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Book SynopsisThe collectionâs editor writes:Southeast Asian history and historiography would be greatly handicapped if the writings of Nicholas Tarling were removed from the increasingly expanding literature. The reading list has increased several folds since the early 1950s when Southeast Asian history was beginning to emerge as a serious area of scholarly research and writing. Nonetheless the works of the pioneering batch of scholars have remained relevant more than half a century since their publications. These books and articles have attained âclassicâ status, never failing to be listed in studentsâ ârequired reading listsâ.Peter Nicholas Tarling (b. 1931), currently emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, figured among those whose works possessed a long shelflife. By mid-2009, the indefatigable Tarling had authored or edited close to forty books and more than ninety scholarly journal articles. By critically scrutinizing and analysing British imperial designs on the region, Tarling has contributed significantly to the historiography of Southeast Asia as Great Britain was a major player, if not the dalang (puppeteer) of events and developments on the geopolitical stage.Tarlingâs corpus of works, specifically his papers published in scholarly journals, is an essential guide to all those seeking to understand the politics and history of Southeast Asia.

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Book SynopsisEven in the twenty-first century, the contemporary Chinese prison camp remains a more obscure and poorly understood realm than the Forbidden City of old. Apolitical service organizations such as the International Red Cross have routinely been denied access to PRC prison camps and prison camp inmates who have smuggled out frank, unofficial accounts of their incarceration have only been published overseas, and often had their sentences extended as a result. Presenting extensive analysis of literary and biographical accounts, this illuminating book provides a window to the affective side and emotional tenor of day-to-day life in modern day labour camps. With contributions from well-known and respected scholars, the book covers the contentious issues of prison economics, prisoner 'remolding' and post-traumatic stress disorder. Drawing parallels with Soviet, Nazi and Japanese prison camp practice, this outstanding new book will be invaluable to those interested in how the human miTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Repercussions of Thought Remolding and Forced Labor on Chinese Writers: Introduction2.Zhang Xianliang as Author and Hero: A Study of His Record of My Emotional Life 3. Traumatic "Remolding" and Its Ethical Implications in Three of Zhang Xianliang’s Novels 4. Labor Camp Fiction as Conversion Literature: Zhang Xianliang and Ooka Shohei5. Resisting the Regime of Remolding 6. Expressing the 'Inexpressible': Pain and Suffering in Wumingshi’s Hongsha [Red Sharks] 7. Profit and Loss in China's Contemporary Prison SystemSinograph Glossary of Selected Names and Terms Sinograph Glossary of Selected Titles Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the Asia Pacific region is one of the worldâs largest by population size, it has long been known for having the least developed regional and national institutional mechanisms for protecting human rights, particularly compared to the well-developed systems in Europe, the Americas, and increasingly in Africa. Asia has the least uptake of human rights treaties of any region in the world, and serious human rights violations are documented as occurring in numerous countries in the region. Asia has also presented conceptual challenges to the universality of international human rights, for instance through arguments about 'Asian values' (the collective over the individual, the economic over the political, compromise over adjudication) being inconsistent with western notions of rights. At the same time, innovative human rights practices and protections have been developed in some jurisdictions, and increasingly at the transnational level. There is increasing scholarly and practitioner interest in human rights in the Asia and Pacific regions, driven in part by recent efforts by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to enhance human rights protections in those sub-regions. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to the literature by bringing together the leading scholars in the field who have written across the gamut of thematic human rights issues in Asia and the Pacific. A particular strength of the collection is its inclusion of significant Asian and Pacific authors, who are sometimes under-represented in the mainstream legal debates. The work will be of interest to a scholarly and student audience in law (international, comparative Asian, public, constitutional, and human rights), as well as to readers in international relations, political science, Asian studies, and human rights.

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Book SynopsisFrom the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had a larger influence on the emergence of play in social movement activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past thirty years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation and queer activism, and the ways in which queer notions of play have influenced a broad range of social movements. Trade Review "Queer is so much more than an identity, its an ethos, a practice, an economic system, an-other world-view. Play; that is wildness! With his book Queer Political Performance and Protest Ben Shepard offers the rare book that seamlessly mixes movement history, social history and arts history with a narrative dimension developing a compelling tale of how the creative impulse drives social-change movements. Playfully the book mixes an academic approach with personal reminiscences and interviews to share an aesthetic history that should be read by anyone interested in understanding how the impulse to live outrageously changes worlds." - Robert Herbst, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest "With a huge heart and enormous amount of research, Benjamin Shepard articulates the transformation of the long tradition of street camp in response to the political and artistic movements provoked by the AIDS crisis. By applying the word 'play' to outsider aesthetics of rebellion he theorizes the ingenuity required for people without rights to force positive change. Using fascinating interviews of foundational community members, he pieces together one coherent understanding of the inventive tactics queer people use to survive, express, make love, have sex, create, and resist - in the face of the twin monsters of oppression and normalcy." -Sarah Schulman, College of Staten Island, author of The Child"I have been waiting for this book. I knew there was a connection between the queer movement and the alterglobalization movement but could only find the threads. For me it was an intuition. This is the book that tells the history." - Amory Starr, author of Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements against Globalization"Taking a unique perspective on social movements, this book creatively explores the interconnections among various forms of play, social activism, and community organizing. It is an innovative study of the meaning of playful spirit and joyful performance in gay liberation and queer movements. This is an important book that is informative, imaginative, and inspired. It's the sociological imagination at play!" - Peter M. Nardi, author of Gay Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities"Ben Shepard is a marvelous writer, worth reading for that alone. But, above all, this work is a literary playbook for social movements, essential for organizers." - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Roots of Resistance "This wonderful book tells the remarkable story of the rise of the theatrical and audacious queer movement in the United States. More than that, Shepard probes the experiences of that movement for insights into the significance of theater and what he calls 'play' in social movements generally. A fascinating read that is theoretically illuminating as well." -Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, and author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America"Shepard chronicles decades of queer activism with a focus, refreshingly, on play -- from the Stonewall girls dancing in a kickline while a rebellion that shook the world was sparked on the sidewalk behind them, to Act Up veterans dressing as clowns during a government agency’s hearings in an effort to bring attention to the state’s buffoonish response to the raging AIDS epidemic, to a coalition of activists and sex workers storming New York’s Disney store and singing politically charged renditions of classic Disney tunes to protest the forced desexualization of a newly sanitized Times Square. His invaluable book explores the politics of pleasure and the pleasures of politics, the outrageous joys that underlie so much of the often dead-serious movement for queer liberation. The revolution never sounded like more fun." -Wayne Hoffman, author of Hard: A Novel and co-editor of Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism."Benjamin Shepard’s brilliant work on the role of play in the queer political movement is creative and ingenious. He shows how 'play' acts as a safety valve to contain and refresh the movement. This type of play is deadly serious in the face of the denial of human and constitutional rights. Shepard lets the historical facts and ethnographic data tell the story from the early days of AIDS, through ACT-UP, and into the harm reduction theories of HIV-AIDS treatment. A refreshing approach to methodology in these days where the concern seems to be discovering another type of triangulation or wringing our hands about the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative analysis. There is a fascinating story here which illuminates, informs, and actually show us how to structure social movements and improve community organizing." - Michael J. Smith, Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work and Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare, Graduate Center of the City University of New York."Benjamin Shepard’s Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure and Social Movement is that rare book that brings together the highest level of academic scholarship with a deeply original vision of social justice that are deftly wedding together with startling research and a authorial voice that is both entertaining and completely assured. Combining performance theory with a history of social activism Shepard’s vision here is not only unique but vital to our intellectual and emotional understanding of how politics works." -Michael Bronski, author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility and The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom"Exploding with the possibilities of direct action community-building experiments over the past four decades, this book takes us on a tour of the messiness and splendor of queer worldmaking. From the Gay Liberation Front to the Church Ladies for Choice, ACT UP to Circus Amok -- from serenading prisoners to bathhouse cruising, street fights to syringe exchange, office takeovers to cabaret -- Benjamin Shepard reminds us to embrace the liberatory potential of the queer imagination. Get ready to play!" - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation "Queer is so much more than an identity, it's an ethos, a practice, an economic system, an-other world-view. Play; that is wildness! With his book Queer Political Performance and Protest Ben Shepard offers the rare book that seamlessly mixes movement history, social history and arts history with a narrative dimension developing a compelling tale of how the creative impulse drives social-change movements. Playfully the book mixes an academic approach with personal reminiscences and interviews to share an aesthetic history that should be read by anyone interested in understanding how the impulse to live outrageously changes worlds." - Robby Herbst, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest "With a huge heart and enormous amount of research, Benjamin Shepard articulates the transformation of the long tradition of street camp in response to the political and artistic movements provoked by the AIDS crisis. By applying the word 'play' to outsider aesthetics of rebellion he theorizes the ingenuity required for people without rights to force positive change. Using fascinating interviews of foundational community members, he pieces together one coherent understanding of the inventive tactics queer people use to survive, express, make love, have sex, create, and resist - in the face of the twin monsters of oppression and normalcy." -Sarah Schulman, College of Staten Island, author of The Child"I have been waiting for this book. I knew there was a connection between the queer movement and the alterglobalization movement but could only find the threads. For me it was an intuition. This is the book that tells the history." - Amory Starr, author of Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements against Globalization"Taking a unique perspective on social movements, this book creatively explores the interconnections among various forms of play, social activism, and community organizing. It is an innovative study of the meaning of playful spirit and joyful performance in gay liberation and queer movements. This is an important book that is informative, imaginative, and inspired. It's the sociological imagination at play!" - Peter M. Nardi, author of Gay Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities"Ben Shepard is a marvelous writer, worth reading for that alone. But, above all, this work is a literary playbook for social movements, essential for organizers." - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Roots of Resistance "This wonderful book tells the remarkable story of the rise of the theatrical and audacious queer movement in the United States. More than that, Shepard probes the experiences of that movement for insights into the significance of theater and what he calls 'play' in social movements generally. A fascinating read that is theoretically illuminating as well." -Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, and author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America"Shepard chronicles decades of queer activism with a focus, refreshingly, on play -- from the Stonewall girls dancing in a kickline while a rebellion that shook the world was sparked on the sidewalk behind them, to Act Up veterans dressing as clowns during a government agency’s hearings in an effort to bring attention to the state’s buffoonish response to the raging AIDS epidemic, to a coalition of activists and sex workers storming New York’s Disney store and singing politically charged renditions of classic Disney tunes to protest the forced desexualization of a newly sanitized Times Square. His invaluable book explores the politics of pleasure and the pleasures of politics, the outrageous joys that underlie so much of the often dead-serious movement for queer liberation. The revolution never sounded like more fun." -Wayne Hoffman, author of Hard: A Novel and co-editor of Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism."Benjamin Shepard’s brilliant work on the role of play in the queer political movement is creative and ingenious. He shows how 'play' acts as a safety valve to contain and refresh the movement. This type of play is deadly serious in the face of the denial of human and constitutional rights. Shepard lets the historical facts and ethnographic data tell the story from the early days of AIDS, through ACT-UP, and into the harm reduction theories of HIV-AIDS treatment. A refreshing approach to methodology in these days where the concern seems to be discovering another type of triangulation or wringing our hands about the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative analysis. There is a fascinating story here which illuminates, informs, and actually show us how to structure social movements and improve community organizing." - Michael J. Smith, Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work and Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare, Graduate Center of the City University of New York."Benjamin’s Shepard’s Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure and Social Movement is that rare book that brings together the highest level of academic scholarship with a deeply original vision of social justice that are deftly wedding together with startling research and a authorial voice that is both entertaining and completely assured. Combining performance theory with a history of social activism Shepard’s vision here is not only unique but vital to our intellectual and emotional understanding of how politics works." -Michael Bronski, author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility and The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom"Ben Shepard's new book, Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement, is a groundbreaking study of the powerful role the ludic played, and continues to play, in queer organizing for social change...this work adds a needed conceptual perspective of play as a unifying but complex through-line in the history of queer social movement organizing. This text is an invaluable read for scholars of social movement history and queer studies. "-- L. M. Bogad, Liminalities, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2009 "In the end, Shepard composed an appealing monograph...I recommend this book to be adopted by libraries that have holdings for sex research, social work, and community organization." -Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, Volume 7, Number 1 (2010)'Shepard offers a series of case studies, some from which the joy of the protest bursts forth from the page.'-Shamira Meghani in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2011Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Pleasure is a Resource: From Drag Marches to Global Justice Movements. 1. Play-Acting and World Making: From Berlin to the Black Cat 2. Play as Pleasure: Gay Liberation and Movements for Sexual Freedom 3. Play as Resilience: Eros vs. Thanatos in ACT UP 4.Playing by Different Rules: DIY Experiments in Harm Reduction 5. Play and Panic in the Neoliberal City: The AIDS Prevention Action League and SexPanic! 6. Activism as Circus: From Street Carnival to Direct Action. Conclusion: Reconsidering and Situating Play: From ACT UP to the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. Appendix: Methodological Notes on the Study of Play and Pleasure in Social Movements. Interview Guide. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisOver a decade ago, Jorge CastaÃeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American leftâs fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina wavered for years between leftism and American-supported neoliberalism, but in recent years the left has experienced a tremendous resurgence throughout the region. However, the left is not unified, and as CastaÃeda, Morales, and their contributors show, it has followed two distinct paths â a more cosmopolitan style leftism, exemplified by Brazil and Chile, and a left fuelled by populist nationalism that has clear debts to PerÃn or CÃrdenas, and is most evident in Venezuela, Mexicoâs PRD, Bolivia, and Argentina. Leftovers comprehensively updates this very important story, with country and area specialists contributing.Trade Review"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - CHOICE, April 2009 Vol. 46 No. 08"This book will surely not be the last word written on the new Latin American left. But it offers several important contributions for those who want to understand the most recent set of surprises and puzzles that Latin America has offered the scholarly community." - Matthew R. Cleary, Syracuse University, USATable of ContentsPart 1: Revisting the Utopia 1. The Current State of the Utopia Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales 2. Have Latin Americans Turned Left? Marco A. Morales Part 2: What Has the Left Done Right (or Wrong)? 3. Ecumenism and Diversity: A Tale of Economic and Trade Policies of the New Left Diana Tussie and Pablo Heidrich 4. Social Policy José Merino 5. Nationalism Jorge G. Castañeda, Marco A. Morales and Patricio Navia Part 3: Case Studies 6. The New and the Old in Brazil’s PT Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Sofia Checa 7. The Successful Chilean Left: Neo-Liberal and Socialist Patricio Navia 8. Uruguay, a Role Model for the Left? David Altman, Juan Pablo Luna and Rosana Castiglioni 9. Venezuela: The Left Turning Further Left? Raul Sánchez-Urribarri 10. The Left in Peru: Wagons that Lack an Engine Martin Tanaka 11. The Evolution of the Mexican Left Kathleen Bruhn Part 4: Prognosis 12. Where Do We Go Now? Jorge G. Castañeda

