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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024Instruments of international order
Internationalism and diplomacy, 1900-50
by Thomas W. Bottelier, Jan Stöckmann
During the first half of the twentieth century, world politics was reshaped in pursuit of a new international order. The ideological foundations of the 'new diplomacy' (and its fate during the interwar period) are well known. This book instead examines the practices of internationalism and diplomacy from the First Hague Conference of 1899 to the aftermath of the Second World War. By focusing on these practices, such as disarmament regimes or public diplomacy, and their use as instruments to build international order(s), it emphasises the constructed, contested, and experimental character of what subsequently became a standard repertoire of international politics. Essays from a range of interdisciplinary scholars address well-established principles such as self-determination, and also less prominent practices such as small arms control or parliamentary inquiry. The book makes a major contribution to the growing historiography on twentieth-century internationalism.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Distant sisters
Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–1914
by James Keating
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women's electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, Distant Sisters uncovers the personal and material networks that transformed feminist organising. Considering intimate and institutional connections, well-connected elites and ordinary women, this book argues developments in Auckland, Sydney, and Adelaide-long considered the peripheries of the feminist world-cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women's movement, and documenting the failures of their expansive vision alongside its successes, this book reveals a more contingent history of international organising and challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-siècle global connection.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Air power and colonial control
by David Omissi
Air policing was used in many colonial possessions, but its most effective incidence occurred in the crescent of territory from north-eastern Africa, through South-West Arabia, to North West Frontier of India. This book talks about air policing and its role in offering a cheaper means of 'pacification' in the inter-war years. It illuminates the potentialities and limitations of the new aerial technology, and makes important contributions to the history of colonial resistance and its suppression. Air policing was employed in the campaign against Mohammed bin Abdulla Hassan and his Dervish following in Somaliland in early 1920. The book discusses the relationships between air control and the survival of Royal Air Force in Iraq and between air power and indirect imperialism in the Hashemite kingdoms. It discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces, and assesses the extent to which barriers of climate and geography continued to limit the exercise of air power. Indigenous responses include being terrified at the mere sight of aircraft to the successful adaptation to air power, which was hardly foreseen by either the opponents or the supporters of air policing. The book examines the ethical debates which were a continuous undercurrent to the stream of argument about repressive air power methods from a political and operational perspective. It compares air policing as practised by other European powers by highlighting the Rif war in Morocco, the Druze revolt in Syria, and Italy's war of reconquest in Libya.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2023Unparalleled catastrophe
Life and death in the Third Nuclear Age
by Rhys Crilley
After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have brought about a dangerous Third Nuclear Age. From the collapse of arms control treaties and the development of hypersonic missiles, to the pop culture that shapes how we think about nuclear weapons, via how nuclear weapons intersect with the global threats posed by pandemics, populism, climate change, corruption, militarism, and racism, this book explores the nuclear zeitgeist of today. It presents the case for critical nuclear studies, and provides an important intervention into debates about nuclear weapons and international security. Today, the planet stands on the brink of catastrophe. This book tells you why, and what we can do about it.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024
Birth controlled
Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India
by Amrita Pande
This book analyses the world of selective reproduction by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies. All population control policies target and vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance; Birth controlled argues that assisted reproductive technologies and repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden of blame and responsibility based on gender, race, class and caste. The book draws on gender studies, sociology, medical anthropology, politics, science and technology studies, theology, public health and epidemiology to provides a critical, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge dialogue around the interconnected issues that shape reproductive politics in an ostensibly 'post-population control' era.
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MedicineLosing Weight and Keeping it off
A Method With Lasting Results
by Tatjana van Strien
In this book Tatjana van Strien, the author of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ), presents a scientific alternative for all the ‘miracle solutions’ to lose weight. Based on more than 25 years of scientific research, she offers a self-test-method which enables readers to explore what is the cause of their eating problem, what they can do about it, and ultimately lose weight and keep it off. Target Group: people who want to lose weight, dieticians, doctors, psychologists.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2024
The values of international organizations
by James D. Fry, Bryane Michael, Natasha Pushkarna
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July 2007Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006).
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 127. Jg. (2007), Heft 1.
by Herausgegeben von Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Herausgegeben von Grabka, Markus M.; Herausgegeben von Kroh, Martin
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January 2016Proceedings of the 11th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2014).
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 135. Jahrgang (2015), Heft 1.
by Herausgegeben von Giesselmann, Marco; Herausgegeben von Schröder, Carsten; Herausgegeben von Gieseke, Johannes; Herausgegeben von Haisken-DeNew, John; Herausgegeben von Rasner, Anika; Herausgegeben von Specht, Jule
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May 2003Proceedings of the »5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Users«.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 123. Jg. (2003), Heft 1.
by Herausgegeben von Holst, Elke; Herausgegeben von Hunt, Jennifer; Herausgegeben von Schupp, Jürgen
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October 2013Proceedings of the 10th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2012).
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 133. Jahrgang (2013), Heft 2 (S. 117–343).
by Herausgegeben von Schupp, Jürgen; Herausgegeben von Gornick, Janet; Herausgegeben von Spiess, C. Katharina; Herausgegeben von Ziebarth, Nicolas
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August 2009Outback Bastard
Ein Emily-Tempest-Krimi
by Adrian Hyland, Peter Torberg
Emily Tempest, Weltenbummlerin, kehrt an den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurück: Moonlight Dawns tief im Outback Australiens. Doch die Aborigine-Gemeinschaft, die sie vor vielen Jahren verließ, hat sich verändert. Als innerhalb von Stunden nach ihrer Ankunft ein alter Freund ermordet wird, beginnt sie Fragen zu stellen, die ihr Leben gefährden. Aber Emily ist schon als kleines Mädchen keinem Ärger aus dem Weg gegangen … - Beginn einer Serie um die schlagfertige Emily Tempest - Für Leser von Peter Temple und Garry Disher - Ned Kelly Award für das beste Krimidebüt 2007
