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Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African
States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African
states since independence. Each chapter considers the formal
structure of government at the time of independence and traces the
subsequent changes. Each chapter also describes the development of
the state machinery, the civil service, the parastatals, defence
and police forces, party structure, the political opposition and
trade unions. The economics of African states are dealt with
insofar as they affect politics and government.
Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well
as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the
history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American
Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of
heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial
administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought
to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program
attempted to change just about every aspect of indigenous life.
Emphasizing the effect of the missions on native populations,
demographic patterns, economics, and socio-cultural change, this
path-breaking work fills a major gap in the history of the
Southwest.
Robert Jackson examines the birth and survival of Third World nations since the end of the Second World War. He describes these countries as "quasi-states," arguing that they exist more by the support and indulgence of the international community than by the abilities and efforts of their own governments and peoples. He investigates the international normative framework that upholds sovereign statehood in the Third World. This he calls "negative sovereignty" and contrasts it with what he sees as the "positive sovereignty" that emerged in Europe along with the modern state. Within this structure, he examines how negative sovereignty arose, and its mechanisms and consequences for both international politics and the domestic conditions of quasi-states. He concludes by assessing the future of quasi-states and the institution of negative sovereignty.
Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well
as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the
history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American
Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of
heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial
administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought
to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program
attempted to change just about every aspect of indigenous life.
Emphasizing the effect of the missions on native populations,
demographic patterns, economics, and socio-cultural change, this
path-breaking work fills a major gap in the history of the
Southwest.
Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an
Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not
least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends
and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early
1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for
fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir.
Written with skill and grace, this is truly a unique account of
the personality, conduct, greatness of character, and common
humanity of "that man in the White House," as outraged
conservatives called FDR. Jackson simply but eloquently provides an
insider's view of Roosevelt's presidency, including such crucial
events as FDR's Court-packing plan, his battles with corporate
America, his decision to seek a third term, and his bold move to
aid Britain in 1940 with American destroyers. He also offers an
intimate personal portrait of Roosevelt--on fishing trips, in
late-night poker games, or approving legislation while eating
breakfast in bed, where he routinely began his workday. We meet a
president who is far-sighted but nimble in attacking the problems
at hand; principled but flexible; charismatic and popular but
unafraid to pick fights, take stands, and when necessary, make
enemies.
That Man is not simply a valuable historical document, but an
engaging and insightful look at one of the most remarkable men in
American history. In reading this memoir, we gain not only a new
appreciation for Roosevelt, but also admiration for Jackson, who
emerges as both a public servant of great integrity and skill and a
wry, shrewd, and fair-minded observer of politics at the highest
level.
Once treated as exclusive spaces for valuable but hidden and
under-utilized material, over the past few decades special
collections departments have been transformed by increased
digitization and educational outreach efforts into unique and
highly visible major institutional assets. What libraries must now
contemplate is how to continue this momentum by articulating and
implementing a dynamic strategic vision for their special
collections. Drawing on the expertise of a world-class array of
librarians, university faculty, book dealers, collectors, and
donors, this collected volume surveys the emerging requirements of
today's knowledge ecosystem and charts a course for the future of
special collections. Expanding upon the proceedings of the National
Colloquium on Special Collections organized by the Kelvin Smith
Library of Case Western Reserve University in October 2014, this
timely resource for special collections librarians, administrators,
academics, and rare book dealers and collectors recounts the
factors that governed the growth and use of special collections in
the past; explores ways to build 21st-century special collections
that are accessible globally, and how to provide the expertise and
services necessary to support collection use; gives advice on
developing and maintaining strong relationships between libraries
and collectors, with special attention paid to the importance of
donor relations; provides critical information on how libraries and
their institutions' faculty can best collaborate to ensure students
and other researchers are aware of the resources available to them;
showcases proactive, forward-thinking approaches to applying
digital scholarship techniques to special collections materials;
looks at how the changes in the way authors work-from analog to
digital-increases the importance of archives in preserving the
aspects of humanity that elevate us; and examines sustainable and
scalable approaches to promoting the use of special collections in
the digital age, including the roles of social media and
crowdsourcing to bring collections directly to the user. More than
simply a guide to collection management, this book details myriad
ways to forge the future of special collections, ensuring that
these scholarly treasures advance knowledge for years to come.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1982.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1982.
These seven original essays offer the first ethnohistorical
interpretation of Spanish-Indian interaction from Florida to
California. The indigenous peoples in the borderlands were
hunter-gatherers or agriculturalists whose lives differed
substantially from the lives of Indians in large-scale hierarchical
societies of central Mexico. As a result, Spain's entry and
expansion varied throughout the borderlands. How did indigenous
peoples fare under Spanish rule from the sixteenth through the
eighteenth centuries? The contributors to this book discuss the
social, demographic, and economic impacts of Spanish colonization
on Indians. Relations among settlers, soldiers, priests, and
indigenous peoples throughout the borderlands are examined,
bringing immediacy and human interest to the interpretation.
Contributors are Susan M. Deeds, Jesus F. de la Teja, Ross Frank,
Robert H. Jackson, Peter Stern, and Patricia Wickman. Their essays
offer a new and engaging synthesis that will reinvigorate teaching
and research in borderlands history.
This ethnohistory examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions
Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the
missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on
previously unused sources to analyse change and continuity in
Indian material culture and religious practices. The twin goals of
Franciscans were to mould Indians into a work force that would
produce surplus grain for military garrisons and to regulate their
moral conduct and religious practices.
The subject of missions-formal efforts at religious conversion of
native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers-is one that
renders the modern student a bit uncomfortable. Where the mission
enterprise was actuated by true belief it strikes the modern
sensibility as fanaticism; where it sprang from territorial or
economic motives it seems the rankest sort of hypocrisy. That both
elements-greed and real faith-were usually present at the same time
is bewildering.In this book seven scholars attempt to create a
"new" mission history that deals honestly with the actions and
philosophic motivations of the missionaries, both as individuals
and organizations and as agents of secular powers, and with the
experiences and reactions of the indigenous peoples, including
their strategies of accommodation, co-optation, and resistance.The
new mission historians examine cases from throughout the
hemisphere-from the Andes to northern Mexico to California-in an
effort to find patterns in the contact between the European
missionaries and the various societies they encountered.Erick
Langer is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon
University. He is the author of Economic Change and Rural
Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930 and editor, with Zulema
Bass Werner de Ruiz, of Historia de Tarija: Corpus
Documental.Robert H. Jackson is the author of Indian Population
Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840 and
Regional Markets and the Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Cochabamba, 1539-1960. He is an assistant professor in the
Department of History and Geography at Texas Southern University.
In his historical satirical novel Candide, Voltaire (Francois-Marie
Arouet) presented a fanciful vision of the Jesuit missions
established among the Guarani in parts of what today are Argentina,
Paraguay, and Brazil. Some scholars have characterized the missions
as having been a socialist utopia, or an independent republic
located on the fringes of Spanish territory in South America. What
was the reality? This study presents a detailed analysis of one of
the Jesuit missions, Los Santos Martires del Japon, and the story
of the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by
Spain and Portugal during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
It documents the historical realities of the Jesuit missions, their
patterns of development, and the demographic consequences for the
mission populations of military conflict.
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