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• Introduction: The meanings of abortion
• Abortion and women's bodies : Rosana and Giovanni
• Abortion and the Church : Femia and Antino
• Abortion and the law : Maria and Superio
• Conclusion

A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy. In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Drawing on portraits of women who terminated-or were forced to terminate-pregnancies, he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence about abortion, despite injunctions from civil and religious authorities. Italians from all levels of society sought, had, and participated in abortions. Early modern Italy was not an absolute anti-abortion culture, an exemplary Catholic society centered on the "traditional family." Rather, Christopoulos shows, Italians held many views on abortion, and their responses to its practice varied. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives alongside a social and cultural history of sexuality, reproduction, and the family, Christopoulos offers a nuanced and convincing account of the meanings Italians ascribed to abortion and shows how prevailing ideas about the practice were spread, modified, and challenged. Christopoulos begins by introducing readers to prevailing medical ideas about abortion and women's bodies, describing the widely available purgative medicines and surgeries that various healers and women themselves employed to terminate pregnancies. He also explores how these ideas and practices ran up against and shaped theology, medicine, and law. Catholic understanding of abortion was changing amid religious, legal, and scientific debates concerning the nature of human life, women's bodies, and sexual politics. Christopoulos examines how ecclesiastical, secular, and medical authorities sought to regulate abortion, and how tribunals investigated and punished its procurers-or didn't, even when they could have.
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"Why law may be less important than we think"-- Provided by publisher.

• Civility has never been neutral in its uses and impacts
• Civility distracts from inequality
• Civic radicals make do with what they have
• Civic radicals believe racism is structural rather than only personal
• Civic radicals speak truth to power
• Civility is deployed when democratic movements are on the rise and reactionaries are on the ropes.

"A sweeping political and intellectual history of the way that civility has been used to maintain racial inequality"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Comparing and connecting lords of land and labor
• Ireland, the American South, and rural subjection, c. 1550-1800
• The South's second slavery and Ireland's second landlordism : John A. Quitman's and Lord Clonbrock's economic attitudes and behaviors
• Planter and landlord ideologies : Quitman, Clonbrock, and paternalism
• Varieties of paternalism in practice : labor relations on the Quitman plantations and the Clonbrock estates
• "We have become a second Ireland" : landed elites, unionism, and nationalism in the antebellum South and nineteenth-century Ireland.

"This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords. The book focuses primarily on the comparative and transnational investigation of an antebellum Mississippi planter named John A. Quitman (1799-1858) and a nineteenth-century Irish landlord named Robert Dillon, Lord Clonbrock (1807-93), examining their economic behaviors, ideologies, labor relations, and political histories. Locating Quitman and Clonbrock firmly within their wider local, national, and international contexts, American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective argues that the two men were representative of specific but comparable manifestations of agrarian modernity, paternalism, and conservatism that became common among the landed elites who dominated economy, society, and politics in the antebellum American South and in nineteenth-century Ireland. It also demonstrates that American planters and Irish landlords were connected by myriad direct and indirect transnational links between their societies, including transatlantic intellectual cultures, mutual participation in global capitalism, and the mass migration of people from Ireland to the United States that occurred during the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

• Notes on Contributors Series Preface Acknowledgments
• 1. Historical and Cultural Background (Mike Vanden Heuvel)
• 2. American Ensemble Theatres, 1995-present (Mike Vanden Heuvel)
• 3. The Builders Association (James Frieze, George Moores University, UK)
• 4. Pig Iron Theatre (Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Dixie State University, USA )
• 5. The Rude Mechs (Jane Baldwin, emeritus, Boston Conservatory, USA)
• 6. Radiohole (Steve Luber, University of New Haven, USA)
• 7. Civilians (Sara Freeman, University of Puget Sound, USA)
• 8. 600 Highwaymen (Rachel Anderson-Rabern, Franklin and Marshall College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index.
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• Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction
• 1. Historical and Cultural Background (Mike Vanden Heuvel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• 2. American Theatre Companies in the Period (Mike Vanden Heuvel, University of Wisconsin-Madison).
• 3. Theatre X (Curtis L. Carter, Marquette University, USA)
• 4. Mabou Mines (Jessica Brater, Montclair State University, USA)
• 5. Goat Island (Nicholas Lowe [School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA]and Sarah Skaggs, independent curator, Chicago, USA)
• 6. Lookingglass Theatre (Jane Barnette, University of Kansas, USA)
• 7. Elevator Repair Service (Roger Bechtel, Carleton College, USA)
• 8. SITI Company (Scott Cummings, Boston University, USA) Bibliography Notes Index.
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A companion to American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1, this volume charts the development and achievements of theatre companies working after 1995, bringing together the diffuse generation of ensembles working within a context of media saturation and epistemological and social fragmentation. Ensembles examined include Rude Mechs, The Builders Association, Pig Iron, Radiohole, The Civilians and 600 Highwaymen. Introductory chapters provide a sweeping overview of ensemble-based creation within the general historical and cultural contexts of the period, followed by a detailed study of the evolution of ensemble-based work. Contributors examine matters such as influence, funding, production and legacies, as well as the forms of collective devising and creation, while presenting close readings of the companies' most prominent works. The volume features detailed case studies of the 6 companies from the period and cover: * A history of development and methods * Key productions and projects * Critical reception * A chronology of significant productions US ensemble companies since 1995 have revolutionized the form and content of contemporary performance, influencing experimental as well as mainstream practice. This volume provides the first encompassing study of this vital development in contemporary American theatre by mapping its evolution and key developments.
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Across two volumes, Mike Vanden Heuvel and a strong roster of contributors present the history, processes, and achievements of American theatre companies renowned for their use of collective and/or ensemble-based techniques to generate new work. This first study considers theatre companies that were working between 1970 and 1995: it traces the rise and eventual diversification of activist-based companies that emerged to serve particular constituencies from the countercultural politics of the 1960s, and examines the shift in the 1980s that gave rise to the next generation of company-based work, rooted in a new interest in form and the more mediated and dispersed forms of politics. Ensembles examined are Mabou Mines, Theatre X, Goat Island, Lookingglass, Elevator Repair Service, and SITI Company. Preliminary chapters provide a sweeping overview of ensemble-based creation within the general historical and cultural contexts of the period, followed by a detailed study of the evolution of ensemble-based work. The case studies consider factors such as influence, funding, production, and legacies, as well as the forms of collective devising and creation, while surveying the continuing work of significant long-running companies. Contributors provide detailed case studies of the 6 companies from the period and cover: * A chronicle of development and methods * Key productions and projects * Critical reception and legacy * A chronological overview of significant productions From the long history of collective theatre creation, with its sources in social crises, urgent aesthetic experimentation and utopian dreaming, American ensemble-based theatre has emerged at several key points in history to challenge the primacy of author-based and director-produced theatre. As the volume demonstrates, US ensemble companies have collectively revolutionized the form and content of contemporary performance, influencing experimental, as well as mainstream practice.
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• Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art
• volume II. Photography, Fine art.

"The second edition of Arkansas Made focuses on decorative, mechanical, and fine arts, continuing the Historic Arkansas Museum's mission to document, interpret and preserve the state's creative legacy. The Arkansas Made publications are part and parcel of this mission and of the museuem's exhaustive investigation into the history of the state's material culture past"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The country without a Quisling?
• "There are many Cains among us"
• Crowdsourcing genocide
• Hearts grown brutal
• The special courts
• Rewriting the narrative of the past
• Between politics and retribution
• The district courts
• Cold War considerations
• The principles of socialist humanism
• The math of amnesty
• Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.

"When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary found themselves struggling to salvage a sanitized vision of the past that could serve as the basis for national unity. Long dismissed as Stalinist farce, Poland's 32,000 trials for collaboration were in fact a scrupulous, complex search for the truth. Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the communist state and an unyielding society hammered out the foundational myth of modern Poland"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Aesop's swallows
• The botanist who named the animals
• The taxidermist and the bison
• The hellcat and the hawks
• The forester and the green fire
• The professor and the elixir of life
• The eagle and the whooping crane
• The scientists who escaped the tower
• The rhino and the commons
• The few who save the many
• Homo amphibus.

