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"Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. This marginalization involves not only concrete policies but also ways of perceiving people and places as outside society's centre. The author looks closely at how photography and writing have supported political and social exclusion and, conversely, how they have been enlisted to challenge it. Five cases are examined: the peripheries of Italy's major cities after unification; its East African colonies in the 1930s; the less developed areas of its south in the 1950s; its psychiatric hospitals before the reforms of the late 1970s; and its 'nomad camps' after 2000. Each chapter takes its lead from a symptomatic photograph and is followed by other pictures and extracts from written texts. These allow the reader to examine how social marginalization is discursively performed by cultural products"--

?Development Without Aid" opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty. The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world's diasporas as a quasi-Indigenous resource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a reso

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The British Prohibition in India in Comparative Perspective -- Regional Administrative Structures -- The Han Core and Policy Formation -- The Opium Problem in Xinjiang -- The Opium Problem in Southwestern China -- Opium and Qing Expansionism -- Dynastic Opium Policy Before the Daoguang Reign -- Translation of Shanxi Taiyu District Magistrate Chen Lihe's "Opium Prohibition Pledge" Stele -- Character List -- Works Cited -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.