of the balance of power destroyed by the Napoleonic wars, and the introduction of a new international legal system and supranational institutions. Like the Carbonari, Mazzini supported the idea...

...This chapter examines the role of the monarchy in the history of the British constitution during the twentieth century, investigating how the constitutional power enjoyed by the sovereign gave way to constitutional influence and describing the changes the Parliament made to the law relevant...

...This chapter examines the stages of development of administrative law in Great Britain during the twentieth century, describing the different attitudes towards the exercise of state power and its legal control over the century. It explains that the century began with a concern for procedural...