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The Meiji Restoration as a Constitutional Revolution
This chapter considers developments in Japan’s parliamentary and constitutional systems from the beginning of the Meiji period in 1868. It assesses...
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Lancaster House Independence Constitutional Negotiations, 1960–1963
Kenya’s constitutional negotiations for the critical 1960–1963 period that produced the independence constitution (December 12, 1963) involved three...
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The Afterlife of the Constitution of the Irish Free State: Constitutional Echoes in South Asia
This chapter looks at the influence of the Irish Free State Constitution outside the borders of the State. It examines the way in which...
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Constitutional Anti-Catholicism and Britishness
This chapter explores the relics of constitutional anti-Catholicism—focusing on the forms of anti-Catholicism visible within the British and colonial...
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Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and “Native Law”
This chapter details how the foundational legal order for the colonies emerged from a German constitutional conflict, which led to the creation of a...
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From Indian History to the History of Civilisations
The final decade of Panikkar’s life was a period of intense intellectual revision, in the context of growing concerns for Indian unity and foreign...
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An Agenda-Setting History
Following the survey of the book and the main historical stages of the history of the human sciences in the modern university outlined in the preface...
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Reconsidering Early Modern Jewry: Reflections on the Methodology of Legal History
This article seeks to clarify the methodology of Jewish legal history and illustrate how the historical examination of Jewish law serves as a...
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History of Taiwan’s Political Changes
This chapter undertakes a comprehensive analysis of major social and political events in Taiwan spanning from the 1940s to 2002 and entails a...
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History, Memory, and the Populist Right in Germany from the Second World War to the Present Day
The right-wing populistspopulism assembled in the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have been actively pursuing a memory and history politic that...
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“Leave It for Dogs and Horses”: Italy’s Constitutional Debate on Stirpe and Razza (1946–1947)
In 1947, as the Constituent Assembly in Italy was going to include the word “race” among the principles of nondiscrimination, the Union of...
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The Legal History of Religion in Ireland
This book is not a general history of the lived experience of religion in Ireland. Its unique contribution is that it is a legal history of religion...
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Mentors of Scientific History
Footnotes provided historians with a pedagogical space where they taught how to apply the inductive method and cultivate the persona. This enactment...
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Introduction: Toward a Global History of Communist Women
The Introduction argues that we need to understand communist women’s lives, contributions, struggles, and world views from a global, a...
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Concepts and Viewpoints in Early Modern Iberian Imperial History and the Globalization of Historiographies
This chapter reviews some of the terms and concepts used in recent decades in the study of the Iberian empires, particularly composite imperial...
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Strengthening Voices: Constitutional Commissions and Popular Opinion and Politics in Africa
This chapter shows how a study of the constitutional commissions of the second Macmillan government provides us with valuable information on how the...
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‘The Supreme Legislative Authority Speaking as the Mouthpiece of the People’: Constituent Power and the Irish Free State
This chapter argues that constituent power—the power to create a constitution that is usually considered to be vested in ‘the people’—is an...
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Situating the Plague of Cyprian Within the Broader Outlines of Roman History
We begin this concluding section with a review of the potential place of our study of the Plague of Cyprian within the broader context of the more...
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Epilogue: Crisis, History, Politics
The Epilogue offers an overview of the main developments between Greece’s entry into the European Community in 1981 and the recent crisis in the...