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"Agent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality. Alastair MacIntyre's haunting image of a post-apocalyptic world, in which our knowledge of ethics has been fragmented, poses a contrast between modern morality and ancient ethics. The two stand divided along the fault line of the nature of the good. Modern ethics has placed its stake in the absolute good, while ancient ethics rests upon the foundation of the relative good. Following the lead of Bernard Williams, Agent Relative Ethics identifies alienation as a disturbing symptom of the present focus upon absolute goods. It then completes the diagnosis of the malady afflicting modern moral theory by clarifying the difference between absolute and relative goods. The remainder of the book explores how agent relativity can overcome the modern fragmentation of our ethical knowledge. Not just any relative goods can rectify the modern disorder. Only shared goods, belonging to a union of individuals, are sufficiently robust to overthrow the contemporary despotism of neutral goods. These shared goods exhibit many parallels with common sense morality, including partiality, impartiality, punishment, and an antagonism toward harmfully using others together with a more lenient attitude toward foreseeing harm. The final chapters probe the conditions, often unpalatable to the modern mind, by which ethics might be restored. Agent Relative Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics and moral theory, ancient ethics, and the history of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book examines a variety of arguments that might be thought to support skepticism about the existence of morality, and it explains how these arguments can be answered by those who believe in objective moral truths. The focus throughout is on discussing questions that frequently trouble thoughtful and reflective individuals, including questions like the following: Does the prevalence of moral disagreement make it reasonable to conclude that there aren't really any moral facts at all? Is morality simply relative to particular societies and times? What could objective moral facts possibly be like? If there were moral facts, how could we ever come to know anything about them? Shouldn't belief in the theory of evolution undermine our confidence that our moral intuitions reliably reveal moral truths? Would moral facts ever actually explain anything at all? Can morality really have the motivating and rational force we normally take it to have? How can one possibly find a place for objective moral values in a scientific worldview? The book explores plausible answers to questions like these and it thus aims to show why the belief in objective morality remains an intellectually reasonable one"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I: The Asia Pacific War
• Introduction: Is there, or was there, a so-called 'Just War'?
• The Origins of the Asia Pacific War: 'Honor, Fear, Self-interest'
• The Human Impact of the Asia Pacific War
• The Legacies of the Asia Pacific War
• the Atomic Bombings and Article 9
• Part II : Postwar Reconciliation Introduction: Aspects of Reconciliation
• Reparations, Memorials and Reconciliation at State Level
• Citizens' Reconciliation
• Postwar Reconciliation Through the Arts.

"This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. The first half of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part 2 explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan, and later generations, particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan's neighbors, the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts, and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war's impact on individuals, who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U.S. History, as well as those interested in post-war memory and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.

"Explores the surprising and complicated legacy of the brilliant strategist of the civil rights movement - Bayard Rustin"-- Provided by publisher.

"This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of 'Japan', they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. Authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan Several chapters examine the work of exemplar border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner of war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across sub-national regions and between governance levels in China. Despite the significance of emerging economies in a pathway to a zero-carbon future, research to date on China's transformation governance remains limited. Drawing on a theoretical framework for policy diffusion and based on extensive data from expert interviews with Chinese decision makers and policy practitioners, Lina Li and Maia Haru Hall focus on the policy of emissions trading systems (ETS) and two key case studies: Shanghai and Hubei. The authors examine the role of the national government and how much freedom the sub-national regions have in developing ETS policy, as well as pinpointing key actors and the role of policy and knowledge diffusion mechanisms. Overall, this book sheds light on the competition between China and the West in the transition to climate-friendly societies and economies, highlighting opportunities for cooperation between them. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics and policy, climate change, urban studies, and Chinese studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

"The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, punctuated by bouts of economic turmoil and constitutional and political uncertainty. The infamous Darien Scheme, the establishment of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Anglo-Scots Union, the Hanoverian Succession, and the Jacobite rising of 1715, all occurred during this short time span. It was therefore a period which presented Scotland with opportunities, but one in which the country ultimately lost its autonomy. It was also during these years, and against this unsettled backdrop, that the Scottish Financial Revolution commenced. The complexity of the Scottish situation during the late seventeenth and the early eighteen centuries has historically made the identification of a Scottish Financial Revolution difficult. This monograph, the first dedicated to the topic, addresses this problem, and provides a model for identifying and understanding the revolution through the economic, political, and constitutional contexts of the period. Using examples of financial developments and innovation driven by Scotsmen in Scotland, Europe, and the colonies, this work defines the Scottish Financial Revolution as a series of developments which took place in Scotland when political circumstances allowed, but which also occurred outwith Scotland through the agency of members of the Scottish diaspora. This monograph is therefore the story of how Scotsmen at home and abroad contributed to financial debate and development between 1690 and 1727. Credit, Currency, and Capital: The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1690-1727 will appeal to students and scholars interested in the History of Economics and Finance. It will also be of interest to those studying the history of the Anglo-Scots Union and the complex relationship between Scotland and England"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cultural values of everyday life in the country changed along with the rise of the kasutori culture. Such a process was closely tied with both a refusal of the samurai culture and the interwar debate on modernity, and it resulted in a decadent way of life, exemplified by intellectuals such as Sakaguchi Ango. It depicts a short-lived radical cultural and social alternative, one that forced people to rethink their relationship to the kokutai, modernity, social roles, daily practices, and the production of knowledge. The subjectivity and daily practices in those years were more important in shaping the society and cultural identities of the Japanese than the new public ideology of the nation. This challenges some Euro-American historical notions that the new private sphere has emerged in Japan as an effect of the country's Americanization, rather than from within it. This work looks at the immediate aftermath of WWII from the perspective of Japan, but also try to rethink Westernization in the light of its global appropriation. This volume it is not only addressed to specialists of Japanese or Asian history, but it will also attract historians of the U.S., readers from political and intellectual history, cultural studies, and historiography in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : cybernetic thinking and modernist literature
• Feedback loops and learning from the past : Erza Pound's poetics of transmission
• The cybernetic information dialectic : patterns, randomness and newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
• Black box subjectivity : associative language, affect, and radio blindness in Virginia Woolf's The waves
• Cultural composition, insistent spirals, and definition by contrast : Gertrude Stein as second-order cybernetic anthropologist
• Coda : retrospective and prospective readings of cybernetic aesthetics.

