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Book SynopsisFrom deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy.Table of ContentsForeword: Ethics and Contingency Alain Badiou | ix Introduction" Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and Dialectics Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi | 1 I Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and/of Contingency Three Notes on Contingency Today: Stress, Science—and Consolation from the Past? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht | 33 Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency: Toward a Metonymic Community Thomas Claviez | 45 Dumb Luck: Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Contingency Michael Naas | 69 The Apophatic Community: Ethics, Contingency, Negation Viola Marchi | 94 II Other Others: Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the “Unsynthesizable” Commonality versus Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma? Étienne Balibar | 127 Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation Rosi Braidotti | 145 The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional Innovation Drucilla Cornell | 162 Ethics of Circular Time Slavoj Žižek | 182 The Road Not Taken: Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Nonagency Thomas Claviez | 206 “There Is No World”: Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology Cary Wolfe | 229 Works Cited | 251 List of Contributors | 269 Index | 273

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Totality Inside Out Kevin Floyd, with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, and Jen Hedler Phillis | 1 1 Let the Dead Bury the Dead: Race, Gender, and Class Composition in the U.S. after 1965 Tim Kreiner | 29 2 (Un)making Value: Reading Social Reproduction through the Question of Totality Marina Vishmidt and Zoe Sutherland | 67 3 Tripartheid: How Global White Supremacy Triumphs through Neoliberalism Arthur Scarritt | 91 4 Remapping the Race/Class Problematic Sarika Chandra and Chris Chen | 135 5 On Artistic Autonomy as a Bourgeois Fetish Sarah Brouillette and Joshua Clover | 192 6 Ecology with Totality: The Case of Morton’s Hyperobjects and Klein’s This Changes Everything Brent Ryan Bellamy | 211 Acknowledgments | 237 List of Contributors | 239 Index | 243

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the problems of establishing and maintaining truly democratic institutions.

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Book SynopsisHow, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness of this sea of islands? This book brings together a diverse set of approaches to how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past.Trade ReviewThis book both enriches and challenges the field of global history by returning—from a variety of archival and theoretical concerns—to questions about the very nature of history that have variously engaged scholars such as Greg Dening, Reinhart Koselleck, and Marshall Sahlins. The rich essays collected here will have much to say to anyone contemplating the status of the discipline of history today. If this book has a singular project, it is in an underlying search for ways in which history can be helpful. Recognizing that much of the Pacific is facing a state of existential emergency, the book opens with an appeal for history to "offer us new insights for a world in crisis" and ends by reminding the reader of Alice Te Punga Somerville’s ethical questions of "which histories do we tell, and which futures do we imagine?" Thus the book is concerned with how history is about the future, and how the project of creating desired futures for the Pacific needs the discipline of history to keep it afloat.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1930s and 1940s Marxist academics and others interested in liberal political reform often faced virulent accusations of treason from nationalist critics. John Person explores the lives of two of the most notorious right-wing intellectuals responsible for leading such attacks in prewar and wartime Japan: Minoda Muneki and Mitsui.Trade ReviewArbiters of Patriotism is a fresh and deeply informed synthesis of Japanese- and English-language scholarship on the intellectual and institutional history of Japanese fascism from the 1890s through the 1940s. It takes seriously, and documents closely, the careers of two important ultranationalist ideologues who have remained obscure as scapegoats for Japan’s rightward turn. Mitsui and Minoda warrant this attention because they provide access into the world of so-called "fanatics," who, as it turns out, received a wide hearing at the time because their views were resonant, not exceptional. John Person’s book is an important and timely intervention into the literature on the Japanese imperial state, fascism and populism, and the role of the "fanatic" and "right-wing/left-wing" in historiography and political ideology. This is a meticulously researched and careful study of a crucial aspect of not only Japanese intellectual and political history, but also social theory and ideology.

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Book SynopsisWeaving archival data with oral histories, personal narratives, material culture, and fiction, Unthinking Collaboration emphasizes the heterogeneity of Japanese immigrant experiences, and sheds light on broader issues of identity, race, and performance of individuals growing up in a bicultural or multicultural context.

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Book SynopsisExamining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the 16th century, this book analyzes the ""great confusion"". It features such thinkers as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Giordano Bruno and Jean Bodin.

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Book SynopsisThis text presents a major analysis of the foundation of Eric Voegelin's political science. The writings of Voegelin undertook in the 1940s provide the groundwork for this book.

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Book SynopsisIn this study, the author demonstrates that rather than simply being reactive in bringing about an end to the Cold War, it was the US President who first sought a rapprochement, calling for ""dialogue, co-operation and understanding"". She examines the possible theories for this reversal in policy.

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Book SynopsisThis translation of Voegelin's ""Anamnesis"" gives equal weight to the empirical and philosophical aspects of the work. This work is both a recollection of his own development and a demonstration of the anamnetic method as applied to historically remembered materials.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of Eric Voegelin's book reviews reflects in miniature the many problems Voegelin tackled in his essays, articles and books from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his reviews are little more than clinical summaries; others are analytic essays.

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Book SynopsisOne of two volumes which bring together Voegelin's miscellaneous papers, this text gathers crucial writings from the early formative period of this scholar's thought. It begins with Voegelin's dissertation on sociological method, which he completed in 1922.

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Book SynopsisFeatures letters written by Eric Voegelin which covers the period from 1950 through 1984. These letters provide evidence of the intellectual vigor that characterized his work throughout his life and continued virtually undiminished until the last weeks before his death. This biography focuses on one of the profound thinkers of the 20th century.

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Book SynopsisEvaluates one of the most original and influential thinkers of our time by examining his relationship to the modern continental tradition in philosophy, from Kant to Derrida.

