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Interrogating a broad array of lesbian, gay, and feminist theories, this book considers instances of unnecessarily divisive turf-battling, yet focuses primarily on the productive debates that define and vitalize the field.

Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding representations of social conflict in Shakespeare's play and in Early Modern English culture. Rather than argue that Shakespearean drama allegorizes historical transitions and ideological polarization, Revisionist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare's plays explore the nature of internally contradictory Early Modern institutions and belief-systems that are only indirectly related to competing political and class ideologies. Such institutions and belief-systems include Elizabethan strategies for the management of vagrancy, the nature of Jacobean statecraft, objective and subjective theories of economic value, Protestant ethical theory, and Augustinian notions of sinful habituation. The book looks at five of Shakespeare's plays: The Tempest, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Hamlet .

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard¿s shipbuilding and training program trained Chinäs first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for Chinäs slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials¿ failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.

Rap and Politics maps out fifty years of political and musical development by exploring three specific moments of local discourse, each a response to failures by local, state, and national governments to address police brutality, violence, poverty, and poor social conditions in Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area. First, in the mid-1960s, Black youth responded to repressive political and socioeconomic factors in West Oakland by founding the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, whose representation of violence and community aid, as well as its radical and militant approach to Black Nationalism, became a foundational discourse that shaped the development of rap music in the region. Second, from the collapse of the Party in the early 1980s through the 1990s, gangster rap emerged as a form of political expression among local youth, who drew heavily on radical and militant elements of Panther discourse in their lyrics and artwork. Third, hyphy music in the mid-1990s to early 2000s continued these radical discourses and also incorporated coordinated, subversive public behavior to the mix. The result was a critique of endemic problems facing the local Black community, but also an infectious subgenre of party music that gained mainstream popularity. Overall, this study shows that the specific types of representation created to resist problems of racism and poverty in Oakland is actually key to understanding other rap undergrounds, grassroots subcultures, and social movements elsewhere. In the process, Rap and Politics offers readers a new model focused on the development of settings, representation, movements, discourse banks, and impact within underground rap scenes.

The last two decades have seen dramatic changes to Mexico's socio-political landscape. A former president fleeing into exile, political assassinations, a rebellion in Chiapas, and the eruption of the so-called war on drugs provide key examples of critical events shaping the nation. This book examines Mexican cinema's representations of, and responses to, these socio-political moments. Beginning with the definitive year 1994, which saw the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) declare war on the Mexican government, the early chapters in this book discuss the outcome of these episodes in subsequent years and how they find screen representation. The study then moves on to provide close readings of key filmic texts as reflections of the so-called narco-war and its effects on Mexican society. Focusing on both fiction and documentary filmmaking, this book explores notions of violence, victimhood, and the complex processing of grief in the context of enforced disappearances and the narco-conflict. In addition to examining films made in Mexico, this investigation incorporates the work of three of the nation's most celebrated transnational directors: Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón. By examining their work on European soil as a comparative exercise, the analyses offer an understanding of the imprints left by warfare and trauma upon the collective and individual psyche, seen from a universal viewpoint. Using rigorous theoretical frameworks and succinct filmic analyses, this book will be essential reading for those interested in Mexican and Latin American film, as well as those working in the fields of Cultural, Screen, and Trauma Studies.

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Historical Perspectives on Poverty and Crime Debating Poverty and Crime in the US: From Moynihan to Murray Poverty and Crime in the UK From Theory to Practice The Policy Process in Modern Society Policing and the Power of Public Debate Policing Poor Communities The Changing Nature of Crime and the Workless Society Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

The investor community is constantly looking for new sources of investment opportunity in the form of current income and capital gains. Much of the focus by fund managers, institutional investors and retail investors is currently on the global emerging markets of Asia where over $1 trillion of infrastructure and development projects will have to be funded over the next decade. In recent months, more institutions have been focusing on the fixed income markets, where returns have been impressive. The text from credit risk authority Erik Banks provides a detailed review of the emerging Asian fixed income markets and their primary instruments, along with a discussion of market participants, market mechanics and associated hedging and financing instruments.

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The New World Order and Supranationalism European Supranationalism and the Global System The Supranational Regional Regime and Governance The Supra-state, Governance and Global Processes A Global Perspective Globalisation and Supranationalism Bibliography Index

Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination is an analysis of the ancient Christian myth that casts Jews as a 'witness-people', and this myth's presence in contemporary religious discourse. It treats diverse products of the Christian imagination, including systematic theology, works of fiction, and popular writings on biblical prophecy. The book demonstrates that the witness-people myth, which was first articulated by Augustine and which determined official attitudes towards Jews in medieval Christendom, remains a powerful force in the Christian imagination.

Since 1985 Russia has experienced a dramatic cultural and social revolution. Rosalind Marsh presents the first study encompassing one important aspect of this process, that is the major part which literature has played in reassessing the past, transforming public opinion, and hence in promoting political change in Russia. She provides a chronology of literary politics in this period, and analyses the content and influence of newly published literature on a variety of historical themes, including Stalin and Stalinism, Lenin, the Civil War, the February and October Revolutions and the fall of Tsarism. She explores the heated moral and political debates inspired among different sections of Russian society by the works of many authors, including Rybakov, Solzhenitsyn, Grossman, Bunin and Gorky.

