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"Walsh, Caldwell and Jureidini offer an expansive linguistic perspective on the evaluative language prevalent in the world of professional sports. This book presents a close linguistic analysis of evaluative language in sport. Drawing on appraisal theory and data from three distinct sporting contexts - songs and chants in football stadiums, television commentary, and coach discourse - it examines the critical role played by affectual, judgemental and appreciative language. In the spirit of sociolinguistics, this book also considers the history and culture of the respective sporting contexts. Connections are made between the evaluative language expressed by supporters, commentators and coaches and the invocation of power and solidarity. Evaluative Language in Sports gives insight into some of the key language practices that contribute to professional sports culture: a communal and combative world of winners and losers, 'us and 'them'. An innovative and valuable book that will appeal to students, researchers and sports enthusiasts interested in sports communication and language, sociolinguistics and media studies"--

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Early Human Migration -- 2.1. Climate Change -- 2.2. The Food Search -- 2.3. Expansion of the Human Population -- Chapter 3 -- Migration Out of Africa -- Chapter 4 -- The Peopling of the Americas -- Chapter 5 -- The Peopling of Australia -- Chapter 6 -- Ancient Civilizations -- 6.1. The Silk Road -- 6.2. Mesopotamia -- 6.2.1. Early Settlement -- 6.2.2. Agricultural Revolution -- 6.2.3. Cultural Advancements -- 6.2.4. Trade and Interaction -- 6.2.5. Conflict and Empires -- 6.2.6. Influence on Later Migration -- 6.2.7. Internal Migration -- 6.2.8. External Migration -- 6.3. Egypt -- 6.3.1. Ancient Migrations -- 6.3.2. Conquest and Empire -- 6.3.3. African Migration -- 6.3.4. Religious Migrations -- 6.3.5. Trade and Commerce -- 6.3.6. Colonial and Modern Migrations -- 6.3.7. Modern Global Migration -- 6.3.8. Internal Migration -- 6.3.9. External Migration -- 6.4. Greece -- 6.4.1. Silk Road -- 6.5. Roman Empire -- 6.6. Population Movements to Urban Centers -- 6.6.1. Roman Expansion and Citizenship -- 6.6.1.1. Roman Citizenship and Legal Framework -- 6.6.1.2. Urbanization -- 6.6.1.3. Cultural Exchange and Assimilation -- 6.6.1.4. Diverse Urban Population -- 6.7. Medieval Migrations -- 6.7.1. Norse Expansion -- 6.7.1.1. Norse Expansion into Europe -- 6.8. Arab Expansion -- 6.8.1. Arab Expansion across North Africa and Spain -- 6.9. Mongol Conquests -- 6.9.1. Mongol Conquests and Cultural Exchange -- 6.9.2. Mongol Conquests-Examples -- 6.9.3. Cultural Exchange - The Norse, Arabs, and Mongols -- 6.10. African and Trans-Saharan Slave Trade -- 6.10.1. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade -- 6.10.2. Key Examples and Figures - Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade -- 6.10.3. Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.

"Offering a bold new vision of the age of revolutions, this global history highlights the intersection of war, empire and forced migration in a period usually identified with a quest for liberty and political participation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"--

"Ruanni Tupas presents rich insights into the inequalities of Englishes and the ways in which these inequalities shape and impact English and multilingual speakers from around the world. This edited volume gives a critical take on world Englishes, while showcasing for readers the various inequalities in treatment towards the people who speak English differently, as well as the injustice in that treatment. Research methodologies are explored, providing a glimpse into how data are collected, and lending a more thorough look into each study and its conclusions. Chapters address the geopolitics of knowledge production in the teaching, learning and use of English, with strong representations from the peripheries of sociolinguistic studies of English. English is constructed as a language which enables socioeconomic mobility which is one factor that increases the importance of research into this issue, and this book enables researchers to widen their methods of research and apply them to their area of study. A valuable text for academic researchers, as well as postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students to better understand the linguistic, sociopolitical and epistemic inequality in English communication. It also provides readers with alternative perspectives on lingua-cultural pluralism to unpack social inequalities and hierarchies that exist today"--