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Book SynopsisMany studies have considered the Bible’s relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

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Book SynopsisDrawing from the University of Missouri Press’s thirty-four-volume edition of his collected works, Charles Embry and Glenn Hughes have assembled a selection of Eric Voegelin’s representative writings, satisfying the need for a single volume that can serve as a general introduction to his philosophy.Trade Review“The achievement of this volume is superb. Through a selection of his writings perfectly chosen, it makes manifest to everyone the preeminent place of Eric Voegelin in the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century."—Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, author of How World Politics Is Made“Embry and Hughes have succeeded in presenting a thoroughly accessible and well-crafted introduction to the thought of Eric Voegelin. Providing philosophical readings of substance with erudite commentary, this volume ranges perspicaciously across the eras and interests of Voegelin’s writings and will open to a new audience the grandeur of one of the most penetrating and relevant minds of the twentieth century. The Eric Voegelin Reader is set to become the essential companion to the study of Voegelin’s work."—James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, author of The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn toward Existence“Organized with meticulous care and framed with introductions of exceptional clarity, this reader provides the perfect entrÉe into Voegelin’s thought and the rich treasures of his thirty-four-volume Collected Works. The readings capture, in concentrated form, the full scope of Voegelin’s political and philosophical vision, including the surprising turns in his intellectual development that were born of ever-deepening insights into the nature of reality and human history. There is no contemporary point of view that cannot be enriched and challenged by Voegelin’s uniquely profound and original ideas. The Eric Voegelin Reader will greatly enhance the ease and quality of such encounters."—Paul Kidder, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University“Drawing on a broad variety of Voegelin's work—memoirs, interview, lectures, essays, books—the editors present a very intelligent selection of materials that unfolds his main themes in a clear, logical sequence, and this is also greatly aided by their introduction and explanatory comments with reference to each selection. This brilliant collection of Voegelin's most luminous texts offers an excellent one-volume introduction to the full range and scope of a major thinker who might otherwise seem rather overwhelming to someone new to his work."—Eugene Webb, University of Washington, author of In Search of the Triune God: The Christian Paths of East and WestTable of Contents The Eric Voegelin Reader ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PROLOGUE PART ONE Intellectual Biography I. CW 34 Autobiographical Reflections (1973): Selections Chapter 10: American Influence Chapter 11: Concerning the Year in France Chapter 12: Return to Vienna Chapter 13: Anschluss and Emigration II. CW 5 The Political Religions (Second edition, 1939): Selection Preface III. CW 34 Autobiographical Reflections (1973): Selection Chapter 22: Why Philosophize? To Recapture Reality! PART TWO The Philosophical Science of Politics I. CW 5 The New Science of Politics (1952): Selections Introduction, §§1–2 Editors’ Summary of Chapter One Chapter 2: Representation and Truth, §§1–6, 9 Chapter 3: The Struggle for Representation in the Roman Empire, §1 II. CW 11 Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy (1956) III. CW 11 The Good Society—from Industrial Society in Search of Reason (1963) IV. CW 11 World-Empire and the Unity of Mankind (1962) PART THREE Philosophizing in Modernity I. CW 11 In Search of the Ground (1965) II. CW 12 On Debate and Existence (1967) III. CW 12 Immortality: Experience and Symbol (1967) PART FOUR Philosophy and the Open Soul: Consciousness, Reason, and Divine Reality I. CW 12 Remembrance of Things Past (1978): Excerpt II. CW 12 Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History (1970) III. CW 12 Reason: The Classic Experience (1974) IV. CW 12 The Gospel and Culture (1971) PART FIVE Philosophy of History I. CW 14 Israel and Revelation (1956): Selections Preface Introduction: The Symbolization of Order II. CW 15 The World of the Polis (1957): Selection Introduction: Mankind and History (excerpts) III. CW 17 The Ecumenic Age (1974): Selection Introduction (excerpts) IV. CW 18 In Search of Order (1987): Selection Chapter One: The Beginning of the Beginning EPILOGUE FURTHER READINGS IN ERIC VOEGELIN SUGGESTED READINGS ON ERIC VOEGELIN INDEX

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Book SynopsisExamines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794). Gamboa was both a representative of legal professionals in the Spanish world and a central protagonist in major legal controversies in Mexico.Trade ReviewFrancisco Xavier de Gamboa was neither famous nor a nobody. But he was in the 'pivotal middle' of Spanish society, of colonial Mexican politics, and of the dynamic developments in the law and in the silver-powered economy of his century. Christopher Albi therefore sets out to persuade us that 'Gamboa's world' opens a unique, eye-opening, opinion-changing window onto how Spain's late-colonial empire functioned. He does a superb job. I am fully persuaded. From now on, anyone interested in better understanding eighteenth-century New Spain will need to spend time in Albi's world." - Matthew Restall, author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History"Gamboa's World offers a powerful new vision of governance in New Spain, detailing the ways of a regime that was primarily judicial by focusing on the career of one of its most engaged judges. We see anew how 'Bourbon reforms' were contested and contained by jurists committed to working with--and at times against--powerful economic interests and diverse popular communities to preserve the kingdom that sustained Spain's empire and fueled its trades through the eighteenth century." - John Tutino, author of Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution"This book is both very smart and highly entertaining, even funny at times. It is a treasure trove of material on law and legal culture, the silver economy, and late-colonial Spanish rule overall. Yet because the author smuggles all this in with a skillful narration of the life and times of a scrappy, brilliant Mexican jurist named Gamboa, readers hardly need to work for it at all." - Bianca Premo, author of The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire"In exploring the private life, educational trajectory, and distinguished legal career of Francisco Xavier de Gamboa, Christopher Albi challenges various long-held assumptions regarding eighteenth-century New Spain. This is required reading for all those interested in Spanish America's tumultuous eighteenth century." - Frances L. Ramos, author of Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla"In this excellent book, the world of Francisco Xavier de Gamboa, one of the premier lawyers of colonial Mexico, comes to life again. Christopher Albi delves deep into the archival record to grasp how the complex colonial law actually worked in litigation. While providing this innovative analysis, Albi also crafts a wonderfully enjoyable read for undergraduate students and experts alike." - Christoph Rosenmüller, author of Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755

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Book SynopsisArgues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life. While contestation and seditious ideas had always been present in the region, never before had local regimes been forced to consider radical dissension as an unavoidable dimension of politics.Trade ReviewMartín Bowen's The Age of Dissent offers a new and original vision of a period in Chile's history that we know primarily for its political, commercial, and wartime development. Based on solid documentary research, Bowen demonstrates that the so-called Age of Revolutions was a period of profound cultural transformations that affected diverse social actors and not just an elite." —Andrés Baeza Ruz, author of Contacts, Collisions, and Relationships: Britons and Chileans in the Independence Era, 1806-1831

