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Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders;
Wikileaks and Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; Occupy
movements; student protests; neoliberal austerity; global financial
crises - these developments underscore that the fable of a
hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away. In its
place looms the prospect of states and corporations transforming a
permanent war on terror into a permanent war on society. How, at
the critical juncture of a post-globalization era, will
policymakers and power-holders in leading states and corporations
of the Global North choose to pursue power and control? What
possibilities and limits do activists and communities face for
progressive political action to counter this power inside and
outside the state? This book is a sustained dialogue between author
and political theorist, Robert Latham and Mr. V, a policy analyst
from a state in the Global North. Mr. V is sympathetic to the
pursuit of justice, rights and freedom by activists and movements
but also mindful of the challenges of states in pursuing security
and order in the current social and political moment. He seeks a
return to the progressive, welfare-oriented state associated with
the twentieth century. The dialogue offers an in-depth
consideration of whether this is possible and how a progressive
politics might require a different approach to social organization,
power and collective life. Exploring key ideas, such as
sovereignty, activism, neoliberalism, anarchism, migration,
intervention, citizenship, security, political resistance and
transformation, and justice, this book will be of interest to
academics and students of Political Science, Sociology,
Anthropology, Law, Geography, Media and Communication, and Cultural
Studies.
This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long
history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for
social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all
within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly
ethnonationalist, patriarchal, and authoritarian far Right
worldwide. The authors identify and reflect on strategies, tactics,
and possibilities for analyzing and intervening in advanced
capitalist societies by increasing and deepening popular
participation and support on the far Left. The chapters are framed
in terms of conceptualizing the capitalist present, organizing "the
people" and reimagining the radical Left. Together, in diverse ways
that draw upon both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the
authors evaluate the difficulties of augmentation across multiple
planes, from the tension between migrants and citizen workers, to
the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and class, to the
contradictions operating across international versus domestic
dynamics. How and why (if at all) should the radical Left reexamine
its understanding of political consciousness, identity, ideology,
and institutions, as they relate to Marxian analysis and various
threads of critical theory? The authors suggest new approaches for
understanding what the radical Left is up against and how
problematic barriers might be torn down, thus disrupting unhelpful
binaries such as state versus capital, national versus
international, worker versus migrant, activist versus candidate,
and freedom versus necessity. This book was originally published as
a special issue of the online journal Global Discourse.
This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long
history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for
social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all
within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly
ethnonationalist, patriarchal, and authoritarian far Right
worldwide. The authors identify and reflect on strategies, tactics,
and possibilities for analyzing and intervening in advanced
capitalist societies by increasing and deepening popular
participation and support on the far Left. The chapters are framed
in terms of conceptualizing the capitalist present, organizing "the
people" and reimagining the radical Left. Together, in diverse ways
that draw upon both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the
authors evaluate the difficulties of augmentation across multiple
planes, from the tension between migrants and citizen workers, to
the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and class, to the
contradictions operating across international versus domestic
dynamics. How and why (if at all) should the radical Left reexamine
its understanding of political consciousness, identity, ideology,
and institutions, as they relate to Marxian analysis and various
threads of critical theory? The authors suggest new approaches for
understanding what the radical Left is up against and how
problematic barriers might be torn down, thus disrupting unhelpful
binaries such as state versus capital, national versus
international, worker versus migrant, activist versus candidate,
and freedom versus necessity. This book was originally published as
a special issue of the online journal Global Discourse.
