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This book, first published in 1992, explores the role of the
Federal Reserve System in the Great Depression. Several theories of
the causes of the Great Depression are discussed. What the Federal
Reserve did, how they defended their actions, and how business
writers, businessmen and economists viewed these actions are
important. Analysis of these opinions sheds light on how aware of
the appropriateness of Federal Reserve policy concerned
participants of that time period were.
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century
Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race
circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in
the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial
and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and
representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of
popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and
white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media
and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of
Science Fiction have explored the genre's racialized constructs of
possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to
take up the topic of race in depth. The book's interdisciplinary
approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness
Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt
Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself
post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre's habits of
whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an
exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works
through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also
discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both
re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores
debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities.
With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this
book is an important and original contribution to studies of race,
Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture.
Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most
fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By
degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods
and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict
can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive
and recover. This book explores how natural resource management
initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have
supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding.
Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for
the more effective design of interventions to support the
livelihoods that depend on natural resources - from land to
agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book
also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods
assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to
post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to
identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and
natural resource management. The project has generated six books of
case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners,
policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address
high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural
resources, and governance.
This book, first published in 1992, explores the role of the
Federal Reserve System in the Great Depression. Several theories of
the causes of the Great Depression are discussed. What the Federal
Reserve did, how they defended their actions, and how business
writers, businessmen and economists viewed these actions are
important. Analysis of these opinions sheds light on how aware of
the appropriateness of Federal Reserve policy concerned
participants of that time period were.
Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political
aims. Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the
most pressing and contentious issue in medievalism studies: how the
Middle Ages have been subsequently deployed for political ends. The
six essays in the first section directly address that concern with
regard to Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges's contemporaneous
responses to the 1871 Commune; the hypocrisy of the Robinhood App's
invocation of their namesake; misunderstood parallels and
differences between the Covid-19 pandemic and medieval plagues;
Peter Gill's reworking of a major medieval Mystery play in his 2001
The York Realist; celebrations of medieval monks by the American
alt-right; and medieval references in twenty-first-century novels
by the American neo-Nazi Harold A. Covington. The approaches and
conclusions of those essays are then tested in the second section's
seven articles as they examine widely discredited alt-right claims
that strong kings ruled medieval Finland; Norse medievalism in WWI
British and German propaganda; post-war Black appropriation of
white jousting tournaments in the Antebellum South; early American
references to the Merovingian Dynasty; Rudyard Kipling's deployment
of the Middle Ages to defend his beliefs; the reframing of St.
Anthony by Agustina Bessa-Luis's 1973 biography of him; and
post-medieval Portuguese reworkings of the Goat-Foot-Lady and other
medieval legends.
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century
Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race
circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in
the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial
and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and
representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of
popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and
white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media
and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of
Science Fiction have explored the genre's racialized constructs of
possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to
take up the topic of race in depth. The book's interdisciplinary
approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness
Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt
Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself
post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre's habits of
whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an
exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works
through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also
discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both
re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores
debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities.
With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this
book is an important and original contribution to studies of race,
Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
middle ages. This volume not only defines medievalism's margins, as
well as its role in marginalizing other fields, ideas, people,
places, and events, but also provides tools and models for
exploring those issues and indicates new subjects towhich they
might apply. The eight opening essays address the physical
marginalizing of medievalism in annotated texts on medieval
studies; the marginalism of oneself via medievalism; medievalism's
dearth of ecotheory and religious studies; academia's paucity of
pop medievalism; and the marginalization of races, ethnicities,
genders, sexual orientations, and literary characters in
contemporary medievalism. The seven subsequent articles build on
this foundation while discussing: the distancing of oneself (and
others) during imaginary visits to the Middle Ages; lessons from
the margins of Brazilian medievalism; mutual marginalization among
factions of Spanish medieval studies; and medievalism in the
marginalization of lower socio-economic classes in late-eighteenth-
and early nineteenth-century Spain, of modern gamers, of
contemporary laborers, and of Alfred Austin, a late-nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century poet also known as Alfred the Little. In
thus investigating the margins of and marginalization via
medievalism, the volume affirms their centrality to the field. Karl
Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in
Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Nadia R. Altschul, Megan Arnott,
Jaume Aurell, Juan Gomis Coloma, Elizabeth Emery, Vincent Ferre,
Valerie B. Johnson, Alexander L. Kaufman, Erin Felicia Labbie,
VickieLarsen, Kevin Moberly, Brent Moberly, Alicia C. Montoya,
Serina Patterson, Jeff Rider, Lindsey Simon-Jones, Richard Utz,
Helen Young.
