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Material culture, the subject of much archaeological research, has only recently been studied as evidence of gender relations. Case studies drawn from many different periods and areas develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social contexts of production and artifact use to the construction of food as a gendered social medium. The worldwide contributors critique traditional approaches and consider feminist and non-heterosexual gender perspectives.
Material culture, the substance of much archaeological research,
has only recently been studied as evidence of gender relations.
Case studies, drawn from many different periods and areas, develop
concepts and theories as diverse as the social context of
production and artefact use in the construction of food as a
gendered social medium. The international contributors to this
volume critique traditional approaches and consider feminist and
non-heterosexual gender perspectives.
This book is an international collaborative effort based on
personal and professional witness by American and German social
scientists to German unification as both process and outcome. It
assesses some of the problems facing a united Germany.
The development of the welfare state has been accompanied by
greater freedom being granted to workers in industrialized
capitalist countries. The themes of this probing volume concern how
governments, employers, trade unions, and workers have acted to
promote economic growth and accountability with active industrial
policies and forms of co-determination, worker self-management,
and/or employee ownership. The book's essays address the key
dimensions of economic, social, and political change in five
industrial democracies: the United States, the United Kingdom,
France, Germany, and Sweden. A major focus of the volume as a whole
is on economic management and workplace reform in a variety of
national settings. Managing Modern Capitalism is divided into three
sections, covering strategies for industrial renewal, workplace
democracy in practice and theory, and future perspectives. In the
first section, each of the five countries are compared and
contrasted in light of their attempts to stimulate economic growth
and reduce unemployment under conditions of international
interpendence of capital and markets. Country-by-country profiles
highlight the second section, which also examines various forms of
employee consultation, participation in managerial decisions, and
ownership. The third section and conclusion evaluate prospective
economic trends and workplace democracy in the capitalist nations.
This book will be of interest to policymakers, scholars, and
journalists, as well as to advanced students in political science,
economics, history, and sociology.
The East European revolutions of 1989 led to momentous changes
throughout the region. Nowhere were they felt more dramatically
than in Germany, where unification unexpectedly became reality,
unfolding with breathtaking speed, unhindered by major obstacles.
However, joy over the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of
the borders was soon dampene
Hancock and Logue, along with their contributors, seek to
explicate the achievements, problems, and prospects of simultaneous
processes of economic and political transitions from communism to
contrasting forms of market economies and democracy in Russia,
Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and eastern Germany.
Contributors include 14 American and European scholars with
intimate professional and personal familiarity with the various
case studies.
The contributors draw on process analysis and transition theory
to explore different national approaches to privatization. This
includes individual voucher schemes, the use of investment funds,
the direct sale of former state owned enterprises, employee buy
outs, direct foreign investments and their consequences for
parallel processes of marketization and democratization. A quarter
of the volume is devoted to comparative analyses of contrasting
modes of privatization, the role of public opinion and law in the
transition process, and the international economic and political
context of postcommunist transformation. An important analysis for
scholars, students, and other researchers involved with
postcommunist economic and political change.
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Title: A sermon on the premature and lamented death of General
Alexander Hamilton.Author: John M'DonaldPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02207800CollectionID:
CTRG97-B1116PublicationDate: 18040101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "Published by request."Collation: 32 p
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
International experts assess the components of the Baltic security
puzzle by placing the security and political interests of the
states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania within the historical,
economic, and political narratives of the greater Baltic region.
They first reevaluate Baltic history as a progression of conflict,
partial integration, Cold War division, up to today's efforts to
build a security community. Next, they focus on economic and social
relations by contrasting patterns of democratization, domestic
politics, EU membership, and the economics of crime. Lastly, they
analyze military security and evolving regional perceptions of
threats as well as the dynamics of alliance behavior and the recent
geostrategic clashes unearthed by Russia's behavior in Ukraine.
Published in 1841, this is the story of Eenoolooapik, a young Inuit
who guided whaling captain William Penny to the mouth of Cumberland
Sound - a whale-rich body of water - 250 years after it was first
explored and named by John Davis. Probably the first Inuk for whom
a biography was published during his lifetime, 'Eenoo' drew a map
which led Penny to the whaling area. His geographical knowledge
therefore resulted in a burgeoning industry that provided seasonal
employment to the Inuit and dramatically changed their lives.
