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Introduction / by Bert Toussaint and William F. Willingham -- Dutch water management in an era of revolution, restoration and the advance of liberalism, 1795-1850 / by Toon Bosch -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the evolution of navigation practice and policy, 1800-1865 / by Matthew T. Pearcy -- Large-scale projects in a liberal era, 1850-1900 / by Eric Berkers -- U.S. Army engineers in the era of single-purpose waterway improvements, 1865-1900 / by Leland R. Johnson -- From projects to systems: the emergence of a national hydraulic technocracy, 1900-1970 / by Nil Disco and Bert Toussaint -- U.S. era of progressivism and large public works, 1900-1970 / by William F. Willingham -- Environmentalism, renewed concern for flood safety, and the Europeanization of Dutch water policies, 1970-2010 / by Wim van Leussen and Sander Meijerink -- The U.S. moves towards more integrative approaches to water resources management, 1970-2010 / by William F. Willingham -- Two centuries of Dutch and U.S. experience: comparative perspective / by Bert Toussaint and William F. Willingham

Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, lived from 1775 to 1817. Her fiction focuses on the gentry and aristocracy, and her heroines are young women looking for love. Yet the comfortable, tranquil country that she brilliantly devised is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived. Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray fascinating aspects of the daily lives of ordinary people, from forced marriages and the sale of wives in marketplaces to boys and girls working down mines or as chimney sweeps

Introduction -- The Rise and Fall of the Basotho Nation -- The Formation of the Basotho Nation, 1820s-1870s -- The Loss of Economic Independence, 1870s-1890s -- British Trading Monopoly and the Liberation Struggle -- Colonial Commerce, 1870s-1930s -- Basotho in Colonial Commerce, 1900s-1966 -- The Political Struggle for Reform of Trade, 1900s-1966 -- Lesotho's Postcolonial Counter-Revolution and Resistance to It -- The Developmental State and Lesotho's Counter-Revolution, 1966-1986 -- The Military Dictatorship and the Neoliberal Turn, 1986-2010s -- Business Politics and the Collapse of the Congress, 2000s-2020 -- The Rise of a Chinese Trading Monopoly and of Mobile Money, 2000s-2020 -- Conclusion. Commerce as Politics.

This book addresses thegendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.

Satire and politics in the New Orleans flood of 1849 / Greg O'Brien -- Epidemics, empire, and eradication : global public health and yellow fever control in New Orleans / Urmi Engineer -- The complete story of the Galveston horror : trauma, history, and the great storm of 1900 / Andy Horowitz -- The 1928 hurricane in Florida and the wider Caribbean / Christopher M. Church -- Swamp things : invasive species as environmental disaster in the Gulf South / Abraham H. Gibson and Cindy Ermus -- Political-ecological emergence of space and vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans / Roberto E. Barrios -- Katrina is coming to your city : storm- and flood-defense infrastructures in risk society / Kevin Fox Gotham

Cover -- CONTENTS -- Introduction CINDY ERMUS -- Satire and Politics in the New Orleans Flood of 1849 GREG O'BRIEN -- Epidemics, Empire, and Eradication Global Public Health and Yellow Fever Control in New Orleans URMI ENGINEER WILLOUGHBY -- The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror Trauma, History, and the Great Storm of 1900 ANDY HOROWITZ -- The 1928 Hurricane in Florida and the Wider Caribbean CHRISTOPHER M. CHURCH -- Swamp Things Invasive Species as Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South ABRAHAM H. GIBSON and CINDY ERMUS -- Political-Ecological Emergence of Space and Vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans ROBERTO E. BARRIOS -- Katrina Is Coming to Your City Storm- and Flood-Defense Infrastructures in Risk Society KEVIN FOX GOTHAM -- Afterword TED STEINBERG -- Contributors -- Index.

This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts' diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women's behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women's sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of "scientific" experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today's readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.