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Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and US foreign relations. A key mechanism of international hierarchy, indirect rule involves an allied group within a client state adopting policies preferred by a dominant state in exchange for the dominant state's support. Drawing on the history of US involvement in the Caribbean and Central America, Western Europe, and the Arab Middle East, David A. Lake shows that indirect rule is more likely to occur when the specific assets at risk are large and governance costs are low. Lake's conceptualization of indirect rule sharpens our understanding of how the United States came to occupy the pinnacle of world power. Yet the consequences of indirect rule he documents - including anti-Americanism - reveal its shortcomings. As US efforts at democracy promotion and other forms of intervention abroad face declining support at home, Indirect Rule compels us to consider whether this method of rule ultimately advances US interests.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Speak Truth to Power -- Isabella Baumfree -- The Dumont Estate -- Walking to Freedom -- Fighting for Family -- A New Life -- Becoming Sojourner -- Using Her Voice -- Suffrage -- Civil War Work -- Fighting for Equality -- A Hero to Remember -- Truth's Legacy -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Back Cover.

This is the first book- length academic study of the portrayal in contemporary historical crime fiction of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and their legacies. It discusses novels written by five authors: David Downing, Philip Kerr, Luke McCallin, Joseph Kanon and David Thomas. Their work belongs to a subgenre of the historical crime novel that has emerged since the late 1980s to become a significant body of writing located at the intersection of crime fiction and Holocaust literature. The readings of these novels explore questions of form and genre to ask how popular fiction might approach the Holocaust. Themes of resistance and complicity and the relationship between them, and problems of guilt and responsibility are also discussed. This book also explores questions of justice to show how these novels explore social and moral justice, and vengeance

Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account establishes the theological roots and political resonances of Laudianism, and shows how it was based on the recuperation of the theological principles and ecclesiastical and pietistic ambitions that underpinned it. Peter Lake shows how the Laudians' famous obsession with the beauty of holiness contained a plan for the reinvigoration of both the church and the state. It represented a self-conscious reaction against the long-term evils of puritanism and of the immediate political crisis of the 1620s, caused in turn by the evils of (an often puritan) popularity. The result was a coherent account of the theological, liturgical and political essence of the Church of England. On Laudianism explores how this intensely controversial movement, and the strong reactions it provoked, helped cause the English Civil War, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define 'Anglicanism' ever since.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Security Relationships -- CHAPTER 3. A Theory of Relational Contracting -- CHAPTER 4. The Lone Hand -- CHAPTER 5. Cold War Cooperation -- CHAPTER 6. Gulliver's Triumph -- CHAPTER 7. Relational Contracting and International Relations -- CHAPTER 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index

An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays.

In Progressive New World, Marilyn Lake seeks to explain the paradoxes of Progressive reform in the United States and Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when democratic practices such as women's and workers' rights, children's welfare, and indigenous assimilation existed alongside racial segregation and oppression of indigenous peoples. Lake demonstrates the critical importance of settler colonialism and its attitudes toward native inhabitants in forming white settlers' mindsets of racial solidarity in both American and Australian societies. Progressive New World suggests that the very idea of "progressivism" rested on temporal distinctions between Old World (feudal and monarchic) and New World (democratic) societies and concomitant racialized distinctions between settlers and indigenous peoples-deemed either "advanced" or "backward," "civilized" or "primitive," in a framework that cast the past as inherently oppressive and the future as a place of inevitable evolutionary advancement. Lake demonstrates the force of progressive thinking, but also its limits.--

Ultrasound checks and imbalances -- "Golden turtles" -- Doors and windows -- Marriage and mortarboards -- Chickens, ducks, and comrades -- Freedom and submission -- Higher callings -- Love, with Chinese characteristics -- Cars, houses, cash -- East meets West -- Bamboo ceilings -- The way forward -- Epilogue: new beginnings to happy endings

Over the past decade, DR Congo and South Africa have attracted global attention for high rates of sexual and gender-based violence. Why is it that courts in eastern DR Congo have offered a robust judicial response, prioritizing gender crimes despite considerable logistical challenges, whilst courts in South Africa, home to a far stronger legal infrastructure and human rights record, have failed to provide justice to victims of similar crimes? Lake shows that state fragility in DR Congo has created openings for human rights NGOs to influence legal processes in ways that have proved impossible in countries like South Africa, where the state is stronger. Yet exploiting opportunities presented by state fragility to pursue narrow human rights goals invites a host of new challenges. Strong NGOs and Weak States documents the promises and pitfalls of human rights and rule of law advocacy undertaken by NGOs in strong and weak states alike.

Power Protection, and Free Trade -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Structure And Strategy -- 1. A Theory of International Economic Structures -- 2. Structure, the State, and Trade Strategy -- Part II. American Trade Strategy -- 3. Free Riding on Free Trade, 1887-1897 -- 4. British Decline and American Opportunism, 1897-1912 -- 5. The Politics of Opportunistic Accommodation, 1912-1930 -- 6. Protection, Retaliation, and Response, 1930-1939 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Relative Labor Productivity: Definitional and Operational Considerations -- Index

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Setting the Scene: Proliferating Pictures and the Advent of Photography and Cinema; TWO: "Has a Beautiful Girl the Right to Her Own Face?" Privacy, Propriety, and Property; THREE: Medical Men and Peeping Toms: Spectacles of Monstrosity and the Camera's Corporeal Violations; FOUR: Privacy, the Celluloid City, and the Cinematic Eye; FIVE: Privacy for Profit and a Right of Publicity; SIX: Hollywood Heroes and Shameful Hookers: Privacy Moves West; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N