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"Based on a close reading of available archival materials; memoirs; newspapers; the secondary source literature in history, political science, and the law; presidential oral history projects,; and published primary sources, The White House Vice Presidency is a well-researched, thoughtful, and nuanced treatment of a crucial turning point in the history of American governance."-Political Science Quarterly "Graceful, impeccably researched, and accessible."--The Historian "In general, Goldstein's analysis is remarkably insightful, exhaustively researched, and substantially persuasive. . . . In fact, it is not going too far to say that if you have one book about the vice presidency on your bookshelf, this should be it."--Perspectives on Politics "The book is exceptionally well thought out, researched, and written. It is a true tour de force analysis of a once largely neglected institution, a fine addition to the literature on the presidency and absolutely essential to the study of the vice presidency."--Congress & the Presidency "This analysis shows a constitutional office that has evolved into a modern day position of considerable power. In the process, the person serving as vice president has become more experienced and prepared to take over should something happen to the nation's chief executive."--Choice.

This book, the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series, examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US, from the origins of the movement in the eighteenth century through to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief "Introduction" and/or "Background" to the subject, valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined, followed by a substantial and authoritative section of "Analysis" focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct "Assessment" of the subject, a generous selection of "Documents" and a detailed bibliography. Stanley Harrold provides an accessible introduction to the subject, synthesizing the enormous amount of literature on the topic. American Abolitionists explores "the roles of slaves and free blacks in the movement, the importance of empathy among antislavery whites for the suffering slaves, and the impact of abolitionism upon the sectional struggle between the North and the South". Within a basic chronological framework the author also considers more general themes such as black abolitionists, feminism, and anti-slavery violence. For readers interested in American history.

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends. The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite. As ever, Peter Burke presents a breath-taking range of scholarship in prose of exemplary clarity and accessibility. This highly anticipated second volume will be essential reading across the humanities and social sciences.

This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a ... Show synopsis This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere. Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. Contributions trace the use of violence by governments in the history of Islam, shed light on legal views of violence, and discuss artistic and religious responses. Authors lay out a spectrum of attitudes rather than trying to define an Islamic doctrine of violence. Bringing together some of the most substantive and innovative scholarship on this important topic to date, this volume contributes to the growing interest, both scholarly and general, in the question of Muslim attitudes toward violence

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- SECTION I: The Fewish Historical Experience in the Civilizational Framework -- CHAPTER ONE: The Format of Jewish History: Some Reflections on Weber's Ancient Judaism -- CHAPTER TWO: The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History -- CHAPTER THREE: The Jewish Experience in the Modern Era -- SECTION II: The Zionist Movement and Israeli Society -- CHAPTER FOUR: Did Zionism Bring the Jews back to History? -- CHAPTER FIVE: Change and Continuity in Israeli Society -- CHAPTER SIX: The Mahapakh of 1977 and the Transformation of Israeli Society -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Israeli Identity: Problems in the Development of the Collective Identity of an Ideological Society -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the Court -- CHAPTER NINE: Two New Democracies, the U.S. and Israel: Some Comparative Remarks -- SECTION III: The Fewish Experience in the Contemporary Era -- CHAPTER TEN: The American Jewish Experience and American Pluralism: A Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Identity -- CHAPTER TWELVE: The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era: Some Concluding Observations -- Selected Bibliograhy -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Following his great trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the Soviet Union - Stalin (1991), Lenin (1994) and Trotsky (1996) - Dmitri Volkogonov delves deeper into the Soviet archives to produce new character evaluations and political assessments of the seven leaders who ruled the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. A former general in the Soviet Army's propaganda department, Director of the Institute for Military History, and Defence Adviser to President Yeltsin from 1991 to his death from cancer in December 1995, Dmitri Volkogonov had unrivalled access to Soviet military archives, Communist Party documents and secret presidential files. Basing his new book on these inside sources, he has continued his pioneering work of revealing the truth behind the activities of the world's most secretive political leaders. He throws new light on: Lenin's paranoia about foreigners in Russia; his creation of a privileged system for top Party members; Stalin's repression of the nationalities and his singular conduct of foreign policy; the origins and conduct of the Korean War; Khrushchev's relationship with the odious secret service chief Beria; Brezhnev's vanity and stupidity; the Afghan War; Poland and Solidarity; Soviet bureaucracy; Gorbachev's Leninism and role in history.