"In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

"From 1670 until the Civil War, slavery was central to the economic and social order of South Carolina. To understand its evolution and the world that its enslaved people and their enslavers made, this book offers an examination of slavery in the rural lowcountry, the city of Charleston, and the upcountry during an era of unprecedented change and upheaval"-- Provided by publisher.

"This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good, our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality, as well as our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters in this volume extend experimental work on morality to previously underexplored areas. The contributions in Part 1 explore the methods and foundations of experimental work in areas such as folk moral judgments, metaethical beliefs, moral explanations, and reflective equilibrium. Part 2 focuses on issues in normative ethics, legal, and political philosophy such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, theories of justice, and criminal responsibility. Finally, the chapters in Part 3 tackle various applied ethical issues including feminist X-Phi, animal welfare, experimental bioethics, and self-driving cars. Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, applied ethics, experimental philosophy, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of law"-- Provided by publisher.

"From the end of the Civil War until the early twentieth century, Anglo, immigrant, and African American settlers were moving north and west faster than ministers within the major denominations could follow them with churches. In 1890, Northern Methodists, the largest Protestant denomination, only claimed 3.5 percent of the American population. Roman Catholics claimed 9.9 percent, and African American Baptists, the largest Black denomination, claimed only 18 percent of the African American population. In total, under 30 percent of Americans went to church on a weekly basis. While African American churches served a relatively larger role within their communities, the major white denominations played a minor role in the lives of the working poor. Clergymen like Dwight Moody reflected, "The gulf between the churches and the mases is growing deeper, wider and darker every hour." Home missionaries like Josiah Strong warned, "Few appreciate how we have become a non-churchgoing-people." Strong was right. In large fractions of the country, especially mining and industrial centers in the West, a simple lack of church edifices and long-term ministers to fundraise for them gave way to a vacuum of Protestant, denominational authority. In part, this disconnect between the number of churches and the size of the population was a result of culturally dislocated migrants. In 1890, more than 9 million Americans were foreign-born, and only a small fraction of those Americans had any familiarity with Anglo-Protestant traditions. They were joined by another 1 million African Americans migrants from the South to northern industrial centers. But this was only one of many reasons the poor did not go to church with the wealthy. While middle-class families paid lip service to the importance of building capacious churches, their own policies and practices reinforced the class system. As one minister reflected in 1887, "The working men are largely estranged from the Protestant religion. Old churches standing in the midst of crowded districts are continually abandoned because they do not reach the workingmen." Meanwhile, he continued, "Go into an ordinary church on Sunday morning and you see lawyers, physicians, merchants and business men with their families [-]you see teachers, salesmen, and clerks, and a certain proportion of educated mechanics, but the workingman and his household are not there." As the working-classes swelled with the expansion of American factories, ordained Protestant ministers served an ever-dwindling proportion of the country"-- Provided by publisher.

• Life and mythmaking
• Essential Thoreau
• Contexts : antebellum America, Transcendentalism, Emerson
• The writer
• The turn to science
• The political Thoreau
• Matters of faith.

• An apocalypse without kingdom
• Beginnings of "the end"
• 'Till entropy death do us part
• The invention of omnicide
• Mother nature wants to kill us
• The perfection of evil
• What is human extinction?
• Early ruminations
• Ethical innovations of the postwar era
• Astronomical value and the harm of existence
• Recent developments
• Looking forward to the future.

"This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Although accessible enough to be read by undergraduates, Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Language, diaspora, home
• Basement methodologies
• Language in motion: mothers, children, and linguistic circulation
• "Mending that wound": creating linguistic futures in a diasporic space
• Listen to your mother: home, migration, and language
• "Particularized worlds": translingual writing as borderland space
• "Talk 'bout battle fuh language!": disidentification and memory in the poetry of Esther Phillips
• A flat white and a banh mi: gender, language, and third spaces in the suburban city
• Island homes.

"This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gatekeepers of family languages toward creating a sense of "home." The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling, literary studies, and linguistic anthropology, and interviews from multiple generations of immigrant families, to reflect on the ways in these families foster a sense of home and maintain connections to their homelands through language. Robinson showcases the voices of a diverse range of families to examine the choices women in immigrant families make between the use of family languages, dominant community languages, or a mix of the two. The volume enhances our understanding of the ways in which immigrants navigate the linguistic landscapes of home and community amidst migration and diaspora. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and gender, and language and migration"-- Provided by publisher.

• Who are Latinxs in the United States?
• Immigration and Diaspora
• Media & Pop Culture
• Education
• Policing, Social Control, and Community Responses
• Family
• Protest, Activism, and Everyday Resistance
• Culture, the Past, and Latinx Futures.

"This contributed reader will introduce students to the variety and complexity of Latinxs' experiences in the U.S., and prepare them for further study in this interdisciplinary field. The opening essay, written by the editors, will offer a broad overview of the approximately 59 million people in the U.S. who identify as Hispanic. The rest of the book will consist of approximately 20 contributed readings from Latina(o)/Chicana(o) scholars on a range of subjects including immigration, citizenship, and deportation; racial identities; political participation and power; educational and economic achievement; family; religion; media and popular culture. Although the essays will be written for lower-division undergraduates, they will reflect many of the leading theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. The essays will be unified by an intersectional approach, demonstrating how experiences and life chances of Latinxs are also shaped by gender, social class, sexuality, age, and citizenship status"-- Provided by publisher.

• The BFI : London's gateway to cinema and media studies for all' : interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes, and Emma Smart / Elizabeth Evans
• Millennium Mills : London's last post-industrial ruin and its media history and industry / Anna Viola Sborgi
• Sherlock Holmes, Archive London : phantasms of authenticity at the Festival of Britain, 1951 / Constance Balides
• Watching the detectives : Poe, Luther, and the surveilled city / Brendan Kredell
• Adaptations and intertexts : how Disney imagines London in 'Mary Poppins' and Saving Mr. Banks / Susan Ohmer
• The rough and the smooth : touching and the tactile in British London films of the 1920s / Joel Casey
• London film-location walking tours : labouring at the intersection of text, location and place / Sarah Atkinson
• 'Rivers can be very sinister places' : Alfred Hitchcock takes a satirical, sinister London crime cruise in Frenzy / K Brenna Wardell
• Is London Real? The Actual/Virtual/Fantastic City from Blow-Up to Bandersnatch / Rebecca Fine Romanow
• London and the carnivalesque in Catastrophe (Channel 4, 2015-2019), and Fleabag (BBC, 2016
• 2019) / Frances Smith
• Leaving London : the BBC, Channel 4 and the symbolic diversity of Location / Elizabeth Evans
• Invisible London : unveiling the immigrant landscape in The Receptionist / Tzu-Chin Insky Chen
• Piccadilly lights as pandemic portal? The case of Circa Art's public projection series / Malini Guha
• Afterword : peak London : the spectacular and the banal in the ABC decade / Charlotte Brunsdon.

"London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the intersection between London as a material place and its position within a cultural imaginary. Conceptualising London as an archival city, as a collection of specific places and spaces, and as a part of national and international cultural and economic flows, contributors from film studies, television studies and media studies approach London through the lenses of textual analysis, historical work, industry studies and user experience. Chapters explore how London has appeared on screen across film and television, how screen content frames notions of place and belonging within the diasporic communities across the city, how the city has become a hub for the UK and global screen industries and how it intersects with national and local media policy. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, television studies, media industry studies, games studies, cultural and media studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature. From its origins, in the vernacular cultures of the 12th and 13th centuries, the novel text seems to be characterised by certain stylistic procedures adopted to represent a new narrative structure, which has no direct terms of comparison in the previous literary tradition. Indeed, the novel, as a 'textual machine', often produces a 'narrative manipulation of time and duration', to the point of establishing, within its textual form, a very close link between History, individual memory and a prospective narrative future. This book explores some structural and formal paths of the 'novelistic machine', through three exemplary cases: 1 the 'name of the novel' at the origins of the literary genre, with the invention of a new 'novelistic technique' (i.e. the conjointure) by Chrétien de Troyes (12th century); 2 the book-form, namely 'the book of novels' as a concrete and material object that transmits the narrative text and involves it within the fictional universe; 3 the literary topos of the 'dreaming incipit' and its long history from the Roman de la rose to Proust. This book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, the history of the novel and philology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Metaphysics as a science in classical German philosophy / Robb Dunphy, Toby Lovat
• Wolff on ontology as primary philosophy / Dino Jakušić
• Baumgarten on the nature and role of metaphysics / Courtney D. Fugate
• Lambert on the certainty and generality of metaphysics and geometry / Katherine Dunlop
• The methodological role of intellectual intuition in Kant's critique / Toby Lovat
• Kant's promise of a scientific metaphysics / Catherine Wilson
• Can metaphysics become a science for Kant? / Gabriele Gava
• Scientific metaphysics and metaphysical science : the demand for systematicity in Kant's transition project / Michael J. Olson
• Kant, Reinhold, and the problem of philosophical scientificity / Karin de Boer, Gesa Wellmann
• Reinhold on the deduction of the categories / Elise Frketich
• Schulze's scepticism and the rise and rise of German idealism / Robb Dunphy
• The I and I : the pure and the empirical subject in Fichte's science of science / Kienhow Goh
• The science of all science and the unity of the faculties : Schelling on the nature of philosophy / Benjamin Berger
• Two models of critique of metaphysics : Kant and Hegel / Dietmar H. Heidemann
• Quietism, dialetheism, and the three moments of Hegel's Logic / G. Anthony Bruno
• Metaphysics on the model of natural science? : a Kantian critique of abductivism / Nicholas Stang.

"This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original investigations into the metaphysical projects of many of the major figures in German philosophy between Wolff and Hegel. The period of Classical German Philosophy was an extraordinarily rich one in the history of philosophy, especially for metaphysics. It includes some of the highest achievements of early modern rationalism, Kant's critical revolution, and the various significant works of German Idealism that followed in Kant's wake. The contributions to this volume critically examine certain common themes among metaphysical projects across this period, for example, the demand that metaphysics amount to a science, that it be presented in the form of a system, or that it should proceed by means of demonstration from certain key first principles. This volume also includes material on influential criticisms of metaphysical projects of this kind. Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy is a useful resource for contemporary metaphysicians and historians of philosophy interested in engaging with the history of the methodology and epistemology of metaphysics"-- Provided by publisher.

"Mission, race, and empire have shaped the development of global Christianity as a whole, and studies of modern world Christianity pay close attention to how the practice and beliefs of the faith have been reshaped through the agency of converts and new churches in new cultures. This book explores how Christianity has been transformed and contextualized through the experience of mission, race, and empire from the "other side": closely examining the history of The Episcopal Church for the ways in which it was shaped and changed through its experiences of mission and colonialism from roughly 1580 through 2021. The book traces the denomination's many trials and errors in missional ideology and practice, in concert with colonialism and racial projects, from the first English contact with the Algonquin cultures in Roanoke and Jamestown, through embroilment in slavery and anti-slavery, Christianizing and civilizing both white settlers and Native cultures, missional critiques, liturgical renewal, suburban expansion, Civil Rights, and the development of an entirely new understanding of mission, missio dei, in the second half of the 20th century, focused on inclusion and justice. By focusing on "mission," the way in which the church tries to incorporate and relate to those outside of its existing boundaries, both the understanding of the Episcopal Church and its relationship to larger global processes and patterns in world Christianity shift towards greater complexity, conflict, dynamism, and diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

"According to noncognitivists, when we say that stealing is wrong, what we are doing is more like venting our feelings about stealing or encouraging one another not to steal, than like stating facts about morality. These ideas challenge the core not only of much thinking about morality and metaethics, but also of much philosophical thought about language and meaning. Noncognitivism in Ethics is an outstanding introduction to these theories, ranging from their early history through the latest contemporary developments. Beginning with a general introduction to metaethics, Mark Schroeder introduces and assesses three principal kinds of noncognitivist theory: the speech-act theories of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare, the expressivist theories of Blackburn and Gibbard, and hybrid theories. He pays particular attention both to the philosophical problems about what moral facts could be about or how they could matter which noncognitivism seeks to solve, and to the deep problems that it faces, including the task of explaining both the nature of moral thought and the complexity of moral attitudes, and the 'Frege-Geach' problem. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes new sections on expressivism as a meta-semantic argument; the rise of relational expressivism; the idea that expressivism leads us to a novel understanding of the nature of propositions; and expressivism and epistemic modals, deontic modals, probability, vagueness and truth. Schroeder makes even the most difficult material accessible by offering crucial background along the way. Also included are exercises at the end of each chapter, chapter summaries, and a glossary of technical terms, making Noncognitivism in Ethics essential reading for all students of ethics and metaethics"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Henry Ireton, Cromwell's 'son': new model officer marriages and the politics of settlement during the English Revolution
• The Iretons and Cromwell's financial management
• John Ireton and the afterlife of Henry Ireton and Cromwell
• Clement Ireton: Fifth Monarchist opponent of Cromwell
• John Ireton: the Restoration and continuing opposition to the Stuarts
• Bridget Ireton and Charles Fleetwood, Cromwell's 'son'
• Fleetwood and the politics of Cromwell's Protectorate
• Fleetwood and his 'brother', Henry Cromwell
• Fleetwood and the fracturing of the Cromwellian alliance
• Fleetwood and the failure of the English Revolution
• John Disbrowe and the failure of the English Revolution
• Cromwell's financial management, kinship and the politics of the Protectorate
• Fleetwood and Restoration communities of radicals
• Bridget Bendish and the memory of Oliver Cromwell in East Anglia
• Henry and Bridget Ireton and the politics of the Glorious Revolution
• Conclusion: Cromwell's kin and the afterlife of the English Revolution
• Bibliography
• Index.

"The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents' Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father became one of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament's financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted from the subsequent sales of land sales from those defeated in the civil wars. Surviving the Restoration Blackwell pursued interests in Ireland, banking schemes in London and Massachusetts, before being Governor of Pennsylvania. Blackwell worked with his son, Lambert Blackwell, who established himself as a merchant, financier and a representative of the state in Italy during the wars of William III before being embroiled in the South Sea Bubble. The linked histories of the three Blackwells reinforce the importance of kinship, the development of the early modern state centred in an increasingly global London and illustrate the ownership of the memory of the civil wars, facilitated by their kin links to Cromwell and John Lambert, architect of Cromwell's Protectorate, by those who fought against Charles I. Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Tulun District
• The Alley of the Ram
• An Ibadi Library in Cairo
• A new century
• The diplomat and the printer
• Salim Bin Ya'qub
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Manuscripts and documents from archives and libraries
• Manuscript catalogs
• Primary sources (Printed)
• Secondary works.

"Paul M. Love, Jr. explores the history of the minority Ibadi Muslim community in Cairo from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Using a unique range of sources, Love both illuminates the events of Egyptian history and highlights the role of the Ibadis in shaping political, religious, and commercial life in Ottoman-era Cairo"-- Provided by publisher.

