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The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

As India emerges as a major economic power producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of global finance and its crisis as the elderly especially women and wage-workers who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu but this time in Tiruppur we find that the garment and textile industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights we find in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgency denounced by the Indian government as the country’s greatest security challenge where the poor are being mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.

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The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States

The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States

The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States presents important moments and participants in the history of the American suffrage movement ranging from the mid-nineteenth century through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The book highlights the many participants in the suffrage movement including well-known leaders lesser-known activists major national organizations and local efforts across the country. An array of perspectives is examined: the garment factory worker working for protective labor laws the wealthy wife hoping to control her inheritance the Black activist seeking voting power for her community and the temperance worker wanting to vote for prohibition laws. The volume examines the crucial activism of Black suffragists and other women of color as well as the fraught nature of the cross-racial coalition in the movement. The broad and accessible approach to this important period in history will enable students to consider questions such as: How could suffragists overcome their differences and build community? Were wealthy women who funded salaries headquarters and parades afforded more power? What tactics and strategies did suffragists utilize to lobby legislators and win over the public? How did suffragists and anti-suffragists wield racism as a political tactic both in support of and against the Nineteenth Amendment? How and when did women of color finally achieve the right to vote? Students will also be able to consider lessons from the suffrage movement for an inclusive feminist movement today. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in US women’s history the history of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era and those interested in the histories of social movements.

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The Costume Designer's Toolkit The Process of Creating Effective Design

The Costume Designer's Toolkit The Process of Creating Effective Design

The Costume Designer’s Toolkit explores the wide-ranging skills required to design costumes for live performance in theatre dance opera and themed entertainment. Arranged in chronological order to create a design each chapter describes tools strategies and techniques costume designers use to create lively and believable characters within a story environment. The book provides a step-by-step outline of the costume design process beginning with developing as an artist and creating an artistic vision for a script. It covers a wide range of topics including: Assessing the scope of a production Understanding design thinking and the creative process Project management and budget forecasting Collaborating with and leading creative teams Current practices in costume rendering and communication Mixing purchased rented stock and built costumes to form a design Designing a garment with impact Fitting costumes on performers Combining grit and grace for a successful career Each topic includes case studies and tips from experienced professionals identifies vital skills describes techniques and reveals the essential elements of artistic leadership collaboration and cultural acumen. The Costume Designer’s Toolkit is the perfect guidebook for the student aspiring or early-career costume designer to be used alone or in costume design university courses. | The Costume Designer's Toolkit The Process of Creating Effective Design

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Beijing Opera Costumes The Visual Communication of Character and Culture

Beijing Opera Costumes The Visual Communication of Character and Culture

Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China covering both the theory and practice of stage dress. Distinguishing attributes include an introduction to the performance style the delineation of the costume conventions an analysis of the costumes through their historical precedents and theatrical modifications and the use of garment shape color and embroidery for symbolic effect. Practical information covers dressing the performers and a costume plot the design and creation of the make-up and hairstyles and pattern drafts of the major garments. Photographs from live performances as well as details of embroidery and close-up photographs of the headdresses thoroughly portray the stunning beauty of this incomparable performance style. Presenting the brilliant colors of the elaborately embroidered silk costumes together with the intricate makeup and glittering headdresses this volume embodies the elegance of the Beijing opera. | Beijing Opera Costumes The Visual Communication of Character and Culture

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Gendering the Memory of Work Women Workers Narratives

Gendering the Memory of Work Women Workers Narratives

This book explores gendered aspects in the memory of work by looking at auto/biographical narratives and political writings of women workers in the garment industry. The author draws on cutting edge theoretical approaches and insights in memory studies neo-materialism and discourse analysis particularly looking at entanglements and intra-actions between places bodies and objects. Tamboukou aims to enrich our appreciation of the role of women’s labour history in the wider realm of cultural memory as well as in the politics of women’s work. The book addresses a significant gap in the literature by focusing on the memory of work from a gendered perspective. It also examines the relationship between workspaces and personal spaces: the intimate intense and often invisible ways through which workers occupy workspaces and populate them with their ideas emotions beliefs habits and everyday practices. The book will be a theoretical and methodological toolbox for students and researchers in the interface of the social sciences and the humanities as well as a vital resource in women’s labour history. It will be particularly relevant for sociologists cultural theorists feminist scholars and social historians. | Gendering the Memory of Work Women Workers� Narratives

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The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

First published in 1999 this book responds to the meaning given to the welfare principle attracts a great deal of controversy and explores the reasons for the controversy and examines the growing legal significance attached to the principle. In an illuminating and accessible manner this informative volume: provides a record of the milestones which have shaped the principles development by tracing its evolution over the centuries discloses the essence of what has been termed 'the golden thread running through the common law' provides a measure of the impact of the principle on the coherence of modern family law by assessing the significance of its present operational role and functions. The welfare principle began as a common law principle forged in medieval England yet it has informed the law relating to children in some of the most developed western societies. It is now being refracted through international legislative and judicial developments to challenge the future shape of family law in the UK. By considering the ways in which the legal system has shaped and been shaped by the principle this invaluable book leads its readers to an appreciation of the content and structural influence of the welfare principle. | The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