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Book SynopsisTo students of Indian Culture interested in tracing the influence of India in the institutions of her Cultural Colonies, as also to Anthropologists, the Religious Festivals and Court Ceremonies, which still remain the most characteristic features of Siamese social life, offer an important field for research. Yet the subject has been little touched by scholars. Therefore a pioneer work of this nature can only be regarded as an attempt to lay a foundation for further studies, and the author hopes that other studentsâparticularly those Siamese possessed of an extensive knowledge of their own literature and customsâmay be encouraged to endeavour to fill those gaps which remain in our knowledge of most of the Siamese State Ceremonies. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPART I. INTRODUCTORY, PART II. THE CHIEF FACTORS IN SIAMESE STATE CEREMONIAL, PART I I I . CEREMONIES OF INSTALLATION, PART IV. CEREMONIES CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH KINGSHIP, PART V. CEREMONIES RELATING TO AGRICULTURE, PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS STATE CEREMONIES, General Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1889, this facsimile edition makes available an important historical work on Japanese industry. It is a comprehensive survey of the state of Japanese industry at the end of the nineteenth century, covering agriculture and forestry, mining, the arts, textiles, paper, trade and commerce, including the foreign trade of Japan since the opening of the country by Commodore Perry in 1854.Table of ContentsFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book SynopsisIn the light of the Israeli government's plan to halt Ethiopian immigration, this book provides original research into the transformation of the Falashas to Ethiopian Jews during the twentieth century which made them eligible for immigration into Israel, adding a new dimension to the question of 'Who is a Jew', namely the case of the 'manufactured Jew'.Table of Contents1. Introduction - The Discovery of the Falashas 2. The Era of the Missionaries 3. The Arrival of Jacques Faitlovitch 4. Faitlovitch's Programmes for the Falashas 5. The Impact of Faitlovitch's Programmes for and on Behalf of the Falashas 6. The Impact of the Italian Occupation of Ethiopia on the Falashas 7. The Campaign for Change 8. Conclusion - A Century of Gross Interference Bibliography Archival Sources Oral Sources

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1987. This book is based on an analysis of relevant literature and on the results of field studies carried out over a number of years in Sub-Saharan Africa. These studies were part of a research programme on agricultural commercialization and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, undertaken by the Department of Geography of Developing Countries, University of Utrecht.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 The Macro View; Chapter 1 The Concept of Agricultural Commercialization and its Role in Development Thinking; Chapter 2 Agricultural Commercialization: the Period Before Independence; Chapter 3 Agricultural Commercialization: the Period After Independence; Chapter 4 Agricultural Production Performance: Long-Term Trends and Present Patterns; Chapter 5 The Aims, the Methods and the Means: Types of Agricultural Development Policy in Selected Countries; Part II The Case Studies; Chapter 6 Spontaneous Commercialization in the Lowveld of Swaziland; Chapter 7 Development From Above: Tenant Farming in Southern Sudan; Chapter 8 Commercialization of Livestock and Differentiation of People in Ngamiland, Botswana; Chapter 9 Commercialization in a Precarious Environment: Cash Cropping in San District, Mali; Chapter 10 Rice Production in Northern Ivory Coast: Divergent Aims and Conflicting Interests; Chapter 11 Commercialization in Kisumu District, Kenya: the Spatial Mosaic; Epilogue: Africa’s Agricultural Crisis: Precepts and Prospects;

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1987. A simple record of the author's travels in the Middle East over a period of twenty years, it is intended faithfully to reflect the region as a catalyst to the development of his own life from carefree youth to maturity and marriage.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 Last pasha at the Golden Hotel; Chapter 2 Hobo on the run; Chapter 3 Bad tempers in the Hoggar; Chapter 4 The feminine battle of Algiers; Chapter 5 Sharing salt in Saudi Arabia; Chapter 6 Oh Arabia – my new-found-land; Chapter 7 Saudi Arabia – the gloamings; Chapter 8 A noisy night in Beirut; Chapter 9 Chewing over affairs of state; Chapter 10 Through the singing valleys of Yemen; Chapter 11 Beirut’s death ring tightens; Chapter 12 Entering the tempest; Chapter 13 The tidy wives of the Gulf; Chapter 14 A belle époque in crumbling Cairo; Chapter 15 Shoot-out on the beach; Chapter 16 No riots, please, we’re British;

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1987. The cartographic history of Hawaii began with the arrival of explorer and chartmaker Captain James Cook in 1778. Between then and the mid-19th century, visitors to Hawaii produced a rich assortment of charts amid maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of Hawaii during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. A major segment of The Early Mapping of Hawaii it examines the contribution of American missionaries in mapping Hawaii. Mostly produced at the seminary school at Lahainaluna, Maui, these maps introduced geographical education into the Hawaiian school system. Lahainaluna graduate S. P. Kalama produced a landmark map of the islands in 1838, one of the most significant maps in Hawaiian history. Nearly one hundred maps, views, portraits, and illustrations are reproduced here. Included are many

