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Introduction: Conceptualizing slavery in global Africa -- Issues of enslavement -- Ethnicity, culture and religion in global Africa -- Experiences of the enslaved in Africa -- Regulation and patterns in collaboration in the slave trade -- Enforced migration -- Pawnship, slavery and freedom -- Concubinage, polygyny, and the status of women -- Children of the slave trade -- Enslaved Muslims from the central Sudan -- Life stories of enslavement -- Transatlantic transformations in identities -- Freedom narratives of trans-Atlantic slavery -- The odyssey of Catherine Mulgrave Zimmermann -- Identity and diaspora in global Africa -- Situating identities: methodology through the ethnic lens -- Scarification and the loss of history in the African diaspora -- Enslaved Africans and their expectations of slave life in the Americas -- Conclusion: Reflections on the study of slavery.

La 4e de couverture indique : "Ce livre est un ouvrage de référence dans l'historiographie internationale de l'esclavage. De façon argumentée, il démontre l'importance de l'esclavage dans l'histoire de l'Afrique et met en exergue un phénomène historique central qui a eu ses propres déclinaisons régionales et sa propre périodisation. S'appuyant sur de nombreuses archives, il montre que l'esclavage s'est transformé dans le temps sous l'effet d'influences externes à l'Afrique -principalement par la demande de la traite européenne et la traite islamique, puis par l'abolition européenne- et sous l'effet de dynamiques internes, à travers l'usage d'esclaves comme mode de production. Briser le silence sur les implications de l'esclavage dans l'histoire de l'Afrique : tel est l'objectif de ce livre. Paul Lovejoy est Professeur Distingué d'Histoire de l'Université de York, et ancien directeur de la Chaire de recherche canadienne sur l'histoire de la diaspora africaine. Il a été le fondateur et le directeur de l'Institut Harriet Tubman pour la recherche en Afrique et ses diasporas à l'Université de York. Auteur de plus de 30 ouvrages et 100 articles sur l'histoire de l'Afrique et de la diaspora africaine, dont Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (2016) et Slavery, Memory, Citizenship (2016), avec Vanessa Oliveira, il est le rédacteur en chef de la Revue de l'Institut Tubman sur la diaspora africaine" (éditeur : Africa World Press) (éditeur)

"FM" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Foreword" -- "1 - Reminiscences" -- "2 - Robert Nisbet: Conservative Sociologist" -- "3 - Defining Right and Left" -- "4 - The Problem of Historical Connections" -- "5 - Liberal Democracy as a God Term" -- "6 - Origins of the State" -- "7 - Reexamining the Conservative Legacy" -- "8 - Whig History Revisited" -- "9 - The European Union Elections, 2014" -- "10 - The English Constitution Reconsidered" -- "11 - Redefining Classes" -- "12 - Did Mussolini Have a Pope?" -- "13 - Heidegger and Strauss: A Comparative Study" -- "14 - Explaining Trump" -- "Afterword" -- "Notes

"Herron has done scholars a great service in underscoring the importance of the constitutional convention in nineteenth-century political thought. [Provides] a new perspective on the creation of southern identity."-American Historical Review "Herron has written a superb book that offers an important contribution to the fields of American political development and southern political history."-Journal of Southern History.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Appendix -- Preface -- 1. A Framework for Understanding Organizational Ethics -- 2. Personal Moral Codes and the Hunt-Vitell Theory of Ethics: Why Do People's Ethical Judgments Differ? -- 3. Why Do Good People Do Bad Things? Challenges to Business Ethics and Corporate Leadership -- 4. Corporate Governance and Ethical Leadership -- 5. Ethical Leadership and Creating Value for Stakeholders -- 6. Mindfulness and Integrity: The Ongoing Challenge of Leadership Development

In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions

Annotation This book proposes a new institution - the 'People's Forum' - to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost. The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democracy are described and then compared with those of previous institutional designs that were also intended to improve the quality of democratic government. In that comparison, the People's Forum turns out to be not only the most effective design for developing and implementing competent policy, but also the easiest to establish and run. The latter advantage is crucial as there has been no success in getting previous designs into actual trial practice. It is hoped that this book may inspire a small group to raise the money to set up and run the People's Forum. Then, as citizens see it operating and engage with it, they may come to regard the new Forum as essential in helping them to deliberate long-running issues and to get their resulting initiatives implemented by government. Smith also discusses how the People's Forum must be managed and how groups with different political ideologies may react to it. An Afterword sets out the method by which this design was produced, to help those who might want to devise an institution themselves. The new concepts in environmental science that the book develops to test its diagnosis are applied in an Appendix to outline crucial options for the future of Tasmania. Similar options apply to many countries, states and provinces. As indicated above, those choices are currently beyond the capacity of democratic governments to address and in some cases, even to recognize. But the People's Forum may lift them out of that morass