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The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship protests riots a break in diplomatic relations culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time-disrupting international diplomacy billions of dollars in trade and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon. Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair. | The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

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The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

Originally published in 1956 this book brings together from the canonical writings of Buddhism Islam and Christianity the most important of the passages in which the view of the Founder is reflected. It aims to let each of the sacred traditions tell its own story and only such comments have been added as seem necessary to bring out the full significance of the passage quoted. The final chapter summarizes some of the difficult questions which arise from a comparison of the extracts from the 3 traditions. | The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

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The North the South and the Environment

The North the South and the Environment

The essays in this study contribute to an analysis of the prospects for the world's economy in the face of environmental constraints. The contributors examine the implications of development in both northern and southern hemispheres and the extreme differences between rich and poor nations in the distribution of income resource use and consumption. Using extensive case studies from WIDER-sponsored research the text explores the limits and consequences of further development. | The North the South and the Environment

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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c. 600 to 1050 AD the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The crisis of the tenth century put an end to the political unity of the Muslim world and saw the emergence of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt and independent dynasties in the Eastern Islamic world. The book concludes with the advent of Seljuk Turkish rule in the mid-eleventh century. This new edition is fully updated to take into account recent research and there are two entirely new chapters covering the economic background during the period and the north-east of Iran in the post Abbasid period. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long-term social and economic processes. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century when it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear informative and readable introduction to the subject. | The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

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The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies brings together leading scholars and scholarship to capture the state of the field of Asian American Studies as a generation of researchers have expanded the field with new paradigms and methodological tools. Inviting readers to consider new understandings of the historical work done in the past decades and the place of Asian Americans in a larger global context this ground-breaking volume illuminates how research in the field of Asian American Studies has progressed. Previous work in the field has focused on establishing a place for Asian Americans within American history. This volume engages more contemporary research which draws on new archives art literature film and music to examine how Asian Americans are redefining their national identities and to show how race interacts with gender sexuality class and the built environment to reveal the diversity of the United States. Organized into five parts and addressing a multitude of interdisciplinary areas of interest to Asian American scholars it covers:• a reframing of key themes such as transnationality postcolonialism and critical race theory• U. S. imperialism and its impact on Asian Americans• war and displacement• the garment industry• Asian Americans and sports• race and the built environment• social change and political participation• and many more themes. Exploring people practice politics and places this cutting-edge volume brings together the best themes current in Asian American Studies today and is a vital reference for all researchers in the field.

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The Bront in the World of the Arts

The Bront in the World of the Arts

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music theatre and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' relationship to the wider world of the arts including their relationship to the visual arts. The contributors examine the siblings' artistic ambitions productions and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms. Also considered are re-envisionings of the Brontës' works with an emphasis on those created in the artistic media the siblings themselves knew or practiced. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies music art theatre studies and material culture the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts. | The Bront�in the World of the Arts

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The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics written from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are inspired by psychoanalytic criticism primarily by the work of Freud and Kristeva. Kristeva’s work on abjection the paradoxical repulsion mixed with attraction provides the framework for the first part of the book which argues that Victorian depictions of Catholicism exhibit the same mixture of fascination and attraction. The second part of the book is constructed largely around Freud’s idea of the uncanny showing how Catholicism was cast in the role of the archaic religion profoundly strange and yet at the same time somehow familiar. The book includes the readings of a number of Victorian authors both canonical (Charlotte Brontë William Thackeray Charles Dickens) and lesser-known ones (George Borrow John Shorthouse Mrs Humphry Ward). The book will be of interest to scholars of cultural literary and religious studies as well as to readers interested in the matters of religion in literature and religious prejudice. | The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

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The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

This book offers a survey of the encounter between the Third Reich and European Jewry. Pointing out the difficulties historians face in interpreting the ever-expanding documentary record it includes treatment of the role of non-Germans in the Holocaust consideration of the much-debated nexus between the Holocaust and modernity and discussion on how 'the Holocaust' developed as a distinct historical topic. Fully updated this new third edition incorporates the latest scholarly findings with expanded treatment of gendered aspects of the Holocaust the Holocaust’s world historical contexts the long-term history of Jewish-Christian relations and thinking about the Holocaust’s contemporary relevance as well as additional documents reflecting recent archival discoveries. Offering a concise narration that appeals to both the intellect and the emotions the book enables students to gain a real understanding of the events of this catastrophic time. Including a useful selection of original documents (many never before anthologised in English) a chronology glossary and 'who’s who' David Engel’s book will be welcomed by anyone trying to get to grips with this complex and far-reaching subject. | The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

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The Bible: The Basics

The Bible: The Basics

The Bible: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the Bible as both a sacred text central to the faith of millions and a classic work of Western literature containing a tapestry of genres voices perspectives and images. This guide skilfully addresses both aspects of the Bible’s character by exploring: the rich variety of literary forms from poetry to prophecy and epistles to apocalypses; the historical geographic and social context of the Bible; contemporary attitudes to the Bible held by believers and non-believers; the status of biblical interpretation today. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes maps and detailed suggestions for further reading. This is an ideal starting point for people of any faith or none who are studying the Bible in any setting or who simply want to know more about the best-selling book of all time.

