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In 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volumes of Clark's epic A History of Australia. In applying what he called "an overdue axe to a tall poppy", Ryan lambasted the History as "an imposition on Australian credulity" and declared its author a fraud, both as a historian and a person. This unprecedented public assault by a publisher on his best-selling author was a sensation at the time and remains lodged in the public memory. In History Wars, Doug Munro forensically examines the right and wrongs of Ryan's allegations, concluding that Clark was more sinned against than sinning and that Ryan repeatedly misrepresented the situation. More than just telling a story, Munro places the Ryan-Clark controversy within the context of Australia's History Wars. This book is an illuminating saga of that ongoing contest.' — James Curran, University of Sydney 'The Ryan-Clark controversy … speaks to the place of Manning Clark in Australia's national imagination. Had Ryan taken his axe to another historian, it's unlikely that we would be still talking about it 30 years later. But Clark was the author and keeper of Australia's national story, however imperfect his scholarship and however blinkered that story. Few, if any, historians in the Anglo-American world have occupied the space that Clark occupied by dint of will, force of personality, and felicity of pen.' — Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick

""I didn't even know that was a question I could ask." That remark from a student in an introductory philosophy course points to the primary body of knowledge philosophy produces: a detailed record of what we do not know. When we come to view a philosophical question as well-formed and worthwhile, it is a way of providing as specific a description as we can of something we do not know. The creation or discovery of such questions is like noting a landmark in a territory we're exploring. When we identify reasonable, if conflicting, answers to this question, we are noting routes to and away from that landmark. And since proposed answers to philosophical questions often contain implied answers to other philosophical questions, those routes connect different landmarks.

The result is a kind of map: a map of the unknown.

Yet when it comes to the unknown, and all the more so to its cartography, might it not make sense to take our orientation from Borges: What's in question here, with respect to philosophical questions, is an incipient, unlocalizable threshold—a terrain neither subjective, nor entirely objective, one neither of representation, nor finally of simple immediacy—there where the map perceptibly fails to diverge from the territory. Amid Inclemencies of weather and fringed, as per Borges, with ruin and singular figures—with Animals and Beggars—what's enclosed is an attempt to chart the contours of this curious immanence."

CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformationfocuses on a new type of CSR, which includes entrepreneurial innovation, sustainable goals and shared and integrated value in a systems-oriented approach for deep transformation. All topics are backed by case studies, academic literature and future research opportunities.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION. THE BENEFITS AND COSTS OF INTERDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER ONE. LATE MEDIEVAL MONETARY POLICIES: THE ECONOMICS OF BULLIONISM -- CHAPTER TWO. THE WAR OF THE GOLD 'NOBLES': ANGLO-BURGUNDIAN MINT COMPETITION, 1384-1415 -- CHAPTER THREE. THE QUEST FOR THE GOLDEN FLEECE: FROM THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT TO THE CALAIS BULLION LAWS, 1415-1429 -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE BURGUNDIAN REACTION: THE BAN ON ENGLISH CLOTH AND THE ANGLO-BURGUNDIAN WAR, 1430-1442 -- CHAPTER FIVE. THE RENEWAL OF THE STAPLE CONFLICT AND THE SECOND BURGUNDIAN CLOTH BAN, 1443-1460 -- CHAPTER SIX. THE THIRD BURGUNDIAN CLOTH BAN AND THE END OF THE BULLIONIST CONFLICT, 1460-1478 -- CONCLUSION. SOME CONCLUSIONS ON ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES: a Postscript and a Prelude -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

'Life Chances, Education and Social Movements' explains the sociology of life chances, the opportunities and experiences of different generations in Australia, the United States and the UK, and how the differential distribution of life-enhancing opportunities affects our well-being. It is now four decades since the publication of Ralf Dahrendorf's 'Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory' (1979), a surprisingly neglected work that has much to offer by way of explaining some of the social and political challenges of the present era. Dahrendorf's life-chances theory is an expanded and innovative analysis of Max Weber's original notion of 'Lebenschancen' and is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in Lyle Munro's book. Dahrendorf defines life chances as a function of options (provisions and entitlements) and ligatures (networks that provide a sense of solidarity and belonging). For Dahrendorf, education is arguably the most important option individuals can utilise for improving their well-being and for overcoming social and economic disadvantages. While there are countless sociological accounts of inequality, Munro's study takes a different and novel approach based on Dahrendorf's model according to which education and social movements and their networks function to enhance the life chances of individuals and social groups respectively. Munro emphasises the necessity of formal education and its transformative power in the lives of individuals; he stresses the importance of an individual's life chances of achieving satisfactory levels of literacy, numeracy and oracy during a decade or more of formal schooling.

DREAMS MADE SMALL -- Contents -- Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: New Promises, Old Problems -- Chapter 1 - Ethno-racial and Political Dreams of Education in Wamena -- Chapter 2 - 'Newcomers' and 'Masters of the Land' in North Sulawesi -- Chapter 3 - Stigma, Fear and Shame: Dani Encounters with Racial and Political Formations in North Sulawesi -- Chapter 4 - 'Discipline Is Important': Aspirations and Encounters on Campus -- Chapter 5 - Belong, Expertise and Conflict in Highlanders' Social World Abroad -- Chapter 6 - 'Study First': Sexuality, Pregnancy and Survival in the 'City of Free Sex' -- Chapter 7 - Doing Good Things in a Dani Modernity -- Conclusion: Koteka Questions -- Bibliography -- Index

"No longer imminent, the End is immanent." "Ends are ends," Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, "only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent." From its imminence to its immanence, not "negative," "no longer," but transformative, how is "the End" in turn "transfigured"? In what may ending be said then to consist? To "the end times" of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and "messianic time"—to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die—from Plato to Montaigne and beyond—one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who "thinks of death least of all things"—"for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away," as Benjamin writes—and so in whose pages "wisdom," transfigured, "is a meditation on life."

Contexts of departure -- Contexts of arrival and reception -- The lexicon of the migration experience -- Intangible transnationalisms : the allegory of dreams -- Cultural banks and beacons

This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments