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Introduction. Sentiment and self-control : approaching childhood in the age of revolutions -- Reading serially : the new enlightenment youth periodical for the new youth subject -- Telling tales : folklore transformed for middle-class child readers -- Reading the world : German children's place in geographic education -- Writing home : letters as a social practice -- Writing the self : growing up with diaries -- Furnishing their own age.

"Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace India's economic growth since 1947 and the legal reforms that have allowed it to settle in, however unevenly and tenuously, in the shadow of the stagnating effects of colonial rule. Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy portrays a long shadow of Indian "path dependence"-the persistence of colonial-era legal practices and institutions-interrupted by a series of reactive, dramatic departures from colonial inertia aimed at achieving quick or corrective growth and regulation. Roy and Swamy address five principal questions: How have new laws emerged in India? Does the explanation lie with colonialism or with post-independence politics and economic change? How were laws shaped by egalitarian goals in the Indian democracy with its universal adult suffrage? When did laws constrain economic growth? And to what extent did case law and legislation affect the evolution of law, which was also shaped by politics and the quality of legal infrastructure? Each of these questions brings together different threads of India's economic transformation and social/political history, and the format allows the authors to go deep on the country's most important market sectors and their surrounding economic and political histories. These sections include: colonialist influences on laws governing land and natural resources; politics and labor; and the alternating stifling effects of the country's economic policies and legal systems. In Roy and Swamy's telling, inadequate legal infrastructure has often been the country's primary impediment to economic growth during the last century, and it remains a primary reason that India's future may not be as bright as advertised."

THE "DISCOVERY" OF AFRICA -- The Crackling Surface -- Black King, Golden Scepter -- Rethinking Exploration -- Enter the Aviz -- Islands in the Offing -- The African Main -- THE ESSENTIAL PIVOT -- The Mine -- Asia Suspended -- Wealth in People Versus Wealth in Things -- Circuits Old and New -- Unto the End of the World -- Pathways of Resistance -- Becoming Creole -- THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICANS -- For a Few Acres of Snow -- Fighting for Africans -- Endless Death in Lands with No End -- The Perpetual Oven -- The Cockpit of Europe -- Dung for Every Hole -- Capitalism's Big Jolt -- Masters of Slave, Masters of the Sea -- THE WAGES OF THE PYTHON GOD -- Shatter Zones -- Negros Seguros -- The Slave Rush -- Bargains Sharp and Sinful -- The Spread of the West African Slave Trade -- The Wages of Resistance -- Seized by the Spirit -- Dark Hearts -- War for the Black Atlantic -- A People Scattered, A Continent Drained -- THE BLACK ATLANTIC AND A WORLD MADE NEW -- The Scent of Freedom -- The Black Jacobins -- Gilded Negroes -- Blues and the American Truth -- The Gifts of Black Folk -- How the West Was Made and "Won" -- Toward a New Vision of Our Origins.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Evangelical Racism: A Feature, Not a Bug -- 1. The Racist Foundations of Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Saving the Nation: Fervor, Fear, and Challenges to Jim Crow -- 3. Whitewashing Racism and the Rise of the Religious Right -- 4. How Firm a Foundation: A Twenty-First-Century Precipice Appears -- Conclusion: Whom Will You Serve? -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

"This anthology contains essays which explore philosophical issues which have often been raised during recent debates and discussions in Wittgensteinian epistemology, theology, logic, ethics, religion, social science, cultural studies, psychology and language. It is based on the idea that Wittgenstein's thoughts have not only been interpreted by the academicians in philosophy, but have been used as a method in many other fields of Humanities and Social Sciences as well. Keeping in view this idea, this book gives a fresh interpretation from the perspectives of recent issues raised on life and language in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. It discusses Wittgensteinian issues through Indian perspective in particular and contemporary world in general."--

Vom Kriegsende bis zur Wiedervereinigung: Die erste Gesamtdarstellung deutsch-deutscher Geschichte, die das wechselvolle und komplexe Verhältnis der beiden deutschen Staaten in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Wer verstehen will, warum die innerdeutsche Grenze bis heute nicht wirklich verschwunden ist, darf die Geschichte der DDR nicht zu einer Fußnote herabstufen. Petra Weber schlägt einen großen Bogen und erzählt die deutschdeutsche Geschichte in den Jahren 1945-1990 als Parallel- und Kontrast-, als Perzeptions- und Beziehungsgeschichte. Sie rückt die Einbindung der beiden deutschen Staaten in die Machtblöcke in Ost und West und den mühsamen deutsch-deutschen Dialog in den Blick und analysiert die politischen Systemunterschiede sowie die Reaktionen in Bonn und Ost-Berlin auf gesellschaftliche Auf- und Umbrüche. Die Ausbildung von Konsum- und Wertmustern wird reflektiert und der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich die Deutschen jenseits der Teilung noch als gemeinsame Geschichts- und Kulturnation verstanden. So entsteht ein spannendes deutsch-deutsches Panorama, das Feindseligkeiten, Konkurrenzen, Trennendes und Missverständnisse ebenso beleuchtet wie verbindende Traditionen, wechselseitige Referenz- und Beziehungsgeflechte, innerdeutsche Transfers und Kooperationen.