This ability of voluntarism to be ‘what states make of it’ allowed its embrace under the soft-left governments of Bill Clinton in the US and Tony Blair in the UK from the late 1990s (Anheier and Salamon, 1999:45; Rose, 1999:171). In 1997, the UN General Assembly declared 2001 to...
Domestic animal usage remains a key problem in understanding Japan’s premodern economy. Assumptions that religious and other cultural proscriptions limited the use of domesticated animals, and the consumption of meat in particular, from Late Antiquity until Westernisation in the nineteenth century re...
"Dawkins, as an educated man, should be well aware of the legacy of colonialism and of simple poverty…. When the Nobel Prize was founded in 1901, the vast majority of the world's Muslims lived in countries ruled by foreign powers, and for much of the 20th century Muslims did not have...