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Prologue a bridge too far: Brunel and Great Eastern -- Improving naval architecture -- Steam, iron and steel -- The quest for accuracy -- The demand for standardization -- The need for professionalization -- Laboratory life -- The ghost in the machine -- Epilogue: From metacenter to metasystem.

This two-volume collection of essays provides a comprehensive examination of the idea of social control in the history of Europe. The uniqueness of these volumes lies in two main areas. First, the contributors compare methods of social control on many levels, from police to shaming, church to guilds. Second, they look at these formal and informal institutions as two-way processes. Unlike many studies of social control in the past, the scholars here examine how individuals and groups that are being controlled necessarily participate in and shape the manner in which they are regulated. Hardly passive victims of discipline and control, these folks instead claimed agency in that process, accepting and resisting--and thus molding the controls under which they functioned. In both volumes, an introduction outlines the origins and the continuing value of the concept of social control. The introductions are followed by two substantive sections. The essays in part one of volume I focus on the interplay of ecclesiastical institutions and the emerging states; those in part two of volume I look more explicitly at discipline from a bottom-up perspective. The essays in part one of volume 2 explore the various means by which communities--generally working-class communities--in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Europe were subjected to forms of discipline in the workplace, by the church, and by philanthropic housing organizations. It notes also how the communities themselves generated their own forms of internal control. Part two of volume 2 focuses on various policing institutions, exploring in particular the question of how liberal and totalitarian regimes differed in their styles of control, repression, and surveillance.

The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non-European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by exploring overarching, general terms such as conversion and syncretism and by showing the variety of strategies and processes that actually take place, these studies lead to a more nuanced understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions in general - from acceptance to resistance - thus enriching the vocabulary of religious interaction. The contributors tackle these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives - history, anthropology, religious studies - and present a broad geographical spread of cases from China, Vietnam, Australia, India, South and West Africa, North and Central America, and the Caribbean.

The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and provided a convenient form of institutional intervention to manage a host of social problems.Irish Insanity identifies the long-term trends in institutional residency through the development of a detailed empirical data set, based on an analysis of original copies of the reports of Inspector of Asylums.

Some thoughts by way of a preface / Henri Alleg -- Contributors -- Introduction / Patricia M. E. Lorcin -- Part 1. Identity reconsidered. Migrations, legal pluralism, and identities: Algerian "expatriates" in colonial Tunisia / Julia Clancy-Smith -- "I went pale with pleasure": the body, sexuality, and national identity among French travelers to Algiers in the nineteenth century / Victoria Thompson -- Shaping the colonial body: sport and society in Algeria, 1870-1962 / Philip Dine -- "Unknown and unloved": the politics of French ignorance in Algeria, 1860-1930 /Seth Graebner -- Assimilation, cultural identity, and permissible deviance in francophone Algerian writing of the interwar years / Peter Dunwoodie -- The politics of solidarity: radical French and Algerian journalists and the 1954 Orléansville earthquake / Yaël Simpson Fletcher -- Part 2. Memory or forgetting. "They swore upon the tombs never to make peace with us": Algerian Jews and French colonialism, 1845-1848 / Joshua S. Schreier -- Entering history: the memory of police violence in Paris, October 1961 / Joshua Cole -- Memory in history, nation building, and identity: teaching about the Algerian war in France / Jo McCormack -- Pieds-noirs, bêtes noires: anti-"European of Algeria" racism and the close of the French empire / Todd Shepard -- The Harkis: history and memory / William B. Cohen -- Language and politics: a new revisionism / Habiba Deming -- Part 3. Nostalgia. Tattoos or earrings: two models of historical writing in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers / Mireille Rosello -- Generating migrant memories / Alec G. Hargreaves -- Derrida's nostalgeria / Lynne Huffer -- Confronting the past: the memory work of second-generation Algerians in France / Richard l. Derderian -- The return of the repressed: war, trauma, memory in Algeria and beyond / David Prochaska