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Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first-century-North American stages and screens seen through the lenses of casting design and adaptation with attention paid to why these patterns persist and what wishes they fulfil. Witch Fulfillment examines the Witch in performance considering how actors embody iconic roles designated as witches (casting) and how dramaturgical choices (adaptation) heighten their witchy power. Through analysis of Witch characters ranging from Elphaba to Medea classic plays such as The Crucible and Macbeth feminist adaptations - including Sycorax Obeah Opera and Jen Silverman’s Witch - and popular culture offerings like the Scarlet Witch and Jinkx Monsoon this book examines the dramaturgical meanings of adapting and embodying witchy roles in the twenty-first century. This book contends that the Witch represents a crucial category of analysis for inclusive theatre and performance and will be of interest to theatre practitioners and designers along with theatre witchcraft and occult studies scholars.

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The Story of the Salem Witch Trials

The Story of the Salem Witch Trials

Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22 1692 when nineteen people were hanged one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts. This book explores the history of that event and provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject. It places the trials into the context of the Great European Witch-Hunt and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England. Now in a third edition this book has been updated to include an expanded section on the European origins of witch-hunts an updated and expanded epilogue (which discusses the witch-hunts real and imagined historical and cultural since 1692) and an extensive bibliography. This complex and difficult subject is covered in a uniquely accessible manner that captures all the drama that surrounded the Salem witch trials. From beginning to end the reader is carried along by the author’s powerful narration and mastery of the subject. While covering the subject in impressive detail Bryan Le Beau maintains a broad perspective on the events and wherever possible lets the historical characters speak for themselves. Le Beau highlights the decisions made by individuals responsible for the trials that helped turn what might have been a minor event into a crisis that has held the imagination of students of American history. This third edition of The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is essential for students and scholars alike who are interested in women’s and gender history colonial American history and early modern history.

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Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters each written by a leading scholar cover most regions of Europe from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany France and Switzerland and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology witch-hunting and early modern Europe.

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The Routledge History of Witchcraft

The Routledge History of Witchcraft

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts and onwards to children’s books horror films and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical literary religious and anthropological origin and development including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Each chapter offers a glimpse of a different version of the witch introducing the reader to the diversity of witches that have existed in different contexts throughout history. Exploring a wealth of texts and case studies and offering a broad geographical scope for examining this fascinating subject The Routledge History of Witchcraft is essential reading for students and academics interested in the history of witchcraft.

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History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre The Meaning of Evil

History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre The Meaning of Evil

This book draws on a range of key archives and oral testimonies to provide the first systematic and historical study of the origins context development frustrations inner contradictions and legacies of the Columbus Centre. The Columbus Centre a remarkable though largely forgotten research institute was established at the University of Sussex in 1966 triggered by claims of a dearth of academic research about Nazism and the Holocaust. Its basic stated aim was to bring together psychoanalysis and history for a scholarly investigation of discrimination mass violence and the preconditions of genocide in the past and the present. The Nazi crimes were studied along with other instances of prejudice and mass violence such as sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witch-hunts South African apartheid the persecution of the Roma people and race relations in the United States and modern-day Britain. The book seeks to place the Columbus Centre in the historiography of mass violence by analysing the Centre’s works through four historiographical prisms or power relations in which they were produced: psychoanalysis class race and gender. This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable text for scholars and students of historiography psychoanalysis genocide and violence and postwar Europe and for professionals within the field of psychology. | History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre The Meaning of Evil

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Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft Inherently Human

Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft Inherently Human

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions. It takes a new approach to this area within the anthropology of religion demonstrating that the bases for these beliefs and alleged practices are inherent in human cognition and psychology even instinctual and likely rooted in our evolutionary biology. It shows how magic and magical thinking are regular elements in people’s daily lives and that understanding the components of the witchcraft complex offers surprisingly important insights into patterns of thinking and social behavior. The book reviews the many meanings of “magic” and “witchcraft ” and introduces the best anthropological meanings of the terms. The components of these beliefs are timeless and universal; this fact and recent advances in the brain sciences suggest that the principles of magic are derived from basic processes of human thinking and the attributes of the witch derive from neurobiologically based fears and fantasies. The propensity for such beliefs probably had adaptive significance in the evolutionary development of the human species; they are inherently human. This book is intended to focus anew on the core concepts of magic witchcraft and the supernatural while also serving as an introduction to the anthropology of religion for undergraduate and graduate-level courses. | Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft Inherently Human

