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Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the history that Muslims, Christians, and Jews once shared against the shifting backdrop of state policies. Focusing on the Ottoman Middle East before World War I, Sharkey offers a vivid and lively analysis of everyday social contacts, dress, music, food, bathing, and more, as they brought people together or pushed them apart. Historically, Islamic traditions of statecraft and law, which the Ottoman Empire maintained and adapted, treated Christians and Jews as protected subordinates to Muslims while prescribing limits to social mixing. Sharkey shows how, amid the pivotal changes of the modern era, efforts to simultaneously preserve and dismantle these hierarchies heightened tensions along religious lines and set the stage for the twentieth-century Middle East

10. Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together. Conference Introduction11. Discovering the Relational Character of the Common Good; 12. Education, Subsidiarity, and Solidarity: Past, Present, and Future; Part Three. About the Authors: Personal and Professional Reflections on Doing Sociology to Serve the Church; 13. Margaret S. Archer; 14. Pierpaolo Donati; 15. Patrick Fagan; 16. Anne Hendershott; 17. G. Alexander Ross; 18. Stephen R. Sharkey; 19. D. Paul Sullins; 20. Joseph A. Varacalli; Index.

China and the ASEAN region have risen rapidly to a position of immense economic significance in the global economy. Academics, policy makers and businesses are all keen to understand more about taxation in China and ASEAN, and this work seeks to address this key issue by providing a comprehensive overview of the many often mentioned but little understood challenges of doing business in the region.

The American missionary encounter in Egypt -- The American mission, Coptic reform, and the making of an Egyptian evangelical community, 1854-82 -- The colonial moment of the American mission, 1882-1918 -- Egyptian nationalism, religious liberty, and the rethinking of the American mission, 1918-45 -- The mission of the American University in Cairo -- Turning to the life of the church: American mission in an age of Egyptian decolonization and Arab-Israeli politics, 1945-67 -- Conclusion: conversions and transformations

Living with colonialism -- Being "Black", being "Sudanese" : colonial education, privilege, and national identity -- Education, acculturation, and nationalist networks -- The mechanics of colonial rule -- Life and the regime : the terms of cooperation -- The nation after the colony -- The colony and the nation : lessons from the Sudan

The theory of natural monopoly has been substantially transformed in previous years. Ina clear and straightforward style, Dr. Sharkey gives an integrated presentation of the modern approach to this subject. Although the book is mainly conceptual in nature, the final chapter on natural monopoly in the telecommunications industry shows the practical applications of the theory. After an historical survey of natural monopoly, there follows a chapter stating and explaining the main results as well as giving a preliminary overview of the rest of the book, where concepts such as the subadditivity of costs, optimal pricing, sustainability, and destructive competition are presented. The essence of the subject is presented in a manner accessible to the general reader, though the book also provides a synthesis of the subject suitable for advanced students