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    The Politics of Revenue Bargaining in Africa : Triggers, Processes, and Outcomes (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780191964824
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 p.)
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    DDC: 336.20096
    Keywords: Taxation ; Impôt - Afrique ; Taxation ; Economics ; Economics ; Africa ; Revenue bargaining; fiscal contract; political settlement; Africa; taxation; state-society relations; political economy; domestic revenue mobilisation; reciprocity; comparative politics ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa
    Abstract: This book examines the politics of revenue bargaining in Africa in a time when attention to domestic revenue mobilisation has expanded immensely. Measures to increase taxes and other revenues can -but do not always- lead to a process of bargaining, where revenue providers negotiate for some kind of a return. This book offers in-depth analyses of micro-instances of revenue bargaining across five African countries: Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. All case studies draw on a common theoretical framework combining the fiscal contract theory with the political settlement approach, which enables a systematic exploration into what triggers revenue bargaining; how these processes unfold; and finally, if and when they reach an agreement (whether a fiscal contract or not). From the empirically rich case narratives emerges a story of how power and initial bargaining position influence not only whether bargaining emerges in the first place, but also the processes and their outcomes. Less resourceful taxpayers are in a more difficult position to raise their voice, but in some cases even these groups manage to ally with other civil society groups to protest against tax reforms they perceive as unfair. Indirect taxes such as VAT often trigger protests, and so do sudden changes in tax practices. Revenue providers rarely call for improved services in return for paying tax, which would be expected to nurture the foundation for a fiscal social contract. Instead, revenue providers are more likely to negotiate for tax reductions, implying that governments’ effort to increase revenue is impeded. We do find many instances of state-society reciprocity when ruling elites try to be responsive to revenue providers’ demands. Hence, this book gives insight into the nature and dynamics not only of revenue bargaining but of policy-making in general as well as the implications hereof for state-society reciprocity in Africa
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    The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System : Transformations on the Ground (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780197744161 , 9780197744178 , 9780197744192
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (705 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bogdandy, Armin von, 1960- Impact of the Inter-American human rights system
    DDC: 341.4/8098
    Keywords: Inter-American Court of Human Rights ; Inter-American Court of Human Rights ; Human rights ; International and municipal law ; International law and human rights ; International criminal law ; International human rights law ; Latin America ; Droits de l'homme (Droit international) - Amérique latine ; Droit international et droit interne - Amérique latine ; Droit international et droits de l'homme - Amérique latine ; International ; LAW ; International Relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human rights ; International and municipal law ; International law and human rights ; International law ; Law ; Inter-American System, impact, human rights, Transformative Constitutionalism, Latin America
    Abstract: The Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) fosters structural transformations throughout the Americas. This collection of analyses builds upon the studies on Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina and Latin American transformative constitutionalism to map out both the ground-level human rights impact of the IAHRS and the institutional characteristics that have enabled such fundamental changes in social reality. The volume starts with essays framing the concept and context of IAHRS impact. Then it navigates thematic analyses on specific rights and types of violations that are front and center to the protection of human rights in Latin America. The concluding essays explore whether and how it is possible to optimize the actions of the Inter-American System, indicating possible paths to increase positive human rights impact. The editors contend that the IAHRS victim-centric approach, community of practice, and openness to institutional reinvention have enabled it to create a virtuous cycle that catalyzes human rights in the Americas, furthering democracy and the Rule of Law throughout the continent
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    Disrupted Development in the Congo : The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780192849052
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Series Statement: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
    Keywords: Agricultural economics ; Agricultural and rural economics ; Africa, Congo, mining, industrialization, development, corporations, labour, global value chains, conflict, gold
    Abstract: Since the turn of the century, low-income African countries have undergone a process of mining industrialization led by transnational corporations. The process has been sustained by an African Mining Consensus uniting international financial institutions, African governments, development agencies, and various strands of the academic literature. The Consensus holds that transnational mining corporations are best placed to drive structurally transformative processes of mining-based development on the continent. State-owned enterprises and local forms of labour-intensive mining are deemed unsuitable. The former is characterized as corrupt and mismanaged, and the latter as an inefficient, subsistence activity with links to conflict financing. Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disrupted Development in the Congo reveals the fragile foundations on which this consensus rests. The book documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement, inefficiencies, and rent-seeking, and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence. In addition, the book details how structural impediments to the transformative effects of mining industrialization in low-income settings occur irrespective of ownership and management structures. In light of these constraints, and the levels of overseas surplus extraction and domestic marginalization associated with foreign-owned industrial mining, a shift to domestic-owned forms of mining-based development would better meet the needs of low-income African economies for rising productivity, labour absorption, and the domestic retention of the value generated by productive activity than the currently dominant but disarticulated and disruptive foreign corporate-led model
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    What Is Structural Injustice? (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 p.)
    Keywords: " Structural injustice, politics, philosophy, law, ontology, epistemology, feminism, power, historical injustice. " ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
    Abstract: What is Structural Injustice? is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of leading structural injustice scholars from politics, philosophy and law to explore the concept of structural injustice which has now become a central feature of all three disciplines and is considered by many to be a ‘field of study.’ The volume features specially selected original and essential works on structural injustice. The volume provides a range of disciplinary, ontological and epistemological perspectives on what structural injustice is and includes feminist and post-colonial theories to interrogate how structural injustice exacerbates and reproduces existing inequalities and relations of power. This book aims to become a touchstone text for those interested in the different ways we can understand structural injustice, how it manifests, how it relates to other forms of injustice, who is responsible for its redress and the different ways we might go about it. This book will appeal to a wide audience of students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as the general academic population, experts on structural injustice, interested practitioners in politics and members of the public
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    Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural : Nordic Perspectives on Landscape Theory (2024)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780197747360 , 9780197747391 , 9780197747377
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 p.)
    DDC: 712
    Keywords: Landscapes Philosophy ; Landscapes Religious aspects ; Supernatural ; Folk religion ; Sociology and anthropology ; Religion and beliefs ; Historical geography ; Indigenous peoples ; Relating to Indigenous peoples ; landscape, religion, supernatural, space, place, folklore, folk belief, Iceland
    Abstract: "Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on the themes of "time and memory", "repeating patterns", "identity formation", "morality", "labor", "playfulness and adventure", "power and subversion", "sound", "emotions", "coping with contingency", "home and unhomeliness", as well as "nature and environment", the book engages with a broad range of theoretical concepts and approaches from the interdisciplinary field of landscape theory and the study of religions. It brings this theorizing into dialogue with the rich culture of local storytelling and landscape-related traditional beliefs of the Strandir district of the Icelandic Westfjords. In this rural region, landscape-related traditions have been collected since the early nineteenth century and continue to be important to this day. Confronting this rich heritage with the insights of landscape theory both in and beyond the study of religions allows important new contributions to theorizing landscape and religion, especially when it comes to considering the perspectives on landscape held by rural populations rather than the urban upper classes that have stood in the focus of research to date. The example of the Icelandic Westfjords shows the extreme richness of religious and supernatural approaches to the landscape that can be developed in rural communities, and how they are significantly and characteristically different from the urban perspectives of literature and the arts"--
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    Lexical Variation and Change : A Distributional Semantic Approach (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780191995996 , 9780198890683
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Geeraerts, Dirk, 1955- Lexical variation and change
    DDC: 417.2
    Keywords: Language and languages Variation ; Dutch language Variation ; Spanish language Variation ; Lexicology ; Semantics ; Dutch language Lexicology ; Spanish language Lexicology ; Semantics & pragmatics ; Sociolinguistics ; Historical & comparative linguistics ; Variation (Linguistique) ; Néerlandais (Langue) - Variation ; Espagnol (Langue) - Variation ; Néerlandais (Langue) - Lexicologie ; Espagnol (Langue) - Lexicologie ; Dutch language - Lexicology ; Dutch language - Variation ; Language and languages - Variation ; Lexicology ; Semantics ; Spanish language - Lexicology ; Spanish language - Variation ; Linguistics ; Language ; distributional semantics, lexical semantics, lexicology, lexical variation, corpus semantics, lectometry, cognitive linguistics
    Abstract: Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in various types of quantitative context analysis. This monograph explores how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces, as an advanced form of such a quantitative methodology, can be applied to the study of polysemy, lexical variation, and lectometry. What can distributional models reveal about meaning? How can they be used to analyse the semantic relationship between near-synonyms? And how can they contribute to the study of lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable? The book details the conceptual background of lexical semantic and lexical variation research, explains the mechanism of distributional modelling, and introduces distributional workflows and corpus linguistic tools to answer the questions. Combining a cognitive linguistic interest in meaning with a sociolinguistic interest in variation, it illustrates that distributional methodology with case studies on Dutch and Spanish lexical data, focusing on the value of distributional models for semantic analysis, the interaction of semasiological and onomasiological change, and sociolinguistic issues of lexical standardization and pluricentricity
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    Chapter 1 Disrupted development in the Congo (2024)
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    Keywords: Agricultural economics ; Agricultural and rural economics ; Africa, Congo, mining, industrialization, development, corporations, peripherality, dependency theory, structuralism
    Abstract: This introductory chapter sets out the book’s aims and contributions, outlines its main lines of argument, and details the theoretical foundations underpinning the African Mining Consensus, which holds that transnational mining corporations are best placed to drive structurally transformative processes of mining-based development on the continent. It then moves on to document how, in establishing this Consensus position, proponents have tended to misrepresent or disregard some of the classic critiques mounted by a group of pioneering early development economists. These critiques focused on the specific challenges and constraints faced by income-poor peripheral countries seeking development through deeper integration with the global capitalist economy. Returning to these earlier critiques provides helpful lenses with which to explore, with some adaptation, several axes of tension within the ongoing process of foreign corporate-led mining industrialization in low-income African countries that are overlooked by the absent or simplistic representation of these critiques by Consensus proponents
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    Chapter 3 Foreign mining corporations on trial (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 p.)
    Keywords: Agricultural economics ; Agricultural and rural economics ; Congo, South Kivu, mining, industrialization, development, corporations, financialization, gold
    Abstract: By the 2010s, the view that state mismanagement and inefficiencies underlay the Congo’s economic malaise had become so commonplace as to permeate nearly all thinking about development in the country. The aim of this chapter is to challenge this line of thinking and question the Consensus wisdom of moving from domestic-owned to foreign-owned industrial mining based on a belief in the superior efficiency of the latter. By charting the rise and fall of Belgian-owned SOMINKI (1976-1997) and Canadian-owned Banro (1995-2019) in eastern Congo, its main line of argument is that foreign-owned and managed mining corporations are no less vulnerable to mismanagement, firm inefficiencies, and volatile prices than their state-owned counterparts. This included, in the case of Banro, rent-seeking behaviour, redirecting value to overseas directors and shareholders at the expense of productive capacity and to the detriment of the Congolese state and Congolese firms and labour
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    Chapter 2 The return and spread of the transnational mining corporation in the African periphery (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 p.)