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990. Although one of Jules Verne's lesser known novels, as part of his 'Extraordinary Voyages' collection, there is still much to enjoy about 'The Floating Island'*. Written in 1895 towards the end of his career this is an adventure novel with elements of sci-fi. A French string quartet traveling from San Francisco to their next engagement in San Diego, is diverted to Standard Island. Standard Island is an immense man-made island designed to travel the waters of the Pacific Ocean. The wealth of residents of the island can only be measured in millions. The quartet is hired to play a number of concerts for the residents during their tour of the islands (Sandwich, Cook, Society, etc.) of the South Pacific. The island seems an idyllic paradise; however, it is an island divided in two. The left half's population is led by Jem Tankerdon and is known as the Larboardites. The right half's population is led by Nat Coverley and is known as the Starboardites. Despite the obstacles encountered on their journey, the two parties have a disagreement that threatens the future of the island itself.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1995. The volume is divided into four sections: The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra; the section also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. Next is the he foundations of the Buddhist Tantras are discussed and the Tantric presentation of divinity; the preparation of disciples and the meaning of initiation; symbolism of the mandala-palace Tantric ritual and the twilight language. The third section explores the Tantric teachings of the inner Zodiac and the fivefold ritual symbolism of passion. The bibliographical research contains an analysis of the Tantric section of the Kanjur exegesis and a selected Western Bibliography of the Buddhist Tantras with comments.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introductions: perfection of insight - Buddhist Tantra within Mahayana Buddhism; early literary history of the Buddhist Tantras - Buddhist genesis and the Tantric tradition; analogical thinking in the Buddhist Tantras; the nature of Buddhist esotericism. Part 2 Foundations of the Buddhist Tantras: divinity according to Buddhist Tantras; preparation of disciples, the meaning of initiation; offering materials; symbolism of the Mandala-Palace; Tantric ritual and symbolism of its attainments; twilight language and a Tantric song. Part 3 Special studies: the nine orifices of the body; Tantric teachings about the inner zodiac; female energy and symbolism in the Buddhist Tantras; the five-fold ritual symbolism of passion; received teachings of Tibet and analysis of the Tantric canon.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1991. Gulf Crisis begins with a psychological look at Saddem Hussein and his decisions surrounding the invasion into Kuwait before the start of the Gulf War in May 1990. Ghazi Algosaibi was the Cabinet Minister of Saudi Arabia during the Crisis and therefore writes with a unique insight into the complex political relationships, at Arab leaders' reactions and debates around the initial Iraqi-Iranian War which proceeded the Gulf War. Also including the reactions of the Gulf Media, this book gives an insider's view of the Crisis and exploration of the previously unknown internal events happening in the Middle East.Table of ContentsThe decision; the storm; the coalition and the counter-coalition; the propaganda battle; the heirs' expectations; the unattractive "bedouin" and the ugly "Arab"; an American conspiracy or a new world orders?; the future - dialogue or explosion.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1995. This title presents the proceedings of The Second International Conference on Range Management in the Arabian Gulf, 1990. The objectives of the Conference were to: evaluate progress made following the First Conference; exchange information on range management development; review advances in applicable technologies; discuss potential strategies for range enhancement and assemble pertinent recommendations for enactment. As such, these proceedings will serve as a reference base for researchers, professors, lecturers, and students alike, both at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.Table of ContentsAcknowledgment, Preface, Conference Recommendations, KEYNOTE ADDRESSES - OVERVIEW CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT, RANGELAND INVENTORIES AND EVALUATION, RANGE PLANTS AND FORAGE CROPS POTENTIAL AND PRODUCTION, ANIMAL PRODUCTION FROM RANGELANDS, TECHNOLOGICAL RANGE IMPROVEMENTS

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Book SynopsisAinu Creed and Cult was the first detailed account of the Ainu to be written by either a westerner or a Japanese. In this book, Munro's object in writing it was not only to give an account of his careful observations of the people and their customs, but also to demonstrate to the world at large that the Ainu had an independent culture that deserved respect and preservation.Table of ContentsFUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; THE KAMUI; THE INAU; EFFIGIES; HEARTH AND HOME; HOUSE-BUILDING RITES; THE HOUSE-WARMING CEREMONY (Chisei Nomi); THE FEAST OF ALL SOULS OR FALLING TEARS (Shinurapa); EXORCISM (Uepotara); VARIOUS RITES; DEATH AND BURIAL; SOCIAL ORGANISATION; APPENDIX I: Invocations to a Kamui for Help in Cases of Severe Illness; APPENDIX II: The Bear Ceremony.

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Book SynopsisThis manuscript in its original thesis form was published by Field Research Projects of Florida in 1974. It had a very limited circulation and was basically in the form of a mimeographed edition. The version now published here represents the work for the first time as a proper publication in book form and has been revised and edited and is appropriately produced as a regular archaeological book. Fundamentally this was and remains the seminal work on the subject and was the first in its filed. It is an integral work of scholarship of permanent value. It is a work written in its own time and no attempt has been made to retrospectively interfere or change the nature of the text or its conclusions but to publish it for what it is. The work has ushered in a series of field excavations and analyses that expand upon it and amplify the information already given in the work itself. Thus one could say that this original work has had a seminal and indeed catalytic impact on the archaeology ofTable of ContentsIntroduction I The Physical Environment and History of the Area II Ecological Adaptations of Historic Times Versus Palaeoenvironmental Possibilities III History of the Investigation IV The Stone Age Settlements: The Early Regional Tradition V The Ubaid Settlements: A Process of Interaction VI The Tarut Island Settlement and the Gulf Third Millennium BC Trade Networks VII Aspects of Subsistence, Settlement and Cultural Patterns: A Theoretical Overview VIII The Analytical Perspective: A Cultural Model of Interpretation IX Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis is a detailed analysis of Islamic law as it pertains to issues which touch upon a Muslim's daily life. It covers issues such as: the term Nizam (system); the economic system and development; social relations; ownership; education; insurance; and monetary systems.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2004. When the Ottoman Empire undertook reforms to re-centralise and westernise in the first half of the 19th century, the first task was to introduce a new taxation system. Such a system necessitated the inspection of the population -- For this reason, just after the declaration of Tanzimat, taxpayers in the empire and their income were investigated. This volume examines temettuat defterlen belonging to five cities from Balkan to Anatolia and examines various socio-economic aspects of the period of change.Table of ContentsPart 1 The Ottoman State and Societies In Change; Temettuat Registers as a Resource about Ottoman Social and Economic Life, GÜRAN Tevfik; Chapter 1 Ottoman Income Survey (1840-1846), TAKAMATSU Yoichi; Chapter 2 Samokov: An Ottoman Balkan City in the Age of Reforms, IANEVA Svetla; Chapter 3 Tatarpazarc???: Socio-economic Condition of Muslim Urban Residents, Mahir AYDIN; Chapter 4 Bal?kesir: A Rural City in Social Economic Change, EGAWA Hikari; Chapter 5 Güzelhisar-? Ayd?n: Portrait of a West Anatolian City, Arzu TERZ?; Chapter 6 Erzurum: A Border City of East Anatolia, Haydar ÇORUH; conc The Ottoman Temettuat Registers: Significant Results from a Failed Venture, HAYASHI Kayoko;

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2008. This encyclopaedic book details the sexual practices and perversions of peoples and cultures throughout the work. Topics include: love and love charms, rental marriages, the bridal night of a princess, the sexual lexicon, chastity and the feeling of shame, onanism and artificial instruments, public prostitution and the sex act.Table of ContentsChapter One - Love and Love Charms, Chapter Two - Marriage in Islam: The Koran and Polygamy, Chapter Three - The Wives of the Prophet Mohammed, Chapter Four - Rights and Duties of the Married Mussulmen, Chapter Five - Divorce and Widows, Chapter Six - Adultery, Chapter Seven - Marriages and Weddings of the Sultans, Chapter Eight - The Power of Women in the Sultan's Harem, Chapter Nine - Wedding Customs of the People in Turkey, Chapter Ten - Physical Aspects of the Bride and Groom, Chapter Eleven - Sexual Lexicon, Chapter Twelve - Menstruation, Chapter Thirteen - Chastity and the Feeling of Shame, Chapter Fourteen - Wickedness, Chapter Fifteen - Public Prostitution, Chapter Sixteen - The Sex Act, Chapter Seventeen - The Kind of Sex Acts, Chapter Eighteen - Pederasty and Sodomy, Chapter Nineteen - Eunuchs and Sexual Perversions, Chapter Twenty - Onanism and Artificial Instruments, Chapter Twenty-One - Venereal Diseases, Chapter Twenty-Two - Impotence, Chapter Twenty-Three - Fertility and Sterility, Chapter Twenty-Four - Abortions, Chapter Twenty-Five - Midwives, Chapter Twenty-Six - Customs During Pregnancy, Chapter Twenty-Seven - Delivery, Chapter Twenty-Eight - Confinement, Chapter Twenty-Nine - Mother's Milk and Wet-Nurses, Chapter Thirty - The Child, Chapter Thirty-One - Boys and Girls, Chapter Thirty-Two - Miscarriages and the Naming of Children, Chapter Thirty-Three - Circumcision