"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement--told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today's global effort to defend life on a larger scale. She describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson as well as lesser-known figures in conservation history; she reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund; she explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros; and she confronts the darker side of conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change escalate, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species--including our own"-- Provided by publisher.

• Critiquing the sermo modernus
• Biblical commentary versus sermon cycle
• The sermones super evangelia dominicalia by Repingdon
• Congesta
• Lecturing on sermons
• Sermons in the wake of Repingdon
• Individual preachers
• Innovation? Appendices A: Nicholas Gorran, Commentary and Sermons
• B: Repingdon, Sermon 35
• C: M, Sermon 37
• D: Congesta, Sermon 18
• E: Lecture for the Feast of St Andrew
• F: John Waldeby, Sermon 28

"In England, as well as on the continent, the early fifteenth century saw a slackening of rigorous academic work in theology and at the same time a stronger interest in biblical and devotional approaches and practices. This book addresses the question of whether, and if so in what way, such a change may also have occurred in preaching by investigating the form in which sermons were constructed, to determine whether a new development or innovation replaced the scholastic sermon, or sermo modernus, in use from the later thirteenth century on. The volume concludes with editions of sermons drawn from major works created in England between the final years of the fourteenth and the middle of the fifteenth century."-- Provided by publisher

• Contents and AbstractsIntroduction: Knowing About Legality and Illegality in Midwifery Care in the United States chapter abstractThe introduction tells the story of Gina, a midwife working illegally at the time of our interview. Using Gina's story as a frame of reference, the introduction explains the varying legal status for midwives in the United States and distinguishes certified professional midwives from other professionals who attend labor and delivery. The introduction also provides the theoretical and scholarly context for the rest of the book, focusing on legal pluralism, legal consciousness, legal mobilization, and the limits of law as it is implemented. Finally, the introduction explains my methodology in both researching and presenting the data and argues that we need to tell stories about law and society that are embodied, integrative, and holistic-much like the care provided by midwives to their clients.
• 1History and Status of Midwives in the United States chapter abstract
• Chapter 1 begins with a story from Missouri after Ophelia, a certified professional midwife, attends a birth that brings her to the attention of the police. The chapter asks how we got to a place where a safe, qualified, trained birth attendant can fear prosecution for a good-outcome birth. The history of midwifery in the United States is one that combines medicalization and professionalization of birth, imperatives of nation-building through reproduction, and a renaissance in care that brought the profession of non-nurse midwifery back from the brink of extinction.
• Chapter 1 provides a version of that history, stressing that this version is the one told by advocates and midwives as they seek to expand access to care.
• 2Modern and Professional: Legitimating, Marketing, and Reimagining Midwives chapter abstract
• Chapter 2 demonstrates that, in the name of professionalization, midwives have engaged in seeking legitimization of non-nurse midwifery via national organizations,
• 3Mostly Happy Accidents: Successfully Mobilizing for Legal Status chapter abstract
• Chapter 3 explores the multiple ways that midwives and advocates use politics to mobilize for legal status. Focusing on the success stories in South Dakota and Missouri, it highlights how the long-term activism in both states, combined with "happy accidents" or contingencies, facilitated the passage of legalization bills. Midwives and advocates use traditional and social media, letter-writing to legislators, and consistent presence in the statehouse to get their bills passed. They also engage in novel attention-seeking activities like making quilts and calendars, designing T-shirts, and handing out M&M cookies (for "moms and midwives").
• 4Rights, Rules, and Regulation chapter abstractThis chapter begins with the unusual story of how lawyers needed to defend the constitutionality of the Missouri bill against claims by the Missouri Medical Association, as a way to frame the examination the legal mobilization undertaken on behalf of midwives nationwide. This mobilization includes criminal defense of their practice and lawsuits brought on behalf of victims of obstetric violence. It also includes seeking regulatory governance in rulemaking, defining the scope of practice for midwives, and articulating access to the state as a goal for the movement.
• 5Catching Babies and Catching Hell: Constitutive Interactions in the Limits and Shadow of the Law chapter abstract
• Chapter 5 examines the various ways that midwives experience their daily practices and finds that, even in states where they are legal and regulated, the law limits and shadows how CPMs work. This limiting of the law is related to cultural disapprobation of out-of-hospital birth and the ways that that disapprobation is reinforced by friends, family, and hospital staff.
• Chapter 5 shares the stories of midwives who find constraints on their practice from the expressions of these norms and details the difficulties they have finding insurance, finding back-up physicians, and even knowing what the law is. It also shares stories of midwives and mothers who "catch hell" when they discuss their out-of-hospital birth plans or must transfer a client to the hospital for emergency care.
• 6Deep Transformations, Deep Contradictions: Changing Birth Culture One Movie, One Picnic, One<3.>Tiny Little Epistemological Shift at a Time chapter abstractThis chapter examines the multiple ways that midwives and advocates seek to change birth culture in any given locale, from hosting movies and picnics to thinking through the proper role of hospital and state in labor and delivery. It moves from eco-feminist midwifery advocacy in Berkeley, California, to emergency childbirth classes in rural South Dakota, highlighting the ways that locale shapes approaches to thinking about midwifery care.
• Chapter 6 also focuses on the contradictions and tensions within the pro-midwifery movement-around issues like abortion, vaccination and homeschooling, rights-seeking, partisan politics, and the decision to seek government intervention and approval at all. The goal in all of these conversations is to facilitate expanded access to midwifery care and the extension of reproductive justice to all who labor and deliver.
• Conclusion: Attending to Birth in Sociolegal Scholarship: Embodied, Interdisciplinary, and Authoritative Knowledge chapter abstractThe conclusion offers closing thoughts on the relationship between disciplinarity and regulation-seeing both as simultaneously emancipatory and constraining. The conclusion examines the tensions within midwifery communities, and within sociolegal scholarship, and argues that sitting with those tensions in an embodied, interdisciplinary, authoritative epistemology is the way to do good work in both settings.
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Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Renee Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care. Framed by gripping narratives from midwives across the country, she parses out the often-paradoxical priorities with which they must engage-seeking formal professionalization, advocating for reproductive justice, and resisting state-centered approaches. Currently, professional midwives are legal and regulated in their practice in 32 states and illegal in eight, where their practice could bring felony convictions and penalties that include imprisonment. In the remaining ten states, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) are unregulated, but nominally legal. By studying states where CPMs have differing legal statuses, Cramer makes the case that midwives and their clients engage in various forms of mobilization-at times simultaneous, and at times inconsistent-to facilitate access to care, autonomy in childbirth, and the articulation of women's authority in reproduction. This book brings together literatures not frequently in conversation with one another, on regulation, mobilization, health policy, and gender, offering a multifaceted view of the experiences and politics of American midwifery, and promising rich insights to a wide array of scholars, activists, healthcare professionals alike.
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• A history of bisexual invisibility within sexology and psychology
• Invisible or invalidated : the marginalisation of bisexual identities
• In/visible visual identities
• The erasure and exclusion of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and plurisexual people within education, employment, and mainstream mass media
• Becoming visible and reflecting on visibility.

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus on contemporary and emerging identities. Nikki Hayfield draws on research from psychology and the social sciences to offer a detailed and in-depth exploration of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality. The book discusses how early sexologists' understood gender and sexuality within a binary model and how this provided the underpinnings of bisexual invisibility. The existing research on biphobia and bisexual marginalisation is synthesised to explore how bisexuality has often been invisible or invalidated. Hayfield then evidences clear examples of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality within education, employment, mainstream mass media, and the wider culture. Throughout the book there is consideration of the impact that this invisibility and invalidation has on people's sense of identity and on their health and wellbeing. It concludes with a discussion of how bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality have become somewhat more visible than in the past and the potential that visibility holds for recognition and representation. This is fascinating reading for students and academics interested in in bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexual spectrum identities and for those who have a personal interest in bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality.

The award-winning journalist presents a searing account of his experiences with being captured and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years, detailing his related witness to Syrian village life.

• Gereral introduction
• Translator's introduction
• The Borgarthing Law
• Notes on the text
• The Eidsivathing Law
• Notes on the text
• Sources, literature, and abbreviations.

