With this new Commentary, we honour Klaus Vogel (1930-2007) as a teacher and researcher of international tax law, but above all as the ingenious founder and main author of previous editions of this book ... As from the 4th edition, the time for exact translations of the German book has elapsed. Klaus decided to separate the English from the German version and asked us to strive for a new Commentary -- in the tradition of his previous English editions, but as an international endeavour with a higher degree of equidistance to national treaty practice and case law. A dream came true when a team of excellent scholars from six continental European jurisdictions united and began to exchange stimulating ideas and engaged in lively and intense debates ... The result is an almost entirely new book ..."--Preface.
This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of "humanity" from the sixteenth century up to the present. By taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the contributers focus on Europe as well as Europe's relations to other world regions in the process that shaped "humanity". They show how this emerging concept led to the overcoming of fundamental divisions in many spheres on the one hand and the formation of new hierarchies on the other.
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