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Drone Futures UAS in Landscape and Urban Design

Drone Futures UAS in Landscape and Urban Design

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct application to the built environment; this book explores the myriad of contemporary and future possibilities of the design medium its aesthetic mapping agency AI mobility and contribution to smart cities. Drones present innovative possibilities operating in a ‘hover space’ between human scales of landscape observation and light aircraft providing a unique resolution of space. This book shows how UAS can be utilised to provide new perspectives on spatial layout landscape and urban conditions data capture for construction monitoring and simulation of design proposals. Author Paul Cureton examines both the philosophical use of these tools and practical steps for implementation by designers. Illustrated in full colour throughout Drone Futures discusses UAS and their connectivity to other design technologies and processes including mapping and photogrammetry AR/VR drone AI and drones for construction and fabrication new mobilities smart cities and city information models (CIMs). It is specifically geared towards professionals seeking to understand UAS applications and future development and students seeking an understanding of the role of drones and airspace in the built environment and its powerful geographic imaginary. With international contributions multidisciplinary sources and case studies Drone Futures examines new powers of flight for visualising interpreting and presenting landscapes and urban spaces of tomorrow. | Drone Futures UAS in Landscape and Urban Design

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Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing First

Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing First

This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the ‘pre-emptive’ use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-à-vis the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan the book shows that the debate surrounding this discourse encapsulates crucial tensions between the permission and limits of the right of self-defence. Drawing from the long history of God-given and man-made laws of war this book employs positivism as a legal frame to explore and explain the doctrine of pre-emption and analyses the doctrine of the state’s rights to self-defence as it stretches into pre-emptive or preventive use of force. The book investigates why the US chose the recourse to pre-emption through the use of combat drones in the ‘war on terror’ and whether there is a potential future for the pre-emption of terrorism through combat drones. The author argues that the policy to ‘kill first’ is easy to adopt; however any disregard for the web of legal requirements surrounding the policy has the potential to undercut the legal claims of an armed act. The book enables the framing and analysis of such controversies in legal terms as opposed to a choice between law and policy. An examination of the legal dilemma concerning drone warfare this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of international relations Asian politics South Asian studies and security studies in particular global security law new wars and emerging technologies of warfare. | Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing First

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The Big Book of Drones

The Big Book of Drones

Drones are taking the world by storm. The technology and laws governing them change faster than we can keep up with. The Big Book of Drones covers everything from drone law to laws on privacy discussing the history and evolution of drones to where we are today. If you are new to piloting it also covers how to fly a drone including a pre-flight checklist. For those who are interested in taking drones to the next level we discuss how to build your own using a 3D printer as well as many challenging projects for your drone. For the truly advanced The Big Book of Drones discusses how to hack a drone. This includes how to perform a replay attack denial of service attack and how to detect a drone and take it down. Finally the book also covers drone forensics. This is a new field of study but one that is steadily growing and will be an essential area of inquiry as drones become more prevalent.

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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’ an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector both traditional in techniques and institutions and a small but growing modern industrial sector. | The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

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Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

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Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic minority migrants are situated at the intersections of tourism migration and the informal sector. This book investigates the social economic and political embeddedness of street vendors in urban tourist contexts in Thailand. Based on extensive field research it presents a detailed analysis of urban-directed mobility patterns and revealing strategies and dilemmas in the urban souvenir business. Focusing on the development of urban ethnic minority souvenir stalls run mostly by people belonging to the highland group of Akha the author explains the spatial expansion of ethnic businesses and assesses the economic and political obstacles micro-entrepreneurs are confronted with. The book offers an understanding of the everyday practices and social relations of and between unequally powerful actors related to ethnic minority tourism in urban contexts and systematically integrates individual and collective action into socio-economic and politico-institutional contexts. A significant contribution to migration and ethnic minority studies in the Thai and Asian urban tourism context the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies tourism migration and ethnic minority studies. | Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience case studies from films such as Primer Coherence and Reservoir Dogs as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting. | Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

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The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society Drones Rendition and Invasion

The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society Drones Rendition and Invasion

