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"In this book, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase - anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new overall introduction and literature survey drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship"--

The nation-state of Prussia, colonialism, and the age of industrialization -- The First World War and the hygiene movement -- The development of storage- and plant protection -- Definition of pesticides -- Control of wood-destroying insects, textile pests, and harmful insects on natural history objects -- Protective and human toxic effect of historical pesticides and their suitability test -- Typological recording of pesticides -- Spatial conditions and personnel requirements for the preservation of the collections at the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century -- Explorers, collectors, and adventurers at the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century -- Active ingredients and agents for the protection of persons and goods on expeditions -- Developments and experiments on pest control at the Königliches/Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin -- Knowledge transfer and product application from industry, commerce, and trade at the Königliches/Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin -- Orders and consequences for the use of pesticides at the Königliches/Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century -- Knowledge transfer, exchange, and dissemination of knowledge at the national and international level -- Implementation of pest control measures in a national and international context during the period under investigation.

"The Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Sophia Blea Nuñez, Magdalena Candioti, Patricia Faria e Souza, James Fujitani, João José dos Reis, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Robson Pedroso Costa, Fernanda Pinheiro, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt"--

"This book illuminates the processes by which industrial manufacturing organizations in Japan conducted collective actions and how, and under what conditions, industries interacted with each other and responded to government interference, particularly during the Great Depression and World War II."

"This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, the volume describes how 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and US Navy operations in the western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and its new anti-access and area-denial capabilities threaten the aircraft carrier-based maritime dominance of the U.S. Navy. Military and political trends in the western Pacific and beyond suggest that the world is encountering a pivotal moment when existing weapons, tactics, and operations might be rendered obsolete by techno-strategic change. This volume considers these developments from three perspectives by describing: (1) the techno-strategic setting; (2) the institutional constraints that impede the ability of the U.S. Navy to respond to these changes; and (3) a new approach to naval force planning and strategy to cope with these developments. The volume culminates in a discussion of sophisticated strategies and operational concepts that position the U.S. Navy and its maritime allies and partners to prevail in today's techno-strategic churn. This book will be of much interest to students of naval policy, strategic studies, Asia-Pacific politics, and International Relations"--

Antidemokratische Machtdurchsetzung und Beschwörungen einer "Vollständigkeit" kennzeichnen den Faschismus von seinen historischen Erscheinungsformen bis zu seinen heutigen Ausprägungen. Rechte Mobilisierungen und Regimes dieser Art werden primär als autoritär angesehen. Drehli Robnik schlägt im Gegensatz dazu vor, sie als nihilistische Machtentfesselung in Dauerbewegung zu beschreiben. Diese Kennzeichnung des Faschismus, besonders des Nationalsozialismus, legen Siegfried Kracauers Schriften aus den 1930er und 1940er Jahren nahe. Dessen Analysen einer disruptiven und flexiblen Politik, die nicht zuletzt der Abschaffung von orientierenden Ideen und geteilter Wirklichkeit gilt, geben Aufschluss über die Gegenwart – und zeigen Kracauer im Kontext historischer wie aktueller Begriffsbildung als einen zutiefst politischen Denker.

"This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa's post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped by competing value frameworks. The first part of the book invites planners, city-makers, and ordinary urban citizens, to consider a new self-understanding, reclaiming their agency in the city-making process. Through the metaphor of "becoming like children", planning practice is deconstructed and re-imagined. A praxis-based methodology is presented, cultivating four distinct moments of entering, reading, imagining and co-constructing the city. After deconstructing urban spaces and discourses, the second part of the book explores a concrete spirituality and ethic of urban space. It argues for a shift from planning as technocracy, to planning as immersed, participatory artistry: opening up to the "genius" of space, responsive to urban cries, and joining to construct new, soul-full spaces. Local communities and interconnected movements become embodiments of urban alternatives - through resistance and reconstruction; building on local assets; animating local reclamations; and weaving nets of hope that will span the entire city. Providing a concrete methodology for city-making that is rooted in a community-based urban praxis, this book will be of interest to urban planning researchers, professional planners and designers and also grass-root community developers or activists"--