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"Impact investment, the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return, has become a hot topic in the world's philanthropy and development circles, and is growing exponentially: in the next decade, it is poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times. Yet for all the excitement, there is work to do to ensure it actually realizes its potential. Will impact investment empower millions of people worldwide, or will it just replicate the same failures that have plagued the aid and antipoverty industry? Enter Morgan Simon. When she was a twenty-year-old college student at Swarthmore, Simon compelled Lockheed Martin to change their LGBTQ policies by convincing her college to stop investing in the firm. And that was just the beginning. With passion and counterintuitive arguments, Simon shows how impact investing can make real change. But she also illustrates how easy it is to make mistakes, showing how wind farms can lead to land grabs, and how short-term thinking by well-meaning investors can actually lead to more oppression and hardship in the communities they are trying to help. Impact investing, Simon argues, is making the same mistakes the aid industry has been making for years. But there are ways to invest and have real impact: by making sure the communities are involved in the decision-making and ownership of the project, that investors are adding more value than they extract, and that the risk and returns are balanced between the investors and the communities. As an activist, and as a trusted leader in the field, Simon argues that we can work within the system and use capital to effect change. Centered around real, on-the-ground case studies from her decades of investment analysis and offering clear strategies that are proven to work, this book is a clarion call for more effective, socially conscious investing."

While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance, by drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, he argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. Through their support for cultural and philanthropic associations and their engagement in political ca

This article explores the relationship between the 'hero' and the celebrity culture of the 19th-century United States. Even by the 1820s, the activities of print media and entrepreneurial manufacturers meant that individuals widely recognised and worshipped as 'heroes' almost inevitably became part of the nascent celebrity culture of the age, while some actively courted this connection to pursue their own political or financial agendas. However, using the receptions of three foreign heroes, the Marquis de Lafayette, Lajos Kossuth, and John Bright, the article contends that we can still make valid distinctions between the two states through the analysis of cultural practice and discourse. In turn, by conceptualising 'hero' and 'celebrity' as two axes on the graph of fame, it is possible to use such analysis to assess more accurately a given individual's public reputation.

This article explores the relationship between the 'hero' and the celebrity culture of the 19th-century United States. Even by the 1820s, the activities of print media and entrepreneurial manufacturers meant that individuals widely recognised and worshipped as 'heroes' almost inevitably became part of the nascent celebrity culture of the age, while some actively courted this connection to pursue their own political or financial agendas. However, using the receptions of three foreign heroes, the Marquis de Lafayette, Lajos Kossuth, and John Bright, the article contends that we can still make valid distinctions between the two states through the analysis of cultural practice and discourse. In turn, by conceptualising 'hero' and 'celebrity' as two axes on the graph of fame, it is possible to use such analysis to assess more accurately a given individual's public reputation.

ABSTRACT:Civic pride is rarely studied at the individual level. The journals of Dr John Deakin Heaton provide a unique insight into the motivations of a man linked to many institutions and civic sites of Leeds, celebrated by historians as a progenitor of its famous town hall and the city's first university. This article uses those journals to investigate the matrix of family honour, Anglicanism and professional identity, tempered by self-interest, underpinning Heaton's desire to improve his native town. Its conclusions further justify the recent historiographical emphasis on associational culture and ritual in the study of urban governance.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 From 'Manchester Manufacturer' to 'English Hero' -- 1 Phrenological Friends: Cobden and his 'father confessor' George Combe -- 2 From warehouse Clerk to Corn Law Celebrity: The Making of a National Hero -- Part 2 Cobden and Liberal Politics in Britain -- 3 Cobden and Democracy -- 4 Cobden, Free Trade in Land, and the Road to the Abbey National -- 5 Cobden and the Press -- Part 3 Reconfiguring the Political Economy of Liberal Europe -- 6 'La Ligue Française': The Anti-Corn Law League and the Campaign for Economic Liberalism in France during the last days of the July Monarchy -- 7 The Cobdenian Moment in the Italian Risorgimento -- 8 'Not Entirely a Manchester Man': Richard Cobden and the Construction of Manchesterism in Nineteenth-Century German Economic Thinking -- 9 Greek Responses to Cobden -- Part 4 Reconstructing the 'International Man' -- 10 Richard Cobden: The International Man -- 11 Cobden and Peace -- 12 Richard Cobden's American Quandary: Negotiating Peace, Free Trade, and Anti-Slavery -- Part 5 Reinventing Richard Cobden -- 13 'You know your father's heart': The Cobden Sisterhood and the Legacy of Richard Cobden -- 14 Between Feudalists and Communists: Louis Mallet and the Cobden Creed -- 15 The Resurrection and Decomposition of Cobden in Britain and the west: An Essay in the Politics of Reputation -- Index