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Book SynopsisBiographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland, and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the nobility.A valuable insight into the political and material world of Ireland's leading aristocratic family. HISTORY For much of their lives the two dukes of Ormonde dominated public events in Ireland, where they served the English sovereign as viceroy five times; they were also powerful presences in the Stuart court in England, and commanded armies both in Ireland and Europe. Later, they spent long periods on the continent as travellers and exiles. Yetdespite their importance in the public life of the age, neither duke has been the subject of a full modern biography, a gap which this collection of essays aims to fill, using key episodes and phases in the Ormondes' careers to investigate the larger picture. The dukes' lives as great nobles, landowners and converts to Protestantism raise problems specific to Ireland, but they also exemplify the predicament of nobles elsewhere in Europe. A particular focusis on the worlds that they and their wives created, often innovative and always dazzling, and on the clienteles who looked to them for preferment and on which a part of the Ormondes' political weight rested. Throughout, much newlight is cast on such vexed questions as the troubled and constantly changing relationship between Ireland and England, between public and private interests, and the roles of women. Dr TOBY BARNARD teaches at the University of Oxford. Contributors: G.E. AYLMER, T.C. BARNARD, EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS, DAVID EDWARDS, JANE FENLON, RAYMOND GILLESPIE, DAVID HAYTON, PATRICK LITTLE, RENÉ MOULINAS, ÉAMONN - CIARDHA, NATHALIE GENET ROUFFIACTrade ReviewAn excellent introduction... well-researched, detailed and scholarly in its approach to the range of issues examined and represents an important addition to the historiography of the period. * HUGUENOT SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS *A valuable insight into the political and material world of Ireland's leading aristocratic family. * HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Dukes of Ormonde - Toby C Barnard 'The Poisoned Chalice': the Ormond inheritance, sectarian division and the emergence of James Butler, 1614-1642 - David Edwards The Marquess of Ormond and the English Parliament, 1645-47 - Patrick Little The Religion of the first Duke of Ormond - Raymond Gillespie The first Duke of Ormond as Patron and Administrator - Gerald E Aylmer Episodes of Magnificence: The material worlds of the Dukes of Ormonde - Jane Fenlon Aristocratic Values in the Careers of the Dukes of Ormonde - Toby C Barnard 'The Unkinde Deserter' and 'The Bright Duke': Contrasting Views of the Dukes of Ormonde in the Irish Royalist Tradition - Eamonn O Ciardha The Irish Jacobite Exile in France, 1692-1715 - Dependence, clientage and affinity: the political following of the second Duke of Ormond - Paul M. Hunneyball The second Duke of Ormonde and the Atterbury Plot - Eveline Cruickshanks James Butler, second Duke of Ormonde in Avignon - Rene Moulinas

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Book SynopsisThe third volume in BHRS's series of poll books and covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger.This is the third volume in BHRS's series of poll books and covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger. It was a period when Britain was constantly at war, when it suffered a dangerous Jacobite rebellion and when the American colonies were lost. Yet this constant warfare did not produce the revolutionary changes to the national and local economy that the Napoleonic wars subsequently created.There is only one complete poll book for the county (1774) but surviving lists from Bedford borough, including a partial poll book of 1747, enable political allegiance to be gauged. Lack of contested elections does not mean an absence of political activity. Detectable trends are illustrated from the Duke of Bedford's archives and the Hardwicke manuscripts in the British Library. They include the attempts of the Duke to increase his powers, which were successfully challenged by Bedford borough by the creation in 1769 of many new out-of-town freemen to detach it from his influence; the decline of formerly prominent political families; and, from the 1760s, the rise of the Whitbreads.The volume also details the political dimensions of the litigation over the appointment of the rector of St John's, Bedford; the administration of the Harpur Trust; and turnpike and enclosure acts.Trade ReviewThis volume creates a wealth of interesting material which will prove of enormous interest to both students of local Bedfordshire studies and to those interested in eighteenth-century society and policitics. The Bedfordshire Historical Record Society deserves praise for making more readily available a good deal of new material. HISTORY This is a meticulously researched book. THE LOCAL HISTORIANTable of ContentsBedfordshire and the fall of Walpole, 1734-1741 National and local politics, 1741-1747 The 1747 election National and local politics, 1747-1754 National and local politics, 1754-1761 National and local politics, 1761-1768 National and local politics, 1768-1774 The 1774 election The 1774 county poll National and local politics, 1774-1784 Appendix 1: The constitution of the borough of Bedford in the 1740s Appendix 2: Local legislation for Bedfordshire 1685-1785

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Book SynopsisThis edition of Plato’s Republic (1–2.368c4) is aimed principally at readers without Greek; however, following the main purpose of the Series, a spectrum of needs is catered for, ranging from those studying through the original text to those working with the translation. Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Preliminaries 2. Composition of Republic 3. Dramatic context, characters and structure 4. The cultural background 5. The arguments (a) Socrates and Cephalus (b) Socrates and Polemarchus (c) Socrates and Thrasymachus (d) Glaucon and Adeimantus 6. Conclusion 7. The text of this edition Bibliography Chronology of Plato’s Life and Works Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4 Commentary Index

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Book SynopsisThis edition of Plato’s Republic (1–2.368c4) is aimed principally at readers without Greek; however, following the main purpose of the Series, a spectrum of needs is catered for, ranging from those studying through the original text to those working with the translation. Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Preliminaries 2. Composition of Republic 3. Dramatic context, characters and structure 4. The cultural background 5. The arguments (a) Socrates and Cephalus (b) Socrates and Polemarchus (c) Socrates and Thrasymachus (d) Glaucon and Adeimantus 6. Conclusion 7. The text of this edition Bibliography Chronology of Plato’s Life and Works Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4 Commentary Index