    Keywords: Agricultural economics ; Agricultural and rural economics ; Africa, Congo, mining, industrialization, development, corporations, World Bank, foreign direct investment
    Abstract: The aim of this chapter is to historically situate the case of mining in the Congo within its broader regional context. It is organized in three sections, each corresponding to a separate stage of the process that led to transnational mining corporations once again becoming the dominant force assuming ownership and management of industrial mining projects across the continent. The first stage involved a diagnosis of the economic challenges faced by African economies from the mid-1970s as due to misguided state intervention and government corruption. Based on this diagnosis, during the second stage, the IMF and the World Bank advocated for, financed, and in many instances directly oversaw the liberalization, privatization, and deregulation of mining sectors in low-income African economies. The third stage required criminalizing African miners involved in labour-intensive forms of production and, if required, forcibly displacing them to make way for the construction of capital-intensive, foreign corporate-owned mines
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    Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology (2023)
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    ISBN: 9780199666461
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 p.)
    Keywords: Mathematical physics ; Relativity physics ; Special Relativity, black holes, gravitational waves, Riemannian geometry, Lorentzian geometry, Einstein equations
    Abstract: This book presents basic General Relativity and provides a basis for understanding and using the fundamental theory. General Relativity is a beautiful geometric theory, simple in its mathematical formulation. It leads to numerous consequences with striking physical interpretations: gravitational waves, black holes, cosmological models, and so on. The first part of the book outlines the fundamentals of the subject. Chapters in this part look at Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry, Special and General Relativity, the Einstein equations, the Schwarzschild spacetime, black holes, and cosmology. The second part presents a number of more advanced topics such as general Einstein spacetimes, the Cauchy problem, relativistic fluids, and Relativistic Kinetic Theory
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    Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa (2023)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pockets of effectiveness and the politics of state-building and development in Africa
    DDC: 327.67
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    MI 10086
    Keywords: Politik ; Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Bürokratie ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Nationenbildung ; Entwicklung ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Ruanda ; Sambia ; Uganda ; Nationenbildung ; Staat ; Funktion ; Fähigkeit ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Effektivität ; Beispiel ; Development studies ; Political economy ; Public administration ; Africa ; Afrika ; Development studies, Political economy, Public administration, and African Studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Why do certain parts of the state in Africa work so effectively despite operating in difficult governance contexts? How do 'pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness' emerge and become sustained over time? And what does this tell us about the prospects for state-building and development in Africa? Repeated economic and social crises have demanded that development thinkers and policy actors have had to engage with the critical role that states play in delivering development. Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa shows that politics is the driving factor that shapes how well state agencies perform their roles. It deploys a new conceptual framework – the power domains approach – to explore the shifting fortunes of key state agencies in five countries – Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia – over the past three decades. Our original research reveals when, how and why political rulers decide to build effective state agencies and enable them to deliver certain forms of economic development – often through forming strategic coalitions with senior bureaucrats and with international support – and also when this support falters and gives way to a politics of survival. Comparative analysis identifies two potential trajectories towards state-building in Africa, each shaped by different configurations of social and political power. The book critiques the role that international development agencies have played in (mis)shaping the state in Africa and suggests a new strategic agenda for building the state capacities required to deliver sustained development at the current juncture. The book closes with critical commentaries from two leading scholars in the field, to help place our work in context and establish the next steps for research and strategy in this increasingly important area of development theory and practice
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    The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency (2023)
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    ISBN: 9780191955372 , 9780192688316 , 9780192688309
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
    Series Statement: Engaging philosophy
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    DDC: 172.2
    Keywords: Emergency management Moral and ethical aspects ; Electronic surveillance Moral and ethical aspects ; Surveillance électronique - Aspect moral ; Public Health ; MEDICAL ; PHILOSOPHY ; Political ; Electronic surveillance - Moral and ethical aspects ; Ethics & moral philosophy ; Society ; applied ethics, surveillance, emergency ethics, pandemics, public health ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
    Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic is arguably the first international emergency of the twenty-first century. In order to respond to this emergency, countries and governments around the world were forced to engage in a range of actions and policies that would not otherwise have been permitted. Looking in particular at the use of surveillance technologies, this book examines the challenge of ethics in emergencies. What can states do to keep their populations safe, what can citizens expect of their governments, and when are those government actions unjustified? By looking at the use of surveillance in times of emergency, this book explores ethical, philosophical, political, and social concepts, challenges them, and offers a set of views on where those concepts may evolve into the future. As a global population, we will be faced with emergencies, and it is possible that these will also be global in their impact. The ethics of surveillance in times of emergency is both of its time, and ongoing; we must learn our lessons from the last emergency, to be prepared for the next ones
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    The Political Economy of Food System Transformation : Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 p.)
    Keywords: Agricultural economics ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Political science & theory ; Political economy ; Development economics and emerging economies ; Agricultural and rural economics ; Political science and theory ; agricultural policy, economic development, food policy, food systems, governance, political economy, policy reform
    Abstract: Although the global food system increasingly is viewed as unsustainable for human and planetary health, the policy pathways for transforming the status quo are often highly contentious. This book brings together inter-disciplinary scholars to analyze the political economy dynamics central to food system transformation and to identify pathways for enhancing the political feasibility of necessary reforms. Drawing on original surveys, interviews, empirical modeling, and case studies from around the world, the book delves into the power dynamics, interest group coalitions, narratives, and institutional structures that shape decisions related to agricultural productivity, agro-industry, trade, and food consumption
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    Pension Funds and Sustainable Investment : Challenges and Opportunities (2023)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Keywords: Financial services industry ; Investment & securities ; Pensions ; Hospitality and service industries ; Investment and securities ; pensions, sustainable investment, ESG, environmental risk, transition risk, political risk, institutional investors
    Abstract: Since its green shoots first emerged around 50 years ago, acceptance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations in institutional investing—especially in pension funds—has evolved with distinct shifts in investor preferences. This Pension Research Council volume traces these shifts and their implications, leading up to the present day. The book notes that investors have diverse reasons for devoting attention to ESG criteria when deciding where to invest their money. Some had religious motives, such as Quakers, who focused on values; this approach can offer some risk mitigation. Nevertheless, studies that look at whether divestment actually changes behaviors of companies show that this rarely occurs. Accordingly, this book offers a variety of distinct viewpoints from numerous countries, on whether, how, and when ESG criteria should, and should not, drive pension fund investments. Authors also find that policymakers should consider fund consolidation in private sector retirement systems, along with whether service provider incentives could be better aligned with sustainability incentives. For instance, boosting transparency in these markets would help generate better-informed policies, while providing beneficiaries with information relevant to their savings choices
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    City of Equals (2023)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 p.)
    Keywords: cities, equality, inequality, relational equality, equality in the city, inclusion, diversity, social mixing, public reflective equilibrium, urban political philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
    Abstract: When we think about equality in the city, we are very likely to think first of the wide and growing divide between rich and poor, in material terms. Yet when we think more about a 'city of equals' it becomes apparent that how people feel treated by the city and those around them, and whether they can live according to their values, are much more central. Accordingly, combining their own reflections, a multi-disciplinary literature review, and, distinctively, more than 180 interviews in 10 cities in 6 countries, Wolff and de Shalit have derived an account of a city of equals based on the idea that it should give each of its city-zens a secure sense of place or belonging. Four underlying values structure this account. First, access to the goods and services of the city should not be based purely on the market. Second, each person should be able to live a life they find meaningful. Third, there should be diversity and wide social mixing. Fourth, there should be 'non-deferential inclusion': each person should be able to get access to what they are entitled to without being treated as less worthy than others. They should be able to enjoy their rights without bowing and scraping, waiting longer than others, or going through special bureaucratic hurdles. In sum, in a city of equals each person is proud of their city and has the (justified) feeling that their city is proud of (people like) them
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    Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (2023)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (363 p.)
    Keywords: Ancient history ; Social and cultural history ; Sociolinguistics ; early middle ages, Gaul, the Germanies, Iberian Peninsula, later Roman world, Latin, local language, sociolinguistics, western provinces
    Abstract: Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman West is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wrote, read, and spoke Latin and other languages. In spite of intensive study of culture and ethnic identity in late antiquity, language has often been neglected, a neglect encouraged by the disciplinary boundaries between linguists and historians, Romanists, and medievalists. There is no single volume that sets out the main developments, key features, and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment. The linguistic landscapes of the late-Roman and post-imperial West are difficult to uncover and describe, while attempts to speak across disciplinary divides are challenging. The contributors have tackled this subject by offering detailed coverage of the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Gaul, the Germanies, Britain, and Ireland. This volume, the third in the LatinNow series, helps readers to understand better the embeddedness, or not, of Latin, at different social levels and across provinces, to consider (socio)linguistic variegation, bilingualism and multilingualism, and attitudes towards languages, and to confront the complex role of language in the communities, identities, and cultures of the later and post-imperial Roman West
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    The Rise and Fall of the People's Parties : A History of Democracy in Western Europe since 1918 (2023)
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    ISBN: 9780191926037
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (265 p.)
    DDC: 320.5315094
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    Keywords: European history ; The Cold War ; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies ; democracy, history, political parties, people’s parties, Christian democracy, Social democracy, crisis, populism, twentieth century, Western Europe
    Abstract: The decline of the centre-left and centre-right people’s parties is arguably the most poignant feature of the crisis of democracy in Western Europe today. To understand why, this book explores the striking parallels between the life of democracy and that of the people’s parties over the course of the past century. It offers a transnational window on the history of democracy since 1918 by weaving together three epochs which are often studied apart: democracy’s troubled history in the Interwar era; the trente glorieuses after the Second World War; and the period since the 1970s. The book shows that democracy was only stabilized and legitimized when people’s parties emerged that managed to balance between facilitating popular participation from below, bridging divisions between social groups, and practising the politics of compromise. Ideas for such parties existed already in the first decades of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, Socialist and Catholic mass parties failed to transform into people’s parties, which was essential for the crisis (and breakdown) of democracy in the Interwar era. This was a traumatic experience which contributed to the unexpected stabilization of democracy after 1945 as party leaders transformed their organizations into broad-based people’s parties that embraced compromise and responsibility. However, this stability did not last, and paradoxically their transformation also harboured the seeds of democracy’s more recent problems. Over the past decades, people’s parties have struggled to connect to an individualizing society while having become increasingly absorbed by their governing responsibilities
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    Advanced Land Warfare : Tactics and Operations (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (464 p.)
