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"This collection of essays, written by authors of different nationalities, explores the experiences of the countries that were not numbered among the Second World War's major belligerents, including colonies, "lesser" powers, and neutral nation states. National Perspectives on the Global Second World War is an essential contribution to the study of the Second World War and will be of particular interest to scholars of imperial and colonial history, military history, and global history"--

The United Kingdom is weakening. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long nineteenth century and beyond, drawing conclusions which shed new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.

"Few things shocked the world more in the terrible month of June 1940 than seeing Marshal Philippe Pétain-a highly decorated hero of the first world war-shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, he announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. "This is my policy," he intoned. "My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History." Five years later, in July 1945, Pétain was put on trial for his conduct during the war. The prosecution accused him of treason, insisting he was the ringleader of a conservative conspiracy to destroy France's democratic government and collaborate with Nazi Germany. The defense claimed he had sacrificed his honor to save France. Former resisters called for the death penalty, but many identified with this conservative military hero who had promised peace with dignity. The award-winning author of a landmark biography of Charles de Gaulle, Julian Jackson uses Pétain's three-week trial as a lens through which to examine one of history's great moral dilemmas. Was the policy of collaboration "four years to erase from our history," as the prosecution claimed? Or was it, as conservative politicians insist to this day, a sacrifice that placed pragmatism above moral purity? As head of the Vichy regime, Pétain became the lightning-rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been an icon of the nationalist right ever since. In France on Trial, Jackson blends courtroom drama, political intrigue, and brilliant narrative history"--

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Rise of Science -- 1. Foundations -- 2. The Royal Society and the British Association -- Part II. Empire and War -- 3. Admiralty and Navy -- 4. War Office, Army, and Ordnance -- Part III. Food -- 5. Agriculture -- 6. Fisheries -- Part IV. Infrastructure and Transport -- 7. Transport Infrastructure and Engineering -- 8. Ships, Lighthouses, and the Board of Trade -- Part V. Industry -- 9. Factories, Nuisances, and the Home Office -- 10. Coal, Gas, and Electricity -- Part VI. Social Conditions and Public Health -- 11. Water, Sanitation, and River Pollution -- 12. Infection and Disease -- Part VII. Revenue and Standards -- 13. Chemical Analysis, Excise, Customs, and Inland Revenue -- 14. Weights, Measures, and Coinage -- Conclusion. Constraints on Influence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson explores the political and personal resonances of friendship, and the tensions between them-in the thought of philosophers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Arendt, in the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and in the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends and imaginary friends, lifelong friendships and friendships with animals; and ruminates on the complications of friendship between ethnographers and their interlocutors in the field. Blending memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth"--

During the June 1967 Middle East war, Israeli forces seized the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. This conflict was followed, in October 1973, by a joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Israel, which threatened to drag the United States and the Soviet Union into a confrontation even though the superpowers had seemingly embraced the idea of détente. This conflict contributed significantly to the ensuing deterioration of US-Soviet relations. The standard explanation for why détente failed is that the Soviet Union, driven mainly by its Communist ideology, pursued a highly aggressive foreign policy during the 1970s. In the Middle East specifically, the conventional wisdom is that the Soviets played a destabilizing role by encouraging the Arabs in their conflict with Israel in an effort to undermine the US position in the region for Cold War gain. Jackson challenges standard accounts of this period, demonstrating that the United States sought to exploit the Soviet Union in the Middle East, despite repeated entreaties from USSR leaders that the superpowers cooperate to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now available to scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and the Soviet Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East peace during the 1970s.

A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America's paradoxical role.

"Love them or hate them, executive remuneration consultants are key players in remuneration committees' pay determination processes. This book concerns the professional standards of executive remuneration consultants (and their 'in-house' counterparts; for example, Human Resources Director and Head of Reward) in providing remuneration committee advisory services. The author is a 25-year 'veteran' executive remuneration consultant, having worked around the world in this capacity (particularly in the financial services sector). This book is based on a qualitative empirical doctoral research exercise, involving 53 participants in the UK executive pay scene (including regulators, institutional shareholder bodies, proxy advisors, remuneration committees' chairs/members, executive remuneration consultants and in-house executive reward specialists). The objective was to formulate conclusions that could be used to the benefit of UK practice and contribute to the relevant academic scholarship on executive remuneration consultants. The research covered 18 aspects, ranging from an examination of the independence of such consultants to whether there might be a specialised accreditation/qualification and/or licence to practise regime covering their services. It provides novel insights into this previously under-researched area of corporate governance/financial regulation. This book will be of interest to those involved in the UK executive remuneration scene, whether government, regulators or any of the other parties mentioned already (plus academics in universities and business schools). It is hoped too that overseas remuneration regimes that have respects in common with the UK's will find this book useful"--

"This collection of essays, written by authors of different nationalities, explores the experiences of the countries that were not numbered among the Second World War's major belligerents, including colonies, "lesser" powers, and neutral nation states. National Perspectives on the Global Second World War is an essential contribution to the study of the Second World War and will be of particular interest to scholars of imperial and colonial history, military history, and global history"--

Worlds Within and Worlds Without -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I -- As Through a Glass Darkly -- Notes from Underground -- It's Other People Who Are My Old Age -- Empedocles in Auckland -- Myself Must I Remake -- Blue Notes -- To and Fro Within the World and Up and Down Upon It -- Heart of Darkness -- Transitions -- II -- In Sierra Leone -- Dankawali -- Firawa and the Ethnography of Events -- Return to Cambridge -- III -- From Anxiety to Method -- A Storyteller's Story -- Barawa and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky -- I Am Another -- The Philosopher Who Would Not Be King -- Wilderness -- Uppsala -- IV -- Indiana -- Cape York -- An Etiology of Storms -- After Indiana -- V -- Return to Sierra Leone -- Migrant Imaginaries -- Existential Mobility and Multiple Selves -- The Limitrophe -- On the Work and Writing of Ethnography -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.