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Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

Cosimo Schinaia and Psychoanalysis and Ecology are winners of the IPA Climate Award! This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa. The gravity of the environmental crisis is amply clear and yet in the face of such incontrovertible evidence there is an emotional more than cognitive difficulty in comprehending the present reality and its future consequences. In understanding the collective imagination as permeating the individual one and vice versa this book investigates this relationship of mutual co-determination between the individual traumatic stories told and experienced in the consulting room and the positive or negative environmental attitudes exhibited by patients. The pairing of clinical vignettes with dispatches from the collective imagination sheds light on the confused affective investments and anxieties that propel pathological defenses such as negation suppression intellectualization displacement and disavowal. The final chapter concludes with notes on the role of hope in a damaged world and the importance of integrity within the psychoanalytic field and beyond. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists and psychiatrists as well as anthropologists environmentalists and ecologists. | Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

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Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals as well as the interested public in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory and how this differs from other areas of memory. This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology law psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause. This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resisting disclosure. | Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

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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 Microbiome and the Brain

The Microbiome and the Brain

Brain related disorders are among the most challenging health issues of our time. The development of effective therapeutic and preventive strategies for these disorders relies on a comprehensive understanding of the underlying causative mechanisms. And until recently these mechanisms have remained somewhat elusive. The newly discovered pivotal role of the intestinal microbiome in brain health functionality and resistance to disease is revolutionizing neuroscience. The Microbiome and the Brain through the contributions of some of the most forward thinking researchers and clinicians in the field comprehensively reveals the leading edge of our understanding of the fundamental role of gut microbes and their metabolites in a wide array of seemingly diverse brain issues including Alzheimer’s disease autism multiple sclerosis and mood disorders. In addition mechanisms defining these relationships are explored along with a presentation of the state-of-the-art as it relates to interpretation of relevant laboratory assessments. Finally novel therapeutic opportunities derived from this exciting science are presented. Readers will learn:The highly validated relationship between alterations of gut microbes and their metabolites and risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The important link between autism and intestinal dysbiosis. Appropriate interpretation of available laboratory assessments of the intestinal microbiome. The potential role of fecal microbial transplant in neurological diseases. The influence of diet and other lifestyle choices on the microbiome as it relates to brain health and functionality.

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Organizations and the Bioeconomy The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

Organizations and the Bioeconomy The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence consumption of health-related goods and services such as pharmaceuticals and scanning procedures may be seen as a sustainable source of income for the industries that promote it. Though the healthcare sector has traditionally been organized in the public sector in Europe and in the private sector in the US the recent advancement of new therapies and direct-to-consumer marketing have opened up new streams of consumption and revenue for health care goods and services around the globe. This book examines the so-called ‘bioeconomy’ as a new economic and commercial field that emphasizes the management of individual life including the regulation and control of weight and food consumption and other issues pertaining to individual well-being. In addition the bioeconomy includes a variety of practices based on commercial interests such as organ donations reproductive medicine and technologies and what has been referred to as the tissue economy – the various forms of trade with human tissues. Author Alexander Styhre provides a thorough introduction to the bioeconomy exploring this new and unique intersection of the life sciences and the technosciences with more traditional consumer markets. | Organizations and the Bioeconomy The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics the book redefines the critical picture of gender violence in the age of globalization adopting diverse methodological approaches and various disciplinary praxes in its investigation of the question of violence against women across the globe. With an international team of contributors comprising both scholars and activists this volume bridges the gap between academic and activist perspectives on gender violence. As such it will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality human rights cultural studies political science history postcolonialism and colonialism sociology anthropology philosophy and religion. | Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