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to religions in America since the Civil War, with the main focus on the twentieth century.Trade ReviewWonderful. What I find most impressive is the clear-cut way Hulsether integrates religion, politics, and culture - no small task and a rarity in overviews of American religious history. It is comprehensive but also offers compelling case studies that illustrate the peculiar dynamics of twentieth century America, integrating economics, race relations, popular culture and other critical social forces into the story. This book is quite an achievement and will immediately stand out as a culturally informed, politically astute alternative guide to religion in contemporary America. -- Gary Laderman, Professor of American Religious History and Culture, Department of Religion, Emory University Wonderful. What I find most impressive is the clear-cut way Hulsether integrates religion, politics, and culture - no small task and a rarity in overviews of American religious history. It is comprehensive but also offers compelling case studies that illustrate the peculiar dynamics of twentieth century America, integrating economics, race relations, popular culture and other critical social forces into the story. This book is quite an achievement and will immediately stand out as a culturally informed, politically astute alternative guide to religion in contemporary America.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mapping US Religion; Religion in American Studies and Cultural Studies; Strategies for Dealing with Religious Diversity; 1 Religion in North America Before the Twentieth Century; Native Americans Meet Europeans; From Red and White to Red, White, and Black; Key Players in European-American Religion During the Colonial Era; Expanding the Cast of Key Players; 2 Changes in the Religious Landscape in the Early Twentieth Century; New Key Players on the Landscape: Jews and Roman Catholics; Emergent Developments in the Protestant Mainstream; Three Final Groups, Plus Multiple Maps for Multiple Interactions of Our Key Players; 3 Religion and Social Conflict in the Early Twentieth Century; Religion, Wealth, and the Working Class; Religion and the Politics of Gender; Debates about War, Peace, and Foreign Relations; 4 Cultural Aspects of Religion in the Early Twentieth Century; Cultural Dimensions of Immigrant Religious Enclaves; Religion and Popular Culture; Battles for the Soul of Protestantism; 5 Shifts in the Religious Landscape From World War II to the Present; A Changing Map of Dazzling Religious Diversity; Collapse and Restructuring in the Old Protestant Establishment; Trends Among Other Key Players; 6 Religion and Evolving Social Conflicts from World War to the Present; Faces of African-American Religion and Politics; More on the Culture War; Thinking about the End of the World with Conservative Protestants; 7 Cultural Aspects of Religion from World War II to the Present; Creationism and the Emergence of a Postmodern Evangelicalism; Debates about Accepting Gay and Lesbian People; Religion in an Age of Consumerism; Faces of the Buddhist Sangha in America; Race and Religious Tradition in an Era of Cultural Hybridity; Mainstream Culture Warriors Respond to Rising Pluralism; Conclusion: Consensus, Pluralism, and Hegemony in US Religion; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis Reader provides the student with a selection of key readings from this debate, covering a range of areas including myth, imperialism, the cultural perspective, Marxist interpretation and feminist attitudes.Trade Reviewthis collection is indispensible for any reading list dealing even marginally with Orientalism. For students this new reader will be most helpful because it supplies a good selection of readings which will enable students to examine the elements of the modern theory of anti-Orientalism and some of the main criticisms of that theory. The division between Orientalists and anti-Orientalists is as complete as that which formerly obtained between Marxists and Anti-Marxists. It is a compliment to Dr Macfie that he has produced a reader of such balance that it could well be found tolerable by both groups. The arrival of a 'reader', a collection of 'texts' on the subject, seems to draw a line under the fierce debates of the sixties to eighties. The topic becomes a subject for textual study; Alexander Macfie's book provides a painless visit of the battlefields...orientalism is a good topic for a reader since the literature is diverse and dispersed, and Macfie has done a good job. There can be little doubt that a reader covering this debate [on Orientalism] would be of enormous value to a whole variety of courses in several disciplines in many Universities across the English-speaking world, as well as in Europe. -- Professor John Mackenzie, Lancaster University this collection is indispensible for any reading list dealing even marginally with Orientalism. For students this new reader will be most helpful because it supplies a good selection of readings which will enable students to examine the elements of the modern theory of anti-Orientalism and some of the main criticisms of that theory. The division between Orientalists and anti-Orientalists is as complete as that which formerly obtained between Marxists and Anti-Marxists. It is a compliment to Dr Macfie that he has produced a reader of such balance that it could well be found tolerable by both groups. The arrival of a 'reader', a collection of 'texts' on the subject, seems to draw a line under the fierce debates of the sixties to eighties. The topic becomes a subject for textual study; Alexander Macfie's book provides a painless visit of the battlefields...orientalism is a good topic for a reader since the literature is diverse and dispersed, and Macfie has done a good job. There can be little doubt that a reader covering this debate [on Orientalism] would be of enormous value to a whole variety of courses in several disciplines in many Universities across the English-speaking world, as well as in Europe.Table of ContentsPart 1: Foundations of a Myth 1. The Indian Form of Government, James Mill; 2. Gorgeous Edifices, G. W. F. Hegel; 3. The British Rule in India, Karl Marx; Part 2: The Rise of Oriental Studies 4. Les Commencements de l'Orientalisme, Pierre Martino; 5. The Asiatic Society of Calcutta, Raymond Schwab; Part 3: The Foundations of a Critique 6. Phenomenon and Thing-in-itself, F. Nietzsche; 7. On Hegemony and Direct Rule, A. Gramsci; 8. Truth and Power, M. Foucault; Part 4: Orientalism in Crisis 9. Orientalism in Crisis, Anouar Abdel-Malek; 10. English-speaking Orientalism, A. L. Tibawi; Part 5: An Apology for Orientalism 11. Apology for Orientalism, F. Gabrieli; Part 6: An Elaborate Account 12. Shattered Myths, E. Said; 13. Arabs, Islam and the Dogmas of the West, E. Said; 14. My Thesis, E. Said; 15. On Flaubert, E. Said; 16. Latent and Manifest Orientalism, E. Said; Part 7: A Marxist Interpretation 17. Marx and the End of Orientalism, B. S. Turner; Part 8: An American Response 18. Three Arab Critiques of Orientalism, D. P. Little; Part 9: Further Critiques 19. Second Critique of English-speaking Orientalists, A. L. Tibawi; 20. On the Orientalists Again, A. L. Tibawi; Part 10: Said's Orientalism: Reviews and Review Articles 21. Orientalism at the Service of Imperialism, S. Schaar; 22. Hermeneutics versus History, D. Kopf; 23. Enough Said, M. Richardson; 24. Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, Sadik Jalal Al-Azm; 25. Orientalism: A Black Perspective, Ernest J. Wilson III; 26. The Question of Orientalism, Bernard Lewis; Part 11: Qualifications and Elaboration 27. "Gorgeous East" versus "Land of Regrets", E. J. Moore-Gilbert; 28. Orientalist Constructions of India, R. Inden; 29. Between Orientalism and Historicism, Aijaz Ahmad; 30. Humanising the Arabs, B. Melman; 31. Indology and the Case of Germany, S. Pollock; 32. Turkish Embassy Letter, L. Lowe; 33. History, Theory and the Arts, J. MacKenzie; Part 12: Orientalism and Feminism 34. Orientalism, Hinduism and Feminism, R. King; Part 13: Orientalism Reconsidered 35. Orientalism Reconsidered, E. Said; Part 14: Beyond Orientalism 36. Exit from Orientalism, F. Dallmayr; 37. From Orientalism to Global Sociology, B. S. Turner.

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Book SynopsisThis study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition.Trade ReviewA rich and compelling account of the social and cultural processes that underlie the dynamics of fertility in contemporary Nigeria! Rich, important and insightful!Readers with interests in anthropology, demography or Africa all have much to learn from this fine book. -- Daniel Jordan Smith, Department of Anthropology, Brown University A rich and compelling account of the social and cultural processes that underlie the dynamics of fertility in contemporary Nigeria! Rich, important and insightful!Readers with interests in anthropology, demography or Africa all have much to learn from this fine book.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of figures, tables; Part I. Anthropological and demographic concerns; Chapter 1. Introduction: Paradoxes of progress; Chapter 2. Historical and anthropological aspects of population: Centripetal and centrifugal tendencies; Chapter 3. Demographic dimensions of Itapa-Ekiti; Part II. Bodies, persons, and social relations; Chapter 4. Women's bodies, virginity, and marriage; Chapter 5. Child-fostering, blood ties, and parenthood; Chapter 6. Burial, rebirth, and relations with the dead; Part III. Population, development, and the state; Chapter 7. Personal hygiene, public sanitation, and western education; Chapter 8. Houses, descendants, and land tenure; Chapter 9. Counting bodies: Censuses, vital registration, and the creation of Ekiti State; Chapter 10: Conclusion: Local development, politics, and two funerals; Bibliography; Appendices; Appendix I. Research methods and materials; Appendix II. Important dates in Itapa and Nigerian history; Appendix III. Contraception ever used by Itapa-Ekiti women, based on 1992, 1997 surveys; Index.

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Book SynopsisRichard Wall Memorial Award 2012 - Finalist. What key concerns are reflected in documentaries produced in and about the United States? How have documentaries engaged with competing visions of US history, culture, politics, and national identity? This book examines how documentary films have contributed to the American public sphere - creating a kind of public space, serving as sites for community-building, public expression, and social innovation. Geiger focuses on how documentaries have been significant in forming ideas of the nation, both as an imagined space and a real place. Moving from the dawn of cinema to the present day, this is the first full-length study to focus on the extensive range and history of American non-fiction filmmaking. Combining comprehensive overviews with in-depth case studies, Geiger maps American documentary''s intricate histories, examining the impact of pre- and early cinema, travelogues, the avant-garde, 1930s social documentary, propaganda, direct cinema, postmodernism, and ''new'' documentary. Offering detailed close analyses and fresh insights, this book provides students and scholars with a stimulating guide to American documentary, reminding us of its important place in cinema history.Trade ReviewIn American Documentary Film, Jeffrey Geiger examines the role of documentary film in mobilizing, promoting, and even suppressing central myths of U.S. national identity. His brilliant close readings illuminate the relationship between the rhetorical, technical and stylistic elements of specific films and a broader set of contexts and concerns. Rigorous yet accessible, this elegantly-written book will be of great value to the general reader and the specialist alike, and it will transform the way we consider the history, theory, and practice of documentary filmmaking. -- Valerie Smith, Princeton University In American Documentary Film, Jeffrey Geiger examines the role of documentary film in mobilizing, promoting, and even suppressing central myths of U.S. national identity. His brilliant close readings illuminate the relationship between the rhetorical, technical and stylistic elements of specific films and a broader set of contexts and concerns. Rigorous yet accessible, this elegantly-written book will be of great value to the general reader and the specialist alike, and it will transform the way we consider the history, theory, and practice of documentary filmmaking.Table of Contents1. Novelties, Spectacles, and the Documentary Impulse - Case Studies: Blacksmithing Scene (1893), Buffalo Dance (1894), and Mess Call (1896); 2. Virtual Travels and the Tourist Gaze - Case Study: Nanook of the North (1922); 3. Serious Play: Documentary and the Early Avant-garde - Case Study: Manhatta (1921); 4. Activism and Advocacy: The Depression Era - Case Study: The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936); 5. Idea-Weapons: Documentary Propaganda - Case Study: The Memphis Belle (1944); 6. 'Uncontrolled' Situations: Direct Cinema - Case Study: Grey Gardens (1975); 7. Relative Truths: Documentary and Postmodernity - Case Study: Tongues Untied (1989); 8. Media Wars: Documentary Dispersion - Case Study: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

