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Tramps, lazy, cheaters. Expressions like these were widely used by several masters in view of the multiple forms of transgressions committed by slaves. This type of (dis) qualification gained an even stronger contour in properties controlled by religious orders, which tried to impose moralizing measures on the enslaved population. In this book, the reader will come across a peculiar form of management, highly centralized and commanded by one of the most important religious corporations in Brazil: the Order of Saint Benedict. The Institutional Paternalism built by this institution throughout the 18th and 19th centuries was able to stimulate, among the enslaved, the yearning for freedom and autonomy, 'prizes' granted only to those who fit the Benedictines' moral expectation, based on obedience, discipline and punishment. The "incorrigible" should be sold while the "meek" would be rewarded. The monks then became large slaveholders, recognized nationally as great managers. However behind this success, they had to learn to deal with the stubborn resistance of those who refused to peacefully surrender their bodies and minds, resulting in negotiations and concessions that caused disturbances, moments of instability and internal disputes.

Part 1: Remembering -- Memory -- Beyond recognition -- Fishing for difference -- Part II: Recognizing -- Resistance and motivated forgetting -- Collectivity -- Writing about painful topics -- Part II: Revising -- Truth -- Revision -- Feedback -- Part IV: Representing -- Show. Don't tell -- Modes of representation -- The ethics of working through.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Palestinian Christian Elites from the Late Ottoman Era to the British Mandate -- Chapter 2 Reinventing the Millet System: British Imperial Policy and the Making of Communal Politics -- Chapter 3 The Arab Orthodox Movement -- Chapter 4 Appropriating Sectarianism: The Brief Emergence of Pan- Christian Communalism, 1929–1936 -- Chapter 5 Palestinian Arab Episcopalians under Mandate -- Epilogue: The Consequences of Sectarianism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Laura Robson examines the interactions between international and regional political economies of oil and water, and the increasingly explicit colonial and postcolonial politics of ethno-national identity centered around the question of Palestine, arguing that the Middle East's emergence as a 'zone of violence' only developed over the past century.

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.
Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about 'Mesopotamian science', as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world's first empires.

Although John Stuart Mill is generally and properly known as a philosopher and political economist, his writings actually cover a wide variety of subjects. In this book Professor Robson brings together the most important strands of Mill's thought in an attempt to show that it contains a basic unity of approach, at the heart of which is his ethical system. Mill's ethical position depends on his understanding of the relation between practice and theory, and reflects his own experience, especially his "metal crisis," his appreciation of poetry, and his friendship with Harriet Taylor (who later became his wife). The study brings out the importance of the three phases in Mill's life: his early period of adherence to the ideas of James Mill and Bentham; his period of assimilation of the influences of Coleridge, Carlyle, Comte, and de Toequeville; and finally his period of mature fame, when he published his System of Logic, Principles of Political Government, Utilitarianism, and other works still central in the British liberal tradition and still used as university texts. Mill's eminence makes his thought important to anyone interested in recent political, social, economic, and philosophical trends; and his life, as his Autobiography demonstrates, has its own fascination for the general reader as well as for the student of the nineteenth century

"Cover page" -- "Halftitle page" -- "Title page" -- "Copyright page" -- "Title page" -- "Copyright page" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "1 The Enduring City: a Perspective on Decline" -- "2 Urban Policy: Art not Science?" -- "3 Glasgow: Policy for the Post-industrial City" -- "4 High Technology Industry, Regional Development and Defence Manufacturing: a Case Study in the UK Sunbelt" -- "5 Advanced Telecommunications and Regional Economic Development" -- "6 Housing Reinvestment and Neighbourhood Revitalisation: Economic Perspectives" -- "7 The Social Consequences of Housing Design" -- "8 Land Prices and Land Availability in Inner City Redevelopment" -- "9 The Development Plan: Vision or Vacuum?" -- "10 Counter-urbanisation and the Rural Periphery: Some Evidence from North Devon" -- "11 The Policy Framework" -- "Contributors

Across the Middle East in the post–World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities. States of Separation tells how the interwar Middle East became a site for internationally sanctioned experiments in ethnic separation enacted through violent strategies of population transfer and ethnic partition. During Britain's and France's interwar occupation of Iraq, Palestine, and Syria, the British and French mandate governments and the League of Nations undertook a series of varied but linked campaigns of ethnic removal and separation targeting the Armenian, Assyrian, and Jewish communities within these countries. Such schemes served simultaneously as a practical method of controlling colonial subjects and as a rationale for imposing a neo-imperial international governance, with long-standing consequences for the region. Placing the histories of Iraq, Palestine, and Syria within a global context of emerging state systems intent on creating new forms of international authority, in States of Separation Laura Robson sheds new light on the emergence of ethnic separatism in the modern Middle East

"In the interwar Eastern Mediterranean, European colonial modes of establishing land claims and controlling populations converged with a recent Ottoman past featuring desperate and violent efforts at nationalization and an increasingly empowered Zionist settler colonialism. States of Separation explores how this confluence produced a series of internationally supported plans to move "minority" communities in, around, and out of the newly constituted states of Iraq, Syria, and Palestine under the aegis of the League of Nations - a massive demographic experiment that carried lasting political and social consequences for the twentieth century Middle East and the international order."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Family Trees -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part I -- 1 Radicals in Suburbia -- 2 Learning Curves -- 3 Finding Their Own Way -- 4 'Another Word for Suicide' -- 5 'Fellowship is Heaven' -- Part II -- 6 Answering the Call -- 7 Not Much 'Home' About It -- 8 Behind Closed Doors -- 9 Girls in Trades -- 10 Medical Men -- Part III -- 11 A Place to Begin Again -- 12 'Ignoble Motives' -- 13 The Politics of Knitting -- 14 Landfall -- 15 After Lives -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

The fin de siècle was a time of social and cultural upheaval, with many women living more adventurous and defiant lives than their mothers would ever have dreamed possible. This is the true story of an Englishwoman who staged her own death and re-invented herself in the far colony of New Zealand, in the early 1900s. Grace Oakeshott's life is revealed through the reform movements of the period, including education for girls, ethical socialism, Victorian evangelicalism, and the changing nature of marriage. As a social activist, Grace rubbed shoulders with many notable figures, including William Morris, H.G. Wells, and Sydney and Beatrice Webb. Jocelyn Robson uses a rich collection of historical sources, including contemporary fiction and social commentary, archive documents and interviews with surviving family members. Through the lives of Grace and those close to her we discover what drove people to act in extraordinary (as well as ordinary) ways.