"The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law is dedicated to two closely linked medieval laws which were intended to cover adjacent legal provinces in eastern Norway, around and beyond the modern capital, Oslo. Individual rules cover subjects such as church rites, prohibitions, property, and payments, and shed light on medieval ideas relating to matters as diverse as disability, sexual relations, witchcraft, and forbidden foods. With a commentary on the individual chapters after each translation, drawing on recent scholarship on medieval law, Church history, and other relevant historical fields, this book is an ideal resource for students and scholars of medieval Norwegian legal history"-- Provided by publisher.

• Rammohun Roy and Debendranath Tagore : between Advaita critique and devotional theism
• Rajnarayan Basu : between religious intuition and ecstatic Vaiṣṇavism
• Bijoy Krishna Goswami : between Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism and Brahmo universalism
• Sitanath Tattvabhushan and Bipin Chandra Pal : between Hegelian universalism and Vaiṣṇava devotionalism
• Sivanath Sastri and Pratap Chandra Mozoomdar : between the social gospel and Brahmo devotionalism
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee : between Brahmo rationalities and Vaiṣṇava affectivities
• Competing visions of Hindu universalism

In The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaisnava Milieus: Intersections of Hindu Knowledge and Love in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Ankur Barua offers an intellectual history of the motif of religious universalism in the writings of some intellectuals associated with the Brahmo Samaj (founded in 1828). They constructed Hindu worldviews that were simultaneously rooted in some ancient Sanskritic materials and orientated towards contemporary universalist visions with western hues. These constructions were shaped by their dialectical engagements with three groups: members of the Bengali middle classes with sceptical standpoints ('Young Bengal'), Christian missionaries, and Hindu Vaisnava thinkers. In this genealogy of religious universalisms, Barua indicates how certain post-1900 formulations of the universalist compass of Hinduism were being enunciated across Brahmo circles from the 1820s.
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• Introduction
• Turing’s Electronic Brains – The Golden Age – Knowledge Is Power – Robots and Rationality – Deep Breakthroughs – AI Today – How We Imagine Things Might Go wrong – How Things Might Actually Go Wrong – Conscious Machines?

• Turing's electronic brains
• The golden age
• Knowledge is power
• Robots and rationality
• Deep breakthroughs
• AI today
• How we imagine things might go wrong
• Conscious machines?

"From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent autonomous action that currently only people are capable of. As an AI researcher with 25 years of experience, professor Mike Wooldridge has learned to be obsessively cautious about such claims, while still promoting an intense optimism about the future of the field. There have been genuine scientific breakthroughs that have made AI systems possible in the past decade that the founders of the field would have hailed as miraculous. Driverless cars and automated translation tools are just two examples of AI technologies that have become a practical, everyday reality in the past few years, and which will have a huge impact on our world. While the dream of conscious machines remains, Professor Wooldridge believes, a distant prospect, the floodgates for AI have opened. Wooldridge's A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence is an exciting romp through the history of this groundbreaking field--a one-stop-shop for AI's past, present, and world-changing future"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, contributions by Gottfried Heinemann, Andrew Gregory, Justin Habash, Daniel W. Graham, Oliver Primavesi, Owen Goldin, Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Christopher Kurfess, Dirk L. Couprie, Tiberiu Popa, Timothy J. Crowley, Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro, Iakovos Vasiliou, Barbara Sattler, Rosemary Wright, and a foreword by Patricia Curd explore the influences of early Greek science (6-4th c. BCE) on the philosophical works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hippocratics. Rather than presenting an unified narrative, the volume supports various ways to understand the development of the concept of nature, the emergence of science, and the historical context of topics such as elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in ancient Greek philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Alison LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Laura Weinrib
• Law, literature, and war : a plenary panel with Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Diane P. Wood, Paul Woodruff, and Martha C. Nussbaum
• Forming a nation through war's crucible. Law and war in the New World : The last of the Mohicans, The spy and The pioneers / Douglas Baird
• New light on the trial of Billy Budd / Richard H. McAdams and Jacob I. Corre
• Two humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" / John Fabian Witt
• Law and its limits in Albion Tourgée's Bricks without straw / Kate Masur
• The two Great Wars. Trenches, cadences, and faces : social connection and emotional expression in the Great War / Nancy Sherman
• Crucified by the war machine : Britten's War requiem and the hope of postwar resurrection / Martha C. Nussbaum
• Undivided loyalty : the problem of allegiance in the literature of war / Alison LaCroix and William Birdthistle
• Law and legitimacy in A farewell to arms / Laura Weinrib
• Lawmaking, bilateral rules, and a debunking of Catch-22 / Saul Levmore
• Catch-22 and the law of large organizations / Jonathan S. Masur
• Law and literature after the Pacific War : Endo Shusaku's The sea and the poison / Tom Ginsburg
• Afterward. Sympathizing with both sides : racism and American intervention in Vietnam / Paul Woodruff
• Paul Beatty, the rhetoric of war, and the selling out of civil rights / Elizabeth Anker
• How war makes (and unmakes) the democratic state : reading The reluctant fundamentalist and Exit west in a populism age / Aziz Z. Huq
• Black radicalism, autobiography, and prisoners of war / Tommie Shelby.

"War often appears to be definitionally outside the realm of structures such as law and literature. When we speak of war, we often understand it as incapable of being rendered into rules or words. Lawyers struggle to fit the horrors of the battlefield, the torture chamber, or the makeshift hospital filled with wounded and dying civilians into the framework of legible rules and shared understandings that law assumes and demands. In the West's centuries-long effort to construct a formal law of war, the imperative has been to acknowledge the inhumanity of war while resisting the conclusion that it need therefore be without law. Writers, in contrast, seek to find the human within war - an individual story, perhaps even a moment of comprehension. Law and literature might in this way be said to share imperialist tendencies where war is concerned: toward extending their dominion to contain what might be uncontainable. This volume on war is the sixth in the University of Chicago Law School's law and literature series. The papers are intended to address the many ways in which war affects human society and the many groups of people whose lives are affected by war. Some of the papers concern the lives of soldiers; others focus on civilians living in war zones who are caught up in the conflict; still others address themselves to the home front, far from the theatre of war. By collecting such diverse perspectives within one volume, we hope to examine how literature has reflected the totalizing nature of war and the ways in which it distorts law across domains"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I
• Part 2

""Many historical chess books focus on individual 19th century masters and tournaments yet little is written covering the full scope of competitive chess through the era. This volume provides a comprehensive overview, with 300 annotated games analyzed by the players and checked by powerful chess engines. Players such as Max Lange and Cochrane, known to the chess public only by the name given to a fierce attack or gambit, are brought to life. Fifty masters are each given their own chapter, with brief biographies, results and anecdotes and an endgame section for most chapters."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

• Geographical overview of China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea
• Chinese historical records of the South China Sea
• Shitang and Changsha within China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea
• South China Sea in the measurements of the Four Seas of the Yuan Dynasty
• Why are Hoang Sa and Truong Sa of Vietnam not Xisha and Nansha of China : some evidence from historical sources
• China's development and administration of Xisha and Nansha Islands
• China's dotted line in the South China Sea : its background and ramifications
• Legal status of the dotted line in the South China Sea : historic waters, territory boundary line or an island ownership line?
• A critical review of research on the legal status of the dotted line in the South China Sea
• China's struggle for sovereignty over Xisha and Nansha Islands before and after the Second Sino-Japanese War
• China's dispute with the Philippines over the Nansha Islands : perspective of international law
• Sino-French border demarcation disputes and maritime boundary delimitation in the Gulf of Tonkin
• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the South China Sea disputes
• Latest developments in the South China Sea and China's responses
• Current situation in the South China Sea and Vietnamese policy

