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This volume examines the history and uses of bird skin collections and the explorers involved in their development. It covers all parts of the world, with particular focus on Europe, the USA and Africa.
"This volume formulates the hypothesis of a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume brings together several case studies of transition from an ancient to a new legal regime characterized by the positivization of the law. This was an effect of Western imperialism, but also of local elites' conviction that positive law was an efficient instrument of governance. The contributors emphasize the depth and scale of the positivist legal revolution and explore the phenomenon whether it was the outcome of either direct colonialism (Morocco, Egypt, India) or indigenous reformism (Ottoman empire, China, Japan). Contributors are: Léon Buskens, Jean-Philippe Dequen, Baudouin Dupret, Jean-Louis Halpérin, Béatrice Jaluzot, Gianluca Parolin, Avi Rubin, and Tzung-Mou Wu"--
Quasi tutti noi associamo la Cina a Marco Polo. La realtà è ben diversa poiché i rapporti fra i due Paesi nascono ai tempi dei Cesari e culminano in una serie di possedimenti nelle maggiori città della Cina, prima fra tutte l’odierna Tianjin dove è costruito un grande quartiere con caserme, ospedale, municipio, ufficio postale. Tutto ciò dal 1900 al 1947. Quella che era la colonia italiana è ancora esistente ed in ottimo stato di conservazione divenendo un centro commerciale internazionale.