    Keywords: Land forces & warfare ; Military tactics ; Armed conflict ; Military and defence strategy ; Land forces and warfare ; military; warfare; defence, war; tactics; operations; army; technology; command; Russia; China; United Kingdom; USA; France; urban warfare, character of war, land operations, conflict
    Abstract: International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise character of future war will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries, allies, technology, geographical scope and multiple domains of warfighting. Few would question that land forces will be important also in the foreseeable future. However, given that the battlefield is in a state of transformation, so is the mission, purpose and utilization of land forces. Indeed, the future conduct of land warfare is subjected to serious and important questions in the face of large and complex challenges and security threats. This volume explores the evolving role of land forces, paying particular attention to the changes that have taken place in the art of commanding and executing combat and the role of rapid technological innovation and information dissemination in shaping warfare. It provides insights into key contemporary developments in land warfare, and presents case studies on land tactics and operations in different national contexts. The volume aims to draw on the best of theory, practice, and professional experience, featuring chapters written by leading international scholars and practitioners. Relating to the realities of the modern battlefield, the volume addresses a number of critical questions about land tactics and operations, combining a conceptual basis with empirical examples of tactical thinking and practice and emphasising the importance of understanding the perspectives of various national armies, in order to provide a current understanding of the central issues of land warfare
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    Tasks, Skills, and Institutions : The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Series Statement: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    Keywords: Development economics & emerging economies ; Employment & unemployment ; Economic growth ; Labour / income economics ; Development economics and emerging economies ; inequality, earnings, labour market, education, occupations, tasks, skills routinization, developing countries
    Abstract: This book provides a unique, comparative assessment on how the nature of work is changing in 11 major developing countries, and the role that these changes play in shaping earnings inequality in these societies. It provides a nuanced and context-sensitive developing-country perspective with an in-depth assessment of national trends in earnings inequality, which are assessed against changes in the supply of higher skilled workers and education premia, on the one hand, and changes in the occupational structure and the remuneration of tasks, on the other, while being mindful of broader macroeconomic trends and institutional developments. We start showing that the common assumption that occupations are identical around the world tends to lead to an overestimation of the non-routine task content of jobs in developing and emerging economies. Then, we use country-specific measures of routine-task intensity, along with the standard O*NET measures, and other innovative ways to push the boundaries of existing research and make the most of the limited information that is available in each of the countries under study. We show that the large changes in the composition of workers by education and job routine-task intensity, which developing countries exhibited in the 2000s and 2010s, generally contributed to higher inequality, ceteris paribus. We also find evidence of job polarization or widening of earnings inequality driven by the evolution of routine intensity of jobs in several cases. However, changes in the education premium, along institutional factors, seem to explain inequality trends to a larger extent
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    The Many Paths of Change in International Law (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 p.)
    Keywords: International law ; International organisations & institutions ; Law & society ; international law, change, pathways, institutions, authority, power, populist and authoritarian challenges, contestation and non-compliance, politics of precedents, interdisciplinarity
    Abstract: How does international law change? How does it adapt to meet global challenges in an accelerated social and political context? The question is crucial for any account of international law, but it is not very well understood. This interdisciplinary volume traces drivers, conditions, and consequences of change across the different fields of international law and paints a complex and varied picture very much in contrast with the relatively static and uniform imagery in most existing accounts. It highlights the social dynamics through which different areas and institutional contexts have generated their own pathways, with different constellations of actors and authorities that condition how smoothly and speedily change proceeds. The volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding this dynamism, and its chapters explore the strategies, forms, and forces behind the many paths of change they encounter. They take into view the politics of precedent and legal restatements, they look at populist and authoritarian challenges and their effects, and they trace change in response to contestation and non-compliance. They also highlight how states are at times marginalized in change processes—and how change may take other forms when international law itself proves too inflexible. Overall, the volume offers a fascinating account of an international legal order in flux—with a degree of dynamism not captured through traditional doctrinal lenses—and helps situate change processes and their varied implications in international law and politics
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    Polycentrism : How Governing Works Today (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (416 p.)
    Keywords: Political structure & processes ; Public administration ; Political structure and processes ; governance, governing, interdisciplinarity, legitimacy, methodology, polycentrism, power, techniques
    Abstract: How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This book addresses this key question around the theme of ‘polycentrism’: i.e. the idea that contemporary governing is dispersed, fluctuating, messy, elusive, and headless. Chapters develop this notion of polycentrism from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines and theoretical approaches. Readers thereby obtain a full coverage of exciting new thinking about how today’s world is (mis)ruled. The book distinguishes four paradigms of knowledge about polycentric governing—organizational, legal, relational, structural—and pursues conversations across the divides that normally keep these approaches in separate research communities. These exceptional inter-paradigm exchanges focus especially on issues of techniques (how governing is done), power (what forces drive governing), and legitimacy (whether governing is rightful). Comparisons between the multiple perspectives on polycentric governing highlight, and help to clarify, the distinctive emphases, potentials, and limitations of each approach. In addition, combinations across the diverse theories generate promising novel avenues of thought about polycentrism. Through their engagement with the book, readers can develop their own understandings of governing today and thereby become more empowered political subjects
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    Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Keywords: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Classical texts ; Literary studies: poetry & poets ; Homer, identification, Iliad, immersion, narrative, storyworld
    Abstract: Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad explains why people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters. It represents the first book-length application to the Iliad of research in communications, literary studies, media studies, and psychology on how readers of a story or viewers of a play, movie, or television show find themselves immersed in the tale and identify with the characters. Immersed recipients get wrapped up in a narrative and the world it depicts and lose track to some degree of their real-world surroundings. Identification occurs when recipients interpret the storyworld from a character’s perspective, feel emotions congruent with those of a character, and/or root for a character to succeed. This volume situates modern research on these experiences in relation to ancient criticism on how audiences react to narratives. It then offers close readings of select episodes and detailed analyses of recurring features to show how the Iliad immerses both ancient and modern recipients and encourages them to identify with its characters. Accessible to students and researchers, to those inside and outside of classical studies, this interdisciplinary project aligns research on the Iliad with contemporary approaches to storyworlds in a range of media. It thereby opens new frontiers in the study of ancient Greek literature and helps investigators of audience engagement from antiquity to the present contextualize and historicize their own work
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    Literature and the Senses (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191926457 , 9780192657473 , 9780192657466
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (540 p.)
    Series Statement: Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Literature and the senses
    DDC: 809.93353
    Keywords: Senses and sensation in literature ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 ; Literature: history & criticism ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Renaissance ; Mind and body in literature ; Psychology and literature ; Self in literature ; Sens et sensations dans la littérature ; Literature
    Abstract: Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the ‘Great Stink’ that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an aubergine registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of the senses
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    Artisans Abroad : British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192572769 , 9780191873300 , 9780192572776
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (301 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bensimon, Fabrice Artisans abroad
    DDC: 331.4094
    Keywords: 1800-1899 ; Foreign workers, British History 19th century ; Industrial revolution ; British & Irish history ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 ; Social & cultural history ; Industrialisation & industrial history ; Travailleurs étrangers britanniques - Europe - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Révolution industrielle - Europe ; Europe ; HISTORY ; Modern ; Social History ; Economic history ; Foreign workers, British ; Industrial revolution ; Economics ; Industry ; History ; Europe Economic conditions 19th century ; Europe - Conditions économiques - 1789-1900 ; Europe
    Abstract: Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the Continent. They played a key role in several sectors such as textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial take-off in continental Europe. This book examines the lives and trajectories of these workers, who emigrated from manufacturing centres in Britain to France, Belgium, Germany, and other countries. It is interested in their mobilities, their culture, their politics, and their relations with the local populations. It reminds us that the British economy was not just orientated towards the Empire and the United States, but also towards the Continent, long before the European Union and Brexit. It shows how critical the part played by migrant workers in the industrial revolution was. Artisans Abroad is the first social and cultural history of this forgotten migration
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    The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution : The Making of Humanitarianism (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191988004 , 9780198876823 , 9780198876816
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boer, David de, 1990- Early modern Dutch press in an age of religious persecution
    DDC: 079.49209032
    Keywords: 1600-1799 ; Press History 17th century ; Press History 18th century ; Religious minorities History 17th century ; Religious minorities History 18th century ; Persecution Press coverage 17th century ; History ; Persecution Press coverage 18th century ; History ; European history ; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 ; Social & cultural history ; History of religion ; Presse - Pays-Bas - Histoire - 17e siècle ; Presse - Pays-Bas - Histoire - 18e siècle ; Minorités religieuses - Pays-Bas - Histoire - 17e siècle ; Minorités religieuses - Pays-Bas - Histoire - 18e siècle ; Persécutions - Couverture de presse - Pays-Bas - Histoire - 17e siècle ; Persécutions - Couverture de presse - Pays-Bas - Histoire - 18e siècle ; HISTORY ; Renaissance ; Social History ; History ; RELIGION ; Press ; Religious minorities ; Museology & heritage studies ; Media Studies ; History ; Netherlands
    Abstract: For victims of persecution, attracting international awareness of their plight is often a matter of life and death. This book uncovers how in seventeenth-century Europe, persecuted minorities first learned how to use the press as a weapon to combat religious persecution. To mobilize foreign audiences, they faced an acute dilemma: how to make people care about distant suffering? This study argues that by answering this question, they laid the foundations of a humanitarian culture in Europe. The book reveals how, as consuming news became an everyday practice for many Europeans, the Dutch Republic emerged as an international hub of printed protest against religious violence. It traces how a diverse group of people, including Waldensian refugees, Huguenot ministers, Savoyard officeholders, and many others, all sought access to the Dutch printing presses to raise transnational solidarity for their cause. By examining their publicity strategies, this study deepens our understanding of how people tried to confront the specter of religious violence that had haunted them for generations
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    The Concept of Democracy : An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780198886532 , 9780191994357 , 9780198886525
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cappelen, Herman The concept of democracy
    DDC: 321.801
    Keywords: Democracy Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy of language ; Social & political philosophy ; Political science & theory ; Political ; PHILOSOPHY ; History & Theory ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Democracy - Philosophy ; Political science - Philosophy ; Politics & government ; Politics and Government
    Abstract: If we don’t know what the words “democracy” and “democratic” mean, then we don’t know what democracy is. This book defends a radical view: these words mean nothing and should be abandoned. The argument for abolitionism is simple: those terms are defective and we can easily do better, so let’s get rid of them. According to the abolitionist, the switch to alternative devices would be a significant communicative, cognitive, and political advance. The first part of the book presents a general theory of abandonment: the conditions under which language should be abandoned. The rest of the book applies this general theory to the case of “democracy” and “democratic”. The book shows that “democracy” and “democratic” are semantically, pragmatically, and communicatively defective. Abolitionism is not all gloom and doom. It also contains a message of good cheer: we have easy access to conceptual devices that are more effective than “democracy”. We can do better. These alternative linguistic devices will enable us to ask better questions, provide genuinely fruitful answers, and have more rational discussions. Moreover, those questions and answers better articulate the communicative and cognitive aims of those who use empty terms such as “democracy” and “democratic”
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    Confronting Colonial Objects : Histories, Legalities, and Access to Culture (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191960161 , 9780192694133 , 9780192694126
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (592 p.)
