Politics and government Books
University of Toronto Press The Road Back
Book SynopsisThe irrepressible Jack Pickersgill – sometime Liberal cabinet minister and party strategist, ever the bane of the Diefenbaker Tories – is back. This latest volume in his memoirs brims with an insider’s special understandings of the workings of government and the personalities that drive it. It cover Pickersgill’s years in opposition, from St Laurent’s defeat at the hands of Diefenbaker in 1957 through to the election of a Liberal government under Lester Pearson six years later and Pickersgill’s session as House Leader.With typical candour Pickersgill recalls the Liberals’ scramble to establish themselves as an effective opposition. He freely admits their mistakes, including his own, and gleefully recounts their successes in embarrassing the government at every opportunity. He discusses the issues that preoccupied him, generally as a member of the opposition and specifically as the member for Bonavista-Twillingate, Newfoundland; among
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University of Toronto Press A Peculiar Kind of Politics
Book SynopsisThe First Contingent left Canada in September 1914, destined to become an integral part of the British Army. When the Canadian Corps returned in 1919, it was part of a Canadian Army, commanded by Canadians and controlled by Ottawa. That transformation reflected the real emergence of Canada from colonial status to the role of a junior but sovereign ally. In this book, Desmond Morton shows that the change was not easy and that most of the difficulties were created by Canadians themselves. He reveals that the mossiest agent of change was Canada’s Minister of Militia, Sir Sam Hughes. Determined to exercise personal control over every aspect of the CEF, Hughes deliberately fostered confusion, conflict, and political intrigue in the Canadian administration in England. To overcome Hughes’s failure, a full government department – the Ministry of the Overseas Military Forces of Canada – was established in London under the direction of Sir George Perley.
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University of Toronto Press Massas Short History of the Muscovite Wars
Book SynopsisThe opening decade of the seventeenth century was, for Russia, one of great turmoil. Political unrest was compounded by natural calamity. On the death of Boris Godunov, the Russian throne was seized by a pretender claiming to be the long-dead son of Ivan the Terrible, allegedly murdered at Boris’s instigation in 1591. The false Dmitry made triumphal entry into Moscow in June 1605, only to be assassinated less than a year later by the supporters of Vaily Shnisky, who then seized the throne for himself. Rumours soon spread that Dmitry had in fact escaped, and soon another pretender was advancing on Moscow with his Polish supporters. Eyewitness to many of these events was Isaac Massa who came to Moscow from the Netherlands in 1600 as a merchant apprentice and remained for eight years. His history, written after his return home for the benefit of Maurice, Prince of Orange, lay undiscovered until 1859. This is its first English translation. Massa was an astute and o
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University of Toronto Press Behind the Jesters Mask
Book SynopsisThe editorial cartoon, a daily diversion for millions of Canadians, strikes most of its readers as irreverent, outspoken, iconoclastic. The reality, as Raymond Morris demonstrates, is more complex. Morris examines the form and content of Canadian editorial cartoons of the 1960s and 1970s that concerned relations between French and English Canadians and between Canada and the United States.He argues that since the advent of the monopoly press and the professional, politically neutral artist, cartooning has subtly changed from low satire of the paper’s political opponents to medium satire directed against the current government. Cartoons generally portray politics as a hive of squabbling, waste, and folly; business, while portrayed much less often, is shown as a hive of rational, beneficial productivity. Cartooning is thus often based on an imaginary opposition, a double standard which sells the virtues of corporate decision-making at the expense of democracy as seen in th
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University of Toronto Press Soldiers of the International
Book SynopsisThere has been little analysis of the forces that have contributed to the rise of radicalism in Canada, or to the organizations that subsequently resulted. The ultra-left in the Canadian political spectrum, has been almost totally overlooked. This study is the first to trace the origins and growth of the Party during the initial decade of its existence. Its history is of particular interest because it is unique among Canadian political bodies in drawing its inspiration as well as practical advice from an external source: The Communist International which subordinated the Canadian party to Moscow and to the Communist Party of the Society Union. The Communist party is the only Canadian political body which can trace its origins to an epochal event such as the Russian Revolution. Soldiers of the International covers the origins and growth of the Canadian party in detail and shows that its programme and development paralleled those of other Communist parties throughout the
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University of Toronto Press Le Turpin francais de le Turpin I
Book SynopsisVers le milieu du douzième siècle un clerc inconnu se faisant appeler Turpin, archevêque de Reims, écrivit une ‘histoire’ de ‘Charlemagne et Roland’ en latin. L’inconnu s’identifia à Turpin, guerrier saint et aime de la Chanson de Roland; à son personnage inspire d’un Charlemagne déjà monarque légendaire et emblème vivant de cet idéal tant envié du roi bon et fort, il donna pour compagnons Roland et ses pairs et, ayant traversé avec ceux-ci et avec l’armée des croises les épreuves des guerres d’Espagne, il écrivit la vérité sur tout ce qu’ils avaient fait et enduré ensemble. Cependant, l’invention majeure du pseudo-Turpin est d’avoir fait de St Jacques le génie tutélaire de la croisade de Charlemagne en Espagne, le bon ange qui arrive miraculeusement au bon moment et enfin, l’intercesseur qui obtient le salut ultime de Charlemagne. La matière de laquelle le pseudo-Turpin puisa son récit est ce
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University of Toronto Press The Last Cannon Shot
Book SynopsisBased on four years of research in the French-Canadian press of the 1840s and the private papers of the main French-Canadian politicians, British officials, and Roman Catholic religious leaders, this book describes in rich and lively detail the conflict of French Canada's priests and politicians around the central issue of their people's relation to the British Crown during that period. Confederation in 1867, modern Canada, and the current tempest in French Canada cannot adequately be understood without constant reference to these men of the 1840s and the political and religious ideologies they represented. Indeed, it was in their enmities, in their friendships and loyalties that were laid the strongbi-national foundations of what Etienne Parent foresaw as 'une grande nationalité canadienne assez forte pour se protéger elle-même et vivre de sa propre vie.'
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University of Toronto Press Social Justice and IsraelPalestine
Book SynopsisThis book critically assesses a series of complex and topical debates helping readers to make sense of the politics surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Each chapter considers one topic, represented by two or three essays offered in conversation with one another. Together, these essays advance different perspectives; in some cases they are complementary and in others they are oppositional. Topics include scholarly and activist interpretations of narratives in the context of Israel/Palestine; the concept of self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians; the debate over settler-colonialism as an appropriate framework for interpreting the history of Israel/Palestine; and questions surrounding Jewish and Palestinian refugees and the impact of displacement, among others. Through these foundational and contemporary topics, readers will be challenged to critically examine the strengths and weaknesses of each position in light of scholarly debates rooted in socTrade Review"The book is a powerful contribution that delves into the politics of the Israel/Palestine question, rendering it invaluable reading for under- and postgraduates as well as activists who want to understand these politics." -- Emile Badarin, College of Europe * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsAbout the Editors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Foundational Debates 1 Narratives Introduction Alan Dowty, University of Notre Dame, "Competing Narratives and Social Justice" George Bisharat, University of California, "Six Useful Pasts" Samia Shoman, San Mateo Union High School District, "Beyond Two Sides" 2 Self-determination Introduction Brent E. Sasley, University of Texas at Arlington, "Identity-Based States and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Ran Greenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, "The Right to National Self-determination and Israel/Palestine" Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Columbia University, "Considering Rights and Self-determination in Light of Injustice and Unequal Power" 3 Settler-Colonialism Introduction Sam Fleischacker, University of Illinois, "Interrogating the Limits of the Settler-Colonialist Paradigm" As’ad Ghanem, University of Haifa and Tariq Khateb, University of Haifa, "Israel in One Century—From a Colonial Project to a Complex Reality" 4 International Law Introduction Michael Lynk, Western University, "International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Closer to Power than Justice" Lisa Hajjar, University of California-Santa Barbara, "International Law and Fifty Years of Occupation" Miriam F. Elman, Syracuse University, "Israel’s Compliance with the Rule of Law: Settlements, Security, Defense Operations, and Religious Freedom" Part II. Contemporary Debates 5 Refugees and Displacement Introduction Roula El-Rifai, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, "Navigating the Palestinian Refugee Issue: An Insider’s Guide" Shayna Zamkanei, Princeton University, "Are Jews Displaced from Arab Countries ‘Refugees’?" Safa Aburabia, Harvard University, "The Bedouin Struggle over Land in Palestine/Israel: Males of the Nakba Generation Narrate Their Attachment to Land" 6 Apartheid Introduction Oren Kroll-Zeldin, University of San Francisco, "Does Israel Function as an Apartheid State? Critically Engaging the Complexities of the Apartheid Debate in Palestine/Israel" Zeina M. Barakat, Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany and Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, Wasatia Academic Institut, "Israel and Palestine: Occupation Not Apartheid" 7 Intersectional Alliances Introduction Joey Ayoub, University of Edinburgh, "Black-Palestinian Solidarity: Towards an Intersectionality of Struggles" Aziza Khazzoom, Indiana University, Bloomington, "Cultural Commonalities, Colonial Divisions: On Sources of Solidarity between Palestinians and Jews from the Middle East" Yousef Munayyer, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, "Alternate Bipolarity: How Israel Found Itself on the Wrong Side of the Global Divide" 8 BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Introduction Tom Pessah, Zochrot, "BDS: A Diverse Movement in Support of Human Rights" Rachel Fish, Paul E. Singer Foundation, "BDS: Binaries, Divisions, and Silencing" Amjad Iraqi, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, "The Right to Boycott Is Non-negotiable" Index
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University of Toronto Press Social Justice and IsraelPalestine
Book SynopsisThis book critically assesses a series of complex and topical debates helping readers make sense of some of the most foundational and contemporary ideas around the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.Trade Review"The book is a powerful contribution that delves into the politics of the Israel/Palestine question, rendering it invaluable reading for under- and postgraduates as well as activists who want to understand these politics." -- Emile Badarin, College of Europe * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsAbout the Editors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Foundational Debates 1 Narratives Introduction Alan Dowty, University of Notre Dame, "Competing Narratives and Social Justice" George Bisharat, University of California, "Six Useful Pasts" Samia Shoman, San Mateo Union High School District, "Beyond Two Sides" 2 Self-determination Introduction Brent E. Sasley, University of Texas at Arlington, "Identity-Based States and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Ran Greenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, "The Right to National Self-determination and Israel/Palestine" Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Columbia University, "Considering Rights and Self-determination in Light of Injustice and Unequal Power" 3 Settler-Colonialism Introduction Sam Fleischacker, University of Illinois, "Interrogating the Limits of the Settler-Colonialist Paradigm" As’ad Ghanem, University of Haifa and Tariq Khateb, University of Haifa, "Israel in One Century—From a Colonial Project to a Complex Reality" 4 International Law Introduction Michael Lynk, Western University, "International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Closer to Power than Justice" Lisa Hajjar, University of California-Santa Barbara, "International Law and Fifty Years of Occupation" Miriam F. Elman, Syracuse University, "Israel’s Compliance with the Rule of Law: Settlements, Security, Defense Operations, and Religious Freedom" Part II. Contemporary Debates 5 Refugees and Displacement Introduction Roula El-Rifai, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, "Navigating the Palestinian Refugee Issue: An Insider’s Guide" Shayna Zamkanei, Princeton University, "Are Jews Displaced from Arab Countries ‘Refugees’?" Safa Aburabia, Harvard University, "The Bedouin Struggle over Land in Palestine/Israel: Males of the Nakba Generation Narrate Their Attachment to Land" 6 Apartheid Introduction Oren Kroll-Zeldin, University of San Francisco, "Does Israel Function as an Apartheid State? Critically Engaging the Complexities of the Apartheid Debate in Palestine/Israel" Zeina M. Barakat, Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany and Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, Wasatia Academic Institut, "Israel and Palestine: Occupation Not Apartheid" 7 Intersectional Alliances Introduction Joey Ayoub, University of Edinburgh, "Black-Palestinian Solidarity: Towards an Intersectionality of Struggles" Aziza Khazzoom, Indiana University, Bloomington, "Cultural Commonalities, Colonial Divisions: On Sources of Solidarity between Palestinians and Jews from the Middle East" Yousef Munayyer, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, "Alternate Bipolarity: How Israel Found Itself on the Wrong Side of the Global Divide" 8 BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Introduction Tom Pessah, Zochrot, "BDS: A Diverse Movement in Support of Human Rights" Rachel Fish, Paul E. Singer Foundation, "BDS: Binaries, Divisions, and Silencing" Amjad Iraqi, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, "The Right to Boycott Is Non-negotiable" Index
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University of Toronto Press The Chaining of Prometheus
Book SynopsisThe development of a national science policy for Canada – and the priorities to be set within any such policy – have been topics of a mounting debate within government and the scientific community. The questions involved are of concern in every country today: Can governments now afford to support laissez-faire 'pure' research to any extent? Or rather, should available resources be allocated to mission-oriented studies determined by government-established national goals?Professor Hayes assesses the limitations and prospects for success of attempts to impose a pattern of planning on Canadian science and critically examines the reports of the Glassco Commission, the examiners for the OECD, the Lamontagne Committee, and the Science Council, as well as of several university-sponsored groups. The power of the Treasury Board and other parts of the control system also receive attention. Most reports on Canadian science policy have been productions of federal agen
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University of Toronto Press Honest Enough to Be Bold
Book SynopsisOn a promise of 'Clean, Uncorrupt, and Incorruptible Government,' James Pliny Whitney marked the end of an era of Liberal rule that had lasted for over three decades, and introduced to the province a new, 'progressive' brand of conservatism.As this lively biography demonstrates, Whitney was a gruff and forceful leader. He had a keen understanding of the social and technological forces that were changing Ontario so dramatically in the early twentieth century; he also understood, better than the Liberals, the political implications of those forces. The policies of his government extended to hydroelectric power, bilingual schools, northern development, automobile regulation, temperance (he dealt with the advocates of prohibition 'through gritted teeth'), imperial unity, housing, workmen's compensation, and the suffrage movement. (In a lapse from progressiveness, he argued that women should not be exposed to 'the unlovely influence of party politics.') He had a lasting influence
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University of Toronto Press Understanding Law for the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Law for the Social Sciences provides students with essential tools to study Canadian law from various disciplinary perspectives. It introduces key legal principles and concepts, ensuring that social science students build a strong foundation to engage confidently with legal topics. The book focuses on legal doctrines, helping students understand how these doctrines are applied by lawyers, judges, and legal scholars. To achieve this aim, it begins with chapters that cover the sources of law, legal reasoning, and statutory interpretation. Subsequent chapters introduce substantive areas of law, including constitutional law, criminal law, administrative law, contract law, tort law, property law, labour law, and environmental law. For each of these areas, the text not only outlines core concepts and terminology but also illustrates how legal controversies intersect with public debates, state authority, self-governance, and public policy.Designed as an introduction to law and legal concepts, Understanding Law for the Social Sciences prepares undergraduate students to engage with legal matters that they might further examine in law school or explore in social science graduate study. While the book is especially beneficial for political science students due to its focus on public policy, its broad scope offers valuable insights for anyone interested in understanding the role of law in society.
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University of Toronto Press Understanding Law for the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Law for the Social Sciences provides students with essential tools to study Canadian law from various disciplinary perspectives. It introduces key legal principles and concepts, ensuring that social science students build a strong foundation to engage confidently with legal topics. The book focuses on legal doctrines, helping students understand how these doctrines are applied by lawyers, judges, and legal scholars. To achieve this aim, it begins with chapters that cover the sources of law, legal reasoning, and statutory interpretation. Subsequent chapters introduce substantive areas of law, including constitutional law, criminal law, administrative law, contract law, tort law, property law, labour law, and environmental law. For each of these areas, the text not only outlines core concepts and terminology but also illustrates how legal controversies intersect with public debates, state authority, self-governance, and public policy.Designed as an introduction to law and legal concepts, Understanding Law for the Social Sciences prepares undergraduate students to engage with legal matters that they might further examine in law school or explore in social science graduate study. While the book is especially beneficial for political science students due to its focus on public policy, its broad scope offers valuable insights for anyone interested in understanding the role of law in society.