"This book examines the underlying conditions that give rise to states that are effective, efficient, and bureaucratically inclusive with their developmental policies. In spite of humanity's significant advancements in science, technology and institutionalisation of universal human rights conventions in the last seven decades, many countries are still failing to achieve successful development results. As a result, enormous levels of inequality, poverty and malnutrition prevail. This book focuses on the role of the state in the political economy of development, tracing the socio-economic origins of effective state institutions from a comparative historical-institutional perspective. Drawing on the case studies of South Korea, Brazil, India, Spain, France and England, the study looks at how good state institutions form, and why these are central to the socioeconomic advancement of their populations. The book contends that effective developmental states are those in which state actors are able to effectively diminish and co-opt the power of the country's landed elites during the early years of state building. Effectively the power balance between these two classes determines the developmental trajectory of the state. Considering agrarian reform as the foremost indispensable policy tool to open conditions for positive changes in effective taxation, education, healthcare and strategic sustainable industrial policies, this analysis offers a significant contribution to the literature on the sociology of institutions and the political economy of development. As well as being a key reading for advanced students and researchers in these areas, this book draws real-life policy lessons for practitioners and policy makers in the developing world"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Displacing Kinship: The Trauma of Assimilation and the Affects of Empire -- 1. Attractive Families: Assimilation and the Sociological Containment of Race -- 2. Ambivalent Attachments: Orienting toward Family in Vietnamerica and The Best We Could Do -- 3. "Like a Fucked Family": Intergenerational and Queer Vietnamese Traumas -- 4. Embodying Memory and Remembering Race -- Epilogue: Shattered Relationalities, Fetishizing Trauma, and the Task of Representation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book is required reading to grasp the dynamics of economic sanctions. Drawing on recent Western sanctions imposed on the Russian economy, it provides a persuasive corrective to the dominant perspective that sanctions undermine target countries. -Immanuel Ness, Chairperson and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, NY. This is an outstanding contribution to the literature. It provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the role of sanctions in the contemporary era. -Alan W. Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA. This important study shows how Russia has survived being the most sanctioned country in the world by reorienting its trade towards the East and creating import-substitution policies and investment in local industries. -Jeremy Kuzmarov, author of The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. A timely contribution to the growing sanctions literature that urges policy adjustment to new geopolitical realities. -Dr. Ksenia Kirkham, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. This book analyses the goals of Western sanctions imposed on Russia from 2014 to 2023. It explores the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy and its political course, as well as the repercussions of the sanctions to the senders and third parties, including spillover effects on neighboring countries and boomerang effects on the senders. While sanctions can be considered relatively effective in terms of economic consequences, the Russian economy is far from being crushed. Importantly, sanctions proved to be ineffective as an instrument of foreign policy. They have failed to alter Moscow's resolve to continue its military operation and are unlikely to change it in the near future. Dr. Angela Borozna is Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Lada V. Kochtcheeva is Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the North Carolina State University. .

This two-volume textbook teaches about the uniqueness and the difficulty of the European unification project. It describes, as clearly as possible, what Robert Schuman declared in 1950, that "... Europe will not be made all at once…". Navigating the nexus of four academic fields - political science, institutional analysis, economics, and history - the book serves as a reference work for accurate, exhaustive, and well-researched information on the creation and functioning of the European Union. Volume 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the European Union's institutions and policies, such as agricultural and fisheries policies, economic and monetary policy, environmental policy, foreign affairs and defence policy, social policy, competition policy, regional policy, as well as immigration and asylum policy. Supported by numerous photographs, diagrams, maps, and sources, the book will serve as an essential textbook for undergraduate and graduate students studying the subject of European integration, as well as a useful resource for a broader audience interested in the European integration process.