This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power responsibility with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom American drone strikes in Pakistan and the post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition. This book argues that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 American drone attacks in Pakistan and the practice of extraordinary rendition are the examples of irresponsible actions undertaken by the U. S. acting as a great power in international society. Focusing on a major theoretical approach of International Relations the English School this book considers the responsibilities of great powers in international society. It points to three obligations of great powers: to act according to the norm of legality to act according to the norm of legitimacy and to adhere to the principles of prudence. The author applies the criteria of legality legitimacy and prudence to analyse the three foreign policy endeavours of the U. S. and developing a normative framework clarifies the implications for future U. S. foreign policy. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations international relations theory American politics foreign policy studies international law South Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies. | The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society Drones Rendition and Invasion

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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU ASEAN ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation. Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe Southeast Asia Latin America Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes and to clarify to what extent and under what conditions cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems. Scholars and students within politics sociology geography and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective. | Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

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Legitimacy and Drones Investigating the Legality Morality and Efficacy of UCAVs

Legitimacy and Drones Investigating the Legality Morality and Efficacy of UCAVs

Unmanned combat air vehicles or in common parlance 'drones' have become a prominent instrument in US efforts to counter an objective (and subjective) cross-border terrorist threat with lethal force. As a result critical questions abound on the legitimacy of their use. In a series of multidisciplinary essays by scholars with an extensive knowledge of international norms this book explores the question of legitimacy through the conceptual lenses of legality morality and efficacy it then closes with the consideration of a policy proposal aimed at incorporating all three indispensable elements. The importance of this inquiry cannot be overstated. Non-state actors fully understand that attacking the much more powerful state requires moving the conflict away from the traditional battlefield where they are at an enormous disadvantage. Those engaging in terrorism seek to goad the ruling government into an overreaction or abuse of power to trigger a destabilization via an erosion of its legitimacy. Thus defending the target of legitimacy”in this case insuring the use of deadly force is constrained by valid limiting principles”represents an essential strategic interest. This book seeks to come to grips with the new reality of drone warfare by exploring if it can be used to preserve rather than eat away at legitimacy. After an extensive analysis of the three key parameters in twelve chapters the practical proposition of establishing a 'Drone Court' is put forward and examined as a way of pursuing the goal of integrating these essential components to defend the citizenry and the legitimacy of the government at the same time. | Legitimacy and Drones Investigating the Legality Morality and Efficacy of UCAVs

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The Filmmaker's Eye Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition

The Filmmaker's Eye Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition

This fully revised and updated edition of the classic book on cinematic composition provides readers with the necessary skills and technical know-how to create polished and narratively eloquent images using a unique approach that combines an analytical technical and aesthetic understanding of the essential visual grammar of the shot. Containing well over a hundred full-color case studies this second edition was expanded to include brand-new shot types and was completely updated to reflect developments in filmmaking technology and practices including the DSLR revolution the advent of mirrorless and compact cinema cameras improvements in CMOS sensor performance the introduction of 4K and higher video resolutions and drone cinematography. The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition 2nd edition is essential reading for anyone with an interest in motion media and cinematic storytelling including independent filmmakers directors producers cinematographers editors as well as those studying filmmaking media aesthetics and film studies. | The Filmmaker's Eye Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition

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Design by Fire Resistance Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene

Design by Fire Resistance Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene

Across the world the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions we dwell in the age of fire – the Pyrocene – and the many challenges and climate adaptation questions it provokes. Exploring our past and current relationships with fire this book speculates on the pyro futures yet to be designed and cared for. Drawing upon fieldwork mapping drone imagery and interviews this publication curates 27 global design case studies within the vulnerable and dynamic wildland-urban interface and its adjacent wildlands. The book catalogs these examples into three approaches: those that resist the creative and transformative power of fire and forces of landscape change those that embrace and utilize those forces and those that intentionally try to retreat and minimize human intervention in fire-prone landscapes. Rather than serving as a book of neatly packaged solutions it is a book of techniques to be considered tested and evaluated in a time of fire. | Design by Fire Resistance Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene

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Global Politics A New Introduction

Global Politics A New Introduction

The third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective. Completely revised and updated throughout the third edition offers up-to-date examples engaging with the latest developments in global politics including the Syrian war and the refugee crisis fossil fuel divestment racism and Black Lives Matter citizen journalism populism and drone warfare. Global Politics: examines the most significant issues in global politics – from war peacebuilding terrorism security violence nationalism and authority to poverty development postcolonialism human rights gender inequality ethnicity and what we can do to change the world; offers chapters written to a common structure which is ideal for teaching and learning and features a key question an illustrative example general responses and broader issues; integrates theory and practice throughout the text by presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from a broad range of disciplines including international relations political theory postcolonial studies sociology geography peace studies and development this innovative textbook is essential reading for all students of global politics and international relations. | Global Politics A New Introduction

