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The Interrogation of Joan of Arc

The transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial for heresy at Rouen in 1431 and the mins of her interrogation have lengthy been well-known as our greatest resource of data in regards to the Maid of Orleans. Historians normally view those criminal texts as an actual account of Joan's phrases and, by means of extension, her ideals.

Civil society in China : the legal framework from ancient times to the new reform era

This can be the definitive booklet at the felony and monetary framework for civil society businesses (CSOs) in China from earliest instances to the current day. Civil Society in China lines the ways that legislation and laws have formed civil society over the 5,000 years of China's historical past and appears at ways that social and fiscal background have affected the criminal adjustments that experience happened over the millennia.

Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism

Cash travels the fashionable global in conceal. It seems like a tradition of human alternate - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. yet its heritage finds that money is a truly assorted topic. it truly is an establishment engineered by means of political groups to mark and mobilize assets. As societies switch the way in which they bring cash, they modify the marketplace itself - in addition to the principles that constitution it, the politics and concepts that form it, and the advantages that move from it.

Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools

In attempting Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many traditional assumptions concerning the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. such a lot view it as an occasion pushed essentially by means of a clash among technology and faith. Countering this, Shapiro indicates the significance of timing: the Scopes trial happened at a very important second within the historical past of biology textbook publishing, schooling reform in Tennessee, and revolutionary university reform around the nation.