    Series Statement: Cultural Heritage Law and Policy
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    DDC: 344/.094
    Keywords: Cultural property Management ; Cultural property Law and legislation ; Public international law ; Museology & heritage studies ; Colonialism & imperialism ; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism ; Patrimoine culturel immatériel - Gestion ; Museum Studies ; ART ; LAW ; Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law ; Law
    Abstract: In 1978, UNESCO Secretary General Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow compared cultural colonial objects to ‘witnesses to history’. Their treatment is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a novel international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. This book seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies. It argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. It shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods (early takings, birth of modern nation state, nineteenth-century scramble for objects) and went far beyond looting. It relies on micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns, and the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks in colonial collecting. It demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in enabling colonial injustices, and mobilizing resistance thereto. It challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, it develops a theory of entanglement to rethink contemporary approaches. It shows that future engagement requires a reinvention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, partnership and a rethinking of the role of museums themselves. It proposes principles of relational cultural justice to confront ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enable normative transformation
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    Brain Computations and Connectivity (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780198887928 , 9780191994913
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1174 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rolls, Edmund T Brain computations and connectivity
    DDC: 612.82
    Keywords: Brain ; Brain Localization of functions ; Brain ; Brain Mapping ; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology ; Cognition & cognitive psychology ; Cognitivism, cognitive theory ; Neurosciences ; Cerveau ; Localisation cérébrale ; brains ; Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences ; Health and Wellbeing ; Brain - Localization of functions
    Abstract: The subject of this book is how the brain works. In order to understand this, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems; and how the computations are performed. The aim of this book is to elucidate what is computed in different brain systems; and to describe current computational approaches and models of how each of these brain systems computes. Understanding the brain in this way has enormous potential for understanding ourselves better in health and in disease. Potential applications of this understanding are to the treatment of the brain in disease; and to artificial intelligence which will benefit from knowledge of how the brain performs many of its extraordinarily impressive functions. This book is pioneering in taking this approach to brain function: to consider what is computed by many of our brain systems; and how it is computed. The book is also pioneering in taking biologically plausible approaches to brain computation. The book is also pioneering in incorporating evidence on the connectivity of 360 cortical regions in the human brain, making the book highly relevant to understanding the human brain. The book will be of interest to all scientists interested in brain function and how the brain works, whether they are from neuroscience, or from medical sciences including neurology and psychiatry, or from the area of computational science including machine learning and artificial intelligence, or from areas such as theoretical physics
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    Controlling the Capital : Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191964268 , 9780192694485
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 p.)
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    DDC: 307.76
    Keywords: Urbanization Political aspects ; Authoritarianism Social aspects ; Capitals (Cities) Political aspects ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Urban economics ; Economic geography ; Political control & freedoms ; Urbanisation - Aspect politique ; Autoritarisme - Aspect social ; Capitales - Aspect politique ; Urban & Regional ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Development ; Political Freedom ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Urbanization - Political aspects ; Society & culture: general ; Society
    Abstract: Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of cities—often considered the focal points of democratic deepening—in this authoritarian turn. With most literature on authoritarianism focusing on the national scale, in this book we train our gaze on capital cities, which as ‘containers’ of both capital and sovereignty are spaces in which authoritarian dominance is increasingly built, contested, maintained, and undone. Focusing on some of the world’s fastest urbanizing regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the book explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance in capital cities in order to meet the challenge of urban political resistance. Our diverse selection of case studies spans governing regimes that have recently tried to build urban dominance and spectacularly failed, as well as those that have managed to hold onto power by constantly evolving strategies for dominance that limit the potential for urban opposition to tip into regime overthrow. With chapters on Addis Ababa, Colombo, Dhaka, Harare, Kampala, and Lusaka, this book offers the first cross-regional comparative study of the relationship between cities and political dominance. It contributes to debates on authoritarianism and authoritarian durability, urbanization, political contestation and resistance, the politics of development, and the prospects for democracy
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    Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191994685 , 9780198887348
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (378 p.)
    Series Statement: Oxford studies in ancient documents
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    DDC: 470.940901
    Keywords: To 1500 ; Latin language Colonies ; Language spread Colonies ; Language spread History To 1500 ; Multilingualism ; Language policy ; Ancient history ; Social and cultural history ; Sociolinguistics ; Multilinguisme - Rome ; Latin (Langue) - Rome - Colonies ; Diffusion des langues - Rome - Colonies ; HISTORY ; Social History ; Linguistics ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Language policy ; Language spread ; Latin language ; Multilingualism ; Roman colonies ; Language teaching & learning ; Language ; History ; Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; Rome - Histoire - 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire) ; Rome (Empire) ; Western Europe ; army, economy, education, law, Latinization, mobility, religion, Roman western provinces, sociolinguistics, status, urbanism
    Abstract: Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic. Historians have noted it has been ‘taken for granted’ and viewed as an unremarkable by-product of ‘Romanization’, despite its central importance for understanding the Roman provincial world, its life and languages. This volume aims to fill the gap in our scholarship, along with its sister volumes, Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West and Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces, all outputs of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project. Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume. The result is a comprehensive guide to the theme, which also offers original and more experimental work. The sociolinguistic, historical, and archaeological contributions reinforce, expand, and sometimes challenge our vision of Latinization and lay the foundations for future explorations
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    Mental Imagery : Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Keywords: Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy: aesthetics ; Perception ; Philosophy ; Cognition & cognitive psychology ; Neurosciences ; mental imagery, imagination, perception, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience
    Abstract: This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling features of perception (like the way it is influenced in a top-down manner and the way different sense modalities interact). But mental imagery also plays a very important role in emotions, action execution, and even in our desires. In sum, there are very few mental phenomena that mental imagery doesn’t show up in—in some way or other. The hope is that if we understand what mental imagery is, how it works and how it is related to other mental phenomena, we can make real progress on a number of important questions about the mind. This book aims at an interdisciplinary audience. As it aims to combine philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to understand mental imagery, I have not presupposed any prior knowledge in any of these disciplines. As a result, readers with no background in any of these disciplines can also follow the arguments
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    Chapter 13 Ethical Hotspots in Infectious Disease Surveillance for Global Health Security Social justice and Pandemic Preparedness (2023)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192871688
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    Keywords: Ethical issues & debates ; Pandamic; ethics; infectious disease; surveillance; global health; social justice; preparedness
    Abstract: At the time of writing, the world remains in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 14.9 million people have died and every country in the world has been affected affectedaffectedaffectedaffected directly or indirectly (WHO 2022a). This, This,together with recent experiences of Ebola and Zika, has led to calls for the development and implementation of international strategies for pandemic preparedness, response, and prevention
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    Chapter Introduction (2023)
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    Keywords: Infectious & contagious diseases ; Ethical issues & debates ; COVID-19 Pandamic; ethics
    Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining defining event of the 21st century. Global estimates of excess mortality indicate that it has taken fifteen fifteen million lives over 2020-21 (Knutson et al. 2022). It has closed national borders, put whole populations into quarantine and devastated economies. Almost half of workers in low or middle income countries lost a job or business due to the pandemic (Anonymous 2021). The International Monetary Fund has estimated a global loss to the world economy of US$12trillion by the end of 2021 (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2020). It led to a rise in rates of extreme poverty for the first firstfirst time in 25 years, with 37 million additional people experiencing this in 2020. The pandemic toll and the cost of measures taken to combat it—both effective effectiveeffectiveeffectiveeffectiveeffective and ineffective—has ineffective—has ineffective—hasineffective—hasineffective—hasineffective—hasineffective—has ineffective—has been paid in human lives, mental and physical suffering,suffering, suffering, suffering,suffering, and economic hardship. The costs will continue to be paid by individuals and societies for decades to come. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic, it is not unique. It is not as severe as Spanish influenza, estimated to have killed between 50-100 million people. Recent MERS and SARS epidemics were more deadly to those infected, but less contagious. Future influenza pandemics, perhaps like the hypothetical example above, undoubtedly lie ahead. We await ‘Disease X’, the World Health Organisation’s placeholder name for “a serious international epidemic … caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.” In some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake up-call. Children who have been home-schooled during the COVID pandemic will almost certainly face another pandemic in their lifetime – one at least as bad—and potentially much worse—than this one
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    Chapter 10 Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources : Vaccines and Ventilators (2023)
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    Keywords: Ethical issues & debates ; Pandamic; ethics; vaccines; ventilators
    Abstract: In the response to this pandemic, two vital, but controversial ethical questions are we should allocate ventilators to patients with severe respiratory failure, and how we should distribute vaccines to people at risk of contracting coronavirus. There There are opposing ethical views about how to prioritise, and countries have taken different different differentdifferentapproaches. There There is a strong ethical argument that policies should take a pluralistic approach to allocation that reflectsreflects reflectsreflectsreflectsmultiple ethical values - both because of the diversity of viewpoints within communities and the recognition that there are competing relevant ethical values. In this chapter, I look at the epistemic and normative problems raised by pluralistic allocation in this pandemic and suggest implications for future pandemics. I summarise some of the relevant evidence about the public’s views and values relating to prioritisation. I also explore some practical approaches to prioritisation of scarce resources in the face of contrasting and competing ethical values
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    Chapter 8 Ethics of Selective Restriction of Liberty in a Pandemic (2023)
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    Keywords: Ethical issues & debates ; ethics; pandemic; restriction of liberty
    Abstract: Liberty-restricting measures are basic measures in combatting any pandemic. But whose liberty should be restricted? One standard response in public health ethics is to appeal to the “least restrictive alternative” necessary to achieve a public health goal. The problem is that in practice, greater restriction of liberty can lead to greater control of the pandemic and save more lives, though with increasing burdens to others. Liberty restriction is thus a question of the distribution of benefitsbenefits benefits and burdens in a population, a question of distributive justice. In this chapter, I argue that in some pandemics, such as COVID-19, it may be a more proportionate restriction of liberty to restrict the liberty of certain groups, rather than the population as a whole. Two arguments were given in the COVID-19 pandemic for liberty restriction: (1) protection of the vulnerable; (2) protection of the health service. These These are, however, more fundamentally issues about distributive justice. I explore how several approaches to distributive justice can support the differential differential differentialdifferentialdifferential restriction of liberty. In addition, I argue that the commonly accepted justificationjustificationjustificationjustificationjustification justification justification justification for liberty restrictions (that liberty restrictions may be justifiedjustifiedjustifiedjustifiedjustified justified to prevent direct harm to others) - can be overly simplistic, as illustrated by the COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that where risk groups (such as the elderly in the COVID-19 pandemic) are more likely to utilise limited health resources, they pose an indirect threat to others during the pandemic that warrants coercion. I argue there should be a side-constraint on justice of non-maleficence.non-maleficence.non-maleficence. non-maleficence. non-maleficence. non-maleficence. This This requires that there is a limit to harm which can be imposed on individuals for others, best captured by a collective duty of easy rescue. For groups such as the young, vaccination or lockdown may not constitute an “easy rescue” of those at greatest risk. I address the issue of whether selective restriction of liberty constitutes unjust discrimination and I propose an algorithm for making decisions about selective restriction of liberty