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Book SynopsisA considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This title presents research with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics & peace science.Table of ContentsLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FOREWORD - Manas Chatterji INTRODUCTION - Lloyd J. Dumas 1.Does the Capitalist Peace Exist? Yes, it did! But will it apply to China and the West? Erich Weede, formerly University of Bonn, Germany 2.The governance of conflicts and partnerships in knowledge and innovation networks - Riccardo Cappellin, University of Roma Tor VergataA", Rome, Italy 3.Macroprudential Monitoring of Financial Crisis: An Empirical Framework - Biswa N. Bhattacharyay, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo, Japan 4.A Systemic Perspective on Multi-Stakeholder Sustainable Development Strategies - Aliye Ahu Akgun, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, Eveline van Leeuwe and Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands 5.Conflicts And Convergence In The Southwestern-European Border : Spain, South-Spain And The Maghreb(1995-2010)- Fernando Barreiro-Pereira, Spanish National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain 6.Facilitators and Inhibitors of Political Mass Killing - Sheldon G Levy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA 7.On the Economics of Arab Economic Integration Partha Gangopadhyay and Mohamed Elafif, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia 8. Not all quiet on the Middle Eastern Fronts Riad A.Attar, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA 9. Afghan War- Global Jihad and Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan- Internal and External Links Riaz Ahmed Shaikh, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology- SZABIST, Karachi, Pakistan 10. Conflict Prevention In Japan Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University, New York, USA 11. Nuclear India And Pakistan And Quest For Peaceful Dialogue Mohammed Badrul Alam, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India 12.Multidimensional changes in "ripeness" in Angola around the 1989 Gbadolite peace accords - Ricardo Sousa, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 13. Conflict, Environment and the Dynamics of Fear: The Example of Rwanda and Nepal - Urs Luterbacher, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland with collaboration of Sebastian Di Iorio, Colin Nippert and Beatrice Mosello

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Book SynopsisThis up-to-date book takes a fresh look at regulation and risk and argues that the allure of regulation lies in its capacity to reduce risk whilst preserving the benefits of trade, travel and commerce.Trade Review'The Paradox of Regulation is a tour de force of regulatory scholarship that successfully contextualizes the regulatory project as an effort to reduce multiple forms of risk. Three case studies of regulatory reforms, fascinating in their own right, when read together forcefully demonstrate why context matters to the actuarial assessments, political realities, and possibilities for insuring safety, security and integrity. Haines' penetrating analysis presents no simple answers to what works and why. The Paradox of Regulation nimbly demonstrates that the strengths and limits of a particular regulatory reform must be understood as a complicated response to a dynamic constellation of actuarial, political, and socio-cultural risks.' - Nancy Reichman, University of Denver, US 'This new book by Fiona Haines is an elegant but sophisticated analysis of the three risks (technical, social and political) that regulation must address if it is to be effective. This analysis is original and fresh bringing together critiques of risk based regulation with empirical literature on compliance and effectiveness evaluation. This is exactly the sort of book we need more of to develop and deepen empirical and theoretical research in regulatory scholarship: - it helpfully melds together different literatures and theoretical approaches with her own empirical work on regulatory reforms to build a multi-layered theoretical analysis that really pushes forward our understanding of regulation, why it happens and how it fails and succeeds.' - Christine Parker, Monash University, Australia 'This is an insightful and nuanced analysis of the strengths and limitations of regulation. Through a close grained analysis of three recent disasters, Haines demonstrates that regulation is not just a technical but also a political and a social project and how a failure to recognise its multiple dimensions can lead to regulatory failure. This book is a major contribution that enriches our understanding of the challenges of risk management and of how best to address them.' - Neil Gunningham, Australian National University, Canberra 'Fiona Haines shows us that regulatory policy is complex and paradoxical in ways that should require us to attend to the substance and the politics of specific regulatory regimes. This book is a major contribution to the reconceptualisation of risk and regulation. It is a perceptive treatment of the role of crisis by one of the best scholars of regulation we have.' --- John Braithwaite, Australian National University, CanberraTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Regulatory Paradox 3. Risk and the Task of Regulation 4. Making Sense of the Events 5. Regulatory Reform in the Shadow of Disaster 6. The Challenge of Compliance – Major Hazard Risk 7. The Challenge of Security at Air and Seaports 8. Finance, Compliance and the Ambiguity of Actuarial Risk 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisResearchers and students in economics, economic history, political science and regional studies, and others interested in the economics of transition to a market system will find this comprehensive collection an invaluable resource.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Werner Baer 2. The Regional Impacts of Juscelino Kubitschek’s Targets Program André Villela 3. Regional Imbalances in Brazil According to Social Inclusion Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 4. Social Programs, Industrial Deconcentration and the Recent Decrease in Regional Income Inequality in Brazil Raul da Mota Silveira-Neto and Carlos Roberto Azzoni 5. Labor Policies in Brazil Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Fabíola Cristina Ribeiro de Oliveira and Camila Kraide Kretzmann 6. The Impact of Privatization on Brazil’s Regions Edmund Amann and Werner Baer 7. Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in the Regional Development of Brazil Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Simone Uderman 8. FDI in Brazil from a Regional Perspective Marcos C. Holanda and André Matos Magalhães 9. Stabilization Policies and Regional Development in Brazil Alexandre Rands Barros 10. The Use of Native Forests versus Economic Growth in Brazil: Is it Possible to Reach a Balance? Carlos José Caetano Bacha 11. Regional Development and Agricultural Expansion in Brazil’s Legal Amazon: The Case of the Mato Grosso Frontier Charles C. Mueller 12. Embrapa: Its Origins and Changes Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Elisio Contini and Eliseu Alves 13. The Regional Impact of Federal Government Programs in Brazil: The Case of Rio de Janeiro Thomas J. Trebat and Nicholas M. Trebat Index