Maritime boundary disputes in the South China have existed for centuries, and researchers from a variety of countries have analysed the situation from a great many points of view. Yet, and despite its status as one of the major countries in the region, Chinese perspectives have often been absent from the international literature. This book redresses that balance. Bringing together scholarship from history and international law, this book provides a lens through which maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea can be interrogated. Not only does it detail the historical and jurisprudential evidence that support maritime boundaries in the South China Sea for different stakeholders, but it also clarifies some misconceptions related to China's nine-dash lines by referring to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Moreover, the book offers in-depth discussion and observation on the most recent developments in the South China Sea. This book is an essential resource for researchers, teachers and students who specialize in Southeast Asian Studies, China maritime studies, and the international law of the sea.
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• Introduction / Robert F. Cochran, Jr. and Michael P. Moreland
• Christian origins of private law / James Gordley
• Biblical understandings of private law / Brent A. Strawn
• Christian thought and property law / David W. Opderbeck
• Augustinian property / William S. Brewbaker III
• English property law and Christianity, 1500-1700 / R.H. Helmholz
• The boundaries of dominion / Adam J. Macleod
• Housing and hope : private property and Catholic social teaching / Paula A. Franzese and Angela C. Carmella
• Christian contract law and the morality of the market : a historical perspective / Wim Decock
• Private law in Christian perspective : the example of Dooyeweerd on contracts / David S. Caudill
• Revisiting unconscionability : reciprocity and justice / C. Scott Pryor
• Christianity, freedom, and the doctrine of consideration / Val D. Ricks
• Privitization and pluralism in dispute resolution : promoting religious values through contract / Michael A. Helfand
• The moral of torts / Michael P. Moreland and Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
• Tort law and its three Christian pillars / David F. Partlett
• John Calvin's quarrel with civil recourse theory / Nathan B. Oman
• Tort law and intermediate communities : Catholic and Calvinist theories / Robert F. Cochran, Jr.

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.
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• Introduction
• Genesis of film
• Revolutionary images
• An art form consolidates
• Breaking barriers
• Art v. commerce
• The digital screen.

A Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technical innovations, social changes and artistic interventions. Organized around a central timeline that charts the development of film from the earliest moving images to the present-day blockbusters, it features key films, together with commentaries and contextual information about the social, political and cultural events of the period in which they were produced. Special feature spreads highlight important technical developments and key practitioners. Covering a wide selection of genres, styles, and directors, it is invaluable as a comprehensive guide to film in all its different forms.

• Introduction--
• 1. The birth of civil rights - reconstruction--
• 2. The transformation of civil rights - the Jim Crow years--
• 3. Civil rights reborn - the 1940s and 1950s--
• 4. Beyond civil rights - the 1960s--
• 5. Getting right with the civil rights movement--
• 6. Civil rights everywhere-- Conclusion.
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The term 'civil rights' has such a familiar presence in discussions about American politics and law that we tend to use it reflexively and intuitively, but rarely do we stop to think about what exactly we mean when we use the term and why certain uses strike us as right or wrong. In this book, Professor Christopher W. Schmidt tells the story of how Americans have fought over the meaning of civil rights from the Civil War through today. Through their struggles over what it means to live in a nation dedicated to protecting civil rights, each generation has given the label new life and new meaning. Civil Rights in America shows how the words we use to understand our world become objects of contestation and points of leverage for social, political, and legal action.
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• Introduction: Colonial adventures : commercial law and practice in the making / Serge Dauchy, Albrecht Cordes, Dave De ruysscher, Heikki Pihlajamäki
• The rhetoric of commercial law in 4th-century BCE Athens / David Mirhady
• Trading along Hadrian's Wall / Paul du Plessis
• Trade and law in new Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Oscar Cruz Barney
• Scots traders and Spanish law in East Florida / M. C. Mirow
• How to 'mash up' lex mercatoria from civil law to common law : the genesis of lex mercatoria in lower-Canada history 1760-1866 / David Gilles
• English mercantilist thought and the matter of colonies from the 17th to the first half of the 18th century / Alain Clément
• The transplant and adaption of company law in Colonial Victoria 1850-1900 / Phillip Lipton
• Company law transplants and change in Colonial Southeast Asia / Petra Mahy
• From denial to opportunity : Chinese access to colonial law in the Netherlands Indies (1800-1942) / Alexander Claver
• Corporate law in Colonial India : rise and demise of the managing agency system / Umakanth Varottil'
• 'Neither the state nor the individual goes to the colony in order to make a bad business' : state and private enterprise in the making of commercial law in the German colonies, ca. 1884 to 1914 / Jakob Zollmann
• Customs law in the Congo : on the fiscal bargaining process between the colonial state and private enterprise in Africa (1886-1914) / Bas De Roo
• The birth of a colonial city : Tianjin 1860-1895 / Luigi Nuzzo
• Experiences and experimentations : two words between two worlds / Bernard Durand

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers, whether consciously or not, reshaped the law in order to foster the prosperity of homeland manufacturers and entrepreneurs or how local authorities and settlers brought the transplanted law in line with the colonial objectives and the local constraints amid shifting economic, commercial and political realities. Contributors are: Alain Clement (), Alexander Claver, Oscar Cruz-Barney, Bas De Roo, Paul du Plessis, Bernard Durand, David Gilles, Petra Mahy, David Mirhady, M. C. Mirow, Luigi Nuzzo, Phillip Lipton, Umakanth Varottil, and Jakob Zollmann.
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• A jet-age job
• Horizons unlimited
• A woman in uniform
• Pipeline to paradise
• Foreign service
• Pan Am was the American flag
• Unequivocally in the world
• One, two, three, what are we fighting for?
• What do you women want?
• I'm okay, you're okay
• Open skies for Negro girls
• She's so busy being free
• Splendid capitalist airplanes
• De facto feminist
• A matter of serious and continuing concern
• An extension of the airline
• Everything flyable
• War comes aboard
• The most incredible scene
• The only lonely place was on the moon.

"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"-- Provided by publisher.
Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. Cooke weaves together the real-life stories of stewardesses as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. She brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses' role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, as well as Operation Babylift, the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. -- adapted from jacket

"With a focus on Chile, this book demonstrates, with theoretical arguments and empirical studies, that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures"-- Provided by publisher.

• Metaphor and materiality in nineteenth-century art criticism
• The flesh of painting
• The confected canvas
• Impressionist market gardener.

"A reexamination of French Impressionism, focusing on the culinary metaphors that the most influential nineteenth-century critics used to express attraction or disgust toward artworks"-- Provided by publisher.

• "The least worst place" : detention in the early Bush administration (2001-2004)
• Detaining enemy combatants amid legal uncertainty (2005-2008)
• Detention policy in a post-Boumediene world (2009-2017)
• "Kangaroo courts"? The troubled beginnings of military commissions (2001-2005)
• The Supreme Court intervenes : military commissions, version 2.0 (2006-2008)
• Litigation without end : military commissions after Hamdan (2009-2017).

"In the "war on terror" that followed the 9/11 attack, it was not only the military forces that entered into armed conflict. The institutions of government themselves became wartime actors, especially the Supreme Court. By declining to rubber-stamp the executive branch's actions, the Court broke with a longstanding tradition of deference to the executive in wartime national security cases and established judges as key players in shaping national security policies. In a variety of areas concerning enemy combatants-including detention, interrogation, military trials, surveillance, and targeted killing-lawyers, lawsuits, and court decisions have repeatedly altered the policy landscape, with important consequences for presidential authority, the separation of powers, and the treatment of individuals suspected of posing a threat to the United States. In Courts at War, Gregory Burnep traces the creation and evolution of these enemy combatant policies from 2001 to 2018, during which time the courts became heavily involved in the post-9/11 armed conflict. But the Supreme Court was involved in conflict in another sense-namely, with the other branches of government, especially the executive. As a result, these policies have become increasingly insulated from presidential control and reflect the input from other actors and institutions. The widely feared imperial presidency, rooted in the Bush administration's rhetoric and legal arguments, ultimately did not materialize in the actual policies that were implemented, which reflected the ongoing dialogue between various institutional actors. A case study in the separation of powers, Courts at War demonstrates the important role the judiciary has played in post-9/11 policy development"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foundations of property and credit
• Property exemptions : commodifying land and slaves in colonial America
• Managing risk in colonial America
• The Stamp Act, independence and the founding.

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit. Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic.

• "That glorious fabric of collected wisdom" : a brief history of the antislavery Constitution
• "Freedom is the rule, slavery is the exception" : the emergence of antislavery constitutionalism
• The antislavery project : Lincoln and antislavery politics
• "My ancient faith" : Lincoln, race, and the antislavery Constitution
• The forfeiture of rights : emancipation before the proclamation
• "A king's cure" : Lincoln and the origins of the Thirteenth Amendment.

