Разведка стара, как мир. Ей служили многие тысячи людей, отважные, находчивые, хитрые. Одни служили ради денег, другие выполняли свой долг. В этой книге рассказывается о ста самых выдающихся разведчиках мира от древних времён до нынешнего времени. Читатель познакомится с жизнеописаниями Екатерины Медичи и Павла Судоплатова, Мата Хари и Кима Филби, Леопольда Треппера и Отто Скорцени, Рихарда Зорге и Яна Флеминга. Весь материал книги состоит из семи частей. В первой части "Организаторы разведслужб разных времён и народов" описан вклад в организацию разведки таких известных деятелей как Ганнибал, Екатерина Медичи, Аллан Пинкертон, Франц фон Папен, Артур Артузов, Ян Берзин, Лаврентий Берия, Павел Судоплатов, Вильгельм Канарис, Вальтер Шелленберг, Уильям Джозеф Донован, Аллен Даллес, Рейнхард Гелен и других, менее известных, исторических личностей. Во второй части "Разведка до начала XX века" рассмотрена деятельность Петра Толстого, Натана Хэйла, аббата Леклерка, Александра Чернышева и других разведчиков. Третья часть книги ("В годы Первой Мировой войны") повествует о разведывательной работе Лоуренса Аравийского, Берта Холла, Луизы Беттиньи, Маты Хари и ряда других. Четвертая часть "Для разведчиков нет паузы" посвящена периоду между Первой и Второй Мировыми войнами. Здесь рассмотрена деятельность Роберта Локкарта, Сиднея Рейли, Николая Крошко, Кима Филби, Василия Зарубина, Рихарда Зорге и других агентов разведки. В пятой части "Вторая Мировая" приведены сведения о разведывательной работе Анны Волковой, Леопольда Треппера, Николая Кузнецова, Отто Скорцени, Анны Морозовой, Жозефины Бейкер, Геворка Вартаняна, Клауса Фукса и некоторых других разведчиков. В период "холоднаой войны", которому посвящен шестой раздел книги, на "невидимом фронте" активно действовали Морис Коэн, Рудольф Абель, Фрэнсис Гэри Пауэрс, Джордж Блэйк, Гюнтер Гийом, Хайнц Фельфе, агент "Патрия", Дитер Герхардт и Олдрич Эймс. В последнем разделе книге автор описывает разведывательную деятельность лиц, которые занимались таковой одновременно с писательской работы, или которые стали писать по завершении своей профессиональной деятельности в качестве разведчиков. В списке разведчиков-писателей оказались Даниель Дефо, Пьер-Огюстен Бомарше, Шарль Люсьето, Уильям Сомерсет Моэм, Джон Ле Карре, Ян Флеминг, Грэм Грин и Зоя Воскресенская-Рыбкина.

Кл.слова:
розвідник -- історія шпіонажу -- розвідслужба

After accepting the kind offer of Jacques Le Goff and the publisher to compile the volume in the Making of Europe series dedicated to legal history, I found myself faced with an unenviable task. I shall attempt here to sketch the outline of a historical and juridical narrative that spreads over more than fifteen centuries and the entire European continent, whilst following this series’ habitual combination of unstinting intellectual rigour with an equally unstinting accessibility of discussion. I must therefore scrupulously avoid the comfortable recourse of closed scholarly debate, and instead make it a priority to communicate with those outside the limited circle of experts.

Кл.слова:
юриспруденція -- законодавство

This work provides a detailed history of infanticide in mainland Britain from 1600 to the modern era for the very first time. It examines continuity and change in the nature and characteristics of new-born child murder in Scotland, England and Wales over a chronology of more than four centuries. Alongside offering a comparative analysis of the types of individuals suspected of the offence, and a detailed appreciation of the different ways in which the crime was carried out, the work also exposes the broad nexus of causal factors which underpinned its enactment. In addition, the work investigates the evolving attitude in social, medical and legal contexts to the killing of young infants in Britain over a substantive time period. Thus the work as a whole is both compelling and innovative as it provides the reader with much more than a mere history of infanticide. The book also contributes much to our understanding of criminal history, gender history, legal history, medical history and social history in its analyses of the different contexts allied to the offence. It does this also through its exploration of the complex characteristics of accusers, commentators and perpetrators across cultures, borders and time.

Кл.слова:
інфантицид -- вбивства -- кримінал

Edward Whelan (1824 – December 10, 1867). Edward Whelan was one of Prince Edward Island's delegates to the Québec Conference and one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation. Edward Whelan was also a journalist, orator, and advocate for responsible government.

Кл.слова:
політик -- політика -- історія -- всесвітня історія

Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion. Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of citizenship as legal status, as rights, and as identity. The early optimism that a new India could be fashioned out of an unequal and diverse society led to a formally inclusive legal membership, an impulse to social and economic rights, and group-differentiated citizenship. Today, these policies to create a civic community of equals are losing support in a climate of social intolerance and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.

Кл.слова:
демократія -- постколоніалізм -- історія Індії -- громадянство

Vol. 345. - 1311 p.

O. J. Simpson. The Central Park jogger. Bensonhurst. William Kennedy Smith. Rodney King. These are more than crimes and criminals, more than court cases. They are cultural events that, for better or worse, gave concrete expression to latent social conflicts in American society. In High-Profile Crimes, Lynn Chancer explores how these cases became conflated with larger social causes on a collective level and how this phenomenon has affected the law, the media, and social movements. An astute and incisive chronicle of some of the most polarizing cases of the 1980s and 1990s, High-Profile Crimes shows that their landmark status results from the overlapping interaction of diverse participants. The merging of legal cases and social causes, Chancer argues, has wrought ambivalent effects on both social movements and the law. On the one hand, high-profile crimes offer important opportunities for emotional expression and raise awareness of social issues. But on the other hand, social problems cannot be resolved through the either/or determinations that are the goals of the legal system, creating frustration for those who look to the outcome of these cases for social progress. Guilt or innocence through the lens of the media leads to either defeat or victory for a social cause-a confounding situation that made the O. J. Simpson case, for example, unable to resolve the issues of domestic violence and police racism that it had come to symbolize. Based on nearly two hundred interviews, Chancer's discussions of the infamous Central Park jogger and Bensonhurst cases-as well as the rape trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson, the assault cases of Rodney King and Reginald Denny, and, finally, the O. J. Simpson murder trial-provide a convincing, multidimensional and innovative analysis of the most charged public dramas of the last two decades.

Кл.слова:
кримінал -- резонансний злочин

Книга представляет интерес для тех, кто интересуется работой разведывательных служб. Для того, кто читал книги В.Суворова "Аквариум" и "Армия взгляд изнутри" первые семь глав не представляют особого интереса. Они более широко раскрывают главу "Бермудский треугольник" из книги "Армия изнутри".

Кл.слова:
армія -- історія -- СРСР