"What gives someone a moral right to parent? What role should the liberal state play in the creation of families? Are prospective parents allowed to create a child in a world facing a changing climate and full of parentless children? This book defends a new theory of the moral right to parent by focusing on the special role of parents in creating the conditions for the flourishing of their children irrespective of whether there is a biological connection between them. It also argues that although procreative and adoptive parenting enjoy equal moral standing, justice toward children requires that the liberal state makes adoption more desirable and feasible for its citizens. Finally, the book provides a partial theory of child-rearing which focuses on the goods of childhood that parents are primarily responsible for fostering: carefreeness, enjoyment-driven or curiosity-driven achievement, and friendship"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of images
• List of maps
• About the contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Note on transliteration
• Introduction / Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger
• Part I. Medieval Rus among the empires
• Early Rus : the nexus of empires / Monica White
• Placing Rus among the world empires in tenth-century Arab geography / Irina Konovalova
• The "imperial mirage" of Sviatoslav (twelfth century) / Sergei Kozlov
• Part II. Muscovy and the expansion of empire
• Empire and culture : the sixteenth-century English encounter the Samoyeds / Nancy S. Kollmann
• Racial imaginary and images of Mongols and Tatars in early modern Russia (1560s-1690s) / Valerie Kivelson
• Visual polemics : the Time of Troubles in Polish and Russian historical memory (1611-1949) / Ekaterina Boltunova
• The image of the good Orthodox ruler between Kyiv and Moscow (1660s) / Maria Grazia Bartolini
• Tents or towns : the limits of sovereignty in the Russian north in the late seventeenth century / Erika Monahan
• Divine creation and Russian exploitation of the environment in Siberia (c. 1700) / Evgeny Grishin
• Part III. Imperial Russia
• Re-visioning empire under Peter the Great / Ernest A. Zitser
• Depictions of China from a caravan journal (1736) / Gregory Afinogenov
• A "complete" atlas of the Russian Empire (1745) / Catherine Evtuhov
• What's in a hat? Representations of ethnicity and gender in eighteenth-century Russia / Nathaniel Knight
• Annushka, the Kalmyk (c. 1767) / Alison K. Smith
• "If fate had not given her an empire ..." : Catherine the Great and the optics of power (1762-1787) / Erin McBurney
• Depicting expertise and managing diversity in the Urals mining industry (1773-1818) / Anna Graber
• Father Hyacinth's Chinese portrait (early nineteenth century) / Willard Sunderland
• Vignettes of empire : "Asiatic peoples" at nineteenth-century imperial Russian coronations / Richard Wortman
• The women of empire strike back (1856) / Nadja Berkovich
• The peasant and the photograph : gender, race, and the sunlight picture in the Baltic provinces (1866) / Bart Pushaw
• Severed heads on display : visualizing central Asia (1868-1872) / Olga Maiorova
• The Cautious One : identity and belonging in late imperial Russia (1877) / Sarah Badcock
• Siberian travelogues : images of Asiatic Russia during the transport revolution (1860s-1890s) / Fedor Korandei
• "To the Caucasus" : representations of empire at Abramtsevo (1870s-1890s) / Maria Taroutina
• Archeological imagery colonizes the Caucasus / Louise McReynolds
• Chained to a wheelbarrow : hard labor on an 1890s picture postcard from Siberia / Alison Rowley
• Siberian roots in an imperial space : Yermak's Conquest of Siberia by Vasily Surikov (1895) / Rosalind P. Blakesley
• Alexander Borisov and Tyko Vilka : two artists who made worlds of their own from the Arctic wilderness / Anna Kotomina
• Yermak from Yenisei Province : a peasant painting from the early twentieth century / Galina V. Lyubimova
• Imperial color in the present tense : the photography of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky / Katherine M. H. Reischl
• Part IV. The revolutionary era
• "Go Be Russian" : political caricature, identity politics, and the Tbilisi press after the 1905 revolution / Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis
• In the claws of the imperial eagle : Finland, Georgia, and Joseph Stalin (1906) / Ronald Grigor Suny
• Agit-Empire : Bolshevik Civil War art / Laura Engelstein
• Breakfast in Suuk Su : the rise of visual "Tatarism" (1917-1923) / Angelina Lucento
• Part V. The Soviet Union
• Propaganda in translation : imagined Muslim viewers in early Soviet posters (c.1926) / Mollie Arbuthnot
• Two Laws : the image of the Tungus in Soviet dreamworlds (1920s) / Craig Campbell
• Views from the roof of the world : 1920s film expeditions to the Pamir Mountains / Oksana Sarkisova
• A shared Soviet space : overcoming difference in films of the Caucasus in the 1920s-1930s / Emma Widdis
• Socialist Orientalism : picturing central Asia in the early Soviet Union (1920s-1930s) / Helena Holzberger
• "Fascist colors" : Stalinist spatial ideology, cartographic design, and visual learning / Nick Baron
• Representing Jewishness in the Red Zion : the Jewish Autonomous Region in the 1930s / Robert Weinberg
• Love letters to O'g'ulxon : photography and imperial intimacy in the Second World War / Charles Shaw
• From ethnographic reality to Socialist Realism : illustrations in Soviet primers for the indigenous minorities of the north / Nikolai Vakhtin
• The Stalinist imperial body politic in a Soviet poster / Erika Wolf
• Caricatured empire : Cold War political cartoons / Stephen M. Norris
• "Where the sun begins its path over our soil" : Eldar Riazanov's documentary Sakhalin Island (1954) / Yana Skorobogatov
• Crafting the art of tradition : Chuvash embroidery reframed / Olessia Vovina
• The imperial iconography of the Georgian table (1900-1980s) / Erik Scott
• Representations of women in the Soviet periphery : Tartu photography exhibitions in the 1980s / Jessica Werneke
• Part VI. The post-Soviet era
• Competing nationalisms in imperial and postimperial space : Sviatoslav of Kiev and the diorama of his last battle / Yulia Mikhailova
• Return of the sables : the symbol of imperial Siberia from the seventeenth century to today / Evgeny Manzhurin
• Soviet war memorials in post-Soviet spaces / Karen Petrone
• Crimea in my heart : visualizing Putin's resurgent empire in 2014 / Elizabeth A. Wood
• The Maidan : anti-imperial modes of mythmaking in documentary film (2014-2015) / Joshua First
• The post-Soviet body politic : media, diaspora, and photographs in the Immortal Regiment / Olga Shevchenko
• Photo essay : picturing wartime (2022) / Joan Neuberger
• Credits
• Index

Provides a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times over more than a millennium of history. Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, this book consistently raises big historical questions, stimulating readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire.-- Back cover
"Picturing Russian Empire brings a fresh approach to both Russian and Imperial Studies by centering the visual. In a series of short essays, focused on striking images, the authors reexamine historical encounters and exchanges within the shifting borders of the empire. The book not only offers interpretations of the images but also shows the kinds of work that images themselves can accomplish by changing or solidifying notions of how the world is or should be organized. The book advances the idea of a 'pictosphere' in which images from the many visual cultures of the empire interacted. The essays are lively and accessible, crafted to engage the reader. Picturing Russian Empire also provides a historical and visual approach to understanding present-day conflicts in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia."-- Provided by publisher

• A puppet being and a puppet doing
• The dramaturgy is in the object
• The image aspect of the puppet
• Humans and objects
• Notes on sounds and words
• Choices we make
• A selective, selectively annotated, puppetry biography.