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Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Although the phrase the American Dream dates from the 1930s the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expressed through both elite and popular culture. The American Dream is intrinsically tied to the American Creed and American Exceptionalism. It is the foundation of our national identity the glue that holds together our individual aspirations. Yet until the mid-twentieth century the American Dream excluded African Americans. We as a nation—as an imagined community—could not imagine an integrated multiracial society with Blacks and Whites living together as equals. By examining the lives of the only three African American Nobel Peace Prize winners we can see how their lives were shaped by the American Dream and how their success was used to deny the structural racism that prevented others from achieving the American Dream. Ralph Bunche as a role model of academic and technical expertise Martin Luther King Jr. as a model race leader and Barack Obama as a political leader provide a window on the changing meaning of the American Dream. In conclusion Haiti is presented as a failed example of an attempt to export the American Dream in the form of American Exceptionalism and racial reparations are reimagined as a radical democratic project aimed at true global integration and justice. | Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

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Psychoanalysis and Dreams Bion the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

Psychoanalysis and Dreams Bion the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro’s theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion’s theory of alpha function and the analytic field Ferro has developed his own original theorization of transformations in dreams and of work in the analytic session as a waking dream. Clearly highlighted in the book is Ferro’s theory that transformation in dreams is the activity which is constantly carried out in the mind of the analyst who nullifies the reality-status of the patient’s communication and considers the patient’s narrative as a dream which must be constructed in real time in the encounter between the two minds at work. At the centre of Ferro's theoretical proposal stands the transition from a psychoanalysis of contents to a psychoanalysis which develops the apparatus for thinking based on the conception of an unconscious in a perennial state of construction and transformation which must be dreamed and which continuously expands as it is dreamed. Psychoanalysis and Dreams is written for practicing and training psychoanalysts psychotherapists and psychiatrists and will be helpful in everyday psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. | Psychoanalysis and Dreams Bion the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

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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 Woman and the Dynamo Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

The Woman and the Dynamo Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

Novelist columnist cultural critic political theorist- Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 1930s renowned for her incisive wit and her unique interpretation of the American experience. The Woman and the Dynamo is the first biography of a woman who has long been a source of rumor and legend. From interviews private papers and her millions of published words Stephen Cox weaves a narrative that brings Paterson vividly to life. A radical individualist in both theory and practice Paterson spent her early life on the Western frontier lavished two years on formal education set a record for high-altitude flight became a journalist by accident and made herself a fearless chronicler and conscience of New York literary life. At the same time she made a permanent contribution to American political thought. Paterson identified the fundamental issues at stake in the crises of the twentieth century and responded with an original theory of history and political economy. In her view the individual mind is the dynamo of history working through the long circuit of institutions that maintain and enhance individual liberty; and America is the place where the advanced forms of those institutions were invented and are currently undergoing their severest trial. While other intellectuals derided the American ideal of progress and called for the restraint or abolition of the capitalist system Paterson demanded a scrupulous application of the engineering principles on which American civilization had been built. The Woman and the Dynamo provides one of the few broad and detailed accounts of the origins of the American political Right emphasizing the special role that women and imaginative writers played in its creation and posing new questions about what it means to be left or right liberal or conservative in America. This will be compelling reading for those interested in twentieth century intellectual history literature and politics. | The Woman and the Dynamo Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

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The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes The Art and the Science

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes The Art and the Science

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes provides a unique and integrative introduction to dream science. It addresses a notable gap in cognitive psychology on the subject of dreams and explores significant overlaps between the phenomena of dreams and jokes. Bringing together extensive research from cognitive psychology neuroscience and psychoanalysis the book provides a balanced approach to dream science that is underpinned by experimental and theoretical research. It considers the significance of dreams and their relationships to jokes examining how both require an understanding of latent content in which context and individual differences play a large part. The book outlines a history of dream research and dream science and includes several original dream extracts for discussion. The book’s chapters explore how we can interpret meaning in dreams how dreams might be indicators of inner psychological and somatic states whether dreams can be used in problem-solving and the relationship between dreams and aphasia memory and waking consciousness. This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for researchers and students from psychological and psychoanalytic backgrounds who are interested in the analysis and science of dreams. | The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes The Art and the Science

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Labour The Unions and the Party