The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of anti-slavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's brilliant history of Lincoln's anti-slavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of anti-slavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the anti-slavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his anti-slavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action-in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade-they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He re-entered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas/Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonisation of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the anti-slavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King's cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
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• "That glorious fabric of collected wisdom" : a brief history of the antislavery Constitution
• "Freedom is the rule, slavery is the exception" : the emergence of antislavery constitutionalism
• The antislavery project : Lincoln and antislavery politics
• "My ancient faith" : Lincoln, race, and the antislavery Constitution
• The forfeiture of rights : emancipation before the proclamation
• "A king's cure" : Lincoln and the origins of the Thirteenth Amendment

The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of anti-slavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's brilliant history of Lincoln's anti-slavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of anti-slavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the anti-slavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his anti-slavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action-in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade-they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He re-entered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas/Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonisation of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the anti-slavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King's cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
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• Introduction: Investigating cultures of law in urban Northern Europe / Jackson W. Armstrong and Edda Frankot
• Telling tales : maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth century / J.D. Ford
• Common books in Aberdeen, c. 1398-c. 1511 / William Hepburn and Graeme Small
• The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code / Joanna Kopaczyk
• The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398-1511) / Anna D. Havinga
• Urban law in Norwegian market towns : legal culture in a long fourteenth century / Miriam Tveit
• The Burgh and the forest : Burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century Scotland / Michael H. Brown
• Pax Urbana : the use of law for the achievement of political goals / Jörg Rogge
• Recalcitrant brides and grooms : jurisdiction, marriage, and conflicts with parents in fifteenth-century / Ghent Chanelle Delameillieure and Jelle Haemers
• Legal business outside the courts : private and public houses as spaces of law in the fifteenth century / Edda Frankot
• Conflicts about property : ships and inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse Area (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries) / Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
• 'Malice' and motivation for hostility in the Burgh courts of late medieval Aberdeen / Jackson W. Armstrong
• Bells, clocks, and the beginnings of 'lawyer time' in late medieval Scotland / David Ditchburn
• Andrew Alanson : man of law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440-c.1475? / Andrew R.C. Simpson
• Notaries and advocates in early modern Aberdeen / Adelyn L.M. Wilson

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650. In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great extent, on urban records. The contributions are concerned with understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside of official legal fora. This volume considers what the expectations of people at different status levels were for the use of the law, what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. By examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing itself then became part of a culture of law. Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350-c.1650 combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and linguistic history.
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This unique book reveals the origins and tells the history of vintage recording gear, told by the man who coined the term. The products of 22 manufacturers are illustrated with over 450 never before published photographs and reprints of original manufacturers sales brochures from the authors collection.00This book features:0A list of over 7,500 pieces of vintage gear Dan Alexander sold from 1979 until 2000, including prices, serial numbers, and buyer; 0A complete list of microphone types distributed by Telefunken from 1928 until 1980, including technical information on mics by Neumann, Akg, Schoeps, Rft, and Geffel; 0A complete list of Trident A and B range console; 040 pages on Neve modules and consoles; 0Helios product information and photographs information sourced from Dick Swettenhams' personal sales binder.

"The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in the town of Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria as partner of the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women's equality a reality by fighting--house by house, street by street, town by town--the men who bought and sold women. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, The Daughters of Kobani is the unforgettable story of the women of the Kurdish militia that improbably became part of the world's best hope for stopping ISIS in Syria. Over hundreds of hours of interviews, bestselling author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon introduces us to the women fighting on the front lines, determined to not only extinguish the terror of ISIS but also prove that women could lead in war and must enjoy equal rights come the peace. In helping to cement the territorial defeat of ISIS, whose savagery toward women astounded the world, these women played a central role in neutralizing the threat the group posed worldwide. In the process they earned the respect--and significant military support--of U.S. Special Operations Forces. Rigorously reported and powerfully told, The Daughters of Kobani shines a light on a group of women intent on not only defeating the Islamic State on the battlefield but also changing women's lives in their corner of the Middle East and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Making the Land Liquid: The Roots of Land Banking
• The Special Privileges of the Federal Banks
• The Federal Land Banks and Financial Distress,
• 1916-
• Falling Prices and Mortgage Crisis,
• 1926-
• Herbert Hoover and the Urban Mortgage Crisis in the Great Depression
• A New Deal for Farm Mortgages
• Housing, Heavy Industry, and the Forgotten New Deal Banking Act
• An Economy Balanced by Mortgages
• Conclusion.

"Bailouts and a Balanced Economy: A New History of the American State, 1913-1939 shows that the kinds of bailouts that inspired such popular fury during the 2008 financial crisis emerged from a long history of government support for the financial sector, most especially for banks making mortgages. Glock argues that a central goal of the American government in the early 20th century, from the Progressive Era through the New Deal, was to encourage new and riskier types of bank loans through government guarantees. He shows that the Great Depression led the government to act on its earliest promises and provide billions of dollars of bailouts to insolvent banks, even while it extended support to an ever greater proportion of banks and financiers. The book thus argues that the most significant and extensive government safety net that emerged from the first half of the twentieth century was the safety net protecting banks and lenders, especially those making long-term mortgages. The recent bailouts were only the culmination of these earlier reforms. The book explains that these government guarantees emerged from the combination of a new ideology and a new alliance of interest groups. The ideology declared it the duty of the government ensure a "balanced economy" between all productive sectors. In this conception, the government needed to act as a sort of fulcrum, bolstering any economic sector, such as agriculture, that fell behind. Without focused financial support for these sectors, the ideology argued, the economy risked falling "out of balance, " or into "unbalanced growth, " which could end in depression or disaster. Throughout the book, Glock shows how recovering this concept can help us make sense of the decisions and actions of policy makers during this crucial time"-- Provided by publisher.

• Postcolonial Theory's Heedlessness to Health, "D"evelopment's Disregard for Postcolonialism
• Elaborating a Postcolonial Symptomatology
• Those Excluded by the City: Pepetela and Angola's "Savage Capitalism"
• Becoming-Witness: The Conflagration of the Arab Community and the Sudanese Arab Writer, Tayeb Salih.

"Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature explores how Deleuze's notion that literature is an enterprise of health and that great authors are consequently diagnosticians of their culture can be applied to postcolonial literature. This genuinely interdisciplinary work breaks new ground both for the study of postcolonial literature and applications of Deleuze and Guattari"-- Provided by publisher.

"Dialogue on Partition shows how shared time and space as depicted in partition literature can foster dialogue despite separation and relocation. By incorporating the multiple and eclectic perspectives of characters, narrators, writers, and historians, art and literature can be used as tools of integration between sects, religions and differences"-- Provided by publisher.

• Historical milestones and important dress codes
• Introduction
• Encoding status
• Self-fashioning
• Signs of faith
• Sex symbols
• The great masculine renunciation
• Style and status
• Sex and simplicity
• The "rational dress" movement
• Flapper feminism
• Slaves to fashion?
• From rags to resistance
• Sagging and subordination
• How to dress like a woman
• Recoding gender
• Piercing the veil
• Merit badges
• Artifice and appropriation
• Conclusion: Decoding dress codes
• Epilogue: Dress codes stripped bare

A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted

• Introduction
• "Not the result of drink"
• "A victim of intemperance"
• "Not capable of entertaining this specific intent"
• "The broad resemblances between insanity and drunkenness"
• "They are simply drunk"
• "An apology for sin and for crime"
• Epilogue

"Is drunkenness a defense for murder? In the early nineteenth century, the answer was a resounding no. Intoxication was considered voluntary, and thus provided no defense. Yet as the century progressed, American courts began to extend exculpatory value to heavy drinking. The medicalization of alcohol use created new categories of mental illness which, alongside changes in the law, formed the basis for defense arguments that claimed unintended consequences and lack of criminal intent. Concurrently, advocates of prohibition cast "demon rum" and the "rum-seller" as the drunkard's accomplices in crime, mitigating offenders' actions. By the postbellum period, a backlash, led by medical professionals and an influential temperance movement, left the legacy of an unsettled legal standard. In A Drunkard's Defense, Michele Rotunda examines a variety of court cases to explore the attitudes of nineteenth-century physicians, legal professionals, temperance advocates, and ordinary Americans toward the relationship between drunkenness, violence, and responsibility, providing broader insights into the country's complicated relationship with alcohol"-- Provided by publisher.