"Drawing on the author's two decades of watching, writing, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this is a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry. Reading the Puppet Stage uses examples from a broad range of puppetry genres, from Broadway shows and the Muppets, to the rich field of contemporary performing object experimentation internationally, to the wealth of Asian puppet traditions, as well as the author's own experienced perspectives on the ways performing objects can create and structure meaning. These examples are married with an understanding of the dramaturgical interplay between puppets, performers, and language. An introductory approach for students, critics, and artists, this book underlines where significant artistic concerns lie in puppetry and outlines the supportive networks and resources that shape the community of those who make, watch, and love this ever-developing art"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword / by Karin Fischer
• Introduction: The Right in the Americas / Julián Castro-Rea and Esther Solano
• Part 1. The Americas as Right-Wing Transnational Space
• Part 2. Genesis and Development of Right-Wing Actors
• Part 3. Contemporary Expressions of the Right
• Part 4. Conclusions.

"The Right in the Americas discusses the origins, development and current state of conservative and right-wing movements in ten countries in the Americas. The growth of the right is one of the most important issues of the moment in global politics. Within the context of democracy erosion, rejection of traditional politics and economic uncertainty, right and extreme-right actors are capable of offering misguided answers and hope to a significant part of a country's population, who will trust their promises and bring them to power with their vote. This dynamic has repeated itself in an astonishingly consistent pattern across the Americas. This book analyses eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, along with Canada and the United States, two G7 countries. It demonstrates that conservatism is in fact a Hemispheric phenomenon, promoted and invigorated by the regional hegemon-the United States of America-both as government and civil society. Beyond this regional scope, the peculiarities of each case study are explored in detail, providing solid historical background, while at the same time uncovering their commonalities and cross-pollination. This study will be of great interest to scholars of conservatism, right-wing politics, comparative politics, North American, and Latin American politics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : Spanish horror in the 21st century
• Early 2000s : industrial dynamics, production trends & transnationalization
• [Rec]: an international franchise
• Horror & genre hybridization
• Horror & gender
• Horror & the past
• Horror & streaming.

"It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously changing processes in which a variety of economic, social and cultural factors intervene. The book first analyzes the main horror trends emerging in the early 2000s, then approaches genre hybridization and the rise of new filmmakers since the 2010s with a special focus on gender issues and the reconfiguration of the past, before addressing the impact of streaming services within the Spanish film panorama, from a production and distribution standpoint. This book will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the areas of film studies, media studies, TV studies, horror, Spanish cultural studies, and production studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"At the end of the 19th Century, substance dualism-roughly, the thesis that the human person is comprised of a substantial immaterial soul and a physical body-was widespread. Materialism was not a live option. As U.T. Place observed, [Ever] since the debate between Hobbes and Descartes ended in apparent victory for the latter, it was taken more or less for granted that whatever answer to the mind-body problem is true, materialism must be false. This sociological fact changed quickly bringing about what William James described as "the evaporation of the definite soul-substance." Arthur O. Lovejoy deemed the 20th century as "the Age of the Great Revolt against Dualism." The inevitable defeat of substance dualism was assumed a foregone conclusion. Gilbert Ryle had, in the words of Daniel Dennett, "danced quite a jig on the corpse of Cartesian dualism.""-- Provided by publisher.

"This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and still operative today. The six case studies examined (Drac Magic, Women Make Movies, Groupe Intervention Video, Leeds Animation Workshop, bildwechsel, Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir) have maintained a discrete yet continuing presence within an audiovisual industry and a cultural system dominated by institutionalized, state-funded, and corporate forms of audiovisual production and distribution. Their longevity- quite a rarity in the independent circuit- makes a strong case for the sustainability of feminist and LGBTQ media activism in the public sphere, in spite of its lowkey profile. This volume will be of interest to academicians of history and communication studies, feminist and LGBTQ topics and gender related cinematic culture"-- Provided by publisher.

• Herman Bavinck : the development of a theologian
• Bavinck : the intellectual context
• Theological method
• Trinity and retrieval : revelation
• Trinity and retrieval : confession
• Trinity and retrieval : Christian consciousness.

"This book examines the theological methodology of Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck (1854-1921). The focus of the book is on the influence of the German historicist movement on his theological method and uses Bavinck's doctrine of the Trinity as a way to test the argument that while not embracing all of the relativising implications of the movement, the role of history as a force that both shapes the present and allows for development into the future has a demonstrable influence on his theological methodology. To make this argument the book considers Bavinck's larger nineteenth century context. It traces the development of both history and theology being understood as sciences in the university and how this required a reimagining of both disciplines. It could be said that the theology is thoroughly historicised in the nineteenth century. The book then considers the three principia of Bavinck's theological methodology: Revelation, Confession, and Christian Consciousness, demonstrating how Bavinck both appropriates and adapts historicist assumptions"-- Provided by publisher.

"Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history. Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry, and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane, and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Benjamin. This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preference, reason and agency
• Freedom of choice: source and leeway
• Reason, preference and freedom

"Freedom of choice is the subject. "How dare you!" challenged Greta Thunberg. The members of the Climate Summit had freedom of choice to act on the scientific evidence she presented rather than on personal desire. What is the difference between acting on desire and acting on what you prefer because of scientific acceptance? There is a form of preference that is an ultimate explanation of choice. I call it a power preference. It is a preference that loops back on to itself, a fixed-point vector, and suffices to explain human agency. The power preference includes scientific explanation and is compatible with determinism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Removable children
• Hidden traces
• Failing to be called
• Getting used to here
• Double binds
• Hopes and departures.