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    The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (2022)
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    Keywords: Literary studies: general ; Literature: history & criticism ; Ethical & social aspects of IT ; literary studies; literature; history; criticism; ethical & social aspects of IT
    Abstract: This book delivers an introduction and overview of developing intersections between digital methods and literary studies. The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies serves as a starting place for those who wish to learn more about the possibilities, and the limitations, of the oft-touted digital humanities in the literary space. The volume engages with the proponents of digital humanities and its detractors alike, aiming to offer a fair and balanced perspective on this controversial topic. The book combines a survey and background approach with original literary research and, therefore, straddles the divide between seasoned digital experts and interested newcomers
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    New Mediums, Better Messages? : How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development (2022)
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    Keywords: Development economics & emerging economies ; Economics ; The arts ; Development economics and emerging economies ; international development, popular representations of development, culture, translation, advocacy, arts and international development, media and development, development studies, festivals, music, theatre, fiction, photography, computer games, blogging, politics of representation, decolonizing knowledge
    Abstract: The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at particular times and places. As international development has become more quantitative and economics-centred, there is an enduring sense that what is measured (and thus 'valued' and prioritized) may have become too narrow, that the powers of prediction claimed by some areas of economics and management may have overreached, and that the human dimension is in danger of being lost. Reflecting this concern, New Mediums, Better Messages? contributes to new conversations between science, social science, and the humanities around the roles of different kinds of knowledge, stories, and data play in relation to global development. It brings together a team of multidisciplinary contributors to explore popular representions of development, including music, blogs, and fiction
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    A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement (2022)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Van der Wal, Jenneke, 1981- Featural typology of Bantu agreement
    DDC: 496.39
    Keywords: Bantu languages Syntax ; Bantu languages Agreement ; Grammar, syntax & morphology ; Historical & comparative linguistics ; Bantu languages ; Langues bantoues - Syntaxe ; Langues bantoues - Accord ; Bantu languages - Syntax ; Bantu languages, agreement, Agree, comparative morphosyntax, Case, information structure, nominal licensing, Person, Topic, subject marking, object marking, crosslinguistic variation
    Abstract: The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of morphosyntactic variation. Two core areas in which such variation is attested are subject and object agreement. The book explores the variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages, discovering striking patterns (the RANDOM and the AWSOM correlation), and providing a novel syntactic analysis. This analysis takes into account not just phi agreement, but also nominal licensing and information structure. A Person feature, associated with animacy, definiteness, or givenness, is shown to be responsible for differential object agreement, while at the same time accounting for doubling vs. non-doubling object marking - a hybrid solution to an age-old debate in Bantu comparative morphosyntax. It is furthermore proposed that low functional heads can Case-license flexibly downwards or upwards, depending on the relative topicality of the two arguments involved. This accounts for the properties of symmetric object marking in ditransitives (for Appl), and subject inversion constructions (for v). By keeping Agree constant and systematically determining which featural parameters are responsible for the attested variation, the proposed analysis argues for an emergentist view of features and parameters (following Biberauer 2018, 2019), and against both Strong Uniformity and Strong Modularity
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    Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries : Cases, Lessons, Challenges (2022)
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    Keywords: Comparative politics ; Public administration ; Politics & government ; Central government policies ; Political science & theory ; public policy, public administration, Nordic, reform, policy success, Nordic model, policy evaluation ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
    Abstract: This book presents 23 in-depth case studies of successful public policies and programmes in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. Each chapter tells the story of the policy’s origins, aims, design, decision-making and implementation processes, and assesses in which respects—programmatically, process-wise, politically and over time—and to what extent it can be considered a policy success. It also points towards the driving forces of success, and the challenges that have had to be overcome to achieve it. Combined, the chapters provide a resource for policy evaluation researchers, educators and students of public policy and public administration, both within and beyond the Nordic region
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    Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance : Practices, Justifications, and Audiences (2022)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Legitimation and delegitimation in global governance
    DDC: 341.7
    Keywords: Political science & theory ; International relations ; Political structures: democracy ; Political science and theory ; delegitimation, global governance, global governance institution, international organization, legitimacy, legitimation, legitimation audience, legitimation practice, normative justification ; Internationales politisches System ; Völkergemeinschaft ; Weltgesellschaft ; Governance
    Abstract: This book explores processes of legitimation and delegitimation of global governance institutions (GGIs). How, why, and with what impact on audiences, are GGIs legitimated and delegitimated? The book develops a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying processes of (de)legitimation in global governance and provides broad comparative analyses to uncover patterns of (de)legitimation processes. It covers a diverse set of global and regional governmental and nongovernmental institutions in different policy fields. Variation across these GGIs is explained with reference to institutional setup, policy field characteristics, and broader social structures, as well as to the qualities of agents of (de)legitimation. The approach builds on a mixed-methods research design that uses both quantitative and qualitative new empirical data. Three main interlinked elements of processes of legitimation and delegitimation are at the center of the analysis: the varied practices employed by different state and non-state agents that may boost or challenge the legitimacy of global governance institutions; the normative justifications that these agents draw on when engaging in legitimation and delegitimation practices; and the different audiences that may be impacted by legitimation and delegitimation. This results in a dynamic interplay between legitimation and delegitimation in contestation over the legitimacy of GGIs
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    The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing : A History (2022)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moore, Alison, 1972- French invention of menopause and the medicalisation of women's ageing
    DDC: 618.1/750094409034
    Keywords: 1800-1899 ; Menopause History 19th century ; Women Health and hygiene 19th century ; History ; Medical literature History and criticism ; Medical innovations History 19th century ; Medicalization History 19th century ; History of medicine ; Social & cultural history ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 ; European history ; Ménopause - France - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Médecine - Documentation - France - Histoire et critique ; Médecine - Innovations - France - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Médicalisation - France - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Europe ; HISTORY ; Modern ; Social History ; Women ; MEDICAL ; Medical innovations ; Medical literature ; Menopause ; Women - Health and hygiene ; Clinical & internal medicine ; Health and Wellbeing ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; France ; history of menopause, French medical history, French women’s history, history of women’s ageing, women as patients in modern biomedicine, gendered medical concepts
    Abstract: Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by Frenchmen medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of doctors’ professional identities in postrevolutionary biomedicine. Older women were identified as an important patient cohort for the expanding medicalisation of French society and were advised to entrust themselves to the hygienic care of doctors in managing the whole era of life from around and after the final cessation of menses. However, menopause owed much of its conceptual weft to earlier themes of women as the sicker sex, of vitalist crisis, of the vapours, and of astrological climacteric years. This book is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention. It tells a complex story of how women’s ageing featured in the demographic revolution in modern science, in the denigration of folk medicine, in the unique French field of hygiène, and in the fixation on women in the emergence of modern psychiatry. It also reveals the nineteenth-century French origins of the still-current medical and alternative-health approaches to women’s ageing as something to be managed through gynaecological surgery, hormonal replacement, and lifestyle intervention
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    Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (2022)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Research methods in deliberative democracy
    DDC: 321.8072
    Keywords: Deliberative democracy Research ; Methodology ; Political science & theory ; Political structures: democracy ; Démocratie délibérative - Recherche - Méthodologie ; Democracy ; Political Ideologies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Politics & government ; Politics and Government ; deliberation, deliberative democracy, democratic innovations, empirical research, institutional design, normative theory, participatory democracy, social science research, qualitative, quantitative
    Abstract: Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from previous studies. The book hopes to inspire scholars to undertake methodologically robust, intellectually creative, and politically relevant research. It fills a significant gap in a rapidly growing field of research by assembling diverse methods and thereby expanding the range of methodological choices available to students, scholars, and practitioners of deliberative democracy
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    The Developer's Dilemma : Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth (2022)
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    Keywords: Development economics & emerging economies ; Economic growth ; Development economics and emerging economies ; structural transformation, Kuznetsian tension, economic growth, income inequality, developing countries
    Abstract: This book explores this developer’s dilemma or ‘Kuznetsian tension’ between structural transformation and income inequality. Developing countries are seeking economic development—that is, structural transformation—which is inclusive in the sense that it is broad-based and raises the income of all, especially the poor. Thus, inclusive economic growth requires steady, or even falling, income inequality if it is to maximize the growth of incomes at the lower end of the distribution. Yet, this is at odds with Simon Kuznets hypothesis that economic development tends to put upward pressure on income inequality, at least initially and in the absence of countervailing policies. The book asks: what are the types or ‘varieties’ of structural transformation that have been experienced in developing countries? What inequality dynamics are associated with each variety of structural transformation? And what policies have been utilized to manage trade-offs between structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth? The book answers these questions using a comparative case study approach, contrasting nine developing countries while employing a common analytical framework and a set of common datasets across the case studies. The intended intellectual contribution of the book is to provide a comparative analysis of the relationship between structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth; to do so empirically at a regional and national level; and to draw conclusions from the cases on the varieties of structural transformation, their inequality dynamics, and the policies that have been employed to mediate the developer’s dilemma
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    The Rise of Mass Advertising : Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (2022)
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    Keywords: Social & cultural history ; British & Irish history ; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 ; Economic history ; Social and cultural history ; European history ; History and Archaeology ; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 ; advertising, legal history, enchantment, disenchantment, boundary work, history of the press, history of the poster, quackery, gambling, indecency, advertising psychology, modernity, history of capitalism
    Abstract: This book is a first cultural legal history of advertising in Britain, tracing the rise of mass advertising circa 1840–1914 and its legal shaping. The emergence of this new system disrupted the perceived foundations of modernity. The idea that culture was organized by identifiable fields of knowledge, experience, and authority came under strain as advertisers claimed to share values with the era’s most prominent fields, including news, art, science, and religiously inflected morality. While cultural boundaries grew blurry, the assumption that the world was becoming progressively disenchanted, itself closely related to concepts of boundaries, was undermined as enchanted experiences multiplied with the transformation of everyday environments by advertising. Non-rational ontologies and a play of mystery became apparent, involving possibilities for metamorphoses, magical efficacy, animated environments, affective connections between humans and things, imaginary worlds and fantasies that informed mundane lifed. These disrupted assumptions that the capitalist economy was a victory of reason. The Rise of Mass Advertising examines how contemporaries came to terms with the disruptive impact by mobilizing legal processes, powers, and concepts. Law was implicated in performing boundary work that preserved the modern sense of field distinctions. Advertising’s cultural meanings and its organization were shaped dialectically vis-à-vis other fields in a process that mainstreamed and legitimized it with legal means, but also construed it as an inferior simulation of the values of a progressive modernity, exhibiting epistemological shortfalls and aesthetic compromises that marked it apart from adjacent fields. The dual treatment meanwhile disavowed the central role of enchantment, in what amounted to a normative enterprise of disenchantment. One of the ironies of this enterprise was that it ultimately drove professional advertisers to embrace enchantment as their peculiar expertise
