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Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce -- Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land -- The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers -- Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao -- Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce -- Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko -- An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear -- Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien -- Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse

In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. ; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ; A tale of two emirs : colonialism and bureaucratizing emirates, 1900-1948 -- The political time : ethnicity and violence, 1948-1970 -- Oil and the "army arrangement" : corruption and the petro-state, 1970-1999 -- Moral economies of corruption -- Nigerian corruption and the limits of the state. ; In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In 1997, the National Council on Disability recommended that separate Title I vocational rehabilitation (VR) grants to state agencies serving only consumers who are visually impaired should be eliminated. This study found that such separate VR agencies serve consumers who are more socially and economically disadvantaged, have more severe visual impairments, have more secondary disabilities, and incur greater service costs than do general agencies. In addition, various outcome criteria indicate the overall superiority of separate agencies.