• Ebony / Lavaille Lavette
• Civil rights and social justice / Common
• Love and family / Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union
• Ebony man / Sean Combs (Diddy)
• Ebony Woman / Kimora Lee Simmons
• Ebony music / Ciara
• Afterword / Venus Williams
• Covers 1945-2020

Ebony magazine has been a cultural arbiter and a staple in black households in America since its first issue in November 1945. Founded by John H. Johnson, Ebony reported on, and continues to chronicle, every aspect of life from fashion to civil rights, entertainment, and cooking, and it has become the authoritative perspective for and about the black community. Curated by Ebony Publishing s president and publisher, Lavaille Lavette, this all-out feast of a book is packed with exclusive contributions by Ebony s editor in chief Tracey Ferguson, as well as a host of celebrities, influencers, and cultural icons, including Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Quincy Jones, Snoop Dogg, Magic Johnson, Deshaun Watson, and Eddie Levert. The book includes more than 600 covers and photographs featuring political forces such as Martin Luther King Jr., Michelle and President Barack Obama, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters; entertainers such as Diana Ross, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Oprah Winfrey, Prince, and Kanye West; as well as sports heroes like Serena Williams, Muhammad Ali, Russell Westbrook, and Simone Biles. It also contains select articles, features, and reportage of note, including Martin Luther King Jr. s advice column, and Ebony Fashion Fair photo shoots, divided into categories found within the magazine, including the Gorgeous Women of Ebony: Fashion, Beauty, and Style, Ebony Love, Ebony Men, and Date With a Dish. Unique in the quality of its photographs and contributors, this book is a monumental milestone and inspiration for African American culture mavens as well as seventy-five years of Ebony readers.
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"Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood tells the story of the Société d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle, a New Orleans mutual aid society founded by free men of color in 1836. The group was one of the most important multiethnic, intellectual communities in the US South: educators, world-traveling merchants, soldiers, tradesmen, and poets who rejected racism and colorism to fight for suffrage and education rights for all. The author drew on the meeting minutes of the Société d'Economie as well as census and civil records, newspapers, and numerous archival sources to write a narrative stretching from the Haitian Revolution through the early jazz age"-- Provided by publisher

"The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony. 'I've waited for this moment so long, dreamed of it, prepared for it, I can barely believe it's finally here. But it is. And it is nothing like I expected.' There was a short time in Australia's European history when two women wielded extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony. One was Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of the new governor Lachlan Macquarie, nudging him towards social reform and magnificent buildings and town planning. The other was Elizabeth Macarthur, credited with creating Australia's wool industry and married to John Macarthur, a dangerous enemy of the establishment. These women came from strikingly different backgrounds with husbands who held sharply conflicting views. Elizabeth & Elizabeth is about two courageous women thrown together in impossible times."--Publisher.

• Historic Overview
• The Richmond Slave Trade
• Battles
• Reconstruction & Remembering,
• 1865-
• Remembering,
• 2000-
• Newspapers
• Battlefields
• Cemeteries
• Defenses of Richmond
• Hospitals
• Landmarks
• Local Units
• Monuments
• Museums/Historic Sites
• Prisons
• Published Sources
• Appendix A: Hanover County: The Civilians
• Appendix B: Gravel Hill
• Appendix C: The Richmond Battlefields Association
• Appendix D: The Most Important Convention that has been assembled in this State since the year
• 1776: The Virginia Secession Convention.

"Richmond, Virginia has an "unparalleled" concentration of Civil War sites. Serving as the Capital of the Confederacy, dozens of battles were fought around it. Visitors can also learn about the Confederate war effort, the home front, industry, transportation, social issues, and internal politics of the Confederacy. This book is a guide to the area's historic sites, museums, and battlefields, and provides historical overviews of important events."-- Provided by publisher.

• Empire Day 2.0 - Imperialism and Me - Difficult History - Emotional Loot
• We Are Here Because You Were There - Home and Away - World-Beating Politics - Dirty Money - The Origins of our Racism - Empire State of Mind - Selective Amnesia - Working Off the Past

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how our past is everywhere: from how we live to how we think, from the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism, from our distrust of intellectuals in public life to the exceptionalism that imbued the campaign for Brexit and the government's early response to the Covid crisis. And yet empire is a subject, weirdly hidden from view. The British Empire ran for centuries and covered vast swathes of the world. It is, as Sanghera reveals, fundamental to understanding Britain. However, even among those who celebrate the empire there seems to be a desire not to look at it too closely - not to include the subject in our school history books, not to emphasize it too much in our favourite museums. At a time of great division, when we are arguing about what it means to be British, Sanghera's book urges us to address this bewildering contradiction. For, it is only by stepping back and seeing where we really come from, that we can begin to understand who we are, and what unites us. -- Provided by publisher.

• V. 1.
• v. 2.
• Set.

"Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces. This book examines this connection, exploring key topics in the study of disease outbreaks and delving deep into specific historical and contemporary examples"-- Provided by publisher.

• The bandwagon dynamic and the causal funnel : institutional dymanics and nominating politics
• Deep channels to a presidency : occupations and careers
• Factions, constituencies, and candidates : the Democrats
• Factions, constituencies, and candidates : the Republicans
• The usual suspects : rules for the nominating contest
• The usual suspects : strategies and sequences
• Eternal bandwagon : nominating politics and the general election

Orthodox reporting and conventional scholarship focuses on the factors that distinguish each presidential contest and then attempts to explain them. This book rather, demonstrates that the politics of presidential nomination has been remarkably stable in the United States since the 1830s and right through to 2020. A common bandwagon dynamic, rolling once through party organizations and now through presidential primaries, permits a simple measure that has predicted nominations well before the decisive threshold was reached, while allowing precise comparisons across the years. So it becomes possible to separate the handful of things that matter for winnowing a large and diverse society into two individual presidential nominees. This funnel of causality moves through the occupational and careers seedbeds of a field of presidential aspirants, squeezing these fields by way of a small set of structural shapers, until party factions and factional struggles-not rules of the game, not candidate characteristics, not nominating strategies, nor all the other ephemera so beloved of commentators and observers-actually choose a given nominee.
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• Introduction
• Women's roles, institutions, and social control
• The Torrone and the prosecution of crimes
• Denunciations and the uses of justice
• Violence and the politics of everyday life
• Theft and its prosecution
• Conclusion

Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women's scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women's passivity, arguing that women's crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women - as criminal offenders and savvy litigants - had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning.
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• 1. Human Rights in China Past and Present: From Confucian Governance to Regime-led Development
• 2. China's Challenge to International Human Rights Standards: From Qualified Acceptance to Active Revision
• 3. Case Study: Controlling Political Expression
• 4. China's International Economic Relations: Coordination with Human Rights Orthodoxy
• 5. Case Studies: Coordinating Human Rights and Trade Policy in Labour Relations and Environmental Protection.

