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There are very serious environmental problems facing the planet.
Biodiversity loss has reached unprecedented levels. Climate change
is progressing so rapidly that within this century we are likely to
see substantial sea level rise. There has been dramatic loss of
tropical rainforests. Plastic pollution is killing wildlife and
polluting our oceans. Various movements old and new are addressing
these green issues. Civil society activism has taken on new
strategies with the emergence of new technologies and global
networks of green activists have formed. A new generation of green
activists are emerging and boldly criticizing the status quo. At
the same time, in some parts of the world, green movements that
looked like they were beginning to gain a political foothold or
were even doing quite well are in retreat. The reasons are complex.
Some suffer from lack of funding and hostile political and legal
environments. Others are being attacked by populist politicians who
see green activism as a threat. The second edition of Historical
Dictionary of the Green Movement contains a chronology, an
introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section
has over 300 cross-referenced on green movements, green politics,
green trends, and major environmental agreements and events. This
book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone
wanting to know more about the green movement.
An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora
poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong,
Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or
East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding
of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a
globalised world. Located within current discourse surrounding
Asian poetry, postcolonial and migrant writing, and bridging the
fields of literary and cultural criticism with author interviews,
this book provides close readings on established and emerging
Chinese diasporic poets' work by incorporating the writers' own
reflections on their craft through interviews with some of those
featured. In doing so, Jennifer Wong explores the usefulness and
limitations of existing labels and categories in reading the works
of selected poets from specific racial, socio-cultural, linguistic
environments and gender backgrounds, including Bei Dao, Li-Young
Lee, Marilyn Chin, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe, Nina Mingya Powles
and Mary Jean Chan. Incorporating scholarship from both the East
and the West, Wong demonstrates how these poets' experimentation
with poetic language and forms serve to challenge the changing
notions of homeland, family, history and identity, offering new
evaluations of contemporary diasporic voices.
Explore the world with your students and discover its wonders - all
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For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the
exceptional ""other"" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During
Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a
haunting brand of national ""selfhood."" Both areas shared a loss
of splendor and a fraught relation with modernization, and they
retained a sense of defeat. Brittany Powell Kennedy explores this
paradox not simply to compare two apparently similar cultures but
to reveal how we construct difference around this self/other
dichotomy. She charts a transatlantic link between two cultures
whose performances of ""otherness"" as assertions of ""selfhood""
enact and subvert their claims to exceptionality. Perhaps the
greatest example of this transatlantic link remains the War of
1898, when the South tried to extract itself from but was
implicated in U.S. imperial expansion and nation-building.
Simultaneously, the South participated in the end of Spain as an
imperial power. Given the War of 1898 as a climactic moment,
Kennedy explores the writings of those who come directly after this
period and who attempted to ""regenerate"" what was perceived as
""traditional"" in an agrarian past. That desire recurs over the
century in novels from writers as diverse as William Faulkner,
Camilo Jose Cela, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Federico Garcia
Lorca, and Ralph Ellison. As these writers wrestle with ideas of
Spain and the South, they also engage questions of how national
identity is affirmed and contested. Kennedy compares these cultures
across the twentieth century to show the ways in which they express
national authenticity. Thus she explores not only Francoism and Jim
Crow, but varied attempts to define nationhood via exceptionalism,
suggesting a model of performativity that relates to other
""exceptional"" geographies.
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Explore the world with your students and discover its wonders - all
while developing the English skills they need to become successful
global citizens. Through spectacular National Geographic video and
inspiring photography students will travel the globe, learning
about different countries, cultures, people, and their customs.
With clearly structured methodology and explicit grammar
instruction, this six-level primary series is packed with
fascinating facts that spark curiosity, personalisation activities
that get your students talking and new online resources that make
it even easier to bring the world to the classroom and the
classroom to life.
The modern encyclopedia was born in the eighteenth century.
Although numerous studies have shed light on its evolution,
important participants have been neglected. Dennis de Coetlogon's
Universal history of the arts and sciences may be little known to
us today, but its contribution to the development of the
encyclopedia is as compelling as it is paradoxical. Loveland
examines the Universal history in its cultural context to provide
the most detailed picture to date of the world of British
encyclopedias in the first half of the eighteenth century. His
lively analysis reveals how Coetlogon: flouted the emerging norms
of encyclopedia-writing, combining impartial discourse with
harangues, advertisements and personal revelations broadened the
scope of the traditional dictionary of arts and sciences towards
history, geography and religion included far fewer and longer
articles than was customary in alphabetical works championed
Christian and politically conservative values, providing a
fascinating counter-model to the later French Encyclopedie In
triggering the adoption of serial publication by the owners of
Chambers's Cyclopedia, and establishing a model for alphabetized
treatises taken up by the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Universal
history was indeed an inspiration for the modern encyclopedia.
The Russo-Japanese War was fought for 19 months (8 February 1904- 5
September 1905) between the empires of Japan and the Russia over
the southern part of Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. While
essentially a colonial conflict, the war became a major engagement
both in scale and innovation unseen until then. In recent years
there has been a growing awareness that this event marks a
historical juncture far more important than it was usually taken to
be. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the
Russo-Japanese War offers a major revision of the highly praised
first edition, which, by all accounts, has been the standard work
on this conflict in any language during the last decade. The book
contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an
extensive bibliography. Moreover, the dictionary section has some
800 new or fully revised cross-referenced entries on the battles,
weaponry, and major personalities of the war, as well as various
international events and conflicts, agreements, schemes, and
projects that led to the war. This book is an excellent resource
for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
the Russo-Japanese War.
The history of same-sex attraction and love is relevant to many
aspects of history, including its social, religious, and political
dimensions. The Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality provides a
comprehensive survey of same-sex relations from ancient China and
Greece to the contemporary world. The book covers religious
traditions that have tolerated or had a role for same-sex
relations, to those that have condemned it and called for
punishment. The legal treatment of homosexuality, and the
development in the modern world of a gay rights movements, are
central areas of focus. In addition, there are a number of entries
for specific countries and regions that provides concise summaries
of how same-sex relations have been understood and treated around
the globe. Court decisions and emerging norms in international law
are also covered. Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second
Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200
cross-referenced entries on important historical figures,
philosophic, artistic, and literary treatments of same-sex love,
historical terms, and contemporary events. This book is an
excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to
know more about homosexuality.
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