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The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling vision of how robots and artificial intelligence will completely disrupt and transform working life. The author contests that once the dust has settled from the Fourth Industrial Revolution workplaces and professions will be unrecognizable and we will see the rise of a new social class: the precariat. We will live side by side with the 'working poor' – people who have several jobs but still can’t make ends meet. There will be a small salaried elite consisting of innovation and knowledge workers. Slightly further into the future there will be a major transformation in professional environments. Johannessen also presents a typology for the precariat the uncertain work that is created and develops a framework for the working poor as well as for future innovation and knowledge workers and sets out a new structure for the social hierarchy. A fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution The Workplace of the Future will be of interest to professionals and academics alike. The book is particularly suited to academic courses in management economy political science and social sciences. | The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

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Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

From Chilika India's largest coastal lake the echoes of poetry the reflections of festive lamps its ever-present turmoil and biodiverse bounty have come together to portray livelihoods and lives half full and half empty. After a broad conceptual framework about fish fishery and fishing livelihoods this book has explicitly focused on the lake's ecosystem in Odisha and sustainability in fishing communities. The voices of the fishers have lent credence to the socio-cultural belief systems right of commons and disputes over conservation at individual and community levels. The volatility over the common user rights is underscored by lack of protection to the locals absence of guiding principles and powerful usurpers. The disruption of livelihoods through insufficient economic support is underlined by the lack of viable equitable and regulated credit structures in the region. Issues of mechanization ecological hazards adverse impact of climate change and environmental degradation are explained through their own bearing on bionomic and traditional livelihood disruptions and in-situ footprints on common property resources. In the final countdown the sustained coexistence of Chilika lake and its varied community is narrated through an integrated socio-economic lens that accommodates extant challenges into its field of vision. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

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‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

The Special Issue consolidates new approaches to the study of the EU’s role in the eastern neighbourhood and beyond informed by post-structuralist traditions in international relations. More specifically by revisiting the European Neighbourhood Policy’s agenda from the conceptual perspective of ‘the political’ and redefining the notions of ‘othering’ ‘differentiation’ and ‘normalisation’ this volume renders a new and much-needed theoretical and empirical outlook onto the policy developments and their practices. By unpacking and connecting security regional institutional normative and sector-thematic policy dimensions the book seeks to re-politicise the agenda and re-focus policy revision on understanding the fundamentals of power relations when applied to the EU external relations. In light of the compounding crises external and internal one can no longer afford to simply tinker around the edges of the policy content and instruments. A more radical theoretical undertaking is overdue to re-shape re-define and re-centre the EU relations with the eastern region especially put in the context of the new EU’s Global Security Strategy and the new aspirations for the 2017 European Neighbourhood summit. The chapters originally published as a special issue in East European Politics. | ‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

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The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487 The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and Lancaster for thirty years culminating in the dramatic events on Bosworth Field in 1485. As well as offering a comprehensive account of the campaigns battles and sieges of the conflict the book also assesses the commanders and men involved and considers the weapons and tactics employed. Photographs maps and portraits of the principal characters help to bring the period to life whilst the fast-paced narrative conveys a sense of what it was actually like to fight in battles such as Towton or Tewkesbury the effect of the arrow storm and the grim realities of hand-to-hand combat with edged and bladed weapons. Skilfully weaving in political and social events to place the conflict in its context The Red Rose and the White is a fascinating exploration of the turbulent period that would change the course of British history forever. | The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

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The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

Originally published in 1982 The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society. In both cases as the author shows the magician encounters profound god-energies of the spirit and it is up to the individual to interpret these experiences in psychological or mythological terms. The book demonstrates that both shamanism and magic offer techniques of approaching the visionary sources of our culture. | The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

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The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry with special emphasis on appliances from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. | The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

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The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a film project. This book offers a unique approach to learning how lenses can produce aesthetically and narratively compelling images in movies through a close examination of the various ways lens techniques control the look of space movement focus flares distortion and the optical personality of your story’s visual landscape. Loaded with vivid examples from commercial independent and world cinema The Language of the Lens presents dozens of insightful case studies examining their conceptual narrative and technical approaches to reveal how master filmmakers have harnessed the power of lenses to express the entire range of emotions themes tone atmosphere subtexts moods and abstract concepts. The Language of the Lens provides filmmakers at any level or experience with a wealth of knowledge to unleash the full expressive power of any lens at their disposal whether they are shooting with state-of-the-art cinema lenses or a smartphone and everything in between. | The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

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We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1 750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work while never denying economic motivation as a factor also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians political scientists economists and American studies specialists. | We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

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The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

In this collection of studies by James M. Powell two related centres of attention can be seen. One is the campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean chiefly in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries - the Crusades - the reasons for them and manner in which they were organized and promoted. The other is the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II himself a Crusader and its society and economy including its Muslim population. A characteristic feature is the author's interest in ordinary participants and the attempt to get behind the generalizations of macro-historians to the extent that may be possible. | The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

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