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From gold to federation : exhibitions and the Australian quest for modernity, 1851-1901 describes how huge exhibitions reflected an emerging national identity and promoted the interests of strongly growing colonial economies. Starting with the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, Australians participated keenly as organisers, exhibitors, judges and visitors at world's fairs locally and in France, India, Britain and the United States. These exhibitions were vitally important for enhancing intercolonial and international trade. And they were immensely popular, presenting eye-opening displays of Australian commercial products, natural resources, art, Aboriginal life and natural history to the public in Australia and the world at large. In the years between the discovery of gold in the mid-1850s and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901-a period of rapid technological innovation and expansion in trade-colonial Australians understood the value of these exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney and Paris and London. Their quest for modernity was at the core of the Exhibition experience

"From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities. When our trust is broken, and when our own trustworthiness is called into question, many of us are left wondering what to do. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it? Dr. Peter H. Kim, the world's leading expert in the rapidly growing field of trust repair, has conducted over two decades of groundbreaking research to answer that question. In How Trust Works, he draws on this research and the work of other social scientists to reveal the surprising truths about how relationships are built, how they are broken, and how they are repaired. Dr. Kim's work shows how we are often more trusting than we think and how easily our trust in others can be distorted. He illustrates these insights with accounts of some of the most striking and well-known trust violations that have occurred in modern times and unveils the crucial secrets behind when and why our attempts to repair trust are effective, and which breaches of confidence are just too deep. How Trust Works transforms our understanding of our deepest bonds, giving us the tools to build strong and supportive relationships on every level. With our families, coworkers, and friends. With the groups, organizations, and institutions that touch our lives. And even with societies and nations"--

German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting. Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops but also for resolving disputes diplomatically. Both the empire and the Swiss Confederation were largely defensive in orientation, while German participation in foreign wars was most often in partnership with allies. The primary aggressor in Central Europe was not Prussia but the Austrian Habsburg monarchy, yet Austria's strength owed much to its ability to secure allies. Prussia, meanwhile, invested in militarization but maintained a part-time army well into the nineteenth century. Alongside Switzerland, which relied on traditional militia, both states exemplify the longstanding civilian element within German military power. Only after Prussia's unexpected victory over France in 1871 did Germans and outsiders come to believe in a German gift for warfare - a special capacity for high-speed, high-intensity combat that could overcome numerical disadvantage. It took two world wars to expose the fallacy of German military genius. Yet even today, Wilson argues, Germany's strategic position is misunderstood. The country now seen as a bastion of peace spends heavily on defense in comparison to its peers and is deeply invested in less kinetic contemporary forms of coercive power.

The book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American exceptionalism; civic discourse; the Trump presidency; campus life; and immigration, citizenship, and refugee policy. The author, a self-described 'militant moderate,' draws on his participation as a commentator in these and many other public debates

The book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American exceptionalism; civic discourse; the Trump presidency; campus life; and immigration, citizenship, and refugee policy. The author, a self-described 'militant moderate,' draws on his participation as a commentator in these and many other public debates.

"Thirty lashes, well laid on" -- "Dem was hard times, Sho' Nuff" -- "Beings Of an inferior order" -- "Fighting for white supremacy" -- "The foul odors of blacks" -- "Negroes plan to kill all whites" -- "Intimate contact with negro men" -- "I thanked got right there and then" -- "War against the constitution" -- "Two cities : one white, the other black" -- "All blacks are angry" -- "The basic minimal skills" -- Epilogue : "rooting out systemic racism".

Peter Spader has written a magisterial study on Max Scheler, one of phenomenology's earliest and greatest figures, whose theory of ethical personalism has become a major voice in the formulation of phenomenological ethics today. Spader follows Scheler's use of the classic phenomenological approach, by means of which he presented a fresh view of values, feelings, and the person, and thereby staked out a new approach in ethics. Spader recreates the logic of Scheler's quest, revealing the basis of his thought and the reasons for his dramatic changes of direction. This remarkable study provides a framework that allows us to understand Scheler's insights in the context of their dynamic evolution of his thought. It corrects imbalances in the presentation of his ideas and defends Scheler against key misunderstandings and criticisms. In short, Spader's work continues the process of developing Scheler's pioneering theory of ethical personalism

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: Boys with Their Hair Ablaze -- SECTION ONE: THE LEGAL POLITICIANS OF THE NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION -- CHAPTER ONE: Corporatism and Cartels: The National Industrial Recovery Act -- CHAPTER TWO: The Blue Eagle in Court -- CHAPTER THREE: "Hot Oil" and Hot Tempers: The NIRA Reaches the Supreme Court -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Felling of Belcher and the Search for a Successor -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Schechter Case and the "Horse-and-Buggy" Court -- SECTION TWO: THE LEGAL REFORMERS OF THE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION -- CHAPTER SIX: The Search for Parity: The Agricultural Adjustment Act -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Triple A in Court -- CHAPTER EIGHT: King Cotton and the Triple-A Purge -- CHAPTER NINE: Hamilton's Ghost in the Supreme Court -- SECTION THREE: THE LEGAL CRAFTSMEN OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD -- CHAPTER TEN: Labor under the Blue Eagle -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Legal Craftsmen and the Wagner Act -- CHAPTER TWELVE: The NLRB Implements Its Master Plan -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Supreme Court Opens Its Eyes -- CONCLUSION: The Limits of Legal Liberalism -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

The current debate over the causes and possible cures for the persistent white advantage over African Americans in education and income needs a resource that provides both historical and current evidence. In this book, Peter Irons fills this need with the stories of African Americans who challenged their status in acts of resistance, from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to today's Black Lives Matter and other racial justice movements. Irons marshals a wide array of evidence to make a persuasive argument that systemic racism still permeates every major institution in American society.

Ireland -- The Making of a Socialist -- The Unraveling of a Socialist -- The Remaking of a Socialist -- Texas -- Land -- War, Revolution, and Peace -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. The Land: Speech Delivered at West Texas Encampment, Ellison Springs (1912) -- Appendix II. Get the Money: Speech Delivered in Dallas (June 25, 1914).

"Buffalo at the Crossroads is a scholarly edited volume comprising essays by twelve authors that investigate the built environment of Buffalo, NY. It provides a new way of looking at the buildings and landscapes in this important American city and beyond, examining the local and global and "high" and "low" contexts of Buffalo's architectural heritage"--

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.