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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank
account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of
billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates
even minor official interactions, from traffic control to
university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven
Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of
corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how
corruption plays an important role in the processes of political
change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best
understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a
culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically
embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian
government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to
prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested
ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating
Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political
principle.
Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank
account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of
billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates
even minor official interactions, from traffic control to
university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven
Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of
corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how
corruption plays an important role in the processes of political
change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best
understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a
culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically
embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian
government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to
prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested
ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating
Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political
principle.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.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: +++++++++++++++Yale Law
LibraryLP3Y002110719170101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926"A series of addresses
and papers presented at the National conference on foreign
relations of the United States, at Long Beach, N. Y., May 28-June
1, 1917."New York: The Academy of Political Science Columbia
University, 19172 v.; 23 cmUnited States
Moderne Sydney explores the origins, architecture and architects of
some the Sydney's finest Moderne and Art Deco buildings. Lavishly
illustrated, with both images from the period and how the buildings
stand today, Moderne Sydney captures the a time when style and
progress were king.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.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: +++++++++++++++Yale Law
LibraryLP3Y002110819170101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926A series of addresses
and papers presented at the National conference on foreign
relations of the United States, at Long Beach, N. Y., May 28-June
1, 1917.New York: The Academy of Political Science Columbia
University, 19172 v.; 23 cmUnited States
Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship
between violence and difference underlying modern governmental
power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The
comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in
using physical violence to discipline and control colonial
subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a
fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of
difference-the "civilized" ruling the "uncivilized"-but colonial
violence seemed to many the antithesis of civility, threatening to
undermine the very distinction that validated its use. Violation of
the bodies of colonial subjects regularly generated scandals, and
eventually led to humanitarian initiatives, ultimately changing
conceptions of "the human" and helping to constitute modern forms
of human rights discourse. Colonial violence and discipline also
played a crucial role in hardening modern categories of
difference-race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion.The
contributors, who include both historians and anthropologists,
address instances of colonial violence from the early modern period
to the twentieth century and from Asia to Africa to North America.
They consider diverse topics, from the interactions of race, law,
and violence in colonial Louisiana to British attempts to regulate
sex and marriage in the Indian army in the early nineteenth
century. They examine the political dilemmas raised by the
extensive use of torture in colonial India and the ways that
British colonizers flogged Nigerians based on beliefs that
different ethnic and religious affiliations corresponded to
different degrees of social evolution and levels of susceptibility
to physical pain. An essay on how contemporary Sufi healers deploy
bodily violence to maintain sexual and religious hierarchies in
postcolonial northern Nigeria makes it clear that the state is not
the only enforcer of disciplinary regimes based on ideas of
difference. Contributors. Laura Bear, Yvette Christianse, Shannon
Lee Dawdy, Dorothy Ko, Isaac Land, Susan O'Brien, Douglas M. Peers,
Steven Pierce, Anupama Rao, Kerry Ward
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