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The two volumes "New Developments in Polymer Analytics" deal with
recent progress in the characterization of polymers, mostly in
solution but also at s- faces. Despite the fact that almost all of
the described techniques are getting on in years, the contributions
are expected to meet the readers interest because either the
methods are newly applied to polymers or the instrumentation has
achieved a major breakthrough leading to an enhanced utilizaton by
polymer scientists. The first volume concentrates on separation
techniques. H. Pasch summarizes the recent successes of
multi-dimensional chromatography in the characteri- tion of
copolymers. Both, chain length distribution and the compositional
h- erogeneity of copolymers are accessible. Capillary
electrophoresis is widely and successfully utilized for the
characterization of biopolymers, particular of DNA. It is only
recently that the technique has been applied to the
characterization of water soluble synthetic macromolecules. This
contributrion of Grosche and Engelhardt focuses on the analysis of
polyelectrolytes by capillary electopho- sis. The last contribution
of the first volume by Coelfen and Antonietti sum- rizes the
achievements and pitfalls of field flow fractionation techniques.
The major drawbacks in the instrumentation have been overcome in
recent years and the"triple F techniques" are currently advancing
to a powerful competitor to size exclusion chromatography.
The two volumes "New Developments in Polymer Analytics" deal with
recent progress in the characterization of polymers, mostly in
solution but also at s- faces. Despite the fact that almost all of
the described techniques are getting on in years, the contributions
are expected to meet the readers interest because either the
methods are newly applied to polymers or the instrumentation has
achieved a major breakthrough leading to an enhanced utilizaton by
polymer scientists. The first volume concentrates on separation
techniques. H. Pasch summarizes the recent successes of
multi-dimensional chromatography in the characteri- tion of
copolymers. Both, chain length distribution and the compositional
h- erogeneity of copolymers are accessible. Capillary
electrophoresis is widely and successfully utilized for the
characterization of biopolymers, particular of DNA. It is only
recently that the technique has been applied to the
characterization of water soluble synthetic macromolecules. This
contributrion of Grosche and Engelhardt focuses on the analysis of
polyelectrolytes by capillary electopho- sis. The last contribution
of the first volume by Coelfen and Antonietti sum- rizes the
achievements and pitfalls of field flow fractionation techniques.
The major drawbacks in the instrumentation have been overcome in
recent years and the"triple F techniques" are currently advancing
to a powerful competitor to size exclusion chromatography.
How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally
antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government
funding? In "Piety and Public Funding" historian Axel R. Schafer
offers a compelling answer to this question by chronicling how, in
the first half century since World War II, conservative evangelical
groups became increasingly adept at accommodating their hostility
to the state with federal support.Though holding to the ideals of
church-state separation, evangelicals gradually took advantage of
expanded public funding opportunities for religious foreign aid,
health care, education, and social welfare. This was especially the
case during the Cold War, when groups such as the National
Association of Evangelicals were at the forefront of battling
communism at home and abroad. It was evident, too, in the Sunbelt,
where the military-industrial complex grew exponentially after
World War II and where the postwar right would achieve its earliest
success. Contrary to evangelicals' own claims, liberal public
policies were a boon for, not a threat to, their own institutions
and values. The welfare state, forged during the New Deal and
renewed by the Great Society, hastened--not hindered--the
ascendancy of a conservative political movement that would, in
turn, use its resurgence as leverage against the very system that
helped create it.By showing that the liberal state's dependence on
private and nonprofit social services made it vulnerable to
assaults from the right, "Piety and Public Funding" brings a much
needed historical perspective to a hotly debated contemporary
issue: the efforts of both Republican and Democratic
administrations to channel federal money to "faith-based"
organizations. It suggests a major reevaluation of the religious
right, which grew to dominate evangelicalism by exploiting
institutional ties to the state while simultaneously brandishing a
message of free enterprise and moral awakening.
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to
convert the world, this international group of leading scholars
reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly
imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Countering
the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have
steadfastly maintained their distance from governmental and
economic affairs, these experts show how believers' ambitious
investments in missionizing and humanitarianism have connected with
worldly matters of empire, the Cold War, foreign policy, and
neoliberalism. They show, too, how evangelicals' international
activism redefined the content and the boundaries of the movement
itself. As evangelical voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America
became more vocal and assertive, U.S. evangelicals took on more
pluralistic, multidirectional identities not only abroad but also
back home. Applying this international perspective to the history
of American evangelicalism radically changes how we understand the
development and influence of evangelicalism, and of globalizing
religion more broadly. In addition to a critical introduction and
essays by editors John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R.
Schafer are essays by Lydia Boyd, Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christina
Cecelia Davidson, Helen Jin Kim, David C. Kirkpatrick, Candace
Lukasik, Sarah Miller-Davenport, Dana L. Robert, Tom Smith, Lauren
F. Turek, and Gene Zubovich.
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to
convert the world, this international group of leading scholars
reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly
imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Countering
the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have
steadfastly maintained their distance from governmental and
economic affairs, these experts show how believers' ambitious
investments in missionizing and humanitarianism have connected with
worldly matters of empire, the Cold War, foreign policy, and
neoliberalism. They show, too, how evangelicals' international
activism redefined the content and the boundaries of the movement
itself. As evangelical voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America
became more vocal and assertive, U.S. evangelicals took on more
pluralistic, multidirectional identities not only abroad but also
back home. Applying this international perspective to the history
of American evangelicalism radically changes how we understand the
development and influence of evangelicalism, and of globalizing
religion more broadly. In addition to a critical introduction and
essays by editors John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R.
Schafer are essays by Lydia Boyd, Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christina
Cecelia Davidson, Helen Jin Kim, David C. Kirkpatrick, Candace
Lukasik, Sarah Miller-Davenport, Dana L. Robert, Tom Smith, Lauren
F. Turek, and Gene Zubovich.
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