Foreword by Frank Delaney - Acknowledgements - A Note on the Text - Chronological Table - INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS - Additional Bibliography - Index

Preface - List of Contributors - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Acknowledgements - Scientific Programme Committee - Introduction - PART 1 NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT; T.S.Khachaturov, C.Pearson, M.Hufschmidt & A.Lukaszewicz - PART 2 THE WORLD FOOD SITUATION AND PROSPECTS; N.Islam, G.E.Schuh, H.Linnemann & A.Vald s - PART 3 ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; R.Tabbarah, M.Kritz & T.A.Kjurciev - PART 4 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE ARMS INDUSTRY; C.Schmidt, K.Hartley, H.Wulf, M.O.Intriligator, D.L.Brito, S.Deger & S.Sen - PART 5 CAPITAL NEEDS AND CAPITAL MARKETS; J.B.Donges, H.Hughes, C.Luft & L.Maier - PART 6 FOREIGN INDEBTEDNESS, EXCHANGE RATES AND THE MONETARY SYSTEM; A.Taylor, G.O.Nwanko, M.Panic, M.S.Kumar, A.Ferrer & J.Ahmad - PART 7 INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT; S.Borner, H.W.Mayer, C.F.Diaz-Alejandro & G.K.Helleiner - Index

Preface - Introduction - Growing Up - Fabian Socialist and Platform Speaker - In Print: Journalism, Publishers, Printers - Plays and Players, 1892-1914 - Philanderer and Married Man - 'Anything, Except Sport': Shaw's Recreations - World War I - Earlier Recollections - Plays and Players, 1916-25 - World Travels, 1931-35 - Political Opinions, 1919-38 - Plays and Players, 1929- 50 - Personal Interviews - Shaw at Home - World War I and After - Old Age and Death - Later Recollections - Index

Acknowledgements Introduction The Meaning of Justice in International Relations Political Realism and the Primacy of the State The Cosmopolitan Theory of International Justice Justice in a Society of States Human Rights, the State and Global Justice Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

List of Tables and Figures Foreword: Geoffrey Till Acknowledgements Acronyms, Abbreviations and Foreign Language Terms The World War and the Atlantic Campaign Chronology, Time and Measurement The Economic Context The German Perspective Convoy Warfare Technology on Both Sides Signals Intelligence and the Battle of the Atlantic Case-Study I - 1941 Case-Study II - Mid-1942 to Mid-1943 Conclusion End Notes Bibliography and References Index

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: A New Synthesis for the New Frontier; M.J.White - Vietnam and the Question of What Might Have Been; F.Logevall - The Cuban Imbroglio: From the Bay of Pigs to the Missile Crisis and Beyond; M.J.White - The Berlin Crisis; G.Schild - Meeting the European Challenge: The Common Market and Trade Policy; T.W.Zeiler - John F. Kennedy as Domestic Leader: A Perspective on the Literature; J.N.Giglio - Dealing with de Gaulle; J.Brain - Space: The Final Frontier of the New Frontier; D.W.Elliot t - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index

Introduction - Defiance As a Stabilising Influence - Communist China - Communist Vietnam - Communist North Korea - Communist Cuba - Baathist Syria - Baathist Iraq - Qadhafi's Libya - Khomeinist Iran - Conclusion: Explanations and Survival Strategies - Appendix: Baathist Ideology and Structure - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index

Based on original research, this book explores East German political culture and its role in the revolution of 1989 and in reunification. Specifically the book shows how a set of common values stabilised the communist regime until the 1980s, how the undermining of these values motivated revolutionary mobilization, and how the partial survival of this specific culture and its conflict with West German culture have contributed to the post-unification political crisis.

Glossary of Terms - Preface - Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics; J.A.A.Stockwin - Parties, Politicians and the Political System; J.A.A.Stockwin - Bureaucracy and Political Change; A.Rix - Policy Implications of Administrative Reform; D.It - Japanese Interest Group Behaviour: An Institutional Approach; A.George - The Economy and the Political System; J.Horne - Politics and the Japanese Financial System; J.Horne - Making Policy on Health and Welfare; M.Collick - Japan and the United States: Dependent Ally or Equal Partner?; A.George - Exports as Foreign Policy; A.Rix - Conclusions; J.A.A.Stockwin - Index

List of Participants - Acknowledgements - Foreword; D.Crabtree - SESSION 1 - Introduction; J.J.Hughes - Keynes, Economic Development and the Developing Countries; A.P.Thirlwall - Some Reflections by a Keynesian Economist on the Problems of Developing Countries; W.B.Reddaway - Discussant; H.Singer - What Keynes and Keynesianism Can Teach Us about Less Developed Countries; H.Singer - SESSION 2 - Introduction; M.J.C.Vile - Bancor and the Developing Countries: How Much Difference Would it Have Made? J.Williamson - Discussant; G.Bird - Introduction; M.J.C.Vile - International Keynesianism: The Problem of the North-South Divide; E.Heath - Discussant; I.M.D.Little - Discussion - Index

Preface - Introduction: Controversial Issues in China's Economic Development - Politics, Population and Economic Change: Reflections on the Causes of Slow Technical Progress in the Chinese Economy of the Early/Mid Qing - China and the World Economy, 1840s-1940s - Assessing Economic Growth in the Asian NICs - Death Rates, Life Expectancy and China's Economic Reforms: A Critique of A.K.Sen (with John Sender) - Why do Famines Occur and How can They be Avoided? A Critique of A.K.Sen with Special Reference to China - Reforming Stalinist Systems: The Chinese Experience - Conclusion - Index