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Cover -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- A. The ANES Data for the analysis of the United States -- B. The EES Data for the Analysis of Europe -- III. EMPIRICAL STRATEGY -- IV. ANALYSIS OF ANES FOR THE UNITED STATES -- V. ANALYSIS FOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- VI. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FIGURES -- 1. Trust has declined sharply in the United States -- 2. The 90/10 ratio of hourly earnings over time in the U.S. -- 3. Change in the college premium in the united states -- 4. Residual inequality measures int eh united states -- 5. Residual inequality by state in the u.s.:1980-2010

List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- One Early Days -- Two National Service -- Three University -- Four First Steps in Whitehall -- Five Rhodesia and the End of the Central African Federation -- Six Death of Dag Hammarskjöld -- Seven A Brief Interlude in Ghana -- Eight Return to Whitehall and Rescuing Zambia -- Nine Starting in HM Treasury -- Ten Controlling Spending and Managing the Budget -- Eleven Information Technology Tsar in the Cabinet Office -- Twelve Getting Our Money Back from Europe -- Thirteen At the Centre -- Fourteen Collecting Tax and Protecting Our Borders -- Fifteen Financing Europe's Infrastructure -- Epilogue 2000- -- Sources -- Notes -- Image Section

1493 for young people -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: INTRODUCTION ABOUT THIS BOOK -- PART ONE: ONE WORLD -- CHAPTER 1: TWO MONUMENTS -- CHAPTER 2: REVERSALS OF FORTUNE -- PART TWO: ATLANTIC JOURNEYS -- CHAPTER 3: THE TOBACCO COAST -- CHAPTER 4: EVIL AIR -- PART THREE: PACIFIC JOURNEYS -- CHAPTER 5: SHIPLOADS OF SILVER -- CHAPTER 6: LOVESICK GRASS, FOREIGN TUBERS, AND JADE RICE -- PART FOUR: EUROPE IN THE WORLD -- CHAPTER 7: POTATO POWER, POTATO PESTS -- CHAPTER 8: WEALTH THAT GREW ON TREES -- PART FIVE: AFRICA IN THE WORLD -- CHAPTER 9: CRAZY SOUP -- CHAPTER 10: FOREST OF FUGITIVES -- Afterword currents of life -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Permissions.

In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era's defining political dynamics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. THE FRAGMENT AND THE WHOLE -- 1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology -- 2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory -- PART II. CIVILIZATION AND COMPARISON -- 3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe -- 4. The Afterlife of Images -- PART III. COMPARING EXCLUSION -- 5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif -- 6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere -- A Short Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book undertakes theoretical and empirical explorations of relational and co-constitutive encounters of gender and religion. Through varied perspectives, the chapters address three interrelated themes: religion as practice, the relationship between religious practice and religion as prescribed by formal religious institutions, and the feminization of religion in Europe

The beginnings of a southern solon -- Bilbo's lieutenant -- Cottonseed Jim -- Bilbo's nemesis -- The first full term of a deep south Solon -- Reconstructing Europe -- Dixiecrat -- Great southern Commie hunter -- Mississippi Bourbon politics in the age of Eisenhower -- Chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee -- Massive resistance, Bourbon style -- Big Jim and the Kennedys -- Big Jim and a larger-than-life Texan -- The best chairman -- Big Jim and the Nixon-Ford Supreme Court -- Of Camille and Richard Nixon -- President Pro Tem -- Eastland prepares to go home -- Home to the plantation -- Conclusion

The European Union's stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an 'imperial' power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks

Geopolitics, both in name, and in its application via geostrategy, is a controversial area of international relations. Although the practice of obtaining resources is as old as Mankind, the word came into its own with the imperial policies of the great powers in the nineteenth century, was used to justify world wars, went into decline, but was 'taken to America' and then re-exported to Europe after the last war by the likes of Henry Kissinger. Nowadays, the term is used unconsciously by politicians obsessed with power, often to justify war. This book tears apart the simplistic thinking of geop

Moving Places draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. The book centers on "moving places": places with locations that are not fixed but relative. Locations appearing to be reasonably stable, such as home and homeland, are in fact always subject to practices, imaginaries, and politics of movement. Bringing together original ethnographic contributions with a clear theoretical focus, this volume spans the fields of anthropology, human geography, migration, and border studies, and serves as teaching material in related programs.

What relevance do the perspectives of postcolonial studies have for political science? The question of the effects of the bygone colonial era throws new light on various disciplinary fields - including political theory, gender relations, international relations and political systems. The postcolonial analyses of political theories, institutions and processes that are gathered together in this volume, both empirical and theoretical, make visible the Eurocentric structures and colonial patterns of argumentation in political science, in political praxis in Germany and across Europe, and in postcolonial countries. Aram Ziai ist Heisenberg-Professor für Entwicklungspolitik und Postkoloniale Studien an der Universität Kassel.

In the course of European integration, national trade unions in Europe founded the umbrella organization of the European Trade Union Confederation in order to establish common political positions. Drawing on the case of supranational politics of services regulation, this study shows how cleavages within the EU's multi-level system of labor regulation make the development of such positions a difficult task. Whereas most research on cleavages at the supranational level focuses either on party groups or national origin, findings indicate a vertical line of conflict within the multi-level system of European trade unionism.

This book aims to bring together different contributions highlighting how the recent changes that modify universities' activities, such as the necessity to internationalize and crucially rely on third party funding, and the new entrepreneurial trajectories stemming from the recent economic-financial crisis, contribute to emphasize the existing differences between successful and lagging regions, as occurred at a country level (e.g. Southern Europe). This book should be of interest to economists, sociologists, political scientists as well as to policy makers and practitioners involved in the creation of value at a local level

The continuous expansion of the European Union has transformed its very own self-conception. While Eastern enlargement was widely celebrated as the 'reuniting of Europe', the sheer number of applicants, their low economic development and the need for new states to transform in accordance with EU values required considerable adjustments to the EU's self-image. By examining the European Council's contentious approval of the Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries in the 1970s and 1990s, this book investigates why the European Union enlarges. Based on new and hitherto not analysed.

This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London, Europe and the USA, Meditating Institutions highlights the importance of understanding, creating and maintaining these organizations that facilitate relationships between religious institutions and others within society. Discussing their structures and activities, the author asserts that good relationships between religious institutions and other groups in our society are essential for a cohesive and peaceful society.