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University of Toronto Press Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival
Book SynopsisAlfred Valdmanis is best known in Canada for his infamous role in Premier Joey Smallwood's scheme to industrialize Newfoundland. A Latvian immigrant, he was appointed Director General of Economic Development in 1950 with the understanding that through his connections to Europe he could entice German and Baltic industrialists to the isolated, rural island. His influence was brought to an abrupt end when, in 1954, he was charged with defrauding the government. The media, latching on to his murky past and his possible affiliation with war criminals, made him the scapegoat of Newfoundland's problems, painting him as part comedian, part sinister villain.This was not the first time his name was connected with controversial issues. Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion,
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University of Toronto Press Canada and the New International Economy
Book SynopsisThe essays presented here arose from a strong feeling that it is very important at the present moment to stimulate thought in Canada on our position in the developing world economy. The authors have been concerned about the inward-looking emphasis in recent Canadian discussions of policy and are asking if a "status quo" approach to commerce is desirable or possible at a time when other nations are endeavouring to strengthen their economies by new adventures in liberal trade, especially in the form of regional trade groups. Peace, prosperity, and national identity are among our most cherished social objectives: how do and should they influence policy in the area of international trade?With this shared background of interest the three authors examine trading of the past and the present. H. Scott Gordon (Carleton University) surveys the nineteenth century, Harry G. Johnson (University of Chicago) describes the emergence of regional free trade areas, and Arthur J.R.Smith (Canadia
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University of Toronto Press Transatlantic Economic Community
Book SynopsisThe author assesses the place in world affairs of economic co-operation and integration among Atlantic countries, and the prospects for Atlantic relationships in the near future.
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University of Toronto Press Roots and Values in Canadian Lives
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking volume, which represents a re-shaping of the Plaunt Lectures delivered at Carleton University, 1960, offers impressions of the art of living in Canada by one who has been deeply concerned with the relationships between our two cultures. The purpose of the author is to stimulate reflection on the genesis and the contemporary status of Canada as a bi-cultural nation. His own method in the book is also that of reflection, rather than didactic exposition. He takes up the manifestations of our two cultures in our two literatures, describes his own experience of living personally and professionally with members of both groups, and goes on to analyse what contribution Canadian universities might make to greater understanding of our biculturalism. It is in the university setting that the author sees hope of a new humanism, thanks particularly to the vision of the world offered by the social sciences; it, he feels, will enable us to see both aspects of our country full
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University of Toronto Press Social Science and Modern Man
Book SynopsisThe main theme of these lectures is man's struggle to understand himself as a social being. The author argues that the chief inspiration for this effort, insofar as it has been successful, has been the rationalist philosophy of physical science, and that constructive social science has been based on this philosophy rather than upon theology and ethical philosophy. He goes on to discuss the major problems confronting man in his attempts to come to grips with the modern social world - problems of social and political organization, of equality and aspiration, of intellect and reason - and ends with a plea for liberalism and rationalism as the political and intellectual foundations of freedom and progress. This fascinating and thought-provoking apology for liberalism and the social scientist will be valuable reading for anyone interested in problems facing them both today.
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University of Nebraska Press Political Culture in Spanish America 15001830
Book SynopsisPolitical Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830 examines the nature of Spanish American political culture by reevaluating the political theory, institutions, and practices of the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case studies with a focus on New Spain and Quito, Jaime E. Rodríguez O. demonstrates that the process of independence of Spanish America differs from previous claims.Trade Review"This delightful book forces us to rethink much of what we thought we knew about politics and political culture in Spanish America from conquest to independence."—Sean T. Perrone, Sixteenth Century Journal"Distinguished historian [Rodríguez O's] documentation of extensive Indian participation in the political process in Ecuador following the crisis of 1808 warrants special mention. Clearly written, thoughtful, and persuasive, this important volume belongs in every college and university library."—M. A. Burkholder, Choice"Rodríguez demonstrates how different social groups referred to the traditional political culture to defend their interests and improve their social position once the Spanish monarchy evolved from an absolutist regime to a constitutional one."—Abisai Pérez, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"A leading scholar of Spanish American independence, Jaime E. Rodríguez O. brings to the English-speaking world a collection of articles that he published in Spanish over the last two decades. The volume aims to put the political to the forefront of discussions on the creation of Spanish American nations, a long-term commitment of Rodríguez O.'s and a complex matter worth discussion in the case of such an influential scholar."—Mónica Ricketts, Hispanic American Historical Review“Jaime Rodríguez O. is a great historian of the Iberian Empires, and once again he shows his command of the subject in his latest book, Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830. It is an insightful and in-depth examination of independence within an Atlantic framework. This analysis is both beautifully written and exciting to read.”—Christoph Rosenmüller, research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and professor of Latin American history at Middle Tennessee State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface A Note on Usage Introduction 1. The Nature of Representation in New Spain 2. The Origins of the Quito Revolution of 1809 3. Clerical Culture in the Kingdom of Quito 4. Citizens of the Spanish Nation 5. The Emancipation of America 6. U.S. Independence and Spanish American Independence 7. Caudillos and Historians 8. New Directions and Old Questions Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press A Hemisphere of Women
Book SynopsisA Hemisphere of Women focuses on the first Pan American women's organization dealing specifically with women's civil and political rights in a transnational arena in the early twentieth century.Trade Review“Important and quite timely. What a fabulous inquiry Wamsley has presented us! This single work contributes to many areas and is also significant as it examines a pertinent moment in history primarily from the Latin American perspective rather than the imperial American perspective. A Hemisphere of Women is grounded in a wealth of archival resources and offers a strongly balanced perspective given the bilateral story Wamsley tells. This book is not only exceptionally well researched; it is beautifully written.”—Dana Cooper, author of Informal Ambassadors: American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865–1945Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Constructing a Pan American Women’s Movement, 1915–28 2. The Founding of the IACW, 1928 3. Negotiating the Goals and Strategies of the IACW, 1928–30 4. The IACW in the International Arena, 1928–33 5. A Coup d’Etat in the IACW, 1934–39 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Hawaiian by Birth
Book SynopsisAn exploration of competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting the hundreds of white missionary children born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands during the nineteenth century, and the impact these children had on U.S. foreign policy of the era. Trade Review"A compelling and thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century American missionary children in Hawai‘i—the generation that orchestrated the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and annexation to the United States. While the political story has been told, Joy Schulz adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural milieu of settler children who came to see the islands of their birth as their birthright. Hawaiian By Birth underscores the importance of family relations and generational difference to understanding the complexities of American empire. Clearly and concisely written, the book is well suited for classroom use."—Seth Archer, Western Historical Quarterly"A thoughtful treatment fusing the study of childhood with imperialism."—Choice"Both general reader and scholar will benefit from reading Schulz’s excellent contribution to the study of 19th century Hawaiian history and the role the children of white missionaries played in shaping it."—Reading Religion"Schulz's child-centric approach is methodologically invigorating, and her interweaving of social and political events and trends with interpersonal emotions and tensions is a valuable contribution. In taking children seriously as historical figures, she gives them agency while also providing a much fuller consideration of mission colonialism in the Pacific. Hers is an engaging and persuasive reminder to take the history of children and childhood seriously. . . . Strong primary-source research and an engaging writing style make this book a valuable contribution to scholars of American relations with Hawai'i."—Emily J. Manktelow, Journal of Pacific History"In Hawaiian by Birth, Joy Schulz sheds new light on a remarkable group of individuals: the children of the first Christian missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands. Much has been written about the missionaries (who radically transformed the islands in the early to mid-1800s), but less has been written about their children."—Clifford Putney, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"[Hawaiian by Birth] is a fascinating case study of evangelical missionaries' interventions for what they saw as the good of others. Through her meticulously researched book, Schulz has contributed an illuminating account of 19th-century American foreign appropriation set in train by Christian outreach in the northern Pacific."