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The American Occupation of the Rhineland : a significant but neglected episode -- The Army of Occupation : Third Army -- American leadership in the Interallied Rhineland High Commission -- The American Forces in Germany : creation and culture -- The American Forces in Germany : training and military performance -- The American Forces in Germany : conduct of the occupation -- The common soldier in the American Forces in Germany : experience, education and recreation -- The withdrawal and legacy of the American Forces in Germany -- Appendix 1: Individual perspectives on the Occupation -- Appendix 2: The chronology and significance of horse events.

This book explores and analyses womens participation in local urban governance in West Bengal, India. It is developed from empirical research with in-depth understanding of ground situations of freedom, functioning and obstacles of women councilors in India. The central idea of this book revolves around two central research questions: 1. How are womens positions and spaces changing due to their political participation in the urban local governance? and 2. What are the major hurdles they face in their day to day lives barring their emancipation? The main strength of the book lies in the in-depth grounded research in four small cities (Darjiling, Balurghat, Raniganj and Hugli-Chinsurah) using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This volume can be considered as a reference book for Gender Studies, Womens Studies, Urban Governance, Women and Policy Research, Gender Development Studies

"Food practices of a people is product of multiple factors. People often eat what they prefer to eat, but it is not so simple always. Sometimes they eat what is available to them or what they are asked to eat. Thus, their natural or cultural preferences are interfered with by endogenous as well as exogenous forces capable of influencing their opinion. In India and its neighbouring countries, religion, caste and analogous systems of social ranking of a group of people, and their economic standing, often delimit their food practices. The state and market forces too influence food related behaviour of people by exercising control over production and trade of food and its availability and accessibility to the consumers. The present volume envisages understanding power relation between those who eat and those who decide (or at least try to decide) what the eaters should eat. As factors prompting food practices are multiple, manifestations of power relations are bound to be varied. Different chapters of this volume have examined food practices as expressions of varied forms of power relations. while examining the core issues, authors with various academic backgrounds possessing varied research experience have highlighted different dimensions of those common issues."