• Introduction
• Sources of title in the territories
• The land company experiment
• The rise of federal title
• Federal sovereignty
• Laws of war and peace
• Expenses of sovereignty
• Equal footing
• Epilogue: Three systems

Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.
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• A community of souls : an introduction / Ibram X. Kendi
• 1619-1624 : arrival / Nikole Hannah-Jones
• 1624-1629 : Africa / Molefi Kete Asante
• 1629-1634 : whipped for lying with a Black woman / Ijeoma Oluo
• 1634-1639 : tobacco / Damaris B. Hill
• 1639-1644 : Black women's labor / Brenda E. Stevenson
• 1644-1649 : Anthony Johnson, colony of Virginia / Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• 1649-1654 : the Black family / Heather Andrea Williams
• 1654-1659 : unfree labor / Nakia D. Parker
• Poem : "upon arrival" / Jericho Brown
• 1659-1664 : Elizabeth Keye / Jennifer L. Morgan
• 1664-1669 : the Virginia law on baptism / Jemar Tisby
• 1669-1674 : the royal African company / David A. Love
• 1674-1679 : Bacon's rebellion / Heather C. McGhee
• 1679-1684 : the Virginia law that forbade bearing arms; or the Virginia law that forbade armed self-defense / Kellie Carter Jackson
• 1684-1689 : the code noir / Laurence Ralph
• 1689-1694 : the Germantown petition against slavery / Christopher J. Lebron
• 1694-1699 : the middle passage / Mary E. Hicks
• Poem : "Mama, where you keep your gun?" / Phillip B. Williams
• 1699-1704 : the selling of Joseph / Brandon R. Byrd
• 1704-1709 : the Virginia slave codes / Kay Wright
• 1709-1714 : the revolt in New York / Herb Boyd
• 1714-1719 : the slave market / Sasha Turner
• 1719-1724 : maroons and marronage / Sylviane A. Diouf
• 1724-1729 : the spirituals / Corey D. B. Walker
• 1729-1734 : African identities / Walter C. Rucker
• 1734-1739 : from Fort Mose to soul city / Brentin Mock
• Poem : "before revolution" / Morgan Parker
• 1739-1744 : the Stono Rebellion / Wesley Lowery
• 1744-1749 : Lucy Terry Prince / Nafissa Thompson-Spires
• 1749-1754 : race and the Enlightenment / Dorothy E. Roberts
• 1754-1759 : Blackness and indigeneity / Kyle T. Mays
• 1759-1764 : one Black boy, the Great Lakes and the Midwest / Tiya Miles
• 1764-1769 : Phillis Wheatley / Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• 1769-1774 : David George / William J. Barber II
• 1774-1779 : the American Revolution / Martha S. Jones
• Poem : "not without some instances of uncommon cruelty" / Justin Phillip Reed
• 1779-1784 : Savannah Georgia / Daina Ramey Berry
• 1784-1789 : the U.S. Constitution / Donna Brazile
• 1789-1794 : Sally Hemings / Annette Gordon-Reed
• 1794-1799 : the Fugitive Slave Act / Deirdre Copper Owens
• 1799-1804 : higher education / Craig Steven Wilder
• 1804-1809 : cotton / Kiese Laymon
• 1809-1814 : the Lousiana Rebellion / Clint Smith
• 1814-1819 : queer sexuality / Raquel Willis
• Poem : "remembering the Albany 3" / Ishmael Reed
• 1819-1824 : Denmark Vesey / Robert Jones, Jr.
• 1824-1829 : Freedom's Journal / Pamela Newkirk
• 1829-1834 : Maria Stewart / Kathryn Sophia Belle
• 1834-1839 : the national Negro conventions / Eugene Scott
• 1839-1844 : racial passing / Allyson Hobbs
• 1844-1849 : James McCune Smith, M.D. / Harriet A. Washington
• 1849-1854 : Oregon / Mitchell S. Jackson
• 1854-1859 : Dred Scott / John A. Powell
• Poem : "compromise" / Donika Kelly
• 1859-1864 : Frederick Douglass / Adam Serwer
• 1864-1869 : the Civil War / Jamelle Bouie
• 1869-1874 : Reconstruction / Michael Harriot
• 1874-1879 : Atlanta / Tera W. Hunter
• 1879-1884 : John Wayne Niles / William A. Darity, Jr.
• 1884-1889 : Philadelphia / Kali Nicole Gross
• 1889-1894 : lynching / Crystal N. Feimster
• 1894-1899 : Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L. M. Kelley
• John Wayne Niles Ermias Joseph Asghedom Mahogany L. Browne
• 1899-1904 : Booker T. Washington / Derrick Alridge
• 1904-1909 : Jack Johnson / Howard Bryant
• 1909-1914 : the Black public intellectual / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
• 1914-1919 : the great migration / Isabel Wilkerson
• 1919-1924 : red summer / Michelle Duster
• 1924-1929 : the Harlem Renaissance / Farah Jasmine Griffin
• 1929-1934 : the Great Depression / Robin D. G. Kelley
• 1934-1939 : Nora Neale Hurston / Bernice L. McFadden
• Poem : "coiled and unleashed" / Patricia Smith
• 1939-1944 : the Black soldier / Chad Williams
• 1944-1949 : the Black left / Russell Rickford
• 1949-1954 : the road to Brown v. Board of Education / Sherrilyn Ifill
• 1954-1959 : Black arts / Imani Perry
• 1959-1964 : the Civil Rights Movement / Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
• 1964-1969 : Black power / Peniel Joseph
• 1969-1974 : property / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• 1974-1979 : Combahee River Collective / Barbara Smith
• Poem : "and the record repeats" / Chet'la Sebree
• 1979-1984 : the war on drugs / James Forman, Jr.
• 1984-1989 : the hip-hop generation / Bakari Kitwana
• 1989-1994 : Anita Hill / bSalamishah Tillet
• 1994-1999 : the Crime Bill / Angela Y. Davis
• 1999-2004 : the Black immigrant / Esther Armah
• 2004-2009 : Hurricane Katrina / Deborah Douglas
• 2009-2014 : the Shelby ruling / Karine Jean-Pierre
• 2014-2019 : Black Lives Matter / Alicia Garza
• Poem : "American Abecedarian" / Joseph Bennett
• Conclusion: Our ancestor's wildest dreams / Keisha N. Blain

"A 'choral history"'of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Freedom's ring throughout the post-WWII decades
• Talking first and shooting later in the Black Power era
• Nothing left to lose : maximizing liberties in the late 1960s free-for-all
• Tools of the trade : working women and radical women in the liberation era
• Conclusion: Postscript from the present day.

"Freedom's Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from globally exploitative free trade to anti-French "freedom fries" during the War in Iraq, once bolstered the progressive causes of Freedom Summer, the Free Speech Movement, and more militant Black Power and Women's Liberation movements with equal efficacy. Focused as it is on the faring of freedom throughout the liberation era, this book also explores attempts made by rights movements to achieve the often competitive or cross-canceling American ideal of equality-economic, professional, and otherwise. Although many struggled and died for it in the civil rights era, freedoms such as the vote, integrated bus rides, sex without consequences via the Pill, are ultimately free-costing officialdom little if anything to fully implement-while equality with respect to jobs, salaries, education, housing, and health care, will forever be the much more expensive nut to crack. Freedom's Ring regards the politics of freedom, and politics in general, as a low-cost substitute for and engrossing distraction from substantive economic problem-solving from the liberation era to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors. As well as providing an invaluable general introduction and vital contextual notes on every source included, Micah Alpaugh selects a varied range of pieces, drawing on Parisian, provincial and even international voices, and classic texts in addition to lesser-known sources. This unique collection of 13 visual sources and 88 documents, many of which have been translated into English here for the first time, provide perspectives into the debates, pronouncements and proposals that spawned modern politics"-- Provided by publisher.

"From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s, feminist activism in North America and Europe reached its peak, animated by a disparate array of issues and ideas. Frontiers of Feminism compares Québécois and Italian feminisms, revealing both the synergy between feminism and the left and the influence of American and French women’s movements on those in Québec and Italy. Revisiting struggles such as abortion, health and sexuality, wages for housework, and the quest for autonomy from masculine thought, Jacinthe Michaud brings an international perspective to major feminist themes, strategies, and modes of organizing."-- Provided by publisher.

• Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, escape artist
• Juan Atondo's vagrant heart
• Protean pícaros
• Aguayo and Atondo, pícaros after all?

"Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place are often lost from the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule. Displacement brought pícaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture-a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of those aspects of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble one or another literary pícaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, as heroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neither a receptive audience nor permissive institutions? With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order coming apart as it was coming together"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Painting and its medium
• The art of the book in medieval South Asia
• Visions on the move
• A garland of visions
• Color as an encoding tool
• Color to matter : a material history of Indian painting
• Epilogue.

"Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of the pothi-format manuscript as a medium for painting in Indic religious circles enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyers of many forms of knowledge--ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious--and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a paradigm-shifting material history of Indian painting"-- Provided by publisher.