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Book SynopsisAmerican Culture in the 1990s focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium. Lodged between the fall of Communism and the outbreak of the War on Terror, the 1990s was witness to America''s expanding influence across the world but also a period of anxiety and social conflict. National traumas such as the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the impeachment of President Clinton lend an apocalyptic air to the decade, but the book looks beyond this to a wider context to identify new voices emerging in the nation.This is one of the first attempts to bring together developments taking place across a range of different fields: from Microsoft to the Internet, from blank fiction to gangsta rap, from abject art to new independent cinema, and from postfeminism to posthumanism. Students of American culture and general readers will find this a lively and illuminating introduction to a complex and immensely varied decade.Table of ContentsChronology of 1990s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Fiction and Poetry; 2. Music and Radio; 3. Film and Television; 4. Art and Architechture; 5. Digital and Post-human Cultures; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1990s; Chronology of events and key works; Bibliography on 1990s American Culture; Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.Trade ReviewBoth thoughtful and useful, Susan Currell's American Culture in the 1920s combines summatory accounts of intellectual, political, cultural and aesthetic trends with illuminating case-studies that range from close readings of particular texts through genre surveys and exhibition reviews to coverage of key or typical careers. Currell's version of the decade turns on a record of pervasive tensions between tradition and innovation, and is particularly strong on the passage of intellectual trends into popular and political theories conditioning the daily cultural life of the decade. I can think of few other introductions that so aptly catch the degree to which modernity is necessarily unfinished, unfinishable and conflicted. -- Professor Richard Godden, University of California, Irvine This is a most reliable and carefully researched book. I shall certainly add it to the reading list for my own course on America in the 1920s; indeed, I think it belongs right at the top of the list. -- Faye Hammil, University of Strathclyde Journal of American Studies Both thoughtful and useful, Susan Currell's American Culture in the 1920s combines summatory accounts of intellectual, political, cultural and aesthetic trends with illuminating case-studies that range from close readings of particular texts through genre surveys and exhibition reviews to coverage of key or typical careers. Currell's version of the decade turns on a record of pervasive tensions between tradition and innovation, and is particularly strong on the passage of intellectual trends into popular and political theories conditioning the daily cultural life of the decade. I can think of few other introductions that so aptly catch the degree to which modernity is necessarily unfinished, unfinishable and conflicted. This is a most reliable and carefully researched book. I shall certainly add it to the reading list for my own course on America in the 1920s; indeed, I think it belongs right at the top of the list.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Fiction, Poetry and Drama; 2. Music and Performance; 3. Film and Radio; 4. Art and Design; 5. Consumption and Leisure; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1920s.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1910s; American Culture; Introduction; 1. Film and Vaudeville; 2. Visual Art and Photography; 3. Fiction and Poetry; 4. Dance, Theatre, and Music; 5. The Great War and American Culture; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society.Trade ReviewMark Whalan's richly multifaceted account of the 1910s offers vivid new perspectives on a decade generally overshadowed by its successor. An excellent contribution to an excellent series. -- Peter Nicholls, New York University Mark Whalan's richly multifaceted account of the 1910s offers vivid new perspectives on a decade generally overshadowed by its successor. An excellent contribution to an excellent series.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1910s; American Culture; Introduction; 1. Film and Vaudeville; 2. Visual Art and Photography; 3. Fiction and Poetry; 4. Dance, Theatre, and Music; 5. The Great War and American Culture; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe shift of economic gravity towards East Asia requires a critical examination of law's role in the Asian Century. This volume explores the diverse scholarly perspectives on law's role in the economic rise of East Asia and moves from general debates, such as whether law enjoys primacy over culture, state intervention or free markets in East Asian capitalism, to specific case studies looking at the nature of law in East Asian negotiations, contracts, trade policy and corporate governance. The collection of articles exposes the clefts and cleavages in the scholarly literature explaining law's form, function and future in the Asian Century.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: mapping the contours of East Asian commercial law for the Asian century; Part I General Issues: Rationale: What is the Importance of East Asian Commercial Law Both Now and in the Future?: The future of law in a global economy, Richard P. Appelbaum. Rule of Law: Does the Rule of Law Matter in East Asian Commercial Law?: Property rights, collateral, creditor rights, and insolvency in East Asia, Douglas W. Arner, Charles D. Booth, Paul Lejot and Berry F.C. Hsu; Economic development and the rights hypothesis: the China problem, Donald C. Clarke; Testing the limits to the ’rule of law’: commercial regulation in Vietnam, John Gillespie. Global and Local Influences; To What Extent is Asian Commercial Law a Mix of the Global and the Local?: Legal transplantation and local knowledge: corporate governance in Malaysia, Mohammad Rizal Salim; Living with the IMF: a new approach to corporate governance and regulation of financial institutions in Korea, Hwa-Jin Kim; Legal transplants through private contracting: codes of vendor conduct in global supply chains as an example, Li-Wen Lin. Part II Case Studies: Negotiations: Cultivating guanxi as a foreign investor strategy, John A. Pearce II and Richard B. Robinson Jr; Caveats for cross-border negotiators, James K. Sebenius. Commercial transactions: The norms and incentive structures of relational contracting in Vietnam - two surveys, Quan H. Nguyen; Rethinking relationship-specific investments: subcontracting in the Japanese automobile industry, Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer. Commercial Dispute Resolution: Aggressive legalism: the rules of the WTO and Japan’s emerging trade strategy, Saadia M. Pekkanen; No more negotiated deals?: settlement of trade and investment disputes in East Asia, Junji Nakagawa. Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: The establishment and development of the Chinese economic legal system in the past 60 years, Chen Su; Berle and Means, corporate governance and the Chinese fami

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Book SynopsisAs the worldâs political and economic landscape changes in response to the rise of Asian countries such as China, so Asian influences on the global legal order will become more pronounced. Many countries in the region, such as Japan and South Korea, influence the development of international law in various ways, either individually or collectively through multinational organisations such as ASEAN. This collection of published work by leading East Asian scholars covers Asian perspectives concerning various issues in international law, ranging from general perspectives to particular themes such as international economic law, international human rights law, international ocean law, international criminal law, international security law and international dispute settlement. For the first time it provides a comprehensive picture of how and why East Asian countries participate in international law making, as well as comply with international law in their state practices. In so doing, theTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I International Law in General: From Asian Perspectives: Jurisdictional immunities in contemporary international law from Asian perspectives, Sompong Sucharitkul; The social science of international law: its evolution in Japan, Yoshiro Matsui. Part II International Economic Law: Financial liberalization and regulation in East Asia: lessons from financial crises and the Chinese experience of controlled liberalization, Jiangyu Wang; Reforms in FDI policy and the investment climate in Vietnam, Tien Quang Tran. Part III International Human Rights Law: Human rights and sexual abuse: the impact of international human rights law on Japan, Keisuke Iida; The international covenant on civil and political rights: one covenant, two Chinese texts?, Sun Shiyan. Part IV International Environmental Law: Transnational cooperation for managing the control of environmental disputes in East Asia, Zou Keyuan. Part V International Ocean Law: The Chinese traditional maritime boundary line in the South China Sea and its legal consequences for the resolution of the dispute over the Spratly Islands, Zou Keyuan; Indonesia and the South China Sea initiative, Hasjim Djalal; Vietnam and the code of conduct for the South China Sea, Nguyen Hong Thao. Part VI International Criminal Law: Implementation of international criminal law: reconsideration from the perspective of Japanese law, Toshiyuki Tanaka; China and the International Criminal Court: current situation, Bing Bing Jia. Part VII International Security Law: Arms control law in crisis? A study of the North Korean nuclear issue, Masahiko Asada; Establishment of a de jure peace on the Korean peninsula: inter-Korean peace treaty-making under international law, Eric Yong-Joong Lee. Part VIII International Dispute Settlement: The experience of Asia with international adjudication, Hisashi Owada; The uses of Pacific settlement techniques in Malaysia-Singapore relations, C.L. Lim; Name index.

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Book SynopsisHoused in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.E.B. Du Bois's contributions to sociology and critical social theory: from Du Bois as inventor of sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology, to Du Bois as innovator of sociology of gender and culture; and, finally, from Du Bois as groundbreaking sociologist of education and critical criminologist, to Du Bois as dialectical critic of the disciplinary decadence of sociology and the American academy. What this volume offers that is wholly innovative and distinctive is that it brings together the watershed work of classical and contemporary, male and female, black and white, national and international sociologists and social theorists with the express intent of creating critical inventories and thoroughly interrogating what has been included, and what has been excluded, when we come to W.E.B. Du Bois's contributions tTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: On Du Bois’s epistemic innovations and sociology’s intellectual amnesia; Part I Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology: Exploring Issues of Intellectual Historical Amnesia and Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois: a case study in the sociology of sociological negation, Dan S. Green and Edwin D. Driver; Note on a forgotten Black sociologist: W.E.B. Du Bois and the sociological profession, Elliot Rudwick; W.E.B. Du Bois between worlds: Berlin, empirical social research, and the race question, Barrington S. Edwards; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University studies on the negro, Elliot M. Rudwick; W.E.B. Du Bois's and the Atlanta University studies on the negro, revisited, Earl Wright II. Part II Du Bois and the Early Development of Urban and Rural Sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and the Sociology of the Souls of Black Farming Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta sociological laboratory, Earl Wright II; The early social science of W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert W. Williams; W.E.B. Du Bois' urban sociology: reflections on African American quality of life in Philadelphia, Robert A. Wortham; W.E.B. Du Bois's sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and social science, Tufkufu Zuberi. Part III Du Bois and the Sociology of Race: the Sociology of the Souls of Black and White (Among Other) Folk: A classic from the other side of the veil; Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, Charles Lemert; The souls of White folk; W.E.B. Du Bois's critique of White supremacy and contributions to critical White studies, Reiland Rabaka; Four Du Boisian contributions to critical race theory, John Shuford; Remembering the gift: W.E.B. Du Bois on the unconscious and economic operations of racism, Shannon Sullivan. Part IV Du Bois and the Sociology of Gender: 'The Damnation of Women' and the Sociology of the Souls of Black Female Folk: Race, class, and gender in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois: an exploratory study, Betsy Lucal; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and the concepts

