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Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders' history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities. This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic

Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and bachelor girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic, and widely ignored as taboo by mainstream society, lesbians nevertheless recognised and accepted their same-sex desire and sought out women like themselves.Challenging the conventional picture of the post-war decades as years of austerity and conservative femininity, this book traces the emergence of a vibrant lesbian social scene in Britain, centred on the metropolitan nightclubs of post-war London, but also developing across the country, through lesbian magazines and social organisations.This fascinating book brings to life the rich history of post-war lesbian culture for the scholarly and general reader alike

THE COLD WAR. Flashpoint Trieste is the story of one year in one city as the Cold War begins. The Western Allies had captured the Adriatic port city before the Russians could reach it, but having survived the war, everybody is now desperate to make it through the liberation. Life is fast and violent, as former warring parties find common cause against the Soviet Union and the borders of the new Europe are being hammered out. Against this deadly backdrop of intelligence operations, escape and revenge, the British and Americans are locked into the opening salvoes of the Cold War on the beautiful shores of the Adriatic, opposing the Russians and Yugoslavs. This is the story of the first turbulent post-war year of lethal cat-and-mouse in south-eastern Europe, told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries thrown together on a strategically vital frontier between East and West

Introduction: Texans and nineteenth-century warfare -- Tribal warfare of colonial Tejas, 1822-1835 -- The war for Texian independence, 1835-1836 -- Conflicts of the early Texas Republic, 1836-1838 -- Conflicts of the middle Texas Republic, 1838-1840 -- Conflicts of the late Texas Republic, 1841-1845 -- The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 -- Conflicts of antebellum Texas, 1846-1861 -- The war for Confederate independence, 1861-1865 -- Epilogue -- Notes.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Rethinking Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness on a Planet in Crisis -- 1. The Social Contract -- 2. Political Economy -- Part II. Natural Being, Cultural Becoming: Nature in Humans -- 3. The Roots and Logic of Social Contract Theory -- 4. The Uses of Nature and Culture: Artifice and Accommodation -- 5. Re-enchanting the Social Contract -- Part III. Terms of an Ecological Contract: Humans in Nature -- 6. Agency, Rules, and Relationships in an Ecological Social Contract -- 7. Wealth: From Affluence to Plenitude -- 8. Property: From Commodity to Commons -- 9. Freedom: Relational Interdependence -- 10. Citizenship: From Electoral Consumer to Ecological Trustee -- Part IV. The Political Economy of Climate Change-Democracy, If We Can Keep It -- 11. The Ecological Contract and Climate Change -- 12. An Inquiry into the Democratic Prospect -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Author.

THE NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER ROLES, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIC PLAN -- THE NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER ROLES, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIC PLAN -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 BIOSURVEILLANCE: CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS FOR THE NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER* -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- Biosurveillance Integration -- NBIC's Roles, Responsibilities, and Governance -- Interagency Biosurveillance Community

Drawing from extensive archival research, Out of the Horrors of War demonstrates that disabled citizens in the World War II era organized a national movement for economic security and full citizenship, reshaping the U.S. welfare state and laying the foundation for the disability rights movement

"Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage"--

The first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in twentieth century Australia, this book explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who struggled to build lives and express their love for other women in a hostile society. Focusing on Sydney and country NSW, 1930 - 1978, it traces the development of lesbian culture, identities and material spaces from the interwar period to the first Mardi Gras

ACTION PLAN FOR COMBATING ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED, AND UNREGULATED FISHING AND SEAFOOD FRAUD -- ACTION PLAN FOR COMBATING ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED, AND UNREGULATED FISHING AND SEAFOOD FRAUD -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE ON COMBATING IUU FISHING AND SEAFOOD FRAUD: ACTION PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTING THE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS -- TASK FORCE MEMBERS -- ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION -- SCOPE AND NATURE OF IUU FISHING AND SEAFOOD FRAUD -- INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK -- U.S. FRAMEWORK -- CHALLENGES -- HOW WE GOT TO THIS POINT

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publication, Wister sent a copy, inscribed "To the hero from the author," to Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s. Johnson had migrated to Alberta by the 1890s, eventually settling in the Calgary area. Before his death in 1946, his daughter-in-law, Jean Johnson, transcribed Everett's stories of the old west and collected them into a manuscript, now on deposit in the Glenbow Archives. In The Cowboy Legend, John Jennings, building on Jean Johnson's work, details the evidence that Everett Johnson was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy, and in the process shows that Johnson led a fascinating life in his own right. His memories of both the Wyoming and Alberta cattle frontiers provide insight into ranch life on both sides of the border, and the compelling parallel biographies of Johnson and Wister feature vignettes of legendary period figures such as Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, and Butch Cassidy, not to mention the best man at Johnson's wedding, Henry Longabaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid. With an impressive range of scholarship and archival research, Jennings melds this realistic study of the cowboy frontier with an intriguing account of Wister's subsequent creation of the cowboy mystique, aided by two close friends and perhaps somewhat unexpected collaborators, Frederic Remington and Theodore Roosevelt. As compulsively readable as it is informative, this unique contribution to western history and literature will be welcomed by fans and scholars alike.