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While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcend everyday life's sad but inevitable traumas to become notorious public events: de facto "public" tragedies. In these crises, suffering is made publicly visible and lamentable. Such tragedies are defined by public accusations, social blame, outpourings of grief and anger, spontaneous memorialization, and collective action. These, in turn, generate a comparable set of political reactions, including denial, denunciation, counterclaims, blame avoidance, and a competition to control memories of the event. Disasters and crises are no more or less common today than in the past, but public tragedies now seem ubiquitous. After Tragedy Strikes argues that they are now epochal--public tragedies have become the day's definitive social and political events. Thomas D. Beamish deftly explores this phenomenon by developing the historical context within which these events occur and the role that political elites, the media, and an emergent ideology of victimhood have played in cultivating their ascendence.

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Sugarcane and Brazil's Agricultural Modernization -- 1. Indigent Pariahs No More: Agriculture in Brazilian Development, 1918-1960 -- 2. Alternative Revolutions: Imposing a Developmental Model, 1960-1975 -- 3. Ordering Proálcool: The Arc of the National Alcohol Program, 1975-1990 -- Part II: Proálcool's Consequences -- 4. How Brazil's National Alcohol Program Made a Meal of Rural Workers -- 5. The Unnecessary Destruction of Our Rivers: Water Pollution and the Environmental Politics of Ethanol Production -- 6. Food and Fuel: Agriculture's Hunger -- Epilogue: Agriculture's Renewed Energy? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program -- created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime -- aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline consumption. As Brazil's capacity grew and as international oil shocks continued, the regime's planners doubled down on Proálcool. Drawing financing from international lenders and curiosity from other oil-dependent countries, for a time it was the world's largest oil-substitution and renewable-energy program"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Conceptual Footings of Risk and Governance -- Chapter 2. Risk Communication, Local Civics, and Discourse -- Chapter 3. Davis, California -- Chapter 4. Roxbury, Massachusetts -- Chapter 5. Galveston, Texas -- Conclusion. The Civic Politics of Risk -- Appendix. Research Strategy -- Notes -- Index

This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia's annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called 'frozen conflicts' and 'hybrid warfare, ' the use of courts and tribunals to address armed aggression, and the implications of recent events for the security guarantees connected to nuclear nonproliferation. Continuing from the first volume, which contains Parts One and Two on Chechnya and the Baltic States, this book is comprised of Part Three--Ukraine and other Successor States: Territorial Integrity and its Challengers in the Post-Soviet Space; Part Four--Intervention and International Law; Part Five--Legal Proceedings and Unlawful Claims; and Part Six--Non-Proliferation after Budapest.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Overview -- Authors -- Chapter 1 Constitution of the United States and Constitutional Law -- Chapter 2 Federal Court System -- Chapter 3 The Court Process and Procedures -- Chapter 4 State Courts -- Chapter 5 Criminal Law -- Chapter 6 Civil Liability -- Chapter 7 Case Law -- Chapter 8 Administrative Law -- Chapter 9 Occupational Safety and Health Act -- Chapter 10 OSHA Standards and Enforcement -- Chapter 11 Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) -- Chapter 12 OSHA Defenses -- Chapter 13 Evidence and OSHA's Variances -- Chapter 14 Workers' Compensation -- Chapter 15 Americans with Disabilities Act -- Appendix A: Occupational Safety And Health Act Of 1970 -- Appendix B: Selected State Laws -- Index.

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several important questions: When did globalization begin and what insights into contemporary globalization may be gained from older forms? How does globalization differ in different places, and how can different instances of globalization be compared? Who is affected by globalization, how are they affected, and how do these effects vary, if at all, over time and space? As world-systems analysis and studies of globalization require interdisciplinary expertise, the contributing authors draw on many fields, including anthropology, economics, geography, philosophy, political science, sociology, and world history. The book's overall goal is to facilitate the dialogue between approaches that, at times, seem to "talk at cross-purposes," and to extend an invitation to scholars from many different areas to explore globalization.

Now we have just cause to destroy them by all means possible -- No army can subsist in this country without rangers -- An unfair way of carrying on a war -- Tarleton's quarter -- The Kentucky reinforcement, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled -- Swamp Fox rangers -- I ain't killed but thirty-two men since this war commenced -- We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux -- All I want to hear are booms from the Burma jungle -- Bamboo telegraph -- To kill them, you'll have to kill me first -- Conclusion