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"This book is about older women's strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing. Older women represent the great majority of older people. The book describes instances of age and gender discrimination and examples of social inclusion and protagonism of older women in Europe. It solicits a change in perspective, focussing on the necessary societal changes to make space to older people and older women in particular. How is society going to address age and gender discrimination in social and institutional settings? How the work settings should change to effectively make space to older workers and in particular older women? How the pension system should change? How the public health systems could provide effective care to older people and be sustainable? This edited collection focuses on older women's rights rather than their needs adopting a Human Rights Based Approach. The preservation of older women's dignity, autonomy and security is its central topic, that is, ensuring that their rights are recognized. This collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of Human Rights activists, professionals, policy makers and social scientists and older women themselves"--

RUSSIA HAS YET TO CONSOLIDATE ITS DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM, ALTHOUGH SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED IN CREATING FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF A DEMOCRATIC POLITY. IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE, SUBSTANTIALLY MORE PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE AND THE PROSPECTS FOR POLITICAL STABILIZATION AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN THE SHORT TERM ARE FAVORABLE. YET, ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ARE STILL INSECURELY LINKED TO A POPULAR BASE, AND IT IS NOT CLEAR TO WHAT EXTENT THE POLITICAL VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH DEMOCRACY HAVE BEEN INTERNALIZED.

French Colonial Collections at the Getty Research Institute / Frances Terpak -- The History and Future of ACHAC / Pascal Blanchard and Dominic Thomas -- Decolonizing the ACHAC Collection / Patricia Morton -- Fragments of Empire : Ephemera, Representation, and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory / Charles Forsdick -- Intersecting Legacies of bandes dessinées and Belgian Colonial Instruction : Les aventures de Mbumbulu in Nos images (1948-55) / Peter J. Bloom -- French Colonialism : The Rules of the Game / Dominic Thomas -- The Myth of the Sahara / Michelle H. Craig -- Representations of the tirailleurs sénégalais and World War I / David Murphy -- On Posters and Postures : Colonial Enlistment Posters and the Nationalist Imagination in France / Lauren Taylor -- La France et ses colonies : Mapping, Representing, and Visualizing Empire / Steven Nelson.

Historians have long ranked the Roman takeover of Ptolemaic Egypt both as a major and far‐reaching event in contemporary geopolitical power relations and as a pivotal moment in Egyptian and Roman history and culture. At the same time, however, as a Roman province, they also considered the former Ptolemaic kingdom to have fundamentally differed from all other Roman provinces. The degree to which the Roman takeover of the Nile Valley entailed continuity or change is evidently an important factor when attempting to define the specificity of Egypt as a Roman province. On the whole, it appears that "the changes introduced by the Romans were at least as important as the continuities". Egypt was the origin of many remarkable products and developments that swept through the Roman Empire, including the dissemination of popular deities like Isis and Sarapis and of romantic notions of a bucolic lifestyle set in Nilotic landscapes. ; Research for this contribution was carried out in the context of the author's fellowship no. UMO2016/23/P/HS3/04141 of the National Science Centre, Poland. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkłodowskaCurie grant agreement No 665778.

This article seeks to capture the most important recent changes at the level of political control of the government in the parliamentary democracies of Western Europe. Whereas much of the international comparative politics literature has tended to focus on patterns of parliamentary control only, this study sets out to distinguish five key forms of political control of the government, namely electoral control, parliamentary control, judicial control, control by the head of state, & control by powerful private sector actors. Other changes at the level of the four conventional forms of political control apart, the real winners of the recent structural transformations would appear to have been individual private sector actors, such as globally operating firms & private mass media in particular. Rather than merely making the task of governing more complex & demanding, these developments threaten to undermine the very principle of responsible government -- a problem for which there would seem to be no easy institutional remedy. Adapted from the source document.

"Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans-women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper" discharges, or criminal records-have been left out of official histories, excised from national consciousness, and denied state recognition and military benefits. Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divides, cultural stigmas, and discriminatory policies that affected veterans during and after their military service. Together, the chapters in this collection recast veterans beyond the archetype, inspiring an innovative model for veterans studies that encourages an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of veterans history"--