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Fault, responsibility, and administrative law in late Babylonian legal texts
\"Investigates the governmental administrative systems of the Late Babylonian period, drawing on S. N. Eisenstadt's model of historical bureaucratic empires to show that the governmental systems of this period developed an early form of administrative law\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts
This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period—specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires—and provides evidence demonstrating that these are among the first to have developed an early form of administrative law.
The present study revolves around a particular expression that, in its most common form, reads ḫīṭu ša šarri išaddad and can be translated as “he will be guilty (of an offense) against the king.” The authors analyze ninety-six documents, thirty-two of which have not been previously published, discussing each text in detail, including the syntax of this clause and its legal consequences, which involve the delegation of responsibility in an administrative context. Placing these documents in their historical and institutional contexts, and drawing from the theories of Max Weber and S. N. Eisenstadt, the authors aim to show that the administrative bureaucracy underlying these documents was a more complex, systematized, and rational system than has previously been recognized.
Accompanied by extensive indexes, as well as transcriptions and translations of each text analyzed here, this book breaks new ground in the study of ancient legal systems.
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Essential skills for historians : a practical guide to researching the past
This volume helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book begins with an examination of the historical discipline and its relevance to contemporary culture. It then guides readers through the steps of developing a research project, using two sample projects that illustrate the connections between core proficiencies such as critical thinking and effective time management, and professional proficiencies such as source criticism and historical interpretation.
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FROM RUEFUL TO RAUCOUS
Most obviously, we are in the presence of a clever, lively, often extremely funny writer with wide literary and cultural reference and extraordinary technical facility. Like Auden, whom Mr. [Gavin Ewart] credits as one of his masters (''The Gavin Ewart Show'' begins with a poem called ''Audenesque for an Initiation''), he is a virtuoso of forms; his work is a display case of inventiveness and adaptation, which includes numerous ''homages'' in the Poundian sense - Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Kipling, Philip Larkin and Ogden Nash are merely some of those whose manners he slyly or affectionately slips into. Also like Auden, Mr. Ewart is a master of the conversational mixed tone, an urbane blend of knowingness, satirical edge, wisdom and tolerance, which is an aspect of what he refers to as ''Auden's wonderful hybrid rose that crossed the comic with the tragic.'' ''Hurried Love'' is characteristic: Those who make hurried love don't do so from any lack of affection or because they despise their partner as a human being - what they're doing is just as sincere as a more formal wooing. She may have a train to catch; perhaps the room is theirs for one hour only or a mother is expected back or some interruption known, awaited - so the spur of the moment must be celebrated. Making love against time is really the occupation of all lovers and the clock-hands moving point a moral: not crude, but clever are those who grab what soon is gone for ever. Mr. Ewart's dexterity of form and tone enables him to encompass the shocking and violent (''The Gentle Sex'' chronicles a brutal Northern Ireland murder in the stanzas of Gerard Manley Hopkins's ''Wreck of the Deutschland'') as effortlessly as the farcical and frothy (''The Importance of Being Earnest'' retells Wilde's plot in limericks). His ear for dialect of all sorts, sharpened by a distaste for jargon, is exquisitely tuned, as in his update of Sir Thomas Wyatt's ''They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek,'' which begins: At this moment in time the chicks that went for me in a big way are opting out; as of now, it's an all-change situation.
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The MXF Book
Written by a top team of industry professionals, this must-have guide will introduce you to everything you'll need to know about MXF. The MXF Book introduces and explains the MXF standard and helps engineers write MXF applications. The book also explains the reasons behind many details of the specification documents.
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In 1903, Hubbard, a ''rash, impulsive, and inexperienced'' young writer, struck out into then uncharted Labrador in a canoe. He was accompanied by a 40-year-old backwoods novice named Dillon Wallace, and George Elson, a part-Indian Canadian guide. Hubbard hoped to find a remote tribe of Naskapi Indians, map the desolate country and produce a marketable story. From the start the men endured torturous hardships, which are effectively rendered in the authors' clean, rifle-shot prose: ''The flies dove madly for any seam in Hubbard's clothing. They flew and crawled into his pantlegs, shirtsleeves, collar, and, with special ferocity, into his ears and eyes. The hordes were so thick it was impossible not to inhale a few, whence they buzzed angrily inside his nose and bombarded his throat until he gagged or swallowed them.'' What's clear is that these people were extraordinary individuals. They had the rare privilege of penetrating a new world, and in telling their poignant stories, the authors explore the factors that lead to tragedy or triumph, despair or exultation. Coloring and dramatizing it all is the untamed magnificence of Labrador. The raging cascades, impenetrable swamps and trackless forests are described through the senses of those explorers who both loved and feared them. ''Those loons,'' noted Elson, ''had a call so sad it would fly through the air straight to your heart.''
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Law from the Tigris to the Tiber : the writings of Raymond Westbrook
Raymond Westbrook (1946–2009) was acknowledged by many as the world's foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out Westbrook's theory of a common legal tradition that spanned the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Israel and even to Greece and Rome. The second volume, Cuneiform and Biblical Sources, provides 28 articles that demonstrate Westbrook's unique method of legal analysis that he applied to the numerous texts he worked with as an Assyriologist and biblical scholar, from law codes to contracts to narratives. Each volume contains its own comprehensive bibliography, as well as subject, author, and text indexes. Together, they represent the life's work of one of the most important legal historians of our era.
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