In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay 'The Imperialism of Free Trade'. They reshaped how historians saw the British empire, focussing not on the 'red bits on the map' and the wishes of policy makers in London, but rather on British economic and political influence globally. Expanding on this analysis, this volume provides an examination of imperialism which brings the reader right up to the present. This book offers an innovative assessment and analysis of the history and contemporary status of imperial control. It does so in four parts, examining the historical emergence and traditions of imperialism; the relationships between the periphery and the metropolitan; the role of supranational agencies in the extension of imperial control; and how these connect to financialisation and international political economy. The book provides a dynamic and unique perspective on imperialism by bringing together a range of contributors - both established and up-and-coming scholars, activists, and those from industry - from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. In providing these authors a space to apply their insights, this engaging volume sheds light on the practical implications of imperialism for the contemporary world. With a broad chronological and geographical sweep, this book provides theoretical and empirical engagements with the nature of imperialism and its effects upon societies. It will be of great interest to a broad range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, especially those working in History, Politics, and Management and Organisation Studies.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2020, held in December 2020. Due to Covid-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The book contains 13 full papers selected from the main conference and 10 full papers from two workshops on medical artificial intelligence and on digital healthcare technologies. The conference papers are organized in topical sections on wearable technologies; health telemetry; mobile sensing and assessment; machine learning in eHealth applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2019, held in Dublin, Ireland, in November 2019. The 26 revised full papers were reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and are organized in topical sections on mobility and real-time assessment, remote patient monitoring, patient monitoring and assessment of ICT solutions, patient monitoring and robotics, wearable technologies and smart measurement, data management within mHealth environments.

Charleston, South Carolina,1863. The Confederate "cradle of rebellion" is under siege. Union forces boasting a fleet of ironclad Monitors and monstrous coast artillery shake the lowcountry to its core. Repeated attacks fail to take the citadels protecting the city, a ring of defenses that includes the legendary Fort Sumter. The culmination of the siege is an assault on a sand fort called Battery Wagner spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first African American unit to fight in the war. The gallant attack on Battery Wagner fails like all the others with catastrophic Union losses. But the life and death struggle of the surviving freedom-fighters of the 54th is only beginning. Sixty men of the black regiment are captured. They are the first black POWs of the war. Confederate authorities have long threatened to summarily execute blacks captured in uniform. The State of South Carolina contends the men of the 54th are not soldiers at all, but are slaves in revolt. The governor presses the state's jurisdiction in the matter and the soldiers are put on trial, charged with servile insurrection. Conviction will mean execution. The defense team includes a hapless, quixotic Unionist lawyer named Nelson Mitchell and Edward McCrady, an aristocratic Confederate colonel. To win their case, this unlikely tandem must overcome the war-time hysteria and inherent racism of the times; outsmart a slick upstate prosecutor, deal with a cynical judge, and combat a psychopathic prison warden; and they must convince an all-white jury that the black defendants are indeed soldiers due the fair treatment given any prisoner of war. Soldiers Just Like You is based on the true story of a long forgotten trial where courage and justice overcome racism and slavery.