'Let Pepys's Diary fall open at almost any page at random and he is joyously and compulsively quotable.' 'Observer' In this short anthology, selected from Samuel Pepys's famous Diary, passages are collected together by subject, providing a fresh look at themes that run through the massive complete work. Through Robert and Linnet Latham's lively and skilful presentation, we see Pepys as a man of fashion, booklover, musician, theatre-goer, husband and public servant, at work and at leisure. From festivals such as Christmas with family and friends, and his affair with Deb Willett, to the Great Fire and the Plague, described so vividly in the Diary, Pepys's life and times are revealed in all their richness and variety. For anyone unfamiliar with Pepys, this anthology will serve as a delightful introduction, while lovers of the Diary will take pleasure in rediscovering favourite passages. Pepys was a rogue. And a rogue's memoirs are always entertaining…They are raw, honest and unapologetic. This is what makes them compulsive reading.' Roy Hattersley, 'Sunday Express'
The perfect introduction to the Diary of Samuel Pepys, with Diary
extracts arranged by subject. In this short anthology, selected
from Samuel Pepys's famous Diary, passages are collected together
by subject, providing a fresh look at some of the themes that run
through the massive complete work. Robert and Linnet Latham's
lively and skilful presentation allows the reader to become
absorbed in a single topic without interruption, often providing
new insight into Pepys's private and public life. We see Pepys the
man of fashion, the booklover, the musician, the theatre-goer,
Pepys the husband and Pepys the public servant, at work and at
leisure. From festivals such as Christmas and Twelfth Night,
enjoyed with family and friends, to the great events such as the
Fire and the Plague described so vividly in the Diary, Pepys's life
and times are revealed in all their richness and variety. And for
the first time, we can read as continuous narrative some of the
stories interwoven with daily events - the long entangled saga of
his affair with Deb Willet and the tale of the Dancing Master. For
anyone unfamiliar with Pepys, this anthology will serve as a
delightful introduction, while lovers of the Diary will take
pleasure in rediscovering favourite passages.
The Index to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most
authoritative and acclaimed edition. This renowned edition of The
Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Robert Latham and William
Matthews, is the first to present a newly transcribed text of the
famous Diary and to equip it with a systematic commentary.
Published in eleven volumes (nine of the Diary itself, followed by
a Companion volume and this Index), it has justly become regarded
as the definitive edition. The Index, compiled by Robert Latham,
gives the essential key to the nine volumes of the Diary text,
including the introduction and the footnotes. It makes it possible
to retrieve a massive variety of information, whether the user
wishes to trace successive references to individual people, places
and events, or to follow through a general topic, or even to locate
specific references and phrases from amongst the wealth of subject
matter covered by the Diary. The entries are made readily
accessible by the use of sub-headings, and are also valuably
detailed - often reflecting the style of the Diary itself by
borrowing from Pepys's own phraseology. As a result the Index
becomes more than merely functional, and offers opportunities for
much enjoyable exploration. In many instances references are
gathered together under important group headings that can be used
to build up a composite picture of different aspects of
seventeenth-century England. General topics such as books, dress,
food, ships and taverns are afforded detailed entries which
include, where necessary, editorial information to identify or
elaborate on Pepys's own references. The Index volume completes the
set, and maintains the exemplary standards of this great work of
scholarship, which was hailed by The Times as 'one of the glories
of contemporary English publishing'.
What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to,
and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is
always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison
wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past.
In so doing, we have the opportunity to plot a new way forward. The
authors of this edited collection do just this: putting forward a
diversity of approaches and issues to strategize for the work that
awaits us in the 2020s, particularly in the struggle against
capitalism, climate change and the far right. Working within five
major thematic areas, the contributors examine how to engage
working class people in anti-capitalist struggles, undermine
reactionary currents of ethno-nationalism while supporting
anti-colonial movements, strategically build power inside and
outside the state apparatus, demand new forms of resistance to
address environmental crises, and effectively promote solidarity
and ecological responsibility. This book provides suggestions for
working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented,
conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for
next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right,
rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.
Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders;
Wikileaks and Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; Occupy
movements; student protests; neoliberal austerity; global financial
crises - these developments underscore that the fable of a
hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away. In its
place looms the prospect of states and corporations transforming a
permanent war on terror into a permanent war on society. How, at
the critical juncture of a post-globalization era, will
policymakers and power-holders in leading states and corporations
of the Global North choose to pursue power and control? What
possibilities and limits do activists and communities face for
progressive political action to counter this power inside and
outside the state? This book is a sustained dialogue between author
and political theorist, Robert Latham and Mr. V, a policy analyst
from a state in the Global North. Mr. V is sympathetic to the
pursuit of justice, rights and freedom by activists and movements
but also mindful of the challenges of states in pursuing security
and order in the current social and political moment. He seeks a
return to the progressive, welfare-oriented state associated with
the twentieth century. The dialogue offers an in-depth
consideration of whether this is possible and how a progressive
politics might require a different approach to social organization,
power and collective life. Exploring key ideas, such as
sovereignty, activism, neoliberalism, anarchism, migration,
intervention, citizenship, security, political resistance and
transformation, and justice, this book will be of interest to
academics and students of Political Science, Sociology,
Anthropology, Law, Geography, Media and Communication, and Cultural
Studies.
‘But Lord, what a sad sight it was by moonlight to see the whole City almost on fire’ The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events – the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London – Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. As well as recording public and historical events, Pepys paints a vivid picture of his personal life, from his socializing and amorous entanglements, to theatre going and his work at the Navy Board. Unequalled for its frankness, high spirits and sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece and a marvellous portrait of seventeenth-century life. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE SHORTER PEPYS
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social
relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale,
from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based
large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software
development communities, transnational corporate production
systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO
networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge
from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered
technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie
much of what happens in cyberspace.
While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than
technical terms, "Digital Formations" nonetheless emphasizes the
importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of
digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations
as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about
globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key
social, political, and economic developments associated with these
new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They
address the operation of digital formations and their implications
for the development of longstanding institutions and for their
wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political,
economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the
formations, in turn, are shaping such forces.
Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters
by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman
and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie,
Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber.
This book examines the relationship between global and local politics in Africa. As well as feeling the impact of globalization, Africa has been increasingly subject to external interventions - political, economic and military. Comprising chapters by area specialists, political scientists and anthropologists, the book analyzes the forms of power, authority and governance which have emerged as international influences have grown. It will be of interest to students of comparative politics, sociology and international relations, as well as African studies.
The companion volume to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its
most authoritative and acclaimed edition. Samuel Pepys's Diary was
first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new
versions brought out in the Victorian era made the Diary one of the
best-known books and Pepys one of the best-known figures of English
history. However, not until the publication of the Latham and
Matthews edition was the Diary presented in its complete form, with
a newly transcribed text and the benefit of a systematic
commentary. The text of the Diary is in nine volumes, followed by
this Companion and an Index. The edition has justly become
established as the definitive version, hailed by The Times as 'one
of the glories of contemporary English publishing' and by C. P.
Snow as 'a triumph of modern scholarship'. The Companion has been
compiled and edited by Robert Latham, with specialist contributions
from other scholars. The result of many years' research, it is an
essential adjunct to the Diary text. Over 1,700 entries,
alphabetically arranged, fill in the background details about the
people and places mentioned in the Diary. In addition there are
longer articles on a wide range of subjects of particular relevance
to Pepys and his period, such as the Great Fire, the Dutch Wars and
the Plague. Others reflect Pepys's lively interest in the arts,
science and medicine, and his work for the Navy. In addition, many
aspects of social history are covered in articles on, for example,
dress, food, drink, taverns and travel. The book is completed by an
extensive glossary, genealogical tables, a chronology and maps. The
Companion will not only enrich every reader's appreciation of
Pepys's magnificent Diary, but forms in its own right a fascinating
and varied survey of seventeenth-century England.
From the novels of Anne Rice to "The Lost Boys," from "The
Terminator" to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have
become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture,
especially youth culture. In "Consuming Youth," Rob Latham explains
why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these
ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a
capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed.
Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the
objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how
contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the
contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that
characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a
voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the
cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own
flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired
images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American
society has staked out for contemporary youth.
A startling look at youth in our time, "Consuming Youth" will
interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular
culture.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1856 Edition.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++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: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG97-B3114Presented by Mr. Sheppard. Ordered to be printed
February 27, 1917.Washington: G.P.O., 1917. 24 p.; 24 cm
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