—Patricia Grimshaw, Pacific Northwest Quarterly"Descendants of the many generations of native Hawaiians who have been maltreated and disregarded over the past two centuries still struggle to have their voices heard and their histories made known. This book will hopefully go some way toward making all of us more aware of what occurred on the Hawaiian Islands not so very long ago, with political, economic, and social consequences extending into the present day."—Jean Barman, American Historical Review"This book makes a valuable contribution to the history of U.S. colonialism and the history of American missionaries, and is an essential addition to scholarship on the history of Hawai‘i. It breaks new ground by examining the childhood experiences of this generation of Hawaiian-born whites and by applying theories of childhood development to their history."—Lawrence Kessler, Pacific Historical Review“Hawaiian by Birth is a superb study at the dynamic intersection of imperial, Hawaiian, cultural, and childhood histories. Joy Schulz is a passionate writer, and her work is filled with surprising implications for the history of nineteenth-century Hawai‘i.”—David Igler, author of The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush“We understand that the normative, heterosexual family constitutes the nation-state. This remarkable, innovative study reveals the centrality of that family in ‘birthing empire’ through a history of childhood. Race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion intersect to advance U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and settler colonialism in Hawai‘i.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Island World: Hawai‘i and the United StatesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imperial Children and Empire Formation in the Nineteenth Century 1. Birthing Empire: Economies of Childrearing and the Establishment of American Colonialism in Hawai‘i 2. Playing with Fire: White Childhood and Environmental Legacies in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i 3. Schooling Power: Teaching Anglo–Civic Duty in the Hawaiian Islands, 1841–53 4. Cannibals in America: U.S. Acculturation and the Construction of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century White Immigrants from the Hawaiian Islands 5. Crossing the Pali: White Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and the Racial Divide in Hawai‘i, 1820–98 Conclusion: White Hawaiians before the World Notes Bibliography Index
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University Press of Mississippi Rebirthing a Nation
Book SynopsisAlthough US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender and gay people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of these white men''s speech, few notice or have thoughtfully considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and conservative white women''s messages that organizationally preserve white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of white supremacy, which con
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Politics in the Gutters American Politicians and
Book SynopsisConsiders the political myths, moments, and mimeses, in comic books - from nonfiction to science fiction, superhero to supernatural, serious to satirical, golden age to present day - to consider how they represent, re-present, underpin, and/or undermine ideas and ideals about American electoral politics.
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Jimmy Carter
Book SynopsisPresents eleven interviews, drawn from Jimmy Carter’s five decades as a public figure, that capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined him - and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Jimmy Carter
Book SynopsisPresents eleven interviews, drawn from Jimmy Carter’s five decades as a public figure, that capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined him - and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment.
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Cornell University Press The One Percent Solution
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United decision, it''s become commonplace to note the growing political dominance of a small segment of the economic elite. But what exactly are those members of the elite doing with their newfound influence? The One Percent Solution provides an answer to this question for the first time. Gordon Lafer''s book is a comprehensive account of legislation promoted by the nation''s biggest corporate lobbies across all fifty state legislatures and encompassing a wide range of labor and economic policies.In an era of growing economic insecurity, it turns out that one of the main reasons life is becoming harder for American workers is a relentlessand concertedoffensive by the country's best-funded and most powerful political forces: corporate lobbies empowered by the Supreme Court to influence legislative outcomes with an endless supply of cash. These actors have successfully championed hundreds of new laws that lower wages, eliminate paid sick leTrade Review[T]he good news is that much of the conservative and corporate agenda recounted by The One Percent Solution is highly unpopular. Large majorities of adults, even Republicans, support efforts to take care of the environment, bolster social programs for families and children, improve our nation's infrastructure, and expand labor rights, even union rights. The bad news is that opponents to the right-wing, business-friendly troika have been slow to mobilize counterweights of their own. The One Percent Solution should thus be a wake-up call to anyone concerned about the economic well-being of working Americans. * Dissent *Gordon Lafer's The One Percent Solution seeks to explain several puzzling aspects of American politics today. Why do people of modest means who depend on government-funded health care and Social Security or other supplements to their income continue to vote for candidates who promise to privatize or get rid of those very programs. Why do pepole who are poor vote for politicians who promise to cut corporate taxes?... [Lafer] meticulously demonstrates how the Koch brothers and the Suprme Court's Citizen's United decision of 2010 have influenced elections and public policy in the states. * The New York Review of Books *Lafer (Univ. of Oregon) focuses interdisciplinary attention on the strategies and tactics of a handful of registered nationwide lobbyists (American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the National Federation of Independent Business), which submitted "model legislation" to state legislators. He critiques the policies these groups espoused regarding minimum wages, union memberships, employee rights, government funding, and public education. The author presents evidence of economic impact from these state laws, which contrast greatly from the original proclamations of how these changes should improve a state’s economy. Lafer examines tactics lobbyists used to weaken state funding for auditing and enforcing payroll regulations and promoting charter schools and voucher programs, irrespective of the actual results from those reforms. The voluminous resources listed in the notes are accurate and very accessible. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Corporate Political Agenda for the Twenty-First Century1. Wisconsin and Beyond: Dismantling the Government2. Deunionizing the Private Sector3. Remaking the Nonunion Economy4. The Destruction of Public Schooling5. Silencing Labor's Voice: The Campaign to Remove Unions from PoliticsConclusion: Populist Pushback and the Shrinking of Democracy
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Cornell University Press My Nuclear Nightmare
Book SynopsisNaoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. Kan compared the potential worst-case devastation that could be caused by a nuclear power plant meltdown as tantamount only to a great world war. Nothing else has the same impact.' Japan escaped such a dire fate during the Fukushima disaster, said Kan, only due to luck.' Even so, Kan had to make some steely-nerved decisions that necessitated putting all emotion aside. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make the sacrifice to save the many. Kan knew that abandoning the Fukushima Daiichi site would cause radiation levels in the surrounding environment to soar. His insistence that the Tepco workforce remain at Fukushima was perhaps oTrade ReviewNaoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. Kan compared the potential worst-case devastation that could be caused by a nuclear power plant meltdown as tantamount only to 'a great world war. Nothing else has the same impact.' Japan escaped such a dire fate during the Fukushima disaster, said Kan, only ‘due to luck.’ Even so, Kan had to make some steely-nerved decisions that necessitated putting all emotion aside. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make the sacrifice to save the many. Kan knew that abandoning the Fukushima Daiichi site would cause radiation levels in the surrounding environment to soar. His insistence that the Tepco workforce remain at Fukushima was perhaps one of the most unsung moments of heroism in the whole sorry saga. * The Ecologist *This worthwhile account of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was written by former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who served during that time.... This excellent work provides thorough detail about the Fukushima disaster from the eyes of a political leader. To any individual who thinks governing is easy or that lack of governance is possible in the modern world, this book is a necessary revelation. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. -- A. M. Saperstein, Wayne State University * CHOICE *Voluminous literature on the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been published, but My Nuclear Nightmare might be one of the most important primary sources to be translated into English.... The book is interesting in many research contexts. Scholars who are interested in crisis management, risk communication, the prime minister's political leadership, media coverage of the prime minister, nuclear regulatory authority, renewable energy policy, and ethical issues such as the lives of nuclear power plant workers, will find the book engaging. * Pacific Affairs *
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Cornell University Press Power Protection and Free Trade
Book SynopsisWhy do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy. Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, systemic approach to trade strategy that builds on the interaction between domestic and international factors. In this innovative book, Lake maintains that both protection and free trade are legitimate and effective instruments of national policy, the considered responses of nations to varying international structures.Trade ReviewLake has written an excellent book. He is meticulous in showing when and how his predictions are confirmed or disconfirmed by the evidence. His version of structuralism in the trade area is by far the most sophisticated and nuanced we have. By focusing sharply on structure, he alerts us to external constraints and opportunities, and suggests interesting reinterpretations of particular historical events. -- Stephan Haggard * American Political Science Review *
