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Promoted ContentHumanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017
Travellers in Africa
British travelogues, 1850-1900
by Timothy Youngs
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018
Security sector reform in transforming societies
Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro
by Timothy Edmunds
This book is about the relationship between societies and their security forces at times of great political and societal change. It uses the experiences of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro to examine the control, management and reform of armed forces, police and intelligence agencies in the aftermath of conflict and authoritarianism. The book assesses the theory and practice of security sector reform programmes in the context of Europe and the Western Balkans, the relationship between security sector reform and normative international policy more generally, and the broader dynamics of post-conflict and post-authoritarian transformation. In so doing it addresses two underlying questions. First, how and in what ways does reform in the security sector interrelate with processes of domestic political and societal transformation, particularly democratisation. Second, how and in what ways do these processes relate and respond to internationally-driven efforts to promote a particular type of security sector reform as a component of wider peacebuilding and democracy promotion strategies.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019
The British tradition of minority government
by Timothy Peacock
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German into English, II.
21 kommentierte Paralleltexte (einschliesslich Staatsexamensklausuren) für den fortgeschrittenen Anglisten
by Buck, Timothy
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German into English I.
Deutsch-englische Paralleltexte mit Übersetzungshinweisen
by Buck, Timothy
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Die Zulässigkeit vergleichender Werbung aufgrund gemeinschaftsrechtlicher Vorgaben.
Das Leitbild des mündigen Verbrauchers und die Öffnung der nationalen Märkte.
by Krüger, Timothy
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Origenes Orientalis
The Preservation of Origen's Hexapla in the Syrohexapla of 3 Kingdoms
by Law, Timothy M.
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