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Book SynopsisA fresh interpretation of London's early Victorian political culture, devoting particular attention to the relationship which existed between Whigs and vestry-based radicals.In the second quarter of the nineteenth century the British capital witnessed a growing polarisation between metropolitan Whig politicians and the increasingly vocal political force of London radicalism - a tension exacerbated byurban, and in many respects specifically metropolitan, issues. Though Whiggery was a political creed based on tenets such as the defence of parliament and free trade, it has been traditionally thought out of place and out of favour in large urban settings, in part because of its association with aristocracy. By contrast, this book shows it to have been an especially potent force in the early Victorian capital where continual conflict between Whigs and radicals gave the metropolitan constituencies a singularly contested and particularly vibrant liberal political culture. From the mid-1830s, vestry-based metropolitan radicals active in local governing structures began to espouse an anti-Whig programme, aimed in part at undermining their electoral strength in the metropolitan constituencies, which emphasised the preservation and extension of "local self-government". This new cause displaced the older radical rhetorics of constitutional "purification" and "re-balance", and in so doing drove metropolitan radicalism away from its earlier associations and towards a retrenchment-obsessed and anti-aristocratic liberalism. Benjamin Weinstein is assistant professor of history at Central Michigan University.Trade ReviewExtremely detailed with an enormous range of local evidence. . A significant contribution to the literature. * VICTORIAN STUDIES *An engaging and meticulously researched account.richly detailed, well-written and tightly focused. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A fascinating book. * CHARTIST *Table of ContentsIntroduction Liberal attachments to the unreformed metropolis The 'radicalisation' of metropolitan political culture, 1832-1841 The polarisation of metropolitan political culture, 1842-1855 Redefining the state, I: Rates and taxes, 1834-1853 Redefining the state, II: The London government problem Marylebone in 1854: From conflict to compromise Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisStates that Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves, with all the global self-destruction. This work also scrutinizes some of the major thinkers about the interpenetration of politics and religion.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces...Trade ReviewPaul Gottfried's is far and away the best book on fascism I've read in many years. * Claremont Review of Books *Gottfried's study is particular, nuanced, and multifaceted... a model for the type of work that can earn the right a hearing from more attentive audiences. * The American Conservative *For historians, [Fascism] offers clear and provocative insights and arguments, and the very detailed notes are especially helpful.... Recommended. * Choice *Books warning of 'the new fascism' have become a cottage industry among academics. But at least one author, Dr. Paul E. Gottfried, professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and editor of Chronicles magazine, takes a more historically informed view. * Quillette *Gottfried's Fascism: The Career of a Concept is so valuable as a provocation, for it was written to correct the sloppy use of the epithet 'fascist' to condemn whatever politician or movement one finds distasteful. * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *In these studies, Gottfried notes how, partly because of how varied fascist administrations were, the elements which can be described as characteristic of fascism are actually very few. * Human Events *

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Book SynopsisGottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term "fascism" has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles.Trade ReviewPaul Gottfried's is far and away the best book on fascism I've read in many years. * Claremont Review of Books *Gottfried's study is particular, nuanced, and multifaceted... a model for the type of work that can earn the right a hearing from more attentive audiences. * The American Conservative *For historians, [Fascism] offers clear and provocative insights and arguments, and the very detailed notes are especially helpful.... Recommended. * Choice *Books warning of 'the new fascism' have become a cottage industry among academics. But at least one author, Dr. Paul E. Gottfried, professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and editor of Chronicles magazine, takes a more historically informed view. * Quillette *Gottfried's Fascism: The Career of a Concept is so valuable as a provocation, for it was written to correct the sloppy use of the epithet 'fascist' to condemn whatever politician or movement one finds distasteful. * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *In these studies, Gottfried notes how, partly because of how varied fascist administrations were, the elements which can be described as characteristic of fascism are actually very few. * Human Events *

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Book SynopsisFocuses on working-class women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds employed in a variety of jobs. This work documents the story of women learning about the sources of their powerlessness and mobilizing to increase their power.Trade Review"Women and the Politics of Empowerment is filled with pictures of women whose lives the masculinist ideology of our disciplines has said are not worthy of our interest. Bookman, Morgen, and their colleagues awaken all kinds of ideas about where to go from here." --Women & Politics "Drawing together an excellent compilation of case studies of community and workplace organizing, Bookman and Morgen redefine the political arena and process. They focus on the statuses of working-class and low-income women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, thereby giving attention to women who have been largely ignored as actors in the political arena... These rich and varied case materials are useful for the scholar-researcher, the activist, and for the teacher in women's studies, social work, public policy, education, and public health." --Contemporary Sociology "Don't let the title...scare you... The book is devoted to bridging the gap between theory and practice, between feminism and working-class women. And it succeeds, through fourteen widely disparate, yet complementary essays about working-class women, Black, Latina and white, struggling on the job and in their communities for social change." --New Directions for WomenTable of ContentsRethinking Women and Politics: An Introductory Essay Sandra Morgen and Ann Bookman Part I: Expanding and Redefining the Political Terrain 1. "Making Your Job Good Yourself": Domestic Service and the Construction of Personal Dignity Bonnie Thornton Dill 2. Building in Many Places: Multiple Commitments and Ideologies in Black Women's Community Work Cheryl Townsend Gilkes 3. Gender and Grassroots Leadership Karen Brodkin Sacks Part II: Gender and the Shaping of Women's Political Consciousness 4. "It's the Whole Power of the City Against Us!": The Development of Political Consciousness in a Women's Health Care Coalition Sandra Morgen 5. Women Workers and Collective Action: A Case Study from the Insurance Industry Cynthia B. Costello 6. The Edison School Struggle: The Reshaping of Working-Class Education and Women's Consciousness Wendy Luttrell Part III: Reverberations among the Spheres: Family, Workplace, and Community Networks 7. Unionization in an Electronics Factory: The Interplay of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class Ann Bookman 8. Urban Politics in the Higher Education of Black Women: A Case Study Andree Nicola-McLaughlin and Zala Chandler 9. The Politics of Race and Gender: Organizing Chicana Cannery Workers in Northern California Patricia Zavella Part IV: Conditions, Catalysts, and Constraints: Political Economy and Grassroots Activism 10. Women Unions, and "Participative Management": Organizing in the Sunbelt Louise Lamphere and Guillermo J. Grenier 11. Working-Class Women, Social Protest, and Changing Ideologies Ida Susser 12. Vending on the Streets: City Policy, Gentrification, and Public Patriarchy Roberta M. Spalter-Roth Part V: Grassroots Organizing and Political Theory: Toward A Synthesis 13. Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Some Implications for a Democratic Polity Martha A. Ackelsberg 14. "Carry It On": Continuing the Discussion and the Struggle Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen The Contributors