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Cornell University Press Financial Citizenship
Book SynopsisGovernment bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim to authority over the global economy; households, consumers, and workers facing increasingly intolerable levels of inequality: These dramatic conditions seem to cry out for new ways of understanding the purposes, roles, and challenges of central banks and financial governance more generally. Financial Citizenship reveals that the conflicts about who gets to decide how central banks do all these things, and about whether central banks are acting in everyone's interest when they do them, are in large part the product of a culture clash between experts and the various global publics that have a stake in what central banks do.Expertscentral bankers, regulators, market insiders, and thTrade ReviewAnnelise Riles makes a powerful case for this re-engineering of the argument for central-bank independence. * Survival *
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Cornell University Press Sovereign Necropolis
Book SynopsisBy the 1890s, Siam (Thailand) was the last holdout against European imperialism in Southeast Asia. But the kingdom''s exceptional status came with a substantial caveat: Bangkok, its bustling capital, was a port city that was subject to many of the same legal and fiscal constraints as other colonial treaty ports. Sovereign Necropolis offers new insight into turn-of-the-century Thai history by disinterring the forgotten stories of those who died unnatural deaths during this period and the work of the Siamese state to assert their rights in a pluralistic legal arena.Based on a neglected cache of inquest files compiled by the Siamese Ministry of the Capital, official correspondence, and newspaper accounts, Trais Pearson documents the piecemeal introduction of new forms of legal and medical concern for the dead. He reveals that the investigation of unnatural death demanded testimony from diverse strata of society: from the unlettered masses to the king himself. These cases Trade ReviewPearson has sketched a distinctive legal environment among many others in the colonial world at the turn of the nineteenth century and has shown that the treaty port is the most useful lens through which to compare Siam with other parts of colonial Asia. * Journal of the Siam Society/New Mandala *Sovereign Necropolis is crisply written, even lively; despite the work's stakes in area studies literature and sociocultural theory, the discussion is accessible for non-subject-matter experts. * The Social History of Medicine *Trais Pearson's Sovereign Necropolis is a well-researched historical study that examines the adoption of European legal practices related to postmortem examinations in the context of this political reality. Sovereign Necropolis makes key contributions to Thai history. * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *Sovereign Necropolis, by Trais Pearson, is a remarkable, compelling, and engaging study about the politics of death in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Siam. Pearson brilliantly captures throughout the book the ensuing tensions between the Siamese elite and the foreign powers, and documents how those conflicts and negotiations played out in the plural legal arena of civil law and forensic medicine. Brilliantly organized and eloquently written, Sovereign Necropolis is a notable and original contribution to our understanding of modern Thai history. * Asian Journal of Law and Society *In attempting to reach a broader audience than the Thai or Southeast Asian studies communities, Pearson employs a comparative approach, drawing from a wide range of cases and theories in various imperial and colonial contexts. This is a must-read for those interested in the politics of death and of civilising reforms in Southeast Asia. * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *This is a book that is full of surprising and intriguing insights into Siam's peculiar semi-colonial status in matters concerning accidental death. It will contribute to the now burgeoning literature on the history of Thai law, and may encourage greater interest in "death studies" in Thailand. * Pacific Affairs *Pearson presents a compelling study of medico-legal practices and legal subjectivity in an environment characterized by limited sovereignty and transnational flows of expertise, while at the same time giving space to subaltern voices. This book is a noteworthy contribution to studies of medicine, law, society and politics in the colonial and semi-colonial worlds. * The British Journal of the History of Science *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Bad Death 2. Indemnity and Identity 3. Treaty Port Tort 4. Accidental Metaphysics 5. Morbid Subjects 6. Incisions and Inscriptions Conclusion Epilogue: Spirits in a Material World
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Cornell University Press Labor in the Time of Trump
Book SynopsisLabor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a workingclass movement.While President Trump''s election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response.Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes.Contributors: Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest; Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Sarah Jaffe, co-host of Dissent Magazine''s Belabored podcast; Cedric Johnson, University of IlliTrade Review"This volume offers a timely, needed, and original set of interpretations of the political moment in which we live. The emphasis here is not on theoretical debates but rather on practical political analysis and the construction of alternatives." -- Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Koch Network's Long Game and Its Implications for Progressive Organizing, by Nancy MacLean 2. Right-Wing Populism, the Corporate Attack on Working Americans, and the Labor Movement's Response, by Gordon Lafer 3. Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of Organized Labor, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jose Alejandro La Luz 4. Walker's Wisconsin and the Future of the United States, by Jon Shelton 5. Whose Class Is It Anyway? The "White Working Class" and the Myth of Trump, by Sarah Jaffe 6. Privatization: Chipping Away at Government, by Donald Cohen 7. Building a Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Climate Movement, by Lara Skinner 8. From Co-optation to Radical Resistance: An Examination of Organized Labor's Response(s) to Immigrant Rights in the Era of Trump, by Shannon Gleeson 9. Trumpism, Policing, and the Problem of Surplus Population, by Cedric Johnson 10. Going South: How Southern Organizing Will Determine the Future of the Labor Movement, by MaryBe McMillan 11. Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia, by Jennifer Klein 12. Fighting and Defeating the Charter School Agenda, by Kyla Walters
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Cornell University Press Street Sovereigns
Book SynopsisHow do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapseand at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groupsknown as baz (base)as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argues that they more accurately express a novel mode of street politics that has resulted from the nexus of liberalizing orders of governance and development with longstanding practices of militant organizing in Haiti.Kivland demonstrates how the baz exemplifies an innovative and effective platform for intervening in the contemporary political order, while at the same time reproducing gendered and generational hierarchies and precipitating contests of leadership that exacerbate neighborhood insecuTrade ReviewKivland's fine-grained portraits of her interlocutors are poignant and compelling. * American Anthropologist *In Street Sovereigns, Chelsey Kivland draws on years of ethnographic research to reframe the way we think about political agency, sovereignty, and statemaking in Haiti. Kivland masterfully weaves an analysis that is rich in ethnographic detail and sophisticated in theoretical insight. There is a remarkable humility to her analysis; the result is a work of deep and profound respect. * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Baz 1. Defense 2. History 3. Respect 4. Identity 5. Development 6. Gender Conclusion: The Spiral
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Cornell University Press Street Sovereigns
Book SynopsisHow do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapseand at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groupsknown as baz (base)as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argues that they more accurately express a novel mode of street politics that has resulted from the nexus of liberalizing orders of governance and development with longstanding practices of militant organizing in Haiti.Kivland demonstrates how the baz exemplifies an innovative and effective platform for intervening in the contemporary political order, while at the same time reproducing gendered and generational hierarchies and precipitating contests of leadership that exacerbate neighborhood insecuTrade ReviewKivland's fine-grained portraits of her interlocutors are poignant and compelling. * American Anthropologist *In Street Sovereigns, Chelsey Kivland draws on years of ethnographic research to reframe the way we think about political agency, sovereignty, and statemaking in Haiti. Kivland masterfully weaves an analysis that is rich in ethnographic detail and sophisticated in theoretical insight. There is a remarkable humility to her analysis; the result is a work of deep and profound respect. * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Baz 1. Defense 2. History 3. Respect 4. Identity 5. Development 6. Gender Conclusion: The Spiral
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Cornell University Press When There Was No Aid