• Gifts, symbolic values and strategies
• Women' s access to immobile property
• Women, law and property in colonial contexts
• Women and property in transitory zones
• Synthesis.

"This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession and the rights to usufruct. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, philosophy and law, allows for a more nuanced understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender of the person who owned, possessed or used it. By exploring a broad scope of topics including landownership, slaveholding and the dowry, this book is an essential resource for both researchers and students of women's history, social and economic history and material culture"-- Provided by publisher.

• The entrepot of Eurasia (1553 -1622)
• The democratic citadel (1623 -1783)
• The era of imperial consolidation (1783 -1846)
• The early colonial era (1846 -1910)
• The middle colonial / republican era (1910 -1930)
• The late colonial / martial era (1930 -1966)
• The handover era (1966-1999)
• The special administrative region (1999 -present).

"Despite being Hong Kong's sister 'Special Administrative Region' (SAR) within the People's Republic of China, Macau's unique constitutional development under Portuguese and Chinese administration remains under-appreciated despite its potential contributions to local, national, and international constitutional discourse. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach including doctrinal, historical, and comparative methodologies, this work fills that gap. The research blends Portuguese, Chinese, and foreign-language sources in order to reconstruct a balanced constitutional narrative. The book focuses on a consequential effect of globalization - that is, the assimilation of a longstanding and unique constitutional order by a new hegemonic sovereign - including processes for internationalization as China opened up, legal harmonization of two distinct legal and socioeconomic orders, juridification of local affairs with the establishment of a new local court system in preparation for handover to the Chinese regime, and democratization (or the lack thereof) among the various communities comprising the Macanese polity before and since"-- Provided by publisher.

• The English origins
• The limits and potential of habeas corpus
• Revolution
• Habeas corpus comes to America
• Habeas corpus in the early United States
• Civil War and suspension
• Reconstruction and expansion of the writ
• World War II and the demise of the great writ
• Habeas corpus today.

"The storied writ of habeas corpus-literally, to hold the body-has enjoyed celebrated status in the common law tradition for centuries. Writing in the eighteenth century, the widely influential English jurist and commentator William Blackstone once labeled the writ of habeas corpus a "bulwark of our liberties." Soon thereafter, a member of Parliament glorified the writ as "[t]he great palladium of the liberties of the subject." Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, in the lead up to the American Revolution, the Continental Congress declared that the habeas privilege and the right to trial by jury were among the most important rights in a free society, "without which a people cannot be free and happy." A few years later, while promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution in The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton celebrated the privilege as one of the "greate[st] securities to liberty and republicanism" known. Thus, as another participant in the ratification debates wrote, the writ of habeas corpus has long been viewed as "essential to freedom.""-- Provided by publisher.

"Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community"-- Provided by publisher.

• Section 1. History and context of military schools and colleges.
• Chapter 1. Two hundred and twenty years of American military schools ;
• Chapter 2. "Formation" in formation revisited: military schools' distinct advantage in "forming" young adolescent males
• Section 2. Citizenship and character development and socioemotional support.
• Chapter 3. Socioemotional learning in a military school environment ;
• Chapter 4. Honorable mismatch: non-toleration and teen developmental capabilities ;
• Chapter 5. Ethics by the book for now and always: educating future air force officers on issues of ethics and law ;
• Chapter 6. The modern American military education model: a new approach for a new century ;
• Chapter 7. Effects of military environment on students' emotional intelligence development: an exploratory analysis
• Section 3. Leadership development.
• Chapter 8. Developing leaders of character at the federal service academies ;
• Chapter 9. How military schools reconcile compliance, authority, and authenticity in adolescent leadership: purpose, environment, and agency ;
• Chapter 10. Soft skills and leader development at a senior military college: developing tomorrow's leaders for the good of American society ;
• Chapter 11. Change and the American military school's future: lessons of COVID-19
• Section 4. Academic development and support.
• Chapter 12. Exploring the delphi report's critical thinking framework for military school educationists ;
• Chapter 13. Impactful academic supports for students enrolled at military colleges ;
• Chapter 14. Grit as a predictor of academic success at Norwich University
• Section 5. Athletics.
• Chapter 15. Benefits of athletics for military school students: the perceived benefits of interscholastic and intramural athletics for students of military schools

Military academies have served youth for more than a century with proud traditions of producing graduates who are scholars, leaders, and athletes who adhere to a code of honor and ethical principles as they take the knowledge, skills, and dispositions gained at those academies into higher education, the business world, military service, civic endeavors, and the broader workforce. There is a current gap and need for research that explores the various components of a K-20 military school/college education and how those components successfully produce leaders of character for our military, civic, academic, and business worlds both in the United States and abroad. The Handbook of Research on Character and Leadership Development in Military Schools synthesizes research on the impact of military academies by providing a singular compendium of current academic studies on the graduates of military academies and the communities of which they enter after graduation. The chapters will explore the academics, leadership, character development, citizenship, athletics, and other dimensions of both global and national, and both private and public, military academies. This book is ideal for current leaders, staffs, governing board members, and alumni of military academies both in the United States and internationally along with policymakers, government officials, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the implications of character and leadership development on individuals enrolled in or graduated from military schools.
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• Part 1. Argentina
• The book and publishing in Argentina. Books for everyone and the Hispanic American model
• Translating the nation. Gregorio Weinberg and the rationalism of Argentinean past
• Part 2. Mexico
• Latin America as a civilizing meridian. Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Tierra Firme series
• Publishing and politics. Cold War in Latin American culture in the sixties
• Part 3. Brazil
• Genesis of the national publishing market: a miracle?
• The house and the enterprise. José Olympio and the evolution of publishing in Brazil
• Part 4. Transnational perspectives
• The world as a fair. Publishing in(ter)dependencies at the Frankfurt Fair
• The translation of social and human sciences books between France and Argentina as an unequal exchange.

"This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s. The intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global cultural curiosity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The tripartite divorce system
• The enactment of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
• Divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
• The divorce courts
• Divorce law reform in the early twentieth century
• Quo vadis? : the road to divorce

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years. The legal history of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 is at the heart of the book. The Act had a transformative impact on English law and society by introducing a secular judicial system of civil divorce. This swept aside the old system of divorce that was only obtainable from the House of Lords and inadvertently led to the creation of the modern family justice system. The book argues that only through understanding the legal doctrine in its wider cultural, political, religious, and social context is it possible to fully analyse and assess the changes brought about by the Act. The major developments included the end of any pretence of the indissolubility of marriage, the statutory enshrinement of a double standard based on gender in the grounds for divorce, and the growth of divorce across all spectrums of English society. The Act was a product of political and legal compromise between conservative forces resisting the legal introduction of civil divorce and the reformers, who demanded married women receive equal access to the grounds of divorce. Changing attitudes towards divorce that began in the Edwardian period led to a gradual rejection of Victorian moral values and the repeal of the Act after 80 years of existence in the Interwar years. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers with an interest in legal history, family law, and Victorian studies.
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"A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D's life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father's trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies amid the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As she becomes part of a tight-knit community of fellow salesmen and grifters, M is regaled with parables and anecdotes that inform her "parallel education, " D's excuse for letting her skip school without M's mother's knowledge. As father and daughter trek from town to town in their old Renault, M's memories and thoughts become tied to a language of rural commerce, philosophy, the cosmos, hardware products, and ghosts. M, in her innocence, barely notices the rising tensions and precarious nature of their work, until she and her father connect with an enigmatic photographer, E, whose presence threatens to upend the whimsical life they've created."--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Function and structure
• Cultural contexts and political choices
• The California County library system
• Libraries in diplomacy
• Libraries in Japan and the Allied cccupation
• CIE information centers
• The education mission, 1946
• Philip Keeney and his plan
• National Diet Library
• The Library Law of 1950
• Don Brown's initiative
• Gitler, Kiyooka and Keio
• The Japan Library School
• Afterwards
• Summary and retrospect

"This book examines US-influenced initiatives to improve library services during the Allied Occupation of post-surrender Japan and looks at history of funding libraries abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy, the development of free public libraries as a progressive political agenda in California, and an explanation of why in Japan library services were relatively backward despite exceptionally high literacy and very well-developed publishing industry and retail book trade"-- Provided by publisher