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Book SynopsisCovering China''s history, political economy, culture, military issues, and the U. S.-China relationship, this book presents a fascinating and multifaceted look at a country which is likely to be a major factor in U. S. foreign policy in the twenty-first century. It includes more than 28 articles on China published in The National Interest since 1995. The first in a series of readers drawn from The National Interest, the volume brings together in one place the analysis and insight of some of the leading scholars and practitioners concerned with the Sino-American relationship.China has been and is a particularly difficult subject for Americans, observes Owen Harries in his introduction. This volume tackles the hard questions. Will successful market reforms lead to the emergence of a prosperous liberal democracy or simply extend the life span of an authoritarian regime? Contributors address (and disagree about) whether Chinese culture and society can adapt to the norms of the free marketTable of ContentsIntroduction, Part Is China, Asia, and America 1. Living With China 2. Remembering the Future 3. Asia in the 21s t Century: Power Politics Alive and Well 4. China: What Engagement Should Mean 5. Why Our Hardliners Are Wrong 6. China: Getting the Questions Right 7. The World Shakes China 8. The Revolution Reversed: China's Islamist Problem 9. Small Mercies: China and America after 9/11 Part 2: Political Economy 10. The Short March: China's Road to Democracy 11. China's Democratic Prospects—A Dissenting View 12. Undemocratic Capitalism: China and the Limits of Economism 13. Unsettled Succession: China's Critical Moment Part 3: Culture and Society 4. Two Cheers for Asian Values 5. Another Way to Skin a Cat: The Spirit of Capitalism and the Confucian Ethic 6. China and the Quest for Dignity 7. The New Mandarins 8. Asia Tomorrow, Gray and Male 9. City of Bad Omens Part 4: Military-Security Issues 20. The Stability of Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait 21. China's Hollow Military 22. China's Military: A Second Opinion 23. China's Military: Take 3 24. Balance, Not Containment: A Geopolitical Take from Canberra Part 5: History and Historiography 25. Communist Crowd Control 26. China and the Historians 27. Mao in History 28. China Studies in McCarthy's Shadow: A Personal Memoir

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Book SynopsisThe volatility of Muslim and Middle Eastern politics has made these interrelated topics an overriding preoccupation of world and especially U.S. politics. Perhaps no region of the world has ever so dominated the American public discourse as the Middle East does today. As Daniel Pipes shows, this results mainly, but not exclusively, from the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the ensuing war on terrorism. Other sources of trouble include militant Islam, Muslims in the West, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq situation, relations with Saudi Arabia, the price of oil and gas, and U.S. policy toward all these issues. These are the central themes of the roughly one hundred essays in Daniel Pipes' Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics.As Pipes notes, the Islamist war against America preceded the events of 9/11. Nevertheless, response to the earlier attacks had been inconsistent and somewhat nonchalant. Pipes shows how the State Department's annual report on Patterns of GlobTable of ContentsPart 1: War On Terrorism; 1: Chapter 1: Before 9/11; 2: Chapter 2: American Responses Post-9/11; 3: Chapter 3: Militant Islam Post-9/11; Part 2: Islam And Muslims; 4: Chapter 4: Writ Large; 5: Chapter 5: In The West; 6: Chapter 6: Presenting And Representing Islam In America Think Like A Muslim; Part 3: The Arab-Israeli And Other Conflicts; 7: Chapter 7: The Oslo Diplomacy; 8: Chapter 8: The Oslo War; 9: Chapter 9: Syria Vs. Israel; 10: Chapter 10: Iraq Vs. All; Part 4: American Views; 11: Chapter 11: Making U.S. Policy; 12: Chapter 12: The Academy Interprets

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Book SynopsisShow parents how to help their children break free of the artificial limitations placed upon them by societyâs gender and cultural expectations! This book presents both theoretical and practical ideas for integrating gender and culture into parenting. Unlike other books on the subject, this one examines interventions and activities, and suggests discussion topics that provide children with the skills to become critical consumers and thinkers. Youâll learn to help children discover and celebrate who they are, while infusing the message that they should notice and challenge exaggerated stereotypes of gender and ethnicity. From the editor: If therapists can coach parents in helping to inoculate their children, beginning at early ages, against the negative effects of gender socialization, perhaps the work of developing equal relationships in their friendships and intimate relationships will be less taxing as they grow and mature. Additionally, as children are taughtTable of Contents Introduction: Parenting for the Next Gender-a-tion: Integrating Diversity in the Raising of Children: Celebrating Not Exaggerating Our Differences The Transmission of Values to School-Age and Young Adult Offspring: Race and Gender Differences in Parenting The Parenting Practices of Dual-Earner Couples Who Successfully Balance Family and Work Parents as Sexuality Educators: The Role of Family Therapists in Coaching Parents Gender Messages in Parenting Magazines: A Content Analysis INTERVIEWS Interview with Jackson Katz, EdD Interview with Mary Pipher Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. With a new AfterwordDrawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.

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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the causes of the increase in insurgent violence in Balochistan and explores the relations between the national government of Pakistan and the province of Balochistan. Based on historical analysis, the book argues that the national government of Pakistan and the leaders of Balochistan both use a standard narrative when dealing with each other. According to the Baloch narrative, Islamabad exploits Balochistanâs natural resources without giving Balochistan its due share and has never accepted and granted Balochistan equal rights. The centreâs narrative emphasizes the tribal character of the Baloch society and suggests that the Baloch elite hinder Balochistanâs integration with the federation. This book demonstrates that both narratives are inherently flawed and presents a precipitous picture of the problem of insurgent violence. It also shows that the Baloch leadership is divided along tribal lines and lacks a unified voice and proposes thatTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Baloch and Balochistan through History; 2 Balochistan during the British Rule in India; 3 Independence of Pakistan, Accession of Kalat and Centre-Balochistan Relations (1947-69); 4 Centre-Balochistan Relations (1969-1977); 5 Balochistan and the Peace Interval (1977-1999); 6 The Return of Insurgency in Balochistan; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data. General SurveyThoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by experts on the region and covering both continent-wide and sub-regional issues. Country SurveysIndividual chapters on every country incorporating:essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economies an extensive statistical survey of economic indicators a full directory containing names, addresses and contact details for key areas such as the government, diplomatic representation, the media, finance, trade and industry, and defence a useful bibliography, providing sources for further research. Regional InformationDetailed information on regional organizations; commodities; research institutes; Table of ContentsPART ONE General SurveyEconomic Trends in Africa South of the SaharaDONALD L. SPARKS Beyond Françafrique—The State of Relations Between France and Africa TONY CHAFER A Century of Development: Policy and Process in Sub-Saharan Africa MICHAEL JENNINGSAn Analysis of the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan AfricaLEIGHANN SPENCER PART TWO Country Surveys Essays on geography, history, and economy, as well as statistical surveys, directories and bibliographies for each country:ANGOLARecent History BRAD SAFARIK Economy BRAD SAFARIK BENINRecent History PAUL MELLYEconomy PAUL MELLY BOTSWANARecent History CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY BURKINA FASORecent History BRAM POSTHUMUS Economy PAUL MELLY BURUNDIRecent History DEVON E. A. CURTIS Economy DUNCAN WOODSIDE CABO VERDERecent History GERHARD SEIBERT Economy GERHARD SEIBERT CAMEROONRecent History HELEN WARE Economy TICKY MONEKOSSO THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICRecent History JUAN FANDOS-RIUS Economy DUNCAN WOODSIDE CHADRecent History MOUDWE DAGA Economy PAUL MELLY THE COMOROSRecent History PAUL MELLY Economy PAUL MELLYMAYOTTETHE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGORecent History DUNCAN WOODSIDEEconomy DUNCAN WOODSIDE THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGORecent History KATHARINE MURISON Economy TICKY MONEKOSSO CÔTE D’IVOIRERecent History MARIE GIBERT Economy MARIE GIBERT DJIBOUTIRecent History DAVID STYAN Economy DAVID STYAN EQUATORIAL GUINEARecent History MARISÉ CASTRO Economy MARISÉ CASTRO ERITREARecent History WARKA SOLOMON KAHSAY Economy WARKA SOLOMON KAHSAY ESWATINI (SWAZILAND)Recent History HUGH MACMILLAN Economy DONALD L. SPARKS ETHIOPIARecent History SOLOMON M. GOFIE Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY GABONRecent History DOUGLAS A. YATES Economy MEDARD MENGUE BIDZOTHE GAMBIARecent History ISAMAIL CEESAY and ESSA NJIE Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY GHANARecent History GEORGE M. BOB-MILLIAR Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY GUINEARecent History MARIE GIBERT Economy MARIE GIBERT GUINEA-BISSAURecent History MARIE GIBERT Economy MARIE GIBERT KENYARecent History MICHAEL JENNINGS Economy DUNCAN WOODSIDE LESOTHORecent History CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS Economy MALEFA ROSE MALEFANA LIBERIARecent History FRED VAN DER KRAAIJ Economy FRED VAN DER KRAAIJ MADAGASCARRecent History JULIAN COOKE Economy JULIAN COOKE MALAWIRecent History CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS Economy DONALD L. SPARKS MALIRecent History STEPHEN HARMON Economy PAUL MELLY MAURITANIARecent History GIUSEPPE MAIMONE Economy PAUL MELLY MAURITIUSRecent History MANORAMA AKUNG Economy VERENA TANDRAYEN-RAGOOBUR, SHEEREEN FAUZEL and BOOPEN SEETANAH MOZAMBIQUERecent History MARISÉ CASTRO Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY NAMIBIARecent History TERESIA KAULIHOWA, JACOB M. NYAMBE and VALDEMAR J. UNDJI Economy DONALD L. SPARKS NIGERRecent History LUCA RAINERI (based on an earlier article by ABDOURAHMANE IDRISSA)Economy PAUL MELLY NIGERIARecent History MAX SIOLLUN Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY RÉUNIONRecent History Economy RWANDARecent History DUNCAN WOODSIDE Economy DUNCAN WOODSIDE SAINT HELENA, ASCENSION ANDTRISTAN DA CUNHARecent History Economy SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPERecent History GERHARD SEIBERT Economy GERHARD SEIBERT SENEGALRecent History MARIE GIBERT Economy MARIE GIBERT SEYCHELLESRecent History KATHARINE MURISON Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY SIERRA LEONERecent History LEIGHANN SPENCEREconomy BJÖRN DAHLIN VAN WEES SOMALIARecent History DUNCAN WOODSIDE (based on an earlier article by ANNA BRUZZONE)Economy DUNCAN WOODSIDE SOUTH AFRICARecent History CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY SOUTH SUDANRecent History DUNCAN WOODSIDEEconomy DUNCAN WOODSIDE SUDANRecent History DUNCAN WOODSIDEEconomy DUNCAN WOODSIDE TANZANIARecent History MICHAEL JENNINGS Economy JÖRG WIEGRATZ TOGORecent History KATHARINE MURISON Economy PAUL MELLY UGANDARecent History MICHAEL JENNINGSEconomy JÖRG WIEGRATZ ZAMBIARecent History SISHUWA SISHUWA Economy DUNCAN WOODSIDE ZIMBABWERecent History CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERSEconomy ALBERT MAKOCHEKANWA PART THREE Regional InformationREGIONAL ORGANIZATIONSMAJOR COMMODITIES OF AFRICACALENDARS RESEARCH INSTITUTES CONCERNED WITH AFRICA SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS) SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (PERIODICALS) Europa Publications’ regional publications are compiled by a team of editors and researchers, with introductory and country-specific material provided by specialists in their field:Manorama Akung. Senior Lecturer in History, Head of Centre for Research on Slavery and Indenture, University of Mauritius.George M. Bob-Milliar. Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.Anna Bruzzone. Stipendiary Lecturer in European and World History, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.Marisé Castro. Researcher, Amnesty International, International Secretariat, London, United Kingdom.Ismaila Ceesay. Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Head of the Political Science Unit, University of The Gambia, Serrekunda, The Gambia.Tony Chafer. Professor of African and French Studies, Centre for European and International Studies, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.Julian Cooke. Editor of the Anglo-Malagasy Society Newsletter.Devon E. A. Curtis. Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.Moudwe Daga. Usawa Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom.Björn Dahlin van Wees. Economist specializing in sub-Saharan Africa.Juan Fandos-Rius. Encyclopaedist and historian of the Central African Republic.Sheereen Fauzel. Researcher, PhD in Development Economics, University of Mauritius, Mauritius.Marie Gibert. Visiting Fellow, Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.Solomon M. Gofie. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.Stephen Harmon. Late Professor of History, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg KS, USA.Abdourahmane Idrissa. Assistant Professor, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Netherlands, and Humboldt Researcher,University of Göttingen, Germany.Michael Jennings. Senior Lecturer in International Development, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom.Warka Solomon Kahsay. Saint Francis Xavier University, Antogonish, Canada.Teresia Kaulihowa. Associate Professor of Economics, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia.Fred van der Kraaij. Economist specializing in Liberia and the Western Sahel.Robert E. Looney. International consultant specializing in economic development and Distinguished Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, USA.Hugh Macmillan. Research Associate, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.Giuseppe Maimone. Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Palermo, Italy.Malefa Rose Malefane. Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.Albert Makochekanwa. Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.Zoe Marriage. Reader in Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom.Paul Melly. Journalist specializing in francophone Africa and Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), United Kingdom.Ticky Monekosso. Journalist and researcher specializing in human rights, development issues and related humanitarian affairs in Africa, and founder of Afromedi@net.Katharine Murison. Former Editor of Africa South of the Sahara.Essa Njie. Lecturer in Political Science, University of The Gambia, Serrekunda, The Gambia.Jacob M. Nyambe. Associate Professor of Economics and Executive Dean, Faculty of Commerce, Management and Law, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.Bram Posthumus. Writer, broadcaster and correspondent covering francophone West Africa.Luca Raineri. Research Fellow in Security Studies, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.Brad Safarik. Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, Universite´ Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France, and Associate Researcher, Les Afriques dans le Monde, Instituted’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France.Christopher Saunders. Emeritus Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa.Boopen Seetanah. Professor, Co-Chair of the WTO Chair Programme and Director of Research at the International Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality, University of Mauritius, Mauritius.Gerhard Seibert. Associate Researcher, Centre for International Studies, ISCTE—Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.Max Siollun. Historian and author specializing in Nigeria’s political and military history.Sishuwa Sishuwa. Lecturer in African History, University of Zambia, Zambia.Donald L. Sparks. Emeritus Professor of International Economics, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, USA, and Lecturer in International Business, Management Centre Innsbruck, Austria.Leighann Spencer. PhD candidate, Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Tutor in Justice Studies, La Trobe University, Australia.David Styan. Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur. Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics, University of Mauritius, Mauritius. Valdemar J. Undji. Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.Helen Ware. Professor of Peace Studies, School of Humanities, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.Jörg Wiegratz. Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.Duncan Woodside. Journalist and analyst specializing in economics and conflict in the Great Lakes of Africa.Ralph Young. Former Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.Reviews"This is probably the best reference work available on this part of the African continent." – Reference Reviews"This edition provides a timely benchmark for the notoriously fluid sub- Saharan region." – RUSI Journal"A well-balanced, well-judged and remarkably comprehensive volume." – Times Literary Supplement"This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to African countries and organizations." – International Affairs"The best thing of its kind on the market." – West Africa"La più accurata e completa radiografia economico geografica di questa parte di mondo." – Atlante Milan"Splendid annual survey." – Reference & Research Book News"A welcome addition to any library shelf." – Africa Events"Packed with information on countries from Angola to Zimbabwe ... an invaluable reference guide to the Continent." – African Review