On the anniversary of the 95th anniversary, the legendary professor of legal history and a prominent orientalist lawyer from Moscow University, the founder of her own scientific school with numerous students and followers, Nina A. Krasheninnikova again stands before our eyes with her unique and bright scientific world of universal legal history and non-Western legal cultures. This article describes the beginning of her long scientific journey, first in the editorial environment of Moscow institutions, in parallel with the preparation of a dissertation research in English law. Then the stage of formation within the framework of scientific and pedagogical activity at the university of the "eastern direction" of her scientific research and close study of the colonial legal culture, preparation of a doctoral dissertation on traditional Hindu and post-colonial Indian Law is shown. Throughout her life, the professor has been engaged in consistent educational and methodological updating of the course on the General history of law, gaining new associates and direct students, participating, together with her graduate students and colleagues, in large research and educational projects, including an anthology of world legal thought, collections of translated documents and etc.

AbstractThis study examines how history of care, on one hand, and social support, on the other hand, predict satisfaction with life after leaving care by focusing on a sample of young adults raised in foster care in Norway. When aged between 19 and 29, youths answered questionnaires that mapped their past history of care, living conditions, social relationships and life satisfaction. Results show that the 70 respondents had experienced a relatively stable history of care (mean number of placements ± SD: 1.7 ± 0.9) and reported life satisfaction scores similar to those measured in the general population (23.3 ± 7.0, mean ± SD). Placement stability (P = 0.001) and a high satisfaction with foster home (P = 0.030) were related to a higher life satisfaction. Moreover, having good social support, that is, persons that you can count on in case of major personal problems (P < 0.001) and a good contact with the foster family (P = 0.005), was associated with a higher satisfaction with life. Several health‐related variables and the working status were also linked to life satisfaction. Our work highlights the need to focus on promoting placement stability and a good relationship to the foster family in order to enhance well‐being after leaving care.

With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe's languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe's dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a "proper" nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.

Heat intolerance is the inability to withstand heat stress and this may occur due to exertional heat stroke (EHS). However, it is unknown if heat intolerance is associated with immune and hormonal disturbances. This study investigates haematological, biochemical and hormonal biomarkers related to heat intolerance and EHS in military and civilian volunteers. A quasi-experimental pre-and post-test design was used, with participants drawn from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the general populace. Blood samples were collected and analysed for biomarkers. Inferential statistics compared the biomarkers between the groups. Changes in alanine amino transaminase (p = 0.034), creatine kinase (0.044), cortisol (p = 0.041) and creatinine (p < ; 0.001) differed between the heat-intolerant and heat-tolerant groups. Participants with a history of EHS showed significant changes in creatinine (p = 0.022) and urea (p = 0.0031) compared to those without EHS history. Predictors of heat intolerance were increasing post-HTT creatinine and cortisol (OR = 1.177, p = 0.011 and OR = 1.015, p = 0.003 respectively). Conclusively, EHS history is associated with changes in creatinine and urea concentrations, while the predictors of heat intolerance are creatinine and cortisol. However, further exploration of other biomarkers, such as genetic polymorphism, is needed.

Heat intolerance is the inability to withstand heat stress and this may occur due to exertional heat stroke (EHS). However, it is unknown if heat intolerance is associated with immune and hormonal disturbances. This study investigates haematological, biochemical and hormonal biomarkers related to heat intolerance and EHS in military and civilian volunteers. A quasi-experimental pre-and post-test design was used, with participants drawn from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the general populace. Blood samples were collected and analysed for biomarkers. Inferential statistics compared the biomarkers between the groups. Changes in alanine amino transaminase (p = 0.034), creatine kinase (0.044), cortisol (p = 0.041) and creatinine (p < 0.001) differed between the heat-intolerant and heat-tolerant groups. Participants with a history of EHS showed significant changes in creatinine (p = 0.022) and urea (p = 0.0031) compared to those without EHS history. Predictors of heat intolerance were increasing post-HTT creatinine and cortisol (OR = 1.177, p = 0.011 and OR = 1.015, p = 0.003 respectively). Conclusively, EHS history is associated with changes in creatinine and urea concentrations, while the predictors of heat intolerance are creatinine and cortisol. However, further exploration of other biomarkers, such as genetic polymorphism, is needed.