A new series of full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2016
A/AS Level Geography specification. This full-colour Student Book
covers all core and optional units for the AQA AS and A Level
Geography specification for first teaching from September 2016.
Students are encouraged to develop links between physical and human
topics, understand systems, processes, and acquire geographical
skills. Helping to bridge the gap from GCSE to A Level, it also
provides support for fieldwork skills and for the geographical
investigation at A Level. A 'Maths for geographers' feature helps
students develop and apply their mathematical and statistical
skills, and a range of assessment-style questions support students
in developing their exam skills.
Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most
fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By
degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods
and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict
can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive
and recover. This book explores how natural resource management
initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have
supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding.
Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for
the more effective design of interventions to support the
livelihoods that depend on natural resources - from land to
agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book
also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods
assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to
post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to
identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and
natural resource management. The project has generated six books of
case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners,
policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address
high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural
resources, and governance.
A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the
AQA 2016 GCSE Geography qualification Written for the AQA GCSE
Geography specification for first teaching from 2016, this print
Student Book fully covers the new AQA GCSE Geography qualification.
This full-colour book includes differentiated activities providing
support for weaker students and stretch for more able students.
Test your progress pages provide regular assessment practice and
opportunities for students to check their progress, and a dedicated
section on skills development helps to reinforce understanding.
This Student Book also includes specially written decision-making
exercises, guidance on carrying out fieldwork plus activities to
help develop fieldwork skills, and a range of up-to-date UK and
international case studies.
A new series of full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2016
A/AS Level Geography specification. This Student Book and digital
bundle covers all core and optional units for the AQA A/AS Level
Geography specification for first teaching from 2016. These
resources encourage students to develop links between physical and
human topics, consolidate knowledge from earlier learning and
acquire new geographical skills. The tablet-friendly Cambridge
Elevate-enhanced Edition includes rich digital content such as
videos that bring learning to life and downloadable content that
provide scaffolding and stretch opportunities. This interactive
resource also allows student to annotate text and add audio notes,
and enables teachers to assess, track and report on students'
progress.
Over the years Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of
health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this
experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision
of health care and services in developing countries. Where people
are suffering from food scarcity or famine, the obvious response
seems to be food aid. This may indeed be necessary, but handing out
food may not be the best solution, and other actions could be
equally urgent, such as public health or income support measures.
This book provides a new approach to assessing and responding to
situations of food scarcity and gives a comprehensive explanation
of how to assess these situations in order to judge which
interventions will be most effective. This book offers advice on
carrying out initial assessments and nutrition surveys, and
emphasises the importance of finding out the underlying causes of
food scarcity by seeking out the views of those affected. Food
distribution, and how to target the people who need it most,
supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes, are also covered.
A Guide To Making Pottery In The Kitchen, Including Obtaining Clay;
Forming Hand-Built And Molded Toys, Tiles, And Gifts; And Glazing
And Firing Them.
Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a
print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed
individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality
printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary
from the original offset printing edition and may look more
saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as
the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and
presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing,
please contact c&t publishing.
Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a
print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed
individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality
printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary
from the original offset printing edition and may look more
saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as
the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and
presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing,
please contact c&t publishing.
The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture
represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord
of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist
worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and
travels of the characters. Organised around the theme of mobility,
this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of
western popular medievalisms which typically position Europe as
either the whole world or the centre of it, by making them visible
and offering alternative perspectives. How does popular culture
represent medievalist worlds as global-connected by the movement of
people and objects? How do imagined mobilities allow us to create
counterstories that resist Eurocentric norms? This study represents
the start of what will hopefully be a fruitful and inclusive
conversation of what the Middle Ages did, and should, look like.
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