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Book SynopsisA broad reevaluation of Siam's political culture as it existed prior to King Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms in the nineteenth century. Englehart offers evidence to show that traditional Siamese government functioned more effectively and...Trade ReviewThis book introduces a very important and largely neglected aspect of Thai studies. * Pacific Affairs *

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Book SynopsisBeyond Oligarchy is a collection of essays by leading scholars of contemporary Indonesian politics and society, each addressing effects of material inequality on political power and contestation in democratic Indonesia. The contributors assess how critical concepts in the study of politicsoligarchy, inequality, power, democracy, and otherscan be used to characterize the Indonesian case, and in turn, how the Indonesian experience informs conceptual and analytical debates in political science and related disciplines. In bringing together experts from around the world to engage with these themes, Beyond Oligarchy reclaims a tradition of focused intellectual debate across scholarly communities in Indonesian studies.The collapse of Indonesia''s New Order has proven a critical juncture in Indonesian political studies, launching new analyses about the drivers of regime change and the character of Indonesian democracy. It has also prompted a new groundswell of theoreticTrade Review"A brilliant and very useful collection in which advocates of the major theses in Australian and American scholarship on Indonesian democratization both present and reflect on their focus on oligarchic versus liberal and plural tendencies. A must-read also in wider circles and for those who try alternative perspectives." -- Olle Tornquist, University of Oslo"At long last, leading experts on Indonesian politics are arguing with each other again. At the heart of this new debate is the importance of material inequality and extreme wealth concentration in shaping the character of Indonesian politics. Beyond Oligarchy collects a series of first-rate essays that both express the power and explore the limitations of analyses that portray the fusion of wealth and domination as the defining deficiency of Indonesian democracy. In so doing, volume coeditors Michele Ford and Thomas Pepinsky boldly break down conventional barriers to scholarly conversations about the most pressing issues and developments in Indonesian political life. Beyond Oligarchy definitively sets a new tone—and arguably sets a new standard—for the study of Indonesian politics after Suharto." -- Dan Slater, University of Chicago, author of Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

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Book SynopsisBeyond Oligarchy is a collection of essays by leading scholars of contemporary Indonesian politics and society, each addressing effects of material inequality on political power and contestation in democratic Indonesia. The contributors assess how critical concepts in the study of politicsoligarchy, inequality, power, democracy, and otherscan be used to characterize the Indonesian case, and in turn, how the Indonesian experience informs conceptual and analytical debates in political science and related disciplines. In bringing together experts from around the world to engage with these themes, Beyond Oligarchy reclaims a tradition of focused intellectual debate across scholarly communities in Indonesian studies.The collapse of Indonesia''s New Order has proven a critical juncture in Indonesian political studies, launching new analyses about the drivers of regime change and the character of Indonesian democracy. It has also prompted a new groundswell of theoreticTrade Review"A brilliant and very useful collection in which advocates of the major theses in Australian and American scholarship on Indonesian democratization both present and reflect on their focus on oligarchic versus liberal and plural tendencies. A must-read also in wider circles and for those who try alternative perspectives." -- Olle Tornquist, University of Oslo"At long last, leading experts on Indonesian politics are arguing with each other again. At the heart of this new debate is the importance of material inequality and extreme wealth concentration in shaping the character of Indonesian politics. Beyond Oligarchy collects a series of first-rate essays that both express the power and explore the limitations of analyses that portray the fusion of wealth and domination as the defining deficiency of Indonesian democracy. In so doing, volume coeditors Michele Ford and Thomas Pepinsky boldly break down conventional barriers to scholarly conversations about the most pressing issues and developments in Indonesian political life. Beyond Oligarchy definitively sets a new tone—and arguably sets a new standard—for the study of Indonesian politics after Suharto." -- Dan Slater, University of Chicago, author of Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

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Book SynopsisPhan Chau Trinh (1872-1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Throughout his life, he favored a moderate approach to political change and advised the country's leaders to seek gradual progress for Vietnam within the French colonial system. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not favor anti-French...

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Book SynopsisA Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten contributors and Craig J. Reynolds, who inspired these essays. Conceived as a tribute to an innovative scholar, dedicated teacher, and generous colleague, it is this volume''s ambition to make a concerted intervention on Thai historiographyand Thai studies more generallyby pursuing in new directions ideas that figure prominently in Reynolds''s scholarship. The writings gathered here revolve around two prominent themes in Reynolds''s scholarship: the nexus of historiography and power, and Thai political and business culturesoften so intertwined as to be difficult to separate. The chapters examine different types of historical texts, Thai political discourse and political culture, and the media production of consumer culture.Contributors: Chris Baker; Patrick Jory, University of Queensland, Brisbane; Tamara Loos, Cornell University; Yoshinori Nishizaki, National University of Singapore; JamesTrade Review"A Sarong for Clio offers bold explorations into several critical areas of Thai studies. Its essays will certainly reshape our understanding of Thailand in the modern era. Audacious and uncompromising—and splendidly engrossing—it is a worthy tribute to Craig Reynolds, the scholar whose work it honors." -- Richard A. Ruth, U.S. Naval AcademyTable of ContentsIntroduction. On History, Thailand, and the Scholarship of Craig J. Reynolds by Maurizio PeleggiPart I. Historiography, Knowledge, and Power1. The Revolt of Khun Phaen: Contesting Power in Early Modern Siam by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit2. Fabrication, Stealth, and Copying of Historical Writings: The Historiographical Misconducts of Mr. Kulap of Siam by Thongchai Winichakul3. Renegade Royalist: Autobiography and Siam's Disavowed Prince Prisdang by Tamara Loos4. The Plot of Thai Art History: Buddhist Sculpture and the Myth of National Origins by Maurizio PeleggiPart II. Political and Business Culture5. Republicanism in Thai History by Patrick Jory6. Madness, Authoritarianism, and Political Participation: The Curious Case of Cham Jamratnet by James Ockey7. Big Is Good: The Banharn-Jaemsai Observatory Tower in Suphanburi by Yoshinori Nishizaki8. Marketing Business Knowledge and Consumer Culture before the Boom: The Case of Khoo Khaeng Magazine by Villa Vilaithong9. "Governance" in Thailand by Kasian TejapiraAppendix. Publications by Craig J. ReynoldsContributors

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Book SynopsisPhan Chau Trinh (1872-1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Throughout his life, he favored a moderate approach to political change and advised the country's leaders to seek gradual progress for Vietnam within the French colonial system. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not favor anti-French...