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Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Published in 1999. This book provides an analytical framework of the way culture influences entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a semi-industrial society. Culture provides rules and norms that govern societal behaviour. Yet it differs greatly in the way it influences economic performance across societies. The book which embodies both general and micro-institutional perspective on economic behaviour addresses the core question how does culture influence entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a developing society? | Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

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The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians and parents of children thought to be neurologically handicapped. Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman to explore the connections between micro and macro analysis in sociology and to reflect on the nature of medical practice in modern liberal societies. The book stands as a testament to Strong’s pursuit of methodological rigour in qualitative sociology. | The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

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The Transformation of Rural Africa

The Transformation of Rural Africa

Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas and in so doing provides important insights for policy action. The book provides valuable household- and farm-level evidence about the drivers of rural labour productivity improvements in access to markets investment in food value chains and indeed the role of rural economic growth in Africa’s ongoing rural transformation processes. Some of the features of Africa’s ongoing rural transformation are similar to those of agricultural transformation as experienced in Asia and elsewhere. However other features of Africa’s rural transformation are unique and pose important challenges for development policy and planning. Together the studies compiled in this volume provide an updated evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding of where African countries are in their developmental trajectories and the region’s prospects for achieving inclusive forms of development over the next several decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. | The Transformation of Rural Africa

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Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating to historical context philosophical assumptions policy implementation accountability teacher professionalism and standardization Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times critically engages the ways micro- and macro- neoliberal politics shapes the purposes and implementation of schooling. | Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

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An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

Originally published in 1978. This book is designed to enable students on main courses in economics to comprehend literature which employs econometric techniques as a method of analysis to use econometric techniques themselves to test hypotheses about economic relationships and to understand some of the difficulties involved in interpreting results. While the book is mainly aimed at second-year undergraduates undertaking courses in applied economics its scope is sufficiently wide to take in students at postgraduate level who have no background in econometrics - it integrates fully the mathematical and statistical techniques used in econometrics with micro- and macroeconomic case studies. | An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

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Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

This title was first published in 2003. Covering a diverse range of countries such as Bulgaria the Czech Republic Hungary Poland Slovakia Slovenia and Russia as well as referring to the characteristics of the region as a whole this book examines the inflow and outflow of foreign direct investment from both home and host company and country perspectives. By analyzing foreign direct investment in terms of process content and context the book provides a holist approach towards direct foreign investment in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe embracing both macro- and micro-economic perspectives of the process. | Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

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Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Many critical analyses of disability address important ‘macro’ concerns but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field and containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from around the world this book focuses on the taken-for-granted mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is reproduced and how this impacts on the lives of those with a disability family members and other allies. It departs from earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived mobilised and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus and navigating diverse social contexts chapters are united by a concern with foregrounding micro mundane moments for making sense of powerful discourses practices affects relations and world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different examples – including learning disabilities cerebral palsy dementia polio and Parkinson’s disease – contributions move beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation. Disability Normalcy and the Everyday should be considered essential reading for disability studies students and academics as well as professionals involved in health and social care. With contributions located within new and familiar debates around embodiment stigma gender identity inequality care ethics choice materiality youth and representation this book will be of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds including sociology anthropology humanities public health allied health professions science and technology studies social work and social policy.

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Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education examines the lived classroom experiences of six social studies teachers and the relevance of their discourse in framing the knowledge students receive about populations in the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on the socialization processes of schooling this book deconstructs the classroom experience and investigates the ways in which a macro-societal phenomenon—otherness—is reified in micro-societal interactions. Through the methodological lens of Critical Discourse Analysis this work illuminates the importance of teachers’ language in challenging and reinforcing portrayals that cast the diverse populations of the Middle East and Africa in the role of the other. | Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

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The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe

The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe

How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. Innovative in bringing together demographic and gender perspectives contributions in this comparative volume draw on newly available micro-level data as well as qualitative sources such as war diaries. In a first exploration intended to incite further research it asks how patterns of marriage and divorce were affected by the war across Europe and what the role of enduring change - or lack thereof - in gender relations was in shaping these patterns. | The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe

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