Labour The Unions and the Party

First published in 1973. In this study the author adopts a historical approach tracing the evolution of socialist thinking during the past century and relating this to the growth of the union movement. The Taff Vale judgement the Osborne judgement the roles of the SDF the Fabians and the ILP - these episodes are re-examined from a novel perspective and the historical material is frequently illuminated by the use of contemporary analogies. The second half of the book presents an analytical study of differing union political theories and attitudes against the modern industrial background. Here the Marxist case is studied in depth and contrasted with the views of the Social Democrats. The author then considers the ownership and control of the economy industrial relations prices and incomes and inflation making it clear where he feels the movement should stand on the key political issues of today. Finally the book suggests the way in which the Labour Party and the trade unions should organise for power in the country. | Labour The Unions and the Party

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Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project. Showcasing the cultural politics of British imperialism this volume focuses on six early nationalist writers and their engagement with Shakespeare: Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Hemchandra Bandopadhay (1838–1903) Girishchandra Ghosh (1844–1912) Purnachandra Basu (1844–unknown) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bankimchandra Chattopadhaya(1838–1894) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and a host of prominent writers of cultural politics nationalism and Indian history this interdisciplinary approach combines postcolonial studies and Shakespeare studies in an attempt to reconcile the existence of an unbridled admiration for an English cultural icon in India alongside the rise of nationalism and a fierce resistance to British rule. The book finally moves to re-explore Shakespeare's position in academic political and popular nationalist discourses in postcolonial India. | Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

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Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes The Real the Virtual and the Cinematic

Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes The Real the Virtual and the Cinematic

This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix transform and transport us imaginatively physically and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games celebrity walking tours dark tourism sites Hobbiton as theme park surf movies and social gangs of Disneyland. How physical virtual and imagined locations create a sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is undergoing a revolution in technology travel modes and tourism behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape with provocative questions and investigations of social groups fan culture new technology and the wider changing trends in screen tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and scholars in film and tourism as well as geography design media and communication studies game studies and digital humanities. | Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes The Real the Virtual and the Cinematic

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Turkism and the Soviets The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives

Turkism and the Soviets The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives

Turkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish Russian and Western sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its importance in international relations. It thoroughly examines the two factors which give this huge ethnic group its great importance – the strategic position of their territories and secondly their homogeneity and common objectives. Throughout this book the role of the Turkish peoples is examined as an issue intimately connected with the problem of the USSR and Communism. The southern border of the Soviet Union divides the Turkish world into two halves and partially cuts through the living area of the Turkish people. This is the area which contains the most important Soviet oil fields. The section of the book which deals with the splintering away of the Turkic portions of the USSR is of vital importance. | Turkism and the Soviets The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives

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Articulating The Global And The Local Globalization And Cultural Studies

Articulating The Global And The Local Globalization And Cultural Studies

This book explores how discourses of the local the particular the everyday and the situated are being transformed by new discourses of globalization and transnationalism as used both by government and business and in critical academic discourse. Unlike other studies that have focused on the politics and economics of globalization Articulating | Articulating The Global And The Local Globalization And Cultural Studies

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Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Dist

Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Dist

The Morning Chronicle presented the state of the working classes of Britain before the public with clarity insight and honesty. Consisting mainly of verbatim statements from the people themselves it was a medium through which the previously inarticulate masses were able to speak with one firm voice. First published in 1983 this book collates the letters from correspondents based in Northumberland and Durham Staffordshire and the Midlands. The letters improve our knowledge of working-class life in nineteenth century England and Wales and provide a unique insight into the impact of industrialization. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of the working class labour and poverty. | Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Dist

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The Environment And Marxismleninism The Soviet And East German Experience

The Environment And Marxismleninism The Soviet And East German Experience

In the past two decades environmental pollution and natural resource shortages have evoked increasing concern in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The emerging ecological crisis has challenged many common assumptions in the Soviet bloc as in the West. This book provides for the first time a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the ecology debate in the USSR and its highly industrialized ally the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Based on a thorough examination of the Soviet and GDR sources Dr. DeBardeleben explores the authorities' attempts to explain the problem to their populations. She also examines the viewpoints of scientists writers and scholars with special attention to economic dimensions of the ecology debate. The study reveals the increasing sophistication of specialists in influencing public policy by adapting official values to support their positions. Through comparison of the Soviet and East German cases the study clarifies the impact of natural resource endowment and legitimacy dilemmas on treatment of the ecology issue. The book demonstrates that