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In this feature we highlight a recently launched book. We invite specialists in the field to comment on the book, and we invite the author to respond to their comments.In this issue we focus on Brian Meeks's, Envisioning Caribbean Futures. Those invited to comment on the book are Jay Mandle and Rivke Jaffe.[First paragraph]In Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives (2007), Brian Meeks writes "in sympathy with the new social movements that have evolved in the past decade which assert boldly that 'another world is possible'" (p. 2). His effort is "to explore the horizons for different approaches to social living in Jamaica and the Caribbean in the twenty-first century" (p. 2). In this, he "seeks to move beyond a statement of general principles to propose specific alternatives" in order to "stimulate a conversation that looks beyond the horizon of policy confines, yet is not so far removed as to appear hopelessly utopian" (p. 3). My hope with this essay is to advance that conversation, in the first place by reviewing and assessing Meeks's contribution and then by extending the discussion to the role that Jamaica's diaspora (and by extension that of the region's generally) might play in moving the country, as Meeks puts it, from its current "state of crime and murder, and the broad undermining of the rule of law that pervades the society" (p. 71).

Born 51 years ago in Antwerp, Belgium, Henry Spira ran away from home at 17 to join the Merchant Marine and took his first politics lesson in the National Maritime Union. After the Korean War he worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey. "One thing you learned," Spira said, "is that the meek don't make it." In the late 1950s he first saw animal experiments in a laboratory while working his way through Brooklyn College. He joined the civil rights campaigns in the South and marched against the war in Vietnam, "from beginning to end." Henry Spira is now devoting his considerable energies to the fight for animal rights. He recently headed the campaign which successfully overturned the Metcalf-Hatch Act which permitted laboratories to confiscate animals from humane shelters for experimentation. One New York newspaper commented: "The repeal of Metcalf-Hatch is a major breakthrough for the animal rights movement and for the growing questioning of the lack of medical/industrial complex accountability of which animal experimentation forms a multi-billion dollar part." What follows are extracts from an essay by Henry Spira entitled Notes of An Animal Activist.

This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran W. B. Meek dated from 1907. ; All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.). ; The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html ; 1 leaf, 2 pdf pages.

Part 1: Medieval Italy -- Becoming invisible: the role of economic history in medieval studies and in the historiography on medieval Italy / George Dameron -- Christine Meek and the history of Lucca / Duane Osheim -- Quasi-città irredenta: Empoli (c.1100-1325) / William R. Day, Jr -- The origins of the Signoria in Cremona: the family background of Boso of Dovara / Edward Coleman -- Setting the prisoners free: Innocent III's papal leadership in action / Brenda Bolton -- The sweet beloved and his legacy: a lawsuit for love and money from Lucca (1237) / Andreas Meyer -- Debito pubblico e fiere de Champagne: un inedito documento lucchese de fine Duecento / Ignazio Del Punta -- Flying across the Alps: 'Italy' in the works of Petrarch / Jennifer Petrie -- A dialogue of power: the politics of burial and commemoration in fourteenth-century Italy / William Caferro -- Community and country life in late medieval Tuscany / Duane Osheim -- The countryside and rural life in the fifteenth-century Lucchesia / M.E. Bratchel -- Part 2: Medieval and early modern women -- Conversio and conversatio in the Life of Hercula of Epfach / I.S. Robinson -- Eleanor of Aquitaine and the women of the Second Crusade / Conor Kostick -- Consolation and desperation: a study of the letters of Peter of Blois in the name of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine / Stephen Hanaphy -- Bardic poems of consolation to bereaved Irish ladies / Katharine Simms -- Lover of widows: St Jerome and female piety / Catherine Lawless -- Women's experiences of war in later medieval Ireland / Gillian Kenny -- Bonae litterae and female erudition in early sixteenth-century Nuremberg / Helga Robinson-Hammerstein -- Important ladies and important families: Lucrezia Borgia and Caterina Cibo Varano / M. Grazia Nico Ottaviani