"Ways of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K-12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn't mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people's struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue : why radical moderation?
• Interlude : the interlocutors
• Can liberal democracy be saved?
• Rediscovering moderation in our immoderate age
• The skepticism toward moderation and what its critics miss about it
• The archipelago of moderation (I) : the old world
• The archipelago of moderation (II) : the new world
• An alternative to ideology
• An antidote to fanaticism
• The limits of moral clarity
• Against the politics of warfare
• No Manichaeism and no litmus tests
• Compromise
• Trimming and balance
• Centrism
• Eclecticism and pluralism
• Dialogue
• Intermezzo : the lure of radicalism
• The spirit of moderation
• Modesty and humility
• Civility
• Prudence
• Realism and pragmatic partisanship
• the last beacon of hope?
• Epilogue : rules for "radical moderates".

"Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labeled "moderates" for fear of losing elections. Why Not Moderation? challenges this conventional image and shows that moderation is a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides. Through a series of imaginary letters between a passionate moderate and two young radicals, the book outlines the distinctive political vision undergirding moderation and makes a case for why we need this virtue today in America. Drawing on clearly written and compelling sources, Craiutu offers an opportunity to rethink moderation and participate in the important public debate on what kind of society we want to live in. His book reminds us that we cannot afford to bargain away the liberal civilization and open society we have inherited from our forefathers"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : Dépasser le lexique des confusions
• Question 1 Comment la France est-elle devenue un pays d'immigration ?
• Nationalité et citoyenneté, ou les piliers de l'État-nation
• Marché du travail et politisation de la question de l'immigration
• "1889, c'est aussi important que 1789"
• La France entre État-nation et société d'immigration
• Question 2 Comment comprendre le choix du droit du sol ?
• Le choix du droit du sol, ou la diversité des raisons
• Droit de la nationalité et situation migratoire
• Le retour de l'idéologie
• La recherche d'une nouvelle synthèse républicaine
• Question 3 Que signifie la naturalisation ?
• La naturalisation du point de vue des postulants
• La naturalisation du point de vue de l'administration
• La distinction entre citoyens "naturels" et "naturalisés"
• Question 4 Comment décrire "l'incorporation à la nation" ?
• Un besoin de clarification
• L'intégration de qui ? L'intégration comme affaire de "périmètre"
• L'assimilation comment ? Le risque de l'injonction à l'assimilation
• Question 5 Comment choisir une politique de l'immigration ?
• Les politiques de l'immigration saisies par les idées
• Les politiques de l'immigration saisies par les instruments
• Les ambiguïtés de notre présent
• Question 6 Quelle est l'influence de l'Europe sur les politiques de l'immigration ?
• Les enjeux d'un contrôle européen de l'immigration
• Pourquoi l'État ne disparaît pas
• Immigration et citoyenneté en Europe, entre libéralisation et ethnicisation
• Question 7 Le modèle de citoyenneté est-il en crise ?
• Le modèle républicain de citoyenneté
• Quand les banlieues brûlent
• La faute à la République ? La citoyenneté comme fiction incarnée
• Question 8 Faut-il instaurer des statistiques ethniques ?
• La controverse sur les statistiques ethniques en France
• Retour sur une expérience oubliée : l'Algérie coloniale
• Les enjeux d'un instrument de mesure
• Question 9 Pourquoi la "race" revient-elle toujours ?
• Jalons sur la "race" et le racisme
• La déconstruction de la notion de race
• La circulation de la race
• Question 10 Comment déjouer les pièges des fausses Questions ?
• Exemple 1. "L'islam est-il compatible avec la République ?"
• Exemple 2. "Les immigrés sont-ils communautaristes ?"
• Exemple 3. "L'identité nationale est-elle menacée ?".

"Au centre de la vie politique française, l'immigration fait l'objet de débats souvent houleux, ranimés au moindre fait divers mais aussi à chaque élection, et alimente de multiples polémiques. Comprendre cette situation au-delà des slogans racoleurs suppose de revenir à l'Histoire, aux chiffres et aux faits, et d'examiner l'évolution des politiques de l'immigration depuis plus d'un siècle et demi. En 10 questions, ce livre permet de brosser le portrait d'une France où, malgré une tradition d'asile et d'accueil, l'immigration est régulièrement perçue comme un problème. En considérant les controverses sur l'identité nationale, la citoyenneté républicaine, le racisme ou les statistiques ethniques, l'auteur fournit des pistes de réflexion permettant d'objectiver la situation pour nourrir efficacement le débat public, loin des mythes et des fantasmes."--Page 4 of cover.

"What does it take for ordinary citizens to risk everything to protest living under a repressive government? What takes them beyond the brink, to the "boiling point"? In his graphic novel 100°C, celebrated webtoon and comics artist Choi Kyu-sok sheds a light on these questions by examining the lives of one family caught up in the great social unrest that developed under Chun Doo-hwan's regime and culminated in the June 1987 Uprising. Crucial to understanding the events of the summer of 1987 is the recognition of both the political context and the dynamics of the nationwide effort that included students, office workers, and religious and labor groups-all of whom came together to demand a new constitution and free elections. Choi's is a measured yet powerful representation of a pivotal moment in Korean history, when individuals questioned the status quo, when parents joined their children to express their grievances and agitate for democratic reforms, when an entire nation chose to move in a new direction"-- Provided by publisher.