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Book SynopsisOil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations. It looks at the interplay between the oil companies and the governments of both the industrialised and oil-producing countries and asks to what extent the former have been beyond the control of these authorities. It pays particular attention to the oil industry's relations with the consuming countries, and considers the oil companies' importance in international politics.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Oil Majors and Parent Governments before 1939 3. Majors and Parents 1939–69: The Second Industry Restructuring 4. Majors and Host Governments pre-1970 5. Parent and Host Governments pre-1970 6. The Companies as Transitional Actors 7. Hosts and Companies in the 1970s 8. Companies, Industrialised Consumers and the OPEC Challenge 9. The Embargo and After – Testing Time 10. Will the Companies Survive?

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Book SynopsisThe definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data.General SurveyThoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by experts on the region and covering both continent-wide and sub-regional issues.Country SurveysIndividual chapters on every country incorporating:essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economiesan extensive statistical survey of economic indicatorsa full directory containing names, addresses and contact details for key areas such as the government, diplomatic representation, the media, finance, trade and industry, and defencea useful bibliography, providing sources for further research.Regional InformationDetailed information on regional organizations; commodities; research institutes; and select bibliographies of books and periodicals.

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Book Synopsis This is a new series which publishes for the first time the correspondences of Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828 1885) the second British Minister of Japan, and includes the complete transcriptions of his private' letters to and from Edmund Hammond, permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who was the decision maker about major issues in the British relation to Asia, and his successors at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chronologically arranged, the series covers all such letters during his 18 years in Japan and with the first volume for Bakumatsu, the end of the Shogunate era. Parkes arrived in Japan in 1865 as the second Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to Japan and stayed at the position till 1883. He was one of the few who observed Japan during its turbulent period of Westernization, and supported the reformers to establish the new government. His efforts and services, alongside his secretaries sucTable of ContentsPlatesForeword by Mayuko Sano Introduction PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIR HARRY PARKES AND EDMUND HAMMOND18 November – 30 December 1865 26 January – 31 December 186616 January – 29 December 1867 5 January – 31 December 1868 Appendix 1: Minutes of a Conference of the 14th Nov. 1865Appendix 2: Establishment of Tariff Duties Index