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    Social Europe, the Road not Taken : The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s (2022)
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    Series Statement: Oxford studies in modern European history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Andry, Aurélie Dianara Social Europe, the road not taken
    DDC: 940.557
    Keywords: European Union History ; European Union ; Since 1945 ; Right and left (Political science) ; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 ; European history ; HISTORY ; 20th Century ; Modern ; History & Theory ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Politics and government ; Right and left (Political science) ; History ; History ; Europe History 1945- ; Europe Politics and government 1945- ; Europe - Histoire - 1945- ; Europe - Politique et gouvernement - 1945- ; Europe ; Alte Prager Akten ; Verfassungsgeschichte ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Antiqua ; Denegata antiqua ; Höchstgericht ; Reichshofrat
    Abstract: This book examines the European Left’s attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration—a ‘social Europe’—during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival research, it shows that the western European Left—in particular, social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent ‘Eurocommunist’ parties—formulated a broad project to turn ‘capitalist Europe’ into a ‘workers’ Europe’. This alternative model of European unity favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratization of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonization of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning with greater consideration for the environment, increased public spending to meet collective needs, greater control of capital flows and multinational corporations, a reduction in working time, and a fairer international economic order favouring the global South. During the pivotal years following 1968, deeply marked by labour militancy, new social movements, economic crisis, and the unmaking of the ‘postwar compromise’, a window of opportunity opened in which European integration could have taken different roads. The defeat of ‘social Europe’ was a result of a decade-long social conflict which ended with the affirmation of a neoliberal Europe. Investigating this forgotten power struggle and the reasons of its defeat can be useful not just to scholars and students eager to understand the historical evolution of European integration, the European Left, and European capitalism, but also to anyone interested in building alternative European and global futures
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    The spirit of global health : the World Health Organization and the 'spiritual dimension' of health, 1946-2021 (2022)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Levin, Jeff [Rezension von: The spirit of global health : the World Health Organization and the 'spiritual dimension' of health, 1946-2021] 2024
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Flanagan, Bernadette [Rezension von: The spirit of global health : the World Health Organization and the 'spiritual dimension' of health, 1946-2021] 2023
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The spirit of global health
    DDC: 204
    Keywords: World Health Organization History ; Spirituality Health aspects ; Health Religious aspects ; Medicine Religious aspects ; Spiritual care (Medical care) ; Religion and Medicine ; Religion & science ; Religion & politics ; History of religion ; History of medicine ; Santé - Aspect religieux ; Médecine - Aspect religieux ; Soins spirituels cliniques ; History ; MEDICAL ; RELIGION ; Religion ; Alternative medicine ; Holistic medicine ; Spiritual care (Medical care) ; Spirituality ; Therapeutics, Physiological ; History ; Weltgesundheitsorganisation ; Medizin ; Spiritualität ; Geschichte 1946-2021
    Abstract: Since the beginning of the World Health Organization, many of its staff members, regional offices, Member States, and directors-general have grappled with the question of what a 'spiritual dimension' of health looks like, and how it might enrich the health policies advocated by their organization. Contrary to the widespread perception that 'spirituality' is primarily related to palliative care and has emerged relatively recently within the WHO, this book shows that its history is considerably longer and more complex, and has been closely connected to the organization's ethical aspirations, its quest for more holistic and equitable healthcare, and its struggle with the colonial legacy of international health organizations. Such ideals and struggles silently motivated many of its key actors and policies-such as the provision of universal primary healthcare-which for decades have embodied the organization's loftiest aspirations. The WHO's official relationship with 'spirituality' advanced in fits, leaps, and setbacks. At times creative and interdisciplinary, at others deeply political, this process was marked by cycles of institutional forgetting and remembering. Rather than a triumph of religious lobbyists, this book argues, the 'spiritual dimension' of health may be better understood as a 'ghost' that has haunted-and continues to haunt-the WHO as it comes to terms with its mandate of advancing health as a state of 'complete well-being' available to all
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    Chapter 1 Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status (2021)
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    Keywords: Artificial intelligence ; artificial intelligence, cyborgs, human brain organoids, human non-human chimeras, moral uncertainty, moral status, post-humans, slavery, species membership, uploaded minds
    Abstract: Recent technological developments and potential technological developments of the near future require us to try to think clearly about what it is to have moral status and about when and why we should attribute moral status to beings and entities. What should we say about the moral status of human non-human chimeras, human brain organoids, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, post-humans, and human minds that have been uploaded into a computer, or onto the internet? In this introductory chapter we survey some key assumptions ordinarily made about moral status that may require rethinking. These include the assumptions that all humans who are not severely cognitively impaired have equal moral status, that possession of the sophisticated cognitive capacities typical of human adults is necessary for full moral status, that only humans can have full moral status, and that there can be no beings with higher moral status than ordinary adult humans. We also need to consider how we should treat beings and entities when we find ourselves uncertain about their moral status
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    A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making : History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples (2021)
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    Keywords: Welfare economics ; Health economics ; Political economy ; Economic growth ; subjective wellbeing, public policy, policy evaluation, policy appraisal, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVK Welfare economics ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVJ Health economics ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growth
    Abstract: Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to move from using GDP to using subjective wellbeing as the primary metric for measuring economic and societal progress? Would policy priorities change? Would we continue to care about economic growth? What role would different government institutions play in such a scenario? And, most importantly, how could this be implemented in daily practice, for example in policy evaluations and appraisals of government analysts, or in political agenda-setting at the top level? This book provides answers to these questions from a conceptual to a technical level by showing how direct measures of subjective wellbeing can be used for policy evaluation and appraisal, either complementary in the short run or even entirely in the long run. It gives a brief history of the idea that governments should care about the happiness of their citizens, provides theories, makes suggestions for direct measurement, derives technical standards, shows how to conduct wellbeing cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses, and gives examples of how real-world policy evaluations and appraisals would change if they were based on subjective wellbeing. In doing so, the book serves the growing interest of governments as well as non-governmental and international organizations in how to put subjective wellbeing metrics into policy practice
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    Business Ethics : An Economically Informed Perspective (2021)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Keywords: Business ethics & social responsibility ; Economic theory & philosophy ; Business & the environment, ‘Green’ approaches to business ; corporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, prisoner’s dilemma, company scandals, globalization, human rights, poverty, sustainability, bounded ethicality
    Abstract: Business ethics continues to gain importance in the curricula of business studies courses. This book provides a comprehensive overview of both the essential concepts of business ethics related to the economy as a whole, and the more narrowly understood corporate ethics related to the individual company. In contrast to other works on the same topic, special emphasis is placed on a coherent theoretical foundation that puts tools of economic analysis, including behavioral economics, at the center. In particular, the importance of both empirical research and dilemma structures for business ethics receives special attention. The largest chapter of the book is devoted to corporate ethics and provides students and academics with guidance in the theoretical classification of the variety of concepts that often coexist in the debate. Abstract concepts are illustrated with the help of practice boxes
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    Chapter (When) Is Adblocking Wrong? (2021)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 p.)
    Keywords: Intellectual property law ; Adblocking, Piracy, Theft, Intellectual Property, Complicity, Extortion, Free-Riding
    Abstract: In this chapter, I examine three deontological objections to adblocking: the objection from property (according to which adblocking involves accessing another's property without satisfying the conditions placed on such access by the owner), the objection from complicity (according to which, by blocking ads, consumers become complicit in wrongdoing of adblocking software providers), and the objection from freeriding (according to which adblocking consumers free-ride on other consumers who allow ads to be served). I argue that, though these objections plausibly establish the moral impermissibility of some instances of adblocking, they do not, even collectively, establish a blanket moral prohibition on adblocking, as it is currently done
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    Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics (2020)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191840418 , 9780198801856 , 9780192522016
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (474 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics
    DDC: 110
    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Metaethics ; Conceptualism ; First philosophy ; Philosophy of language ; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology ; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge ; Social & political philosophy ; Métaphysique ; Métaéthique ; Conceptualisme ; metaphysics ; Epistemology ; PHILOSOPHY ; Metaphysics ; Political ; First philosophy ; Conceptualism ; Metaethics ; Metaphysics
    Abstract: Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the problems with such devices and attempt to come up with ways of improving flawed concepts: they attempt to say how those concepts should be. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the possibility, benefits, problems, and applications of conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics. It consists of twenty chapters; some advocate for the field, while others develop sceptical arguments, and some focus on the various methodological issues that arise while others apply the method to issues in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy
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    Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development : A Critical Perspective (2020)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191898266 , 9780192635525 , 9780192635532
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (442 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Randomized control trials in the field of development
    DDC: 338.90072
    Keywords: Economic development Research ; Methodology ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Economic theory & philosophy ; Health economics ; Econometrics ; Développement économique - Recherche - Méthodologie ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Development ; Theory ; Economics ; Health Care Issues ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Economic development - Research - Methodology ; Alte Prager Akten ; Verfassungsgeschichte ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Antiqua ; Denegata antiqua ; Höchstgericht ; Reichshofrat
    Abstract: In October 2019, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer jointly won the 51st Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." But what is the exact scope of their experimental method, known as randomized control trials (RCTs)? Which sorts of questions are RCTs able to address and which do they fail to answer? This book provides answers to these questions, explaining how RCTs work, what they can achieve, why they sometimes fail, how they can be improved and why other methods are both useful and necessary. Chapters contributed by leading specialists in the field present a full and coherent picture of the main strengths and weaknesses of RCTs in the field of development. Looking beyond the epistemological, political, and ethical differences underlying many of the disagreements surrounding RCTs, it explores the implementation of RCTs on the ground, outside of their ideal theoretical conditions and reveals some unsuspected uses and effects, their disruptive potential, but also their political uses. The contributions uncover the implicit worldview that many RCTs draw on and disseminate, and probe the gap between the method's narrow scope and its success, while also proposing improvements and alternatives. This book warns against the potential dangers of their excessive use, arguing that the best use for RCTs is not necessarily that which immediately springs to mind, and offering opportunity to come to an informed and reasoned judgement on RCTs and what they can bring to development
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    China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (2019)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192566225 , 9780191868696 , 9780192566232
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (363 p.)