China's emergence as a great power has been accompanied by the official rhetoric of the China Dream of Great Rejuvenation (weida fuxing伟大复兴). Although there are conflicting views among academics and political elites about the exact content of the China Dream, one of its features is the nostalgia for China's past and its five-thousand-year-old civilization. Xi Jinping's current rhetoric of a China Dream of Great Rejuvenation uses a reinvented history as an asset for the future, linking China's natural progress as a global power with a selective re-reading of its millennial history. While much existing literature already discusses China's Great Rejuvenation, this article looks more specifically at the role of historical memory and deconstructs the key interconnected components that support Xi's rhetoric, namely, the chosen trauma, glory, and amnesia. The conclusion offers some general remarks about the effect of this rhetoric on China's domestic and foreign policy and some of the risks that accompany it. This article contributes to the debates on the influence of memory in International Relations (IR), showing how constructed memories of history can significantly impact both national identity and foreign policy.

Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama's ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya's past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial "tribal" violence, the story of the United States president's nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical portrayals of Africa. At the same time, Kenyan state officials have aimed to weave Obama into the contested narrative of Kenyan nationhood. Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a "son of the soil" of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya's past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular but inaccurate texts about Kenya's history and Obama's place in it as well as focused, thematic analyses of contemporary debates about ethnic politics, "tribal" identities, postcolonial governance, and U.S. African relations.

This paper examines the use of textile and garment manufacturing throughout modern economic history, and economic factors shared by Industrial-Revolution Britain, Meiji-Restoration Japan, and modern developing countries: Mexico, Turkey, and Bangladesh. The hypothesis is that a modern developing country in the twenty-first century can go through Rostow's take-off with a garment industry as its primary growth sector, just like Britain and Japan did with textiles. The common economic factors, or "common threads," show that no matter the country three economic elements are always present when garment or textile production is used as a successful developmental strategy: strong institutional development through government intervention, the introduction of new technology, and an attempt to balance foreign demand with the expansion of domestic demand. Ultimately, this paper concludes that confounding variables (i.e. diversified manufacturing and exports) influence garment manufacturing's level of importance within some modern developing economies' take-offs. But a small post-colonial economy with a history of specialization can have a take-off with garment manufacturing as its primary growth sector in the twenty-first century. Another conclusion is the general problem with modern development literature's chosen ignorance of the history of now-developed countries' development.

In the article key biographical landmarks and scientific views of Andriy S. Brahinets (1903–1963),Ukrainian historian of philosophy, D. Sc., Professor, the first Dean of the Faculty of History in LvivUniversity, are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to his greatest achievement in the history ofphilosophy – contribution to the study of the works by Ivan Franko, as well as to the investigation ofthe historical and philosophical process' regularities, the characteristics of the contemporaryphilosophical thought, reflection on Ukrainian philosophical and political thought of the 19 th – early20 th century in general and reflection on philosophy in Lviv University in particular.Key words: Andriy S. Brahinets, the Faculty of History, Lviv University, Ukrainian philosophy,philosophical views of Ivan Franko. ; У статті проаналізовано основні віхи життєпису і наукові погляди українського історикафілософії, доктора філософських наук, професора, першого декана історичного факультетуЛьвівського університету Андрія Степановича Брагінця (1903–1963). Особливу увагу приділенойого найбільшій заслузі в історії філософії – внеску у вивчення творчості Івана Франка, а такождослідженню закономірностей історико-філософського процесу та осмисленню українськоїфілософської і суспільно-політичної думки ХІХ – початку ХХ ст. взагалі й філософії у Львівськомууніверситеті зокрема.Ключові слова: Андрій Степанович Брагінець, історичний факультет, Львівський університет,українська філософія, філософські погляди Івана Франка.