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This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and
explanations relating to all aspects of the European Union. It
explains the terminology surrounding the EU, and outlines the roles
and significance of its institutions, member countries, foreign
relations, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities. It
contains over 1,000 clear and succinct definitions and explains
acronyms and abbreviations, which are arranged alphabetically and
fully cross-referenced. Among the 1,000 entries you can find
explanations of and background details on: ACP states Article 50
Brexit competition policy Donald Tusk the European Maritime and
Fisheries Fund the euro Greece Jean-Claude Juncker Europol
migration and asylum policy the Schengen Agreement the Single
Supervisory Mechanism the single rulebook the Treaty of Lisbon
Ukraine
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Edmund Husserl is generally regarded as the founding figure of the
philosophical movement of "phenomenology," by which he understands
a descriptive science of the essential structures of experiences
and of their objects precisely as these are experienced.
Phenomenology has had a decisive influence on philosophy in the
20th century, especially in Europe. The movement known as
"continental philosophy," whether practiced in Europe or elsewhere,
has its roots in phenomenology and in the post-Hegelian
philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl
Marx. Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy, Second Edition
contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600
cross-referenced entries on his key concepts and major writings as
well as entries on his most important predecessors, contemporaries,
and successors. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Edmund Husserl.
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.
From "30 Americans" to "Angry White Boy," from "Bamboozled" to
"The Boondocks," from "Chappelle's Show" to "The Colored Museum,"
this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary
look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new
roles in black identity. As a mode of expression for a generation
of writers, comedians, cartoonists, musicians, filmmakers, and
visual/conceptual artists, satire enables collective questioning of
many of the fundamental presumptions about black identity in the
wake of the civil rights movement. Whether taking place in popular
and controversial television shows, in a provocative series of
short internet films, in prize-winning novels and plays, in comic
strips, or in conceptual hip hop albums, this satirical impulse has
found a receptive audience both within and outside the black
community.
Such works have been variously called "post-black," "post-soul,"
and examples of a "New Black Aesthetic." Whatever the label, this
collection bears witness to a noteworthy shift regarding the ways
in which African American satirists feel constrained by
conventional obligations when treating issues of racial identity,
historical memory, and material representation of blackness.
Among the artists examined in this collection are Paul Beatty,
Dave Chappelle, Trey Ellis, Percival Everett, Donald Glover (a.k.a.
Childish Gambino), Spike Lee, Aaron McGruder, Lynn Nottage, ZZ
Packer, Suzan Lori-Parks, Mickalene Thomas, Toure, Kara Walker, and
George C. Wolfe. The essays intentionally seek out interconnections
among various forms of artistic expression. Contributors look at
the ways in which contemporary African American satire engages in a
broad ranging critique that exposes fraudulent, outdated, absurd,
or otherwise damaging mindsets and behaviors both within and
outside the African American community."
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