    DDC: 337.5106
    Keywords: Economic development ; Economics ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Political economy ; International economics ; Labour economics ; Développement économique - Afrique ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - International - Economics ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - International - General ; Economic development ; Economic policy ; International economic relations ; China Foreign economic relations ; Africa Foreign economic relations ; China Economic policy ; Africa Economic policy ; Afrique - Relations économiques extérieures - Chine ; Chine - Politique économique ; Afrique - Politique économique ; Africa ; China
    Abstract: Progress in Africa’s economic growth in the new millennium has been uneven across countries, and has not translated into structural transformation. The same can be said about the evolving China–Africa economic relations. Although economic ties between China and Africa have made a positive contribution, the impact of this dynamic engagement has been uneven, shaped by variations in strategic approach, policy ownership, and implementation capacity among African governments. As China undergoes major economic rebalancing to upgrade to an innovation-driven economy, this is bound to affect China–Africa relations, offering both opportunities and challenges. Authored by leading scholars on Africa, China, and China–Africa relations, this volume brings together stimulating and thought-provoking perspectives, and deeper analyses on the evolving China–Africa relations. Focusing on Africa’s economic development, the volume looks at core areas of structural transformation: productive investment and industrialization, international trade, infrastructure development, and financing. China–Africa relations are considered in the context of the global division of labour and power, and the particular role of both China and the continent of Africa in the evolving global hierarchy. This volume seeks to fill the gap in the existing literature, steer policy and scholarly debate on the progress and trajectory of China–Africa cooperation, and analyse China’s development path as a source of learning for Africa
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    Franco's Internationalists : Social Experts and Spain's Search for Legitimacy (2019)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192571571 , 9780191872686
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 p.)
    Series Statement: Oxford studies in modern European history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brydan, David Franco's Internationalists : Social Experts and Spain's Search for Legitimacy
    DDC: 946.082
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Francoism ; Internationalism History 20th century ; European history ; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 ; Spanish Civil War ; c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) ; c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) ; c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) ; Spain ; Franquisme ; Internationalisme - Histoire - 20e siècle ; HISTORY ; 20th Century ; Modern ; Spain & Portugal ; Diplomatic relations ; Francoism ; Internationalism ; Social conditions ; History ; Spain Social conditions 1939-1975 ; Spain Foreign relations 1939-1975 ; Espagne - Conditions sociales - 1939-1975 ; Espagne - Relations extérieures - 1939-1975
    Abstract: This book tells the story of the experts who sold the idea of Franco’s ‘social state’. Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterized Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. This book reveals the vital role which the idea of the social state also played in the regime’s ongoing search for international legitimacy. It shows how social experts, particularly those working in the fields of public health, medicine, and social insurance, were at the forefront of efforts to promote the regime to the outside world. By working with international organizations and transnational networks across Europe, Africa, and Latin America, they sought to sell the idea of Franco’s Spain as a respectable, modern, and socially just state. In doing so the book also seeks to disrupt our understanding of the modern history of internationalism. Exploring what it meant for Francoist experts to think and act internationally, it challenges dominant accounts of internationalism as a liberal, progressive movement by foregrounding the history of fascist, nationalist, imperialist, and religious forms of international cooperation. The case of Spain reveals the contested and heterogenous nature of mid-twentieth-century internationalism, characterized by the tumultuous interplay of overlapping global, regional, and imperial projects. It also brings into focus the overlooked continuities between international structures and projects before and after 1945
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    Chapter 7 Socializing Responsibility (2018)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; moral responsibility; socializing responsibility
    Abstract: There is a near universal consensus that the bearers of moral responsibility are the individuals we identify with proper names. I suggest that if we take the exercise of agency as a guide to the identification of agents, we may find that agents sometimes extend into the world: they may be constituted by several individuals and/or by institutions. These extended agents may be responsible for morally significant outcomes. I argue that institutions or extended agents may also be responsible for the failure of individuals to satisfy the epistemic conditions on moral responsibility. Individuals may believe virtuously but falsely, due to the way in which cues to reliability are socially distributed. I conclude by suggesting that a focus on individual responsibility may have distracted us from the urgent task of reforming the institutional actors responsible for widespread ignorance about morally significant facts
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    Chapter Article 12 CRPD : Equal Recognition before the Law (2018)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Keywords: Disability & the law ; CRPD; persons with disabilities; law
    Abstract: CRPD; persons with disabilities; law
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    International Financial Centres after the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit (2018)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192549440 , 9780191858833 , 9780192549457
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (267 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.542
    Keywords: European Union ; European Union ; 2008-2009 ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Economics ; Finance & accounting ; International finance ; Economic & financial crises & disasters ; Banking ; Economic geography ; Economic history ; Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Industries - General ; Great Britain
    Abstract: This book gathers leading economic historians, geographers, and social scientists to focus on the developments in key international financial centres following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and to consider the likely effects of Brexit on these centres. Eleven centres in eight countries are taken into consideration: New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich/Geneva, Hong Kong/Shanghai/Beijing, Tokyo, and Singapore. The book addresses three main issues. The first is the hierarchy of international financial centres, in particular whether Asian financial centres have taken advantage of the crisis in the West. The second is the medium-term effects of the crisis, with respect to the volume of business activity (including employment), and the level of regulation, with concerns regarding the risks of regulatory overkill. And the third is the rise of new technology, known as fintech, possibly the most important change in the decade following the crisis, with questions as to whether it will render financial centres, as we know them, unnecessary for the functioning of the global economy, and which cities are likely to emerge as hubs of new financial technology. Finally, the book discusses the likely effects of Brexit on international financial centres, in particular London, Paris, and Frankfurt. The book takes a decidedly interdisciplinary approach, with a general introduction providing a global overview from a historical perspective, and a general conclusion providing a global overview from a geographical perspective. Its focus on the implications for global financial centres is unique among books about the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
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    The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change (2017)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780192882011
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (209 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Social change ; Progress ; Economic development ; Economics ; Sociology ; Economic theory & philosophy ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Progrès ; Développement économique ; economic development ; SOCIAL SCIENCE - General ; Economic development ; Progress ; Social change
    Abstract: This book provides a survey of different ways in which economic sociocultural and political aspects of human progress have been studied since the time of Adam Smith. Inevitably, over such a long time span, it has been necessary to concentrate on highlighting the most significant contributions, rather than attempting an exhaustive treatment. The aim has been to bring into focus an outline of the main long-term changes in the way that socioeconomic development has been envisaged. The argument presented is that the idea of socioeconomic development emerged with the creation of grand evolutionary sequences of social progress that were the products of Enlightenment and mid-Victorian thinkers. By the middle of the twentieth century, when interest in the accelerating development gave the topic a new impetus, its scope narrowed to a set of economically based strategies. After 1960, however, faith in such strategies began to wane, in the face of indifferent results and general faltering of confidence in economists’ boasts of scientific expertise. In the twenty-first century, development research is being pursued using a research method that generates disconnected results. As a result, it seems unlikely that any grand narrative will be created in the future and that neo-liberalism will be the last of this particular kind of socioeconomic theory
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    Russian Approaches to International Law (2015)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780198808046
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mälksoo, Lauri Russian approaches to international law
    DDC: 341.0947
    Keywords: International and municipal law ; International law ; International law Interpretation and construction ; Public international law ; Russia ; Droit international et droit interne - Russie ; Droit international - Interprétation ; LAW - International ; International and municipal law ; International law ; International law - Interpretation and construction ; Law ; Russia (Federation)
    Abstract: This book examines Russian approaches to international law from three different yet closely interconnected perspectives: history, theory, and recent state practice. The study uses comparative international law as a starting point and argues that in order to understand post-Soviet Russia’s state and scholarly approaches to international law, one should take into account the history of ideas in Russia. To some extent, Russian understandings of international law differ from what is considered the mainstream in the West. One specific feature of this work is that it goes inside the language of international law as it is spoken and discussed in post-Soviet Russia, especially the scholarly literature in the Russian language, and relates this literature to the history of international law as discipline in Russia. Recent state practice such as the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia’s record in the UN SC, the European Court of Human Rights, investor-state arbitration, and the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union are laid out and discussed in the context of increasingly popular ‘civilizational’ ideas, i.e. the claim that Russia is a unique civilization and not part of Europe understood as the West. The implications of this claim for the future of international law, its universality and regionalism are discussed. This study concludes the author’s five-year work on ERC-funded grant that enabled him to attend international law conferences in Russia and other CIS countries, as well as get access to relevant sources that often cannot be so easily accessed in the West
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    German philosophy of language : from Schlegel to Hegel and beyond (2013)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199687497 , 9780199604814 , 0199687498
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: vii, 350 Seiten , 24 cm
    Edition: First published in paperback
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Philosophy, German 19th century ; Language and languages Philosophy 19th century ; History
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    Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena (2011)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p.)
    Series Statement: Oxford Graduate Texts
    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics) ; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) ; Statistical physics ; Materials / States of matter ; Mathematical physics ; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) ; Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics) ; phase transitions, critical phenomena, states of matter, collective behaviour, universality, scaling, conformal invariance, renormalization group, statistical physics, statistical field theory
    Abstract: Phase transitions and critical phenomena have consistently been among the principal subjects of active studies in statistical physics. The simple act of transforming one state of matter or phase into another, for instance by changing the temperature, has always captivated the curious mind. This book provides an introductory account on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, a subject now recognized to be indispensable for students and researchers from many fields of physics and related disciplines. The first five chapters are very basic and quintessential, and cover standard topics such as mean-field theories, the renormalization group and scaling, universality, and statistical field theory methods. The remaining chapters develop more advanced concepts, including conformal field theory, the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, the effects of randomness, percolation, exactly solvable models, series expansions, duality transformations, and numerical techniques. Moreover, a comprehensive series of appendices expand and clarify several issues not developed in the main text. The important role played by symmetry and topology in understanding the competition between phases and the resulting emergent collective behaviour, giving rise to rigidity and soft elementary excitations, is stressed throughout the book. Serious attempts have been directed toward a self-contained modular approach so that the reader does not have to refer to other sources for supplementary information. Accordingly, most of the concepts and calculations are described in detail, sometimes with additional/auxiliary descriptions given in appendices and exercises. The latter are presented as the topics develop with solutions found at the end of the book, thus giving the text a self-learning character
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    A field guide to the mammals of Central America & Southeast Mexico (2009)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780195343229 , 0195343220 , 9780195343236 , 0195343239
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XVII, 1-206, 52, 207- 346 S. , Ill., Kt. , 24 cm
    Edition: 2. ed.