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Book SynopsisConceived as a tribute to an innovative scholar, dedicated teacher, and generous colleague, it is this volume's ambition to make a concerted intervention on Thai historiography and Thai studies.Trade Review"A Sarong for Clio offers bold explorations into several critical areas of Thai studies. Its essays will certainly reshape our understanding of Thailand in the modern era. Audacious and uncompromising—and splendidly engrossing—it is a worthy tribute to Craig Reynolds, the scholar whose work it honors." -- Richard A. Ruth, U.S. Naval AcademyTable of ContentsIntroduction. On History, Thailand, and the Scholarship of Craig J. Reynolds by Maurizio PeleggiPart I. Historiography, Knowledge, and Power1. The Revolt of Khun Phaen: Contesting Power in Early Modern Siam by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit2. Fabrication, Stealth, and Copying of Historical Writings: The Historiographical Misconducts of Mr. Kulap of Siam by Thongchai Winichakul3. Renegade Royalist: Autobiography and Siam's Disavowed Prince Prisdang by Tamara Loos4. The Plot of Thai Art History: Buddhist Sculpture and the Myth of National Origins by Maurizio PeleggiPart II. Political and Business Culture5. Republicanism in Thai History by Patrick Jory6. Madness, Authoritarianism, and Political Participation: The Curious Case of Cham Jamratnet by James Ockey7. Big Is Good: The Banharn-Jaemsai Observatory Tower in Suphanburi by Yoshinori Nishizaki8. Marketing Business Knowledge and Consumer Culture before the Boom: The Case of Khoo Khaeng Magazine by Villa Vilaithong9. "Governance" in Thailand by Kasian TejapiraAppendix. Publications by Craig J. ReynoldsContributors

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Book SynopsisThis essential volume features John Locke''s hand-corrected text with an outstanding introduction to Locke''s life and role in intellectual history, his principal works, and their purpose. Written by the editor, Richard Cox, the introduction also outlines the course of both treatises of government and analyzes the problems of interpretation. Also included are a list of the principal dates in the life of John Locke as well as a selected bibliography.Table of ContentsIntroduction vii Note on the Text xlv Principal dates xlvii Second Treatise of Government I. (Summary of the First Treatise) 1 II. Of the State of Nature 3 III. Of the State of War 11 IV. Of Slavery 15 V. Of Property 17 VI. Of Paternal Power 32 VII. Of Political or Civil Society 47 VIII. Of the Beginning of Political Societies 58 IX. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government 75 X. Of the Forms of a Commonwealth 79 XI. Of the Extent of the Legislative Power 81 XII. Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth 89 XIII. Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth 92 XIV. Of Prerogative 99 XV. Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power, Considered Together 105 XVI. Of Conquest 109 XVII. Of Usurpation 121 XVIII. Of Tyranny 123 XIX. Of the Dissolution of Government 130 Bibliography 149

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Book SynopsisNewly edited documents and commentaries published in honour of one of our foremost historians of English medieval political society Different from most festschriften, this wide-ranging volume brings together a rich collection of newly edited documents accompanied by commentaries which both set them in context and highlight their importance for historians of medieval England. Among the many topics covered are the Magna Carta rebellion, the Baronial Wars of the 1260s, the feeding of the royal household, the estates of the thirteenth-century nobility, gentry material culture as revealed by inventories, the workings of the law in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and local political life in Richard II's reign. The volume will be published jointly with the Pipe Roll Society, and the distinguished team of contributors will include both friends and former pupils of the honorand.Table of Contents'The Last Pilgrimage of Stephen Count of Brittany' Hugh Doherty 'The Charters of Robert fitz Hamo: A Diplomatic Analysis' Nicholas Karn 'A Political Nightmare: Henry II, Becket and the Dream Narrative' Alice Taylor 'Roger of Howden's Documents: Kings and Taxation in England at the end of the Twelfth Century' John Gillingham 'The De Vere Lands in Normandy, c. 1204' Daniel Power 'New Evidence on the Magna Carta Rebellion' Nicholas Vincent 'Richard of Cornwall's Tintagel: Making Arthur Matter' Joerg Peltzer 'Friendship (Amicitia) in the Politics of Mid-Thirteenth Century England' Peter Coss 'An English Cartulary Roll of Peter of Savoy, Lord of Richmond (1240-1268): Archives, Interests and Servants of an Alien Favourite of Henry III' Huw Ridgeway 'Bolingbroke Charters' Louise Wilkinson The Morton Incident: Lordship, Rebellion and Divided Loyalties during the First English Revolution Adrian Jobson 'The Surrender of Gloucester Castle in June 1265' Sophie Ambler 'A Royal Buttery Book of 1272' David Carpenter 'The 1294 "Inquiry" (aprisa) into the Alleged Crimes of Katherine Widow of Simon Constable' Paul Brand 'Accounts concerning Elizabeth, Countess of Holland, 1297-1300' Kathleen B. Neal 'Thomas of Lancaster and the Enforcement of the Ordinances, 1314-17' Scott Waugh 'Sealing Disinheritance: Thomas of Lancaster and the Earldom of Ferrers, 1296-1322' Anthony Gross 'For Queen and Country: the Interim Administration of Isabella and Edward of Windsor, September-December 1326' Paul Dryburgh 'Petitioning for Justice in a Time of Transitions: John Whittlebury's Complaint of 1336' Anthony Verduyn 'Knightly Magnificence and Marital Drama: the de la Beche Inventory of 1347' John Blair 'Sir Robert de Mauley, King Edward III, and the Building Works at the Royal Manor of Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, 1348-50' David Crook 'The Leicestershire Gentry and the Oath to uphold the Acts of the Merciless Parliament, 1388' Nigel Saul

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Book SynopsisMaterial from conventions of Scottish parliamentary towns sheds fresh light on their activities and actions, from giving judgements in disputes to raising money for building projects.The convention of the royal burghs of Scotland was a national representative assembly of parliamentary towns that was unique in Europe. It met in plenary session at least once every year by the end of the sixteenth century, as well as convening in ad hoc sessions for specific business. It had a wide range of responsibilities, including defence of the burghs' collective and individual trading privileges, lobbying central government, promoting manufactures and trade, arbitrating in disputes between burghs, apportioning national taxes among its members, co-ordinating the raising of money for public building projects within burghs, and maintaining and regulating the Scottish staple port at Veere on what was then the island of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. When much of its records were published in the nineteenth century, minutes from before the 1580s were fragmentary and awhole volume (covering the years 1631-1649) was lost. This volume goes some way to rectifying these deficiencies by making available in print, for the first time, the records of a convention at Perth in 1555, those of most of theconventions between 1631 and 1636, the minutes of a convention from 1647 and some other papers from the 1640s. They are presented here with an introduction and elucidatory notes. Alan MacDonald is senior lecturer in History at the University of Dundee; Mary Verschuur lectured in the department of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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Book SynopsisTransitional justice processes have a fundamental public dimension. Their impact depends in part on the social support they receive. For this reason, transitional justice bodies have increasingly implemented outreach programs. Beyond the role of outreach, however, other initiatives-such as media and cultural interventions-can strengthen, but also in some cases undermine, the public resonance of transitional justice. How can media and art be used to engage society in discussions about accountability and redress? How do media influence social perceptions and attitudes toward the legacy of the past? To what extent is social engagement in the public sphere necessary to advance the political transformation that transitional justice measures try to promote? Examining the roles that society and culture play in transitional justice contexts, the essays in this volume focus on the ways in which communicative practices can raise public awareness of and reflection on the legacies of mass abuse.Trade ReviewThe book addresses a long-standing gap in transitional justice between institutional interventions and the need to recognize and support the mechanisms of human interaction-what happens between people and between communities and the structures established to maintain them. This unique collection of essays addresses the breadth of communicative mechanisms-from traditional media to new media and from art to film to photography to literature. The beautifully crafted chapters bring alive the multidimensional nature of social engagement and describe how these societal processes can maim and destroy as well as contribute to survival and healing. This collection is the first in the transitional justice literature to recognize the need to move beyond top-down 'outreach' programs to support two-way communication in its multiple forms and to recognize that societies rebuild by utilizing social, psychological, historical, and cultural pathways that strengthen their commitment to change. The strength of this book lies in its attention to multiple forms of creation and its appreciation of societal energies in responding to the past and addressing the future. -- Harvey M. Weinstein, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley The contributors examine various forms of outreach attempted after a transition-from official press releases to participatory theater to Sesame Street-to sort through what has and has not worked and why. Together, these pieces make a powerful argument that efforts to deal with the past will fail unless they are connected to society. -- Tina Rosenberg, author of The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismTable of ContentsPreface On Making the Invisible Visible: The Role of Cultural Interventions in Transitional Justice Processes Pablo de GreiffIntroduction Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere Clara Ramirez-Barat Part One: Outreach in Transitional JusticeChapter 1 Implementing an Engagement Model: Outreach at the Special Court for Sierra Leone Maya KarwandeChapter 2 Making Justice Visible: Bosnia and Herzegovina's Domestic War Crimes Trials Outreach Stephanie A. BarbourChapter 3 Reaching Out to Victims and Communities: The CAVR's Experiences in Timor-Leste Patrick Burgess and Galuh WanditaChapter 4 Between Protection and Participation: Involving Children and Youth in Transitional Justice Processes Virginie Ladisch and Clara Ramirez-BaratPart Two: Conflict, Media, and JusticeChapter 5 Democratization of Media in Post-Conflict Situations: Reporting on ICTY War Crimes Trials in Serbia Nidzara Ahmetasevic and Tanja MaticChapter 6 The Uses and Abuses of Media: Rwanda before and after the Genocide Timothy LongmanChapter 7 The Media's Potential in Developing Social Awareness for Justice: The Example of Interactive Radio for Justice Wanda E. HallChapter 8 Using Media to Foster Mutual Respect and Understanding among Children in a Post-Conflict Region: The Rruga Sesam/Ulica Sezam in Kosovo Charlotte F. Cole and June H. LeeChapter 9 "Friend" of the Court: New Media and Transitional Justice Camille CrittendenPart Three: Art, Culture, and Transitional JusticeChapter 10 From Tears to Energy: Early Uses of Participatory Theater in Afghanistan Nadia Siddiqui and Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-EichhornChapter 11 Reverberations of Testimony: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Art and Media Catherine M. ColeChapter 12 Photography and Transitional Justice: Evidence, Postcard, Placard, Token of Absence Eduardo Gonzalez Cueva and M. Florencia LibrizziChapter 13 Visions of Justice and Accountability: Transitional Justice and Film Carolyn Patty BlumChapter 14 Memoryworks/Memory Works Louis BickfordChapter 15 Literature and Experiences of Harm Carlos Thiebaut Luis-AndreContributors

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Book SynopsisThough it is rarely explicitly articulated, many believe that there is no public in the Middle East. Scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa almost always engages with politics-a prominent focus of this region-yet the assumed absence of public spaces and fora has led many to think that debate, consensus, and concerted social action are antithetical to the cultural, religious, and national heritage of the region. It is a mistake to exclude the public dimension from the study of processes in this region. Recent studies have demonstrated not only the critical importance of the public in everyday practices of the MENA region, but they have also shown how the term and notion of the public sphere can be used productively to advance understandings of collective life. The first section of this volume offers alternative conceptions of the public sphere through rich and innovative theoretical analysis. Philosophical investigations focus on the role of collective action, the relationship between nationalism and democracy, and the notions of the public employed by socioreligious movements. The second section addresses a wide range of counter-hegemonic discourses and practices that enable the public sphere, such as memoirs, testimonies, strategies of surveillance, the Tehran bazaar, and the movements of migratory workers. The third section provides empirical accounts of the way in which mutual communication through technology has vitally expanded the notion of the public in the MENA region. In conclusion, conflict and resistance are shown to be generative forces in public discourse and debate and in the production of national publics.

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