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chapter Introduction: Starting Points -- chapter 1 The Raj: British Empire in India and South Asia, 1757–1947 -- chapter 2 The Scramble for Africa: European Colonialism and African Resistance, 1806–1945 -- chapter 3 Hidden Empire: Dependency, Domination, and Neo-Colonialism in the Americas, 1783–1933 -- chapter 4 Empires of Freedom: The Modern Imperial and Social State in Asia, 1731–1991.

World War II shaped Uganda's postwar politics through local understandings of global war.1 Individually and collectively Ugandans saw the war as an opportunity rather than simply a crisis. During the War, the acquired wealth and demonstrated loyalty to a stressed British empire, inverting paternalistic imperial relations and investing loyalty and money in ways they expected would be reciprocated with political and economic rewards. For the 77,000 Ugandan enlisted soldiers and for the civilians who grew coffee and cotton, contributed money and organizational skills, and followed the war news, the war was not a desperate struggle for survival. Ideological aspects of the war, such as Fascism and Nazism, did not produce any widespread revulsion: Even at the height of the war, boys at the country's top school blithely organized a Nazi club.2 Instead, soldiers, fundraisers, and cotton growers sought personal opportunities as they demonstrated their loyalty and competence.

The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a "special relationship" between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a new history of recent global politics, author James Cronin explores the dramatic reconfiguring of western foreign policy that was necessitated by the interlinked crises of the 1970s and the resulting global shift toward open markets, a movement that was eagerly embraced and encouraged by the U.S./U.K. partnership. Cronin's bold revisionist argument questions long-perceived views of post–World War II America and its position in the world, especially after Vietnam. The author details the challenges the economic transition of the 1970s and 1980s engendered as the United States and Great Britain together actively pursued their shared ideal of an international assemblage of market-based democratic states. Cronin also addresses the crises that would sorely test the system in subsequent decades, from human rights violations and genocide in the Balkans and Africa to 9/11 and militant Islamism in the Middle East to the "Great Recession" of 2008

Address at the University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, Feb. 3, 1975.

In this book James Rosenau explores the enormous changes which are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, new technologies, and evolving global norms are clashing with equally powerful localizing dynamics. The resulting encounters between diverse interests and actors are rendering the boundaries between domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous and creating a political space, designated as the 'Frontier,' wherein the quest for control in world politics is joined. The author contends that it is along the Frontier, and not in the international arena, that issues are contested and the course of events configured. The book examines a number of contexts and agents through which local, national, and international affairs are woven together. Rosenau's recurring theme is the challenge of achieving governance along the turbulent domestic-foreign Frontier

1. Working Numbers – Introductory Remarks: Markus J. Prutsch -- 2. Historical Genesis of the Relation between Science, Numbers, and Politics – Section I Introduction: Kelly L. Grotke, Stephen Hastings-King -- 3. "Lies, damned lies and state-istics": counting "real inhabitants" in the census (Belgium, 1846-1947): Kaat Louckx -- 4. "What Use is it in the Long Run to Resist Something that is Bound to Happen Anyway?" the Statistical Mind Settling in 19th C. Politics: Ida H. Stamhuis -- 5. Science, numbers, and colonialism in the African Great Lakes, 1820-1910: Axel Utz -- 6. The emergence of a global economic order - From scientific internationalism to infrastructural globalism: Anat Leibler -- 7. Politics and Science Today. Section II Introduction: Kathrine von Graevenitz, Georg von Graevenitz -- 8. Politics and Policies of Statistics Independence: Jean-Guy Prévost -- 9. Measuring, Modeling, Controlling the Climate? Numerical Expertise in U.S. Climate Engineering Politics: Julia Schubert -- 10. What Counts in the Politics of Climate Change? Science, Scepticism and Emblematic Numbers: Amanda Machin, Alexander Ruser -- 11. Kings and Indicators - Options for Governing without Numbers: Wolfgang Drechsler -- 12. European and International Education Policies: Lars Lehmann, Markus J. Prutsch -- 13. Higher Purpose and Economic Reason. An essay concerning the role of numbers as guide values of European education policy: Jörg J. Dötsch -- 14. Standardizing the Context and Contextualizing the Standard - Translating PISA into PISA-D: Radhika Gorur, Estrid Sørensen, Bryan Maddox -- 15. "Let's Talk Numbers" - Parliamentary Research in Educational Affairs in Light of Political Demand for Quantification – The Knesset in Comparative Perspective: Yuval Vurgan -- 16. Science, Numbers and Politics – Concluding Comments: Lars Lehmann, Markus J. Prutsch