Book SynopsisFor all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by it. Sarah G. Phillips's When There Was No Aid offers us one such example. Using evidence from Somaliland's experience of peace-building, When There Was No Aid challenges two of the most engrained presumptions about violence and poverty in the global South. First, that intervention by actors in the global North is self-evidently useful in ending them, and second that the quality of a country's governance institutions (whether formal or informal) necessarily determines the level of peace and civil order that the country experiences. Phillips explores how popular discourses about war, peace, and international intervention structure the conditions of possibility to such a degree that even the inability of institutions to provide reliable security can stabilize a prolonged period of peace. She argues that Somaliland's post-conflict peace is grounded less in the constraining power of its institutions than in a powerful discourse about the country's structural, temporal, and physical proximity to war. Through its sensitivity to the ease with which peace gives way to war, Phillips argues, this discourse has indirectly harnessed an apparent propensity to war as a source of order.Trade ReviewThis remarkable study of a non-state upends dominant scholarly and policy discourses about statehood, conflict, peace, development, and international interventions. Phillips skillfully engages the relevant literature and methodological issues, and employs a creative multimethod approach to capture both the uniqueness of Somaliland and its value for comparative analysis and political theory. This is an excellent volume for college and larger public libraries, and for collections supporting programs in international affairs, as well as for Africana, peace, development, and security studies. * Choice *When There Was No Aid is the result of extensive fieldwork.... Phillips has drawn on impressive empirical research to produce a compelling account of Somaliland's path to peace. While it is evidently written with an academic audience in mind, this book is lively and accessible. * Times Literary Supplement *Phillips's nuanced and provocative study is the most compelling account yet of Somaliland's recent history. * Foreign Affairs *Theoretically sophisticated and beautifully written, Sarah Phillips's book is a remarkable study that is an example of some of the very finest research and scholarship to emerge from political science and international relations in recent years. When There Was No Aid is destined to become a landmark text in the fields of development, international affairs, peace, conflict and security studies. * Australian Political Studies Association *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What if We Don't Intervene? 1. The Imperative of Intervention 2. Somaliland's Relative Isolation 3. Self-Reliance and Elite Networks 4. Local Ownership and the Rules of the Game 5. War and Peace in the Independence Discourse Conclusion: Why Aid Matters Less than We Think
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Cornell University Press The Frontier Effect
Book SynopsisIn The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region''s violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. Although he takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates that Urabá is more than a case of Hobbesian political disorder.Through his insightful exploration of war, paramilitary organizations, grassroots support and resistance, and drug-related violence, Ballvé argues that Urabá, rather than existing in statelessness, has actually been an intense and persistent site of state-building projects. Indeed, these projects have thrust together an unlikely gathering of guerilla groups, drug-trafficking paramilitaries, military strategists, technocratic planners, local politicians, and development experts each seeking to give concrete coherence to the inherently unwieldy abstraction of the state in a space in which it supposedly does not exist. By untangling this odd mix, BalTrade ReviewThe Frontier Effect is beautifully written, grounding a complex argument in a carefully crafted narrative. This book crosses disciplinary divides in geography, anthropology, history, and political science. Scholars interested in conflict and peace studies, political economy, and development should absolutely read and teach this book. * The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Teo Ballvé provides an expansive, historical, and ethnographic analysis of diverse examples of state formation in the northwestern region of Colombia known as Urabá. The Frontier Effect is an engaging and sophisticated contribution to existing critical geographical scholarship concerning the social production of territory, land grabbing, and the political economy of conflict. [T]he text awards readers with an innovative and original analysis of the country's historical and ongoing conflict. * Human Geography *Overall, Ballvé offers outstanding research that will catch the attention of scholars interested in analysing the territorial contradictions of the relative stability of Colombia's democracy and the different forms and stages of the country's protracted political violence. * The Journal of Peasant Studies *The Frontier Effect will remain a vital guide to Colombia's ongoing yet fragile transition away from internal conflict, as well as to the nature of informal and formal politics in the contemporary world. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Producing the Frontier 2. Turf Wars in Colombia's Red Corner 3. The Paramilitary War of Position 4. Paramilitary Populism: In Defense of the Region 5. The Masquerades of Grassroots Development 6. The Postconflict Interregnum Uraba: A Sea of Opportunities?
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Cornell University Press Emperor of the World
Book SynopsisEmperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne''s apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne''s encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rheTrade ReviewCharlemagne holds a cardinal place in the collective imagination of medieval politics. The character has been reinterpereted throughout the centuries depending on the different causes his figure has been used to support.... Consequently, certain hypotheses are transformed too quickly into facts. Anne Latowsky questions the validity of one of the most ingrained certainties: that the figure of Charlemagne was used to promote the idea of crusade and feed the fervor of crusaders.... We can only hope that she will complete this provoking work by returning to the vernacular sources of her initial project. * Annales *In her superb new book... Latowsky contributes to a broader literature that has recently begun to reexamine and rethink the remembrance of Charlemagne and the Carolingians in the West.... Over the course of her study, Latowsky deftly reveals the ways that this apocalyptic discourse [surrounding the fabled Last Emperor, prophesied by the ancient sibylline tradition to reunite East and West and herald the end of time itself] was merged with the foreign embassy motif, and how this striking hybrid enabled the expression, ranging from praise to polemic, of ideas about rulership and the nature of the political. * American Historical Review *Latowsky untangles the complicated processes of projection and reception whereby legend was transformed into ideology to become a significant and contested theme in cultural history. The results are original and illuminating. They also raise timely questions about methodology and interdisciplinarity which will be of interest to all medievalists whatever their affiliations in university departments. * H-France Review *Latowsky's detailed analyses of the refashioning of Charlemagne’s figure and the construction of his fictive journey to the East shows convincingly how ideological needs and changes in political contexts lead to an adaptation of a powerful narrative over the course of four centuries. Her careful untangling of the sources as well as the readjusting of the historiographically accepted image of Charlemagne as a crusader 'avant la lettre’ shows how profitably her book fits into the contemporary scholarly questioning of historical narratives as cultural and political constructs in light of global history, for the image of Charlemagne continues to be adapted even today. * The Journal of Medieval Latin 24 *Latowsky's efforts to enrich our understanding of what the motif of Charlemagne in the East meant to medieval writers, and to insist on the relevance of the empire to this story, are successful and constitute an important addition to the field. One of the particular virtues of her work is her ability to combine close readings of literary texts with sensitive appreciation of the historical contexts that produced them, without reducing the literary texts to a simple reflection of political policies.... She has.... provided a nuanced new perspective on a very old legend, one that encourages her readers to appreciate the multivalent responses that the figure of Charlemagne evoked in the medieval German empire. * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Carolingian Origins 2. Relics from the East 3. Benzo of Alba's Parallel Signs 4. In Praise of Frederick Barbarossa 5. The Emperor's Charlemagne 6. "Charlemagne and the East" in France Epilogue: The Remains of CharlemagneBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Picky Eagle
Book SynopsisThe Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation''s domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass argues that US ambitions were selective from the start.By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of US leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. US presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. These leaders were particularly sensitive to annexation''s domestic costs where xenophobia interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather thanTrade ReviewIn this timely, relevant and historically rich book, political scientist Richard Maass asks: Why did the United States stop annexing territory? His question implicitly recognizes what historians of US foreign relations have said for a very long time: rather than being 'isolationist', the United States expanded vigorously throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. * International Affairs *Maass has written a book that is theoretically ambitious and empirically expansive, and the historical and archival evidence he marshals is rich, impressive, and ultimately convincing. * Perspectives on Politics *Scholars have charted in meticulous detail the upstart nation's transformation from a motley conglomeration of former British colonies into a transcontinental empire with, after the colonialist outburst of 1898, global reach. Richard W. Maass's The Picky Eagle swims against this tide, focusing not on the conventional story of incremental expansion but instead on the many instances in which the United States left on the table opportunities to annex more territory. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of Contents1. The Limits of U.S. Territorial Expansion 2. Explaining Annexation 3. To the Continent: European Empires and U.S. Annexation 4. To the West: Native American Lands and U.S. Annexation 5. To the North: Canada and U.S. Annexation 6. To the South: Mexico and U.S. Annexation 7. To the Seas: Islands and U.S. Annexation 8. The International Implications of U.S. Annexation
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Cornell University Press Mobilizing for Development
Book SynopsisMobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia''s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s1970s), South Korea (1950s1970s), and China (1980s2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomesimprovements in agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environmentwere realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of induTrade ReviewThe book combines an original theoretical framework, rich knowledge and profound insight about all three cases, and an exemplary comparative historical analysis. It should be treated seriously by those interested in developmental states, rural studies and East Asia, and will definitely trigger more discussions. For China scholars, the book's conceptualization and analysis of campaigns also advance our understanding of this policy tool that is so commonly pursued in the country. * The China Quarterly *Looney not only expertly recounts the socio-economic context of the campaigns in Taiwan, South Korea, and China: through an analysis of the style of their implementation and outcomes we also learn how these campaigns ended up with such different results. * The University of British Columbia *In Mobilizing for Development, political scientist Kristen E. Looney masterfully illuminates and compares the poorly understood—and often ignored—role that rural development played in the developmental success stories of Taiwan, South Korea, and China... [T]his manuscript will be a must for scholars who research development or the politics of these East Asian societies... [A] writing style that is simultaneously engaging and in-depth, both sparing and rich with detail... * Developing Economies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The State and Rural Development in East Asia 1. The Role of Rural Institutions and State Campaigns in Development 2. Rural Development in Taiwan, 1950s–1970s 3. Rural Development in South Korea, 1950s–1970s 4. Rural Development in China, 1980s–2000s Conclusion: The Rural Developmental State
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Cornell University Press Beyond Exception
Book SynopsisOver the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a field that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyze what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study. They propose ways that this analysis of exceptionalism provides tools for rethinking the concepts that have become commonplace, structuring narratives and analytical frameworks within fieldwork in and on the Arabian Peninsula. They ask: What would not only Middle East studies, but stuTrade ReviewThis thought-provoking book is a clear invitation and reminder for every reader interested in Gulf studies and involved in their production to always interrogate and revisit her/his own work, reflect and act upon her/his own research practice, thereby contributing to the "new venues for interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula" called for by the authors. * Anthropos *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethnography from the Exceptional to the Everyday 1. Space, Mobility, and Shifting Identities in the Constitution of the "Field" 2. How Western Residents in Riyadh and Dubai Produce and Challenge Exceptionalism 3. Anthropology and the Educational Encounter: Archival Logics and Gendered "Backlash" in Qatar's Education City 4. Class Struggle and De-exceptionalizing the Gulf Conclusion: Centering the Arabian Peninsula, Decolonizing the Academy
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Cornell University Press Fluid Jurisdictions
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Fluid Jurisdictions, Nurfadzilah Yahaya masterfully shows the predicament of diasporic Arabs in the British Straits and Dutch Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. * HistPhil *She draws on material from multiple international archives to examine the interplay between colonial projections of order and their realities, Arab navigation of legally plural systems in Southeast Asia and beyond, and the fraught and deeply human struggles that played out between family, religious, contract, and commercial legal orders. * Law & Society Review *[The book is] innovative [and] well-researched. Fluid Jurisdictions scrutinizes the Hadramī relations with other Muslims, their pursuit of capital accumulation, and their permanence in the region. [The book] tells a multifaceted story of a community that, in several ways, consented to colonial rule in order to improve their conditions within the system. * Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia *One might consider Nurfadzilah Yahaya's Fluid Jurisdictions a new addition to the literature, but this would discount the active role that Yahaya has played in shaping the conversation from its outset. Although this is her first book, it is one that bears the imprint of her long engagement with the discussion on law in transregional spaces. * Law and History Review *Fluid Jurisdictions by Nurfadzilah Yahaya begins to answer these questions through a rich, textured, and fascinating account of the Arab diaspora and its engagements with colonial and Islamic law. Through rigorous research, detailed historical analysis and animated storytelling, [the book] draws readers into the mobile and intimate legal worlds created by Arab merchants. * Law & Social Inquiry *Fluid Jurisdictions has managed to cast a wide net over an ostensibly specific study on an elite diasporic community. This is a laudable accomplishment. * Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society *[The] reviewers respond to Fluid Jurisdictions enthusiastically, remarking on its refreshing methodological approach, the richness of its multilingual archival source base, and the historical complexity that emerges from Yahaya's comparison of two distinct imperial spaces. Collectively, they highlight the relevance of the book across regional and disciplinary literatures * H-Diplo *Nurfadzilah Yahaya's assiduous, illuminating and novel engagement with the making of colonial law forms the foundation of incisive historical analysis. Fluid Jurisdiction's disciplined focus on colonial law is not only an exemplary approach to questions of ethnicity and identity but also opens up the possibility of novel comparisons and conversations between South East Asia and the world. * South East Asia Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Establishing Legal Domains 1. The Lure of Bureaucracy: British Administration of Islamic Law in the Straits Settlements 2. Surat Kuasa: Powers of Attorney across the Indian Ocean 3. Resident Aliens: Exclusions of Arabs in the Netherlands Indies 4. Legal Incompetence: Jurisdictional Complications in the Netherlands Indies 5. Constructing the Index of Arabs: Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia 6. Compromises: The Limitations of Diasporic Religious Trusts Conclusion: Postcolonial Transitions
£97.20
Cornell University Press Uneasy Military Encounters
Book SynopsisUneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military''s counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority. Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized, religious, and gendered other of the Thai, which contributes to producing Thailand as an imperial formation: a state formation based on essentialized difference between the Thai and their others. Through a genealogical approach, Uneasy Military Encounters addresses broad conceptual questions of imperial politics in a non-Western context: How can we understand imperial policing in a country that was never colonized? How is Islam constructed in a state that is officially secular and promotes Buddhist tolerance? What are the (historical) dynamics of imperial patriarchy in a context internationally known for its gender pluralism? The Trade ReviewStreicher's [Uneasy Military Encounters] provides a significant contribution to our knowledge of the military's counterinsurgency operations in southern Thailand. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policing the Imperial Formation 1. Policing History: A Military Handbook on the Southern Provinces 2. Checkpoints: Racialized Practices of Suspicion 3. The New Path to Peace: Disciplining Religious Subjects 4. Guarding the Daughter: Patriarchal Compromise and Military Sisterhood Conclusion: Happiness and Military Rule
£97.20
MB - Cornell University Press Uneasy Military Encounters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewStreicher's [Uneasy Military Encounters] provides a significant contribution to our knowledge of the military's counterinsurgency operations in southern Thailand. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policing the Imperial Formation 1. Policing History: A Military Handbook on the Southern Provinces 2. Checkpoints: Racialized Practices of Suspicion 3. The New Path to Peace: Disciplining Religious Subjects 4. Guarding the Daughter: Patriarchal Compromise and Military Sisterhood Conclusion: Happiness and Military Rule
£21.84
Cornell University Press When Blame Backfires
Book SynopsisThe recent influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon has stimulated domestic political action against these countries'' governments. This is the dramatic argument at the heart of Anne Marie Baylouny''s When Blame Backfires.Baylouny examines the effects on Jordan and Lebanon of hosting huge numbers of Syrian refugees. How has the populace reacted to the real and perceived negative effects of the refugees? In thought-provoking analysis, Baylouny shows how the demographic changes that result from mass immigration put stress on existing problems in these two countries, worsening them to the point of affecting daily lives. One might expect that, as a result, refugees and minorities would become the focus of citizen anger. But as When Blame Backfires demonstrates, this is not always the case. What Baylouny exposes, instead, is that many of the problems that might be associated with refugees are in fact endemic to the normal routine of citizens'' lives. Trade ReviewAnne Marie Baylouny argues that Jordan and Lebanon's hosting of Syrian refugees has given rise to domestic political movements against their governments. * The Middle East Journal *[Baylouny's] research question remains timely and intriguing. * The Middle East Book Review *Given its original emphasis on local communities' mobilization attempts, this research is a good contribution to citizenship studies. [T]he book provides thought-provoking arguments about the mechanisms, roles, and types of blaming and grievances. * Mobilization: An International Quaterly *Anne Marie Baylouny's When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon seeks to contribute to this field with a thoughtful and well-researched longitudinal study that reflects on the multi-directional dynamic of the host-and-guest relationship of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. * The International Spectator *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scapegoats or Solutions 1. Before the Syrian Crisis 2. Enter the Syrians 3. From Brothers in Need to Invaders 4. Grievances against Governance 5. Pushed to the Edge Conclusion: Refugees and Changing State-Citizen Relations
£32.30
Cornell University Press Claiming Belonging
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Muslim Constituents Visible 1. Discrimination, Advocacy, and Collective Identity 2. From Muslims in America to American Muslims 3. From the Patriot Act to the "Muslim Ban" 4. The Rise of the Muslim American Lobby 5. Domestic Advocacy: Between Contestation and Collaboration 6. Advocating for the Muslim Ummah Conclusion: Who Speaks for American Muslims?
£97.20
Cornell University Press Unwritten Rule
Book SynopsisIn 2012, Cambodiaan epicenter of violent land grabbingannounced a bold new initiative to develop land redistribution efforts inside agribusiness concessions. Alice Beban''s Unwritten Rule focuses on this land reform to understand the larger nature of democracy in Cambodia. Beban contends that the national land-titling program, the so-called leopard skin land reform, was first and foremost a political campaign orchestrated by the world''s longest-serving prime minister, Hun Sen. The reform aimed to secure the loyalty of rural voters, produce modern farmers, and wrest control over land distribution from local officials. Through ambiguous legal directives and unwritten rules guiding the allocation of land, the government fostered uncertainty and fear within local communities. Unwritten Rule gives pause both to celebratory claims that land reform will enable land tenure security, and to critical claims that land reform will enmesh rural people mTrade ReviewBeban's book provides a valuable and detailed account of Hun Sen's Order 01 land-titling initiative. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette and references to relevant theoretical literature. Unwritten Rule will be required reading for anyone interested in the politics of land in Cambodia. * The Developing Economies *This new book by Beban presents a granular, almost journalistic, account of how land reform and other government policies have affected Cambodia's rural population in recent years.[T]here is much to learn here about how the particular policies of Cambodia's authoritarian government impact the country's rural inhabitants[.] * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Donor-State Partnerships in the Cambodian Land Sector 3. Encountering the Leopard Skin Land Reform 4. Reconfiguring Local Authority through Land Reform 5. Youth Volunteers to the Frontier 6. Life in the Leopard Skin 7. Communal Land Struggles in the Wake of the Land Reform 8. An Ontology of Land Beyond State-Capital Formations 9. Conclusion
£97.20
Cornell University Press Claiming Belonging
Book SynopsisClaiming Belonging dives deep into the lives of Muslim American advocacy groups in the post-9/11 era, asking how they form and function within their broader community in a world marked by Islamophobia. Bias incidents against Muslim Americans reached unprecedented levels a few short years ago, and many groups responded through actionorganizing on the national level to become increasingly visible, engaged, and assertive.Emily Cury draws on more than four years of participant observation and interviews to examine how Muslim American organizations have sought to access and influence the public square and, in so doing, forge a political identity. The result is an engaging and unique study, showing that policy advocacy, both foreign and domestic, is best understood as a sphere where Muslim American identity is performed and negotiated.Claiming Belonging offers ever-timely insight into the place of Muslims in American political life and, in Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Muslim Constituents Visible 1. Discrimination, Advocacy, and Collective Identity 2. From Muslims in America to American Muslims 3. From the Patriot Act to the "Muslim Ban" 4. The Rise of the Muslim American Lobby 5. Domestic Advocacy: Between Contestation and Collaboration 6. Advocating for the Muslim Ummah Conclusion: Who Speaks for American Muslims?
£18.99
Cornell University Press Resisting Independence
Book SynopsisIn Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic''s reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port citiesNew York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, ScotlandJones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies.Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting taskto refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation''s claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the belTrade ReviewResisting Independence adds much-needed breadth, texture, and nuance to our understanding of Loyalism, not just in the 'Thirteen Colonies,' but in the wider British Atlantic world. [A]ccording to Jones, the ideological threads crucial to such connections have not been analyzed in the same rigorous way as have the ideological bonds shared by those referred to as Patriots. The provision of such rigor is another of the key goals of this book. * New West Indian Guide *Resisting Independence makes a major contribution by contextualizing popular loyalism's ideological formation in the print culture of four diverse port cities and persuasively probes the tension within Britishness between diversity and unity during a critical period of change. * William & Mary Quarterly *Jones has provided a revealing, boundary-crossing study of an alternative set of ideas spawned by the American Revolution. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC *Jones's greatest contribution is to the Loyalist historiography.Resisting Independence is a well-written piece of work. Jones combines a compelling narrative with analysis, thus making it a good read for experts as well as beginners in the subject of the American Revolution, Loyalism, and the British Atlantic world. It offers a fascinating insight into how networks were developed and nurtured between the colonies that enabled Protestant Whig ideas to spread and develop Loyalism, while also demonstrating how the societies of Glasgow, Halifax, Kingston, and New York coped with the revolution and its subsequent war. * H-Net *What Jones calls the book's 'multiple paths approach' to the American Revolution widens the historical lens to account for the circulation of Loyalist ideology while also localizing the politics of loyalty throughout the empire. These multiple perspectives are managed nimbly and thoroughly, and they do provide a new story of British Loyalists that resists—as Jones argues—the supposed inevitability of the American Revolution. * Early American Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Revolution in British Loyalism 1. A Body Politic: Newspapers, Networks, and the Making of a Nation 2. Liberty Triumphant: The Stamp Act Crisis in the British Atlantic 3. In Search of Common Happiness: A Divided British Atlantic on the Eve of Rebellion 4. King-Killing Republicans: Rebellion and the Making of a British Common Cause 5. The Madness of these Deluded People: Independence and the American Enemy 6. The British Lion is Rouzed: The Franco-American Alliance and a New British Common Cause 7. In Defence of the Protestant Religion: Fighting Catholicism Across the British Atlantic Conclusion: Reimagining Loyalism in a Postwar British Atlantic
£39.60
Cornell University Press Unwritten Rule
Book SynopsisIn 2012, Cambodiaan epicenter of violent land grabbingannounced a bold new initiative to develop land redistribution efforts inside agribusiness concessions. Alice Beban''s Unwritten Rule focuses on this land reform to understand the larger nature of democracy in Cambodia. Beban contends that the national land-titling program, the so-called leopard skin land reform, was first and foremost a political campaign orchestrated by the world''s longest-serving prime minister, Hun Sen. The reform aimed to secure the loyalty of rural voters, produce modern farmers, and wrest control over land distribution from local officials. Through ambiguous legal directives and unwritten rules guiding the allocation of land, the government fostered uncertainty and fear within local communities. Unwritten Rule gives pause both to celebratory claims that land reform will enable land tenure security, and to critical claims that land reform will enmesh rural people mTrade ReviewBeban's book provides a valuable and detailed account of Hun Sen's Order 01 land-titling initiative. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette and references to relevant theoretical literature. Unwritten Rule will be required reading for anyone interested in the politics of land in Cambodia. * The Developing Economies *This new book by Beban presents a granular, almost journalistic, account of how land reform and other government policies have affected Cambodia's rural population in recent years.[T]here is much to learn here about how the particular policies of Cambodia's authoritarian government impact the country's rural inhabitants[.] * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Donor-State Partnerships in the Cambodian Land Sector 3. Encountering the Leopard Skin Land Reform 4. Reconfiguring Local Authority through Land Reform 5. Youth Volunteers to the Frontier 6. Life in the Leopard Skin 7. Communal Land Struggles in the Wake of the Land Reform 8. An Ontology of Land Beyond State-Capital Formations 9. Conclusion
£23.39