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Book SynopsisArabiyyat al-Naas (Part One), second edition, offers a groundbreaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers. It combines a grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) with an innovative integration of the spoken Levantine variety used in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.The course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and living Arabic today. The book contains 29 theme-based units covering all the core topics expected in a first-year Arabic course, such as countries, clothes, colors, family and professions. The book is to be used in conjunction with the companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/younes) offering a wealth of additional instructor and student resources.This volume is the first in an exciting three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program. The book is an essential resource for students beginning to learn ArTrade ReviewArabic is a multiglossic language, and to teach it effectively a spoken variety and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) must both be included. Munther Younes’s pioneering Integrated Approach shows that it is possible to learn Arabic the way native speakers use it, listening and speaking in spoken Arabic and reading and writing in Modern Standard Arabic. I’ve been teaching with the ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas series for many years and I’m delighted with the improvements that the author team has made to this new edition of Book I. Congratulations!Victoria Aguilar, Profesora Titular de Lengua Árabe de la Universidad de MurciaYounes, Weatherspoon and Foster are to be commended for a method that enables learners to develop real-world proficiency in everyday, spoken Arabic, as well as the formal register. From the very start, Arabiyyat Al-Naas, Part One balances audio, visual and written texts to introduce stimulating and essential aspects of the language and its cultures. The textbook and its companion website offer a wealth of input through varied activities and materials, along with clear grammatical explanations. Arabiyyat Al-Naas is a well-conceived and exciting learning resource that empowers learners to reach the intermediate-low level. Nader K. Uthman, Language Director & Arabic Language Coordinator, New York UniversityArabiyyat al-Naas is the best textbook for a meaningful, engaging, encouraging introduction to Arabic. By focusing on language relevant to students’ needs and lives right from Lesson 1, and integrating every aspect of orthography, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar into that framework of immediately useful language, learners are truly and meaningfully communicating with each other from the very beginning. Most of all, learners are communicating as Arabs themselves do: in Modern Standard Arabic on paper, and orally in the colloquial.Arabic instructor and Ph.D. student in second language acquisitionTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsGeneral Introductionالوِحدة الأولى (First Unit)الدرس الأوّل: أنا طالب.الدرس الثاني: أنا من بيروت.الدرس الثالث: مدينة ... كبيرة أو صغيرة؟قواعد (Grammar)Possession in Arabic (my, your)الدرس الرابع: كيف الطقس في بيروت؟قواعدThe Definite Article الـSun and Moon Lettersالدرس الخامس: فيه ثلج كثير في شمال العِراق.أغنية: كيف الطقس في نيسان؟الدرس السادس: أنا لابس قميص أحمر.الدرس السابع: أيام الأسبوعقواعدGrammar (قواعد): Arabic pluralالدرس الثامن: انتَ ساكِن في بيت ولا في شقّة؟قواعدThe Construct (الإضافة) الدرس التاسع: كيف بتروح للصفّ؟الدرس العاشر: كم أخ وأخت عندك؟قواعدPossession in Arabic, continuedThe DualPossession with عند الدرس رقم ١١: أبوي أستاذ وأمّي طبيبة.الدرس رقم ١٢: الأكل والشُربالدرس رقم ١٣: عندي درس عربي الساعة ١٠الدرس رقم ١٤: العالم العربي كبير.قواعدThe Construct (الإضافة), continuedThe Comparative and Superlativeالدرس رقم ١٥: مُراجعةأغنية: البيت الأبيض بابه أحمرالوحدة الثانية: المطار الدرس الأوّل: أسمي سارةقواعدThe Nisba Adjective (النسبة)Subject Markers and Verb Conjugation:Present Tense Subject MarkersThe prefix بـالدرس الثاني: العنوان بأمريكا ولاّ بلبنان؟ الدرس الثالث: سارة حدّاد الوحدة الثالثة: التاكسي الدرس الأوّل: الحمد لله على السّلامة! قواعدWanting with بدّ الدرس الثاني: أهلا وسهلا فيك بلبنان!قواعدConstruct (إضافة) Phrases and Noun-adjective PhrasesMore on the Comparativeالدرس الثالثالنصّ الأوّل: المسافات بين المُدن اللبنانيّةالنصّ الثاني: مُذكّرات سارةقواعدPast Tense ConjugationListing Verbs in Word Listsالوحدة الرابعة: بيت الطلّابالدرس الأوّل: كيف مُمكن أساعدك؟قواعدThe Present Tense after "Helping" Wordsجواز سفركالدرس الثاني: سارة رَح تسكن معك بالغرفةقواعدObject Pronounsالدرس الثالث: قراءةالنصّ الأوّل: الجامعات اللبنانيّةالنصّ الثاني: مذكّرات سارة قواعدعَدَد and رقمكم ساعة؟Hollow Verbsمراجعة أغنية: سافر دانWriting non-Arabic Names Typically or Exclusively MSA WordsMSA and Spoken Arabic Pronunciationالوحدة الخامسة: الأكل الدرس الأوّل: وين مفتاح الغرفة؟قواعدArabic Roots, Roots and Verbs, Root TypesAn Hour Agoالدرس الثاني: أنا باحبّ الفول كثير!قواعدPlural Subject Markersالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعدMore on the Conjugation of Verbs Derived from Different Types of Rootsتعبان، زعلان، جوعان الوحدة السادسة: زيارة الجامعة الأمريكيّة في بيروت الدرس الأوّل: أهلاً وسهلاً فيكم بالجامعة!قواعدPlural Subject and Possessive Pronounsالدرس الثاني: أنا باحبّ الرياضة كثير! الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة الوحدة السابعة: الملابس والألوان الدرس الأوّل: بدّي فستان فولكلوري.قواعدVerb StemsBuilding Verbs with more than One Suffixلوني المفضل الدرس الثاني: نُمَر امريكيّة ولاّ أوروبيّة؟قواعدPlural Patterns: Sound and Brokenالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعد سيكون Non-human Pluralsمراجعةأغنية: أبو يوسف كسرة أو ضمّة؟الوحدة الثامنة: مطعم سقراطالدرس الأوّل: وين مطعم سقراط؟قواعدGiving Commandsالدرس الثاني: الجامعة الأمريكيّة في بيروت الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة الوحدة التاسعة: التسوّقالدرس الأوّل: أنا ما جيت علبنان حتى أشوف المولات. الدرس الثاني: مولات عمّانقواعد (هُم) يُحبّونالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكرات راميقواعدRelative PronounsAdverbials Ending in اًالوحدة العاشرة: أكل لذيذ، طقس جَميل، وصَديق لَطيف الدرس الأوّل: يا ريت فيه مترو أو باصات مريحة! الدرس الثاني: شو بتحبّي تعملي بجونيه؟ الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكرات راميThe Particle أنْ in فصحىبسبب/لأنّمراجعةأغنية: عندي درس الساعة ١١ الوحدة رقم ١١: مُدُن لُبنانيّة الدرس الأوّل: عندنا أصحاب مسيحيين وأصحاب مسلمين. قواعدعجبتك حريصامنظر ما فيه أحلى منّهالدرس الثاني: بيروتقواعدThe Case System in فُصحىDifferent Meanings of مِنالدرس الثالث: مذكرّات سارةVerb-subject (Dis)agreement in فُصحىالوحدة رقم ١٢: الطقس الدرس الأول: ممكن تعملي "سكي" بالجبل قبل الظهر، وتسبحي على الشطّ بعد الظهر! قواعدكثير، كثيراً، بكثيرالدرس الثاني: طقس البحر الأبيض المتوسّط قواعديقع، تقعMore on non-Human Pluralsالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكّرات راميقواعد ما التعجّب ( of wonder ما)كُنت أفكّرالوحدة رقم ١٣: العائلة والهِجرة والمِهَن الدرس الأوّل: خيّي طالب بكُلّيّة الطّب. قواعدعم (ب) + Present Tense بعد ماالدرس الثاني: بدّي آخذ صفوف عن تاريخ الشرق الأوسط والعلوم السياسية.The Imperative (الأمر)-Revisitedالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة قواعدأمّا ... ف ...رغم أنّ ... ف...مراجعة أُغنِية: بابوري رايح (موفق بهجت)Negation in فصحىRoot Types: Review and SummaryNote about Hollow and Lame Rootsالوحدة رقم ١٤: عائلة سارة الدرس الأوّل: ماما فنّانةقواعدحبّوا بعضحابّة تزوريهموانتِ هونالدرس الثاني: اللاجئون في لبنانThe Arabic Plural, RevisitedThe Case System (الإعراب), Revisitedقَدالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات راميليس ... فقط، ولكن ... أيضاً، لن تتمكّنArabic Roots and PatternsVerb stemsالوحدة رقم ١٥: السكن في شقّة الدرس الأوّل: أحسن تسكني مع طالبات بشقّة! قواعدصار-يصيرالدرس الثاني: رامي رَح يساعدني أفتشّ على شقّة. الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة الوحدة رقم ١٦: شقّة كبيرة وقريبة من الجامعة الدرس الأوّل: تشرّفت بمعرفتك يا سارة! الدرس الثاني: الإيجارات غالية كثير بلبنان. الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة قواعدلَم يُدخِّنVerb Forms (Forms I, II and V)مراجعةأغنية "حبّيتك بالصيف" (فيروز) الوحدة رقم ١٧: زيارة أخت رامي-١ الدرس الأوّل: ما بيصير أروح إيدي فاضية. قواعدكثير حلوالدرس الثاني: لينا، هيده صاحبتي سارة. قواعدبَعدالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكّرات رامي قواعدبنتاً أمريكيّةVerb Forms: Form VIIIالوحدة رقم ١٨: زيارة أخت رامي-٢ الدرس الأوّل: خبّريني سارة، ليش جيتِ علبنان؟ الدرس الثاني: موّتّينا من الجوع! الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةVerb Forms, Form Xالوحدة رقم ١٩: شقّة في منطقة هاديةالدرس الأوّل: الشقّة مش مفروشة، بس المنطقة هادية.The إضافة, the Noun-adjective Phrase, and the Equational Sentenceالدرس الثاني: شو رأيك بالشقّة؟ قواعدفينا، ممكنالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةVerb FormsForm IVمراجعةأغنية: ع البساطة (صباح) الوحدة رقم ٢٠: المول والسوبرماركت الدرس الأوّل: المكالمات على موبايلي غالية كثير! الدرس الثاني: عربة أبو غَسّانقواعدThe Different uses of ما, the Verbal Noun (المصدر)الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعدThe Particle أنْ , Revisitedالوحدة رقم ٢١: أثاث للشقّةالدرس الأوّل: المخدّات أرخص بشارع الحمراء. قواعدهالتخت، هالحجم، هالطاولةالدرس الثاني: لازم اشتري تخت لأوضتي.قواعدThe ميم Prefixالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكّرات راميقواعدForm VIII of Assimilated Rootsالوحدة رقم ٢٢: رحلة زحلة الدرس الأوّل: بلا رجيم بلا بلّوط! قواعدصار-يصيرالدرس الثاني: زحلة الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات راميقواعدكأنّVerb Forms (Forms III and VII)مراجعة أغنية: يا جارة الواديA note about أن and ماالوحدة رقم ٢٣: زيارة بيت عمّ سارة الدرس الأوّل: يعني خطيبك!قواعدThe Resumptive (or Returning) Pronounالدرس الثاني: مبروك! أمتى رَح يتزوّج؟ الدرس الثالث: قراءة: مذكّرات سارةقواعدMore on Negation in فصحىالوحدة رقم ٢٤: ضيعة جبران وشجر الأرز الدرس الأوّل: الفاتورة من فضلك!قواعدThe Imperative (Continued): اسمعي منّي!الدرس الثاني: خلّينا نزور سوريا! الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعدVerb Forms (Form VI)الوحدة رقم ٢٥: زيارة سوريا الدرس الأوّل: أهلين يا عيون ستّك! قواعدإجا-ييجيالدرس الثاني: دمشققواعدWord Order in the Arabic Sentenceالدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارةقواعدMore on the فصحى Case Systemمراجعةأغنية: ستّي يا ستّي (فيروز) الوحدة رقم ٢٦: الخضار والفواكه الدرس الأوّل: درّاق بلدي ميّة بالميّة! الدرس الثاني: أسعار الخضار والفواكه الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات راميقواعدThe Verbal Noun (مَصدَر), Revisitedلم تستطعالوحدة رقم ٢٧: موعد مع الدكتور الدرس الأوّل: عندي وجع ببطني وراسي.قواعدThe Imperative كُل, خُذ, and تعالالدرس الثاني: شكلك مغروم لفوق راسك! الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات سارة، مذكّرات راميقواعد لَيتَالوحدة رقم ٢٨: بنحكي مع بعض على سكايب كل يوم! الدرس الأوّل: من الأردن ممكن تزوري فلسطين.قواعدوقّفوها، رجّعوهاالدرس الثاني: رَح اشتاق لك كثير. الدرس الثالث: مذكّرات رامي، مذكّرات سارةقواعدNoun Patterns: Active Participles, Passive Participles, Verbal Nounsمراجعة أغنية: قال الطبيبArranging Words by Rootالوحدة رقم ٢٩: انطباعات سارة الدرس الأوّل: انطباعات سارة، الجزء الأوّل الدرس الثاني: انطباعات سارة، الجزء الثاني قواعدقَد (تكمِلة، Continued)أن المصدريّةالدرس الثالث: انطباعات سارة، الجزء الثالث الدرس الرابع: انطباعات سارة، الجزء الرابعFinal Look at the Case System (إعراب)الدرس الخامس: انطباعات سارة، الجزء الخامس قواعدأنا وأمَلالدرس السادس: عزيزي الطالب، عزيزتي الطالبةقواعدMoods of the Arabic Verbمراجعة أغنية: سافر مع السلامة (فريد الأطرش) Glossaries: Arabic-English, English-ArabicIndex

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