U.S. Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America in Recent Historiographical Debates / Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez, Benedetta Calandra, Lorenzo Delgaso Gómez-Escalonilla -- Modernizing Latin America! Cuban Revolution, Alliance for Progress and Development Decade / Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla -- U.S. Public Diplomacy Responses to Anti-Americanism in 1960s Latin America / Alan McPherson -- U.S. Public Diplomacy in Latin America : The Regional Quest for Reputational Security, 1917-1968 / Nicholas J. Cull -- The Cost of Freedom : The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America / Patrick Iber -- Development by the Book : U.S. Book Diplomacy and the Latin American Cultural Cold War / Andrés Sánchez-Padilla -- Exploring the Liberal Transformation : The Rockefeller Foundation and the Green Revolution in Chile / Fernando Quesada, Benedetta Calandra -- Sports in the Anti-Cuban Diplomacy of the U.S. : The Example of the Regional Games of San Juan, 1966 / André Gounot -- Political Partnering : The Dance of United States Diplomacy in Latin America / Victoria Phillips, Conor Lane -- Dancing across the Sugar Curtain : Choreographing Critiques of the United States in Cuba / Elizabeth Schwall -- "America Leads Materially. Why Not Culturally?" U.S. Fine Arts in Brazil, 1948-1978 / Símele Soares Rodrigues -- Perceptions and Misperceptions in Interamerican Relations / Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez.

Clear, comprehensive, contextual and critical coverage of the foundational ideas and principles that underpin public law in Australia. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Australian Public Law develops a concept of public law through analysis of the mechanisms of empowerment and constraint and places public law in its historical, social, political, economic and environmental context. The text draws on examples and case studies throughout to demonstrate how institutions, values and interests affect the real-life application and outcomes of public law, and the ongoing contestations of public law that will shape its future development. New to this edition: New co-authors - Megan Davis, a First Nations international human rights and constitutional law expert and Dylan Lino, an expert in constitutional law, colonialism and legal history; updates in light of: public law developments including coverage of:the COVID-19 pandemic; the referendum on a First Nations Voice as called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart; developments towards Treaties in the States and Territories; the impact of technology on the practice of public law. -- publisher

Introduction -- PART I Identifying with Books -- Discussion -- Chapter 1 Fronts Matter: The Role of the Authorial Frontispiece in Germaine de Staël's Corinne -- or, Italy Seren Nolan -- Chapter 2 Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons (1860-1923) and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate Tom Stammers -- Bridge -- PART II Representing Authority -- Discussion -- Chapter 3 Picturing Criminal Law in Old Regime France: Brunel, Known as Bétancourt, Being Led to the Scaffold (1670) Tom Hamilton -- Chapter 4 Word and Image in Popular Science Joseph D. Martin -- Bridge -- PART III Order and Disorder -- Discussion -- Chapter 5 Museum Labels: Word and Object on Display Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui -- Chapter 6 Play with Literacy in Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabets A. Robin Hoffman -- Bridge -- PART IV Authenticity and Interpretation -- Discussion -- Chapter 7 On Taking Artists at Their Word: Artists' Writings and Statements from 1850 to the Present Lucy Whelan -- Chapter 8 Portraiture and Biography: Harmonious Marriage or Difficult Relationship? Ludmilla Jordanova -- Bridge -- PART V Making, Compiling, Arranging -- Discussion -- Chapter 9 Extra-Illustration in Early Twentieth-Century England Ludmilla Jordanova -- Chapter 10 Beyond the Caption: Words and Images in an Interwar Soviet Amateur Photograph Album Antonia Miejluk -- Bridge -- PART VI Words in the Visual Field -- Discussion -- Chapter 11 Word as Image: The Verbal in the Photograph J. J. Long -- Chapter 12 Text-Image Hybridity in Know Thyself and Early Modern English Print Finola Finn -- Afterword: Word, Image and Play -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyze multi-dimensional themes involved in social formation. This is a reader-friendly book with simple and lucid language and fulfils the pressing needs of students studying the paper on Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of Ancient and Medieval World at various universities across the world. The summary, keywords, and representative questions at the end of each chapter would assist in revision and better understanding of the issues dealt therein. A detailed chapter-end reference would enable and motivate the readers to engage in further studies for better understanding of the themes. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and academics in the area of history - ancient and medieval world history in particular and anthropology. It will also be an interesting read for general readers interested in knowing about the ancient and medieval world"--