    DDC: 599.0972
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    Keywords: Mammals ; Central America ; Mammals ; Mexico ; Zoological illustration ; Mammals in art
    Note: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and indexes
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    Notebooks from New Guinea : field notes of a tropical biologist (2009)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199561650 , 0199561656
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XII, 256 S., zahlr. Ill.
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    Handbook of Muslims in India : empirical and policy perspectives (2009)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0198062052 , 9780198062059
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: xx, 308 S. , graph. Darst. , 25 cm
    DDC: 305.6970954
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    Keywords: Muslims Social conditions ; Muslims Economic conditions ; Reverse discrimination in employment ; Indien ; Islam ; Geschichte ; Muslim ; Soziale Stellung ; Beschäftigung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien ; Islam ; Geschichte ; Indien ; Muslim ; Soziale Stellung ; Beschäftigung
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    Genes, language, and culture history in the Southwest Pacific (2007)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780195300307
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XI, 248 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., kt.
    Series Statement: Human evolution series
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    The Oxford nursery rhyme book (2007)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780198691129
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XI, 223 S. , Ill.
    Edition: [Repr.]
    DDC: 398.8
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    Keywords: Nursery rhymes
    Note: Originally published: 1955
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    Changing times : work and leisure in postindustrial society (2007)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199261895
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: VIII, 304 S. , graph. Darst. , 24cm
    Edition: Repr.
    DDC: 306.36
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    MS 6530
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    QV 350
    Keywords: Nachindustrielle Gesellschaft ; Arbeitszeit ; Freizeit ; Zeiteinteilung ; Arbeitszeit ; Freizeit ; Zeiteinteilung
    Note: Publisher's no. CLONE. - Includes index. - Bibliography: p. 289-294. - Originally published: 2000
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    Essex pauper letters, 1731 - 1837 (2006)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0197263488
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XLI, 772 S. , Ill. , 24cm
    Edition: Paperb. ed.
    Series Statement: Records of social and economic history 30
    Series Statement: Records of social and economic history
    Series Statement: Records of social and economic history
    DDC: 305.569094209033
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    The Amazon : land without history (2006)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780195172041 , 9780195172058
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XXVIII, 96 S.
    Series Statement: Library of Latin America
    Uniform Title: A margem da história 〈engl.〉
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    Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption (2004)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199210749
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (477 p.)
    Keywords: Christianity ; Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals ; History of religion ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Assumption, Chalcedon, Dormition, Egypt, Gnostic Christianity, Marian Liturgical Traditions, Mariology, Palestine, Syria, Virgin Mary
    Abstract: The ancient Dormition and Assumption traditions, a remarkably diverse collection of narratives recounting the end of the Virgin Mary's life, first emerge into historical view from an uncertain past during the fifth and sixth centuries. Initially appearing in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, these legends spread rapidly throughout the Christian world, resulting in over 60 different narratives from before the tenth century preserved in nine ancient languages. This study presents a detailed analysis of the earliest traditions of Mary's death, including the evidence of the earliest Marian liturgical traditions and related archaeological evidence as well as the numerous narrative sources. Most of the early narratives belong to one of several distinctive literary families, whose members bear evidence of close textual relations. Many previous scholars have attempted to arrange the different narrative types in a developmental typology, according to which the story of Mary's death was transformed to reflect various developments in early Christian Mariology. Nevertheless, evidence to support these theories is wanting, and the present state of our knowledge suggests that the narrative diversity of the early Dormition traditions arose from several independent ‘origins’ rather than through ordered evolution from a single original type. Likewise, scholars have often asserted a connection between the origin of the Dormition traditions and resistance to the council of Chalcedon, but the traditions themselves make this an extremely unlikely proposal. While most of the traditions cannot be dated much before the fifth century, a few of the narratives were almost certainly in composed by the third century, if not even earlier. These narratives in particular bear evidence of contact with gnostic Christianity. Several of the most important narratives are translated in appendices, most appearing in English for the first time
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    Papua New Guinea : a history of our times (2003)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195516621
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XX, 236 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. publ.
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    Electron-Phonon Interactions in Low-Dimensional Structures (2003)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191709319
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (301 p.)
    Series Statement: Series on semiconductor science and technology 10
    Series Statement: Oxford science publications
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Electron-phonon interaction in low-dimensional structures
    DDC: 537.6226
    Keywords: Electron-phonon interactions ; Low-dimensional semiconductors ; Electronics & communications engineering ; Nuclear physics ; Materials science ; Electronics and communications engineering ; Interactions électron-phonon ; Semi-conducteurs de basse dimensionnalité ; Electron-phonon interactions ; Low-dimensional semiconductors ; low-dimensional structures, phonons, electron-phonon interaction, two-dimensional electron gases, quantum Hall states, quantum wires, quantum dots, superlattices, resonant tunnelling devices, excitons
    Abstract: The study of electrons and holes confined to two, one, and even zero dimensions has uncovered a rich variety of new physics and applications. This book describes the interaction between these confined carriers and the optic and acoustic phonons within and around the confined regions. Phonons provide the principal channel of energy transfer between the carriers and their surroundings and also the main restriction to their room temperature mobility. However, they also have many other roles; they contribute, for example, an essential feature to the operation of the quantum cascade laser. Since their momenta at relevant energies are well matched to those of electrons, they can also be used to probe electronic properties such as the confinement width of two-dimensional (2-D) electron gases and the dispersion curve of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect. The book describes both the physics of the electron-phonon interaction in the different confined systems and the experimental and theoretical techniques that have been used in its investigation. The experimental methods include optical and transport techniques as well as techniques in which phonons are used as the experimental probe. This book provides an up-to-date review of the physics and its significance in device performance
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    Callling back the spirit : music, dance, and cultural politics in lowland South Sulawesi (2002)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195112369
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XXIII, 272 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt., Notenbeisp. + 1 CD
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 251 - 263
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    Statistical Physics of Spin Glasses and Information Processing : An Introduction (2001)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Series Statement: International Series of Monographs on Physics
    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics) ; Neural networks & fuzzy systems ; Thermodynamics & heat ; Applied mathematics ; Optimization ; Image processing ; Statistical physics ; Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics) ; Thermodynamics and heat ; Neural networks and fuzzy systems ; spin glass, information theory, error-correcting codes, statistical mechanics, replica method, image restoration, neural networks
    Abstract: Spin glasses are magnetic materials with strong disorder. Statistical mechanics has been a powerful tool to theoretically analyse various unique properties of spin glasses. A number of new analytical techniques have been developed to establish a theory of spin glasses. Surprisingly, these techniques have offered new tools and viewpoints for the understanding of information processing problems, including neural networks, error-correcting codes, image restoration, and optimization problems. A vast, interdisciplinary field has consequently been developing between physics and information, or more specifically, between the statistical physics of spin glasses and several important aspects of information processing tasks. This book provides a broad overview of this new field. It also contains detailed descriptions of the theory of spin glasses
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    Russian folk-tales (2000)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0192745360
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 96 p. , col. ill.
    DDC: 398.20947
    Keywords: Folklore Russia ; Juvenile literature
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    CP Violation (1999)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9781383020755
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (536 p.)
    Series Statement: The International series of monographs on physics 103
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 539.7/25
    Keywords: CP violation (Nuclear physics) ; Particle & high-energy physics ; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) ; Nuclear physics ; Particle and high-energy physics ; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) ; Violation CP (Physique nucléaire) ; CP violation (Nuclear physics) ; Physics ; Science ; harge-conjugation, parity symmetries, particle physics, nuclear physics, elementary particles, kaons
    Abstract: The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with important implications for understanding the generation of matter in the universe. CP violation occurs during the decay of the elementary particles known as kaons and the process remains little understood. This book provides a self-contained introduction to CP violation. It outlines the underlying theory and related experiments, taking a systematic approach
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    Human development report 1998 (1998)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195124588 , 0195124596
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XII, 228 S. , graph. Darst.
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 111 - 117
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    The impact of values (1998)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0198294751
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 608p , ill , 24cm
    Series Statement: Beliefs in government 4
    DDC: 303.4094
    Keywords: Social values Europe ; Social change Europe
    Note: Originally published: 1995
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    The rise and fall of merry England : the ritual year, 1400-1700 (1996)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0192853279
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 384 S , 20 cm
    DDC: 390.00942
    Keywords: Rites and ceremonies England ; History ; England Social life and customs
    Note: Originally published: 1994
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    Beyond the Chinese face : insights from psychology (1992)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195851161
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: vii, 125 p
    Edition: 2nd. Impr
    DDC: 951
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    Bamboo and rattan : traditional uses and beliefs (1992)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195889983
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XI, 88 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: Images of Asia
    DDC: 584.93
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    Keywords: Useful plants ; South-East Asia ; Bambus ; Peddigrohr ; Nutzung ; Kunsthandwerk ; Brauch ; Südostasien
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    The economics of the family (1991)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0198287097
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: VII, 212 S , Ill
    DDC: 306.85
    Keywords: Families
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    Bel Canto : the teaching of the classical Italian song-schools, its decline and restoration (1989)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 75 S. , Ill.
    Edition: Repr.
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    Social psychology (1986)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0198521723
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XXII,646 S. , Ill.
    DDC: 301.15
    RVK:
    MQ 1400
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    Keywords: Social psychology
    Note: Originally published: New York : Prentice Hall, 1952. - Includes bibliography and index
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    Men and women: how different are they? (1986)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0192177311 , 0192860348
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 193 S , Ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Rev. and expanded ed. - Repr
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Sex differences
    Note: Previous ed. publ. as: A question of sex. London : Fontana, 1979
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    Indians in Malaysia and Singapore (1980)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195804279
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XV, 239 S.
    Edition: 2nd impression
    Series Statement: Oxford in Asia paperbacks
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    A short history of the Sudan (1978)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0199131589
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 154 S., einige Ill., 1 Karte
    Edition: Reprint
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