Alexander M'Donald (1817-48) describes Eenoolooapik's life and
environment, a visit to Scotland with Penny (where he endeared
himself to the people he met), and the difficulties he encountered
in making the transition from life in the Arctic to
nineteenth-century Britain. M'Donald himself later worked as an
assistant surgeon on H.M.S. Terror in Sir John Franklin's last
expedition: his eventual fate is not known.
Germans born in the second decade of the last century will have
been a subject of no less than six political regimes, seven if they
lived in the former German Democratic Republic. Today, Germany's
democratic polity, pluralistic society, institutional structures,
and market economy are growing increasingly strong. In clear and
compelling prose, Hancock and Krisch argue that German politics
today is the politics of a "normal" European democracy moving
toward the EU. The authors discuss Germany's course of
modernization, which involves rapid industrialization and social
development following the nation's first unification in 1871 and
its subsequent torturous course of political change embracing
Imperial authoritarianism, the democratic experiment of the Weimar
Republic, Nazi totalitarianism, and postwar variants of communism
and Western-style democracy. Chapters detail the country's
political history, as well as its culture, new constitutional
debates, parties, and economic policy, and culminate in a look at
Germany in global context.
The development of the welfare state has been accompanied by
greater freedom being granted to workers in industrialized
capitalist countries. The themes of this probing volume concern how
governments, employers, trade unions, and workers have acted to
promote economic growth and accountability with active industrial
policies and forms of co-determination, worker self-management,
and/or employee ownership. The book's essays address the key
dimensions of economic, social, and political change in five
industrial democracies: the United States, the United Kingdom,
France, Germany, and Sweden. A major focus of the volume as a whole
is on economic management and workplace reform in a variety of
national settings.
"Managing Modern Capitalism" is divided into three sections,
covering strategies for industrial renewal, workplace democracy in
practice and theory, and future perspectives. In the first section,
each of the five countries are compared and contrasted in light of
their attempts to stimulate economic growth and reduce unemployment
under conditions of international interpendence of capital and
markets. Country-by-country profiles highlight the second section,
which also examines various forms of employee consultation,
participation in managerial decisions, and ownership. The third
section and conclusion evaluate prospective economic trends and
workplace democracy in the capitalist nations. This book will be of
interest to policymakers, scholars, and journalists, as well as to
advanced students in political science, economics, history, and
sociology.
The restiveness among some members of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization as to its structure and functions was an indication
not of the failure of NATO, but of a need for a new adjustment to
the changes that had developed in world conditions since the
organization was established. Such was the consensus underlying the
comments of five eminent statesmen and political theorists in a
series of lectures delivered at the University of Texas in the
spring of 1966 on the general theme of "The United States and the
Atlantic Community: Issues and Prospects." The grave crisis of
confidence in the Atlantic Community resulted, ironically, from the
success of NATO in combining the resources of thirteen European
states with those of Canada and the United States in a common
achievement of peace, economic stability, and security in the face
of the postwar threat from the Soviet Union. Now that these
objectives are obtained, one argument ran, NATO is no longer
needed. The Soviet threat still exists, went another, and seems to
be dispelled only because of the presence of NATO; what is needed
is revision of policies and functions of the organization to fit
new conditions. The changes in the nature of international
relations in the two decades after World War II were of two kinds:
those inherent in the world international situation-the economic
recovery of Europe (which brought new urgency to the desire for
more independence from the United States), the disintegration of
European colonial empires, the softened aspect of the Soviet
threat, and the great advances in modern technology; and those that
depended upon policy decisions-whether Europe should be a
confederacy (as advocated by De Gaulle) or a federal union (as
advocated by Jean Monnet) and what should be the international
policy of a united Europe on such issues as a third force between
the United States and Russia, unified or separate approaches to the
East and the West, German unity, and military security. A
consideration of what these changes implied for the United States
was the purpose of the series of papers collected in this volume.
The names of the authors and the titles of their papers indicate
the variety of views and interests expressed and the scope of the
discussion:Henry A. Kissinger, Professor of Government at Harvard,
"NATO: Evolution or Decline"Andre Philip, Professor of Economics at
the Sorbonne, "The Atlantic Economy: Partners and Rivals"Hans
Speier, member of the RAND Corporation Council, "Germany: The
Continuing Challenge"Fritz Erler, a leader of the German Social
Democratic Party, "Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet
Union"John J. Mccloy, former World Bank president and former U.S.
military governor and high commissioner for Germany, "American
Interests and Europe's Future."
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