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Social Security: Is It an Endangered Species? -- The Baby Boomers -- Attitudes Toward Social Security -- Social Security and the Economy -- Some Concluding Comments -- 2 Getting from Here to There: A Capsule History of Social Security -- The Nature of Social Insurance -- The Social Security Act of 1935 -- Social Security After 1935 -- Medicare and Medicaid -- The 1983 "Big Fix" -- Here Come the Boomers -- The Boomers and the Culture of Aging

Introduction : Civil-military relations in the Middle East -- Plan of the book -- Algeria -- History -- The military establishment -- Civil-military relations -- Regional & international influence -- Conclusion -- Egypt -- History -- The military establishment -- Civil-military relations -- Regional & international influence -- Conclusion -- Pakistan -- History -- The military establishment -- Civil-military relations -- Regional & international influence -- Conclusion -- Turkey -- History -- The military establishment -- Civil-military relations -- Regional & international influence -- Conclusion -- Comparing military interventions & withdrawals -- Implications for policy : militaries as democratizers?

This book proposes a new institution — the 'People's Forum' — to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost. The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democracy are described and then compared with those of previous institutional designs that were also intended to improve the quality of democratic government. In that comparison, the People's Forum turns out to be not only the most effective design for developing and implementing competent policy, but also the easiest to establish and run. The latter advantage is crucial as there has been no success in getting previous designs into actual trial practice. It is hoped that this book may inspire a small group to raise the money to set up and run the People's Forum. Then, as citizens see it operating and engage with it, they may come to regard the new Forum as essential in helping them to deliberate long-running issues and to get their resulting initiatives implemented by government. Smith also discusses how the People's Forum must be managed and how groups with different political ideologies may react to it. An Afterword sets out the method by which this design was produced, to help those who might want to devise an institution themselves. The new concepts in environmental science that the book develops to test its diagnosis are applied in an Appendix to outline crucial options for the future of Tasmania. Similar options apply to many countries, states and provinces. As indicated above, those choices are currently beyond the capacity of democratic governments to address and in some cases, even to recognize. But the People's Forum may lift them out of that morass.

Preface / David Richardson -- Sierra Leone in the eighteenth and nineteenth century / Paul E. Lovejoy and Suzanne Schwarz -- Liverpool ascendant: British merchants and the slave trade at Sierra Leone, 1701-1808 / Kenneth Morgan -- "Keep hur bottom well paid with stuff": a letter of instruction for a slaving venture to the Sierra Leone coast in 1760 / Bruce Mouser -- Robert Bostock of Liverpool and the British slave trade on the Upper Guinea Coast, 1769-93 / Denise Jones -- The dirty business of panyarring and palaver: slave trading on the Upper Guinea Coast in the eighteenth century / Sean Kelley -- Forgotten colony in Africa: the British province of Senegambia (1765-83) / Paul E. Lovejoy -- "African" settlers in the founding of Freetown / James Sidbury -- "Dedicated to the sound politicians of all the trading nations of Europe": Sierra Leone and the European colonial imagination / Kate Hodgson -- From company administration to crown control: experimentation and adaptation in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century / Suzanne Schwarz -- Freetown and "freedom"? colonialism and slavery in Sierra Leone, 1790s to 1861 / Philip Misevich -- La Amistad's "interpreter" reinterpreted: James "Kaweli" Covey's distressed Atlantic childhood and the production of knowledge about nineteenth-century Sierra Leone / Benjamin Lawrance -- From Sierra Leone to Guiana and Martinique: indentured labor in the nineteenth century / Céline Flory -- The Islamic factor in the development of Sierra Leone / David Skinner

Laura Clay was the daughter of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay and an important and controversial figure in the woman's rights movement. Paul E. Fuller traces this remarkable woman's career, from her early successes in Kentucky to her emergence as the most prominent southern suffragist. He devotes particular attention to the problems encountered by the suffragists in organizing the South, to the strategy of their alliance with the Woman's Christian Temperence Union, and the to peculiar dilemma of southern suffragists and race. Clay's many important contributions to the struggle for women's