• Retour à la case séquestre
• Confiscation sans déracinement ?
• L'écho contemporain du séquestre
• Lexique et périmètres
• Les termes du mode d'emploi
• Espaces "francisés" en droit, séquestrés, confisqués
• Le traitement à distance des historiens
• Le produit d'une joute à distance
• Un silence par conviction ou prudence
• L'approche macroscopique et militante
• Lieu de mémoire et d'oubli
• Relecture proposée : des nœuds qui résistent sur la longue durée
• 2. La greffe colonisatrice sur un acte de guerre
• L'économie d'un dispositif hybride
• Une décision algéroise sous influence
• Comment forcer l'équation ?
• Le rôle assigné aux commissions de séquestre
• À rebours des évolutions politiques et juridiques du XIIe siècle
• Précédents européens et états-uniens
• Précédents coloniaux
• Précédents français en Algérie
• Une méthode difficile à justifier mais peu de contradicteurs
• 3. En amont du séquestre : nature et évolution des droits fonciers dans une région particulière
• Faisceaux de droits familiaux sur des terroirs "bien cultivés"
• Biais et valeur ethnographiques des descriptions françaises
• Des droits moins figés qu'il n'y parait
• Perturbations nées des débuts de la pénétration française
• L'impact du changement de régime et de la guerre sur les droits fonciers
• Essai manqué de colonisation et rachats autochtones
• Des droits fonciers réduits ou transformés par leur "reconnaissance"
• 4. La confiscation en actes
• La présomption à faire table rase du passé
• La volonté de frapper vite et fort
• Des sanctions distribuées à l'aveugle
• Entre-deux tendu et plus long que prévu
• L'échec d'une rationalité répressive
• La règle fluctuante des confiscations
• Cerner la part des créancier
• La difficulté à identifier les "chefs de famille"
• Estimations à distance et fausses équivalences
• S'en remettre aux djemâas pour gérer l'insoluble
• 5. La traversée de l'épreuve
• Percer l'écran des ressentis
• Des grains de sable dans les rapports administratifs
• L'attente anxieuse des dédommagements
• Un vif contentieux entre Algériens
• Le réinvestissement quasi immédiat de la plaine
• Les ratés de l'implantation européenne
• L'exploitation autochtone des terres confisquées
• 6. 1890, 1930 : que reste-t-il du séquestre ?
• 1890 : un fait divers en perspective
• Le drame d'Isserville vu de la montagne
• Le drame d'Isserville vu de la plaine
• Nouvelle donne démographique et foncière dans le premier tiers du XXe siècle
• Une présence autochtone toujours plus fine au sein des périmètres de colonisation
• Une progression de la propriété algérienne sur les marges
• Le recul de l'exploitation indirecte et des emplois en plaine
• Conclusion : une coupe dans le corps social
• Un territoire, une immersion, dans la durée
• Une coupe claire devenue sombre
• Des confiscations singulières, particulièrement sévères
• Une amputation toutefois ni aisée, ni entière, ni définitive.

"Algérie, 1871 : la plus importante insurrection avant la guerre d'indépendance est menée contre les forces coloniales françaises. Dans son sillage, environ 900 000 Algériens, plus du quart de la population totale, se voient infliger un séquestre sur leurs terres, maisons ou plantations. Cette mesure punitive du gouvernement français est exceptionnelle par son ampleur comme par la place qu'elle occupe au XIXe siècle dans le monde. Si elle ne débouche pas toujours sur la confiscation définitive des biens, leur restitution (payante) est généralement conditionnée. Tout dépend de la responsabilité attribuée à titre individuel ou collectif dans la révolte, de l'inventaire et de l'estimation des droits de chacun, de l'emplacement des terres qui intéressent ou non la colonisation. Les archives du séquestre permettent une plongée dans le corps social que Didier Guignard entreprend à l'échelle du bassin versant de l'oued Isser, en Kabylie occidentale. Il y révèle la nature et l'étroitesse des liens entre les habitants, leurs formes d'adaptation au milieu et les bouleversements endurés. À partir d'une enquête de terrain, il fait remonter ses observations aux années 1840 puis les poursuit jusqu'aux années 1930, pour mieux nous faire comprendre les ressorts d'une société rurale entrée en révolte et l'évolution contrastée d'un lourd héritage. Si le séquestre des années 1870, moment phare de la colonisation française en Algérie, a déjà retenu l'attention des historiens, cette approche comparative et au plus près de la société rurale, qui emprunte autant à la géographie qu'à l'anthropologie, est inédite."--Page 4 of cover.

"En 2015, un mouvement social finit mal pour deux cadres d'Air France contraints de s'enfuir d'une réunion, la chemise arrachée. Ce fait divers trouve un étrange écho dans un événement plus ancien et plus tragique. Le 26 janvier 1886, à Decazeville, en Aveyron, des ouvriers aux abois vont demander des comptes à Jules Watrin, le sous-directeur des mines. Les choses s'enveniment, il sera défenestré. Ce drame déclenche une grève sans précédent et un tollé médiatique. Le meurtre de Watrin indigne, divise. On accuse Émile Zola de l'avoir inspiré avec Germinal paru un an plus tôt. Les dix présumés coupables seront traduits devant la justice, mais comment tenir un procès équitable quand les esprits sont échauffés à ce point ? D'une plume à la fois fougueuse et minutieuse, Pascal Dessaint recrée le climat explosif de l'époque dans une fresque passionnante qui pose des questions plus que jamais actuelles."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Facing Janus
• On the cusp : American politics and culture in 1979
• Wind shear : the political cultures of 1980
• The closing of Heaven's Gate : Hollywood in transition
• Starting over : pop music's future goes back to the past
• Ebb and flow : tidal shifts in broadcast television
• Turning the page : the publishing industry in 1980
• Inflection point : Autum 1980
• Conclusion: Inaugurating the eighties

"1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: American Culture in Transition puts the news events of the era-everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism-into conversation with the year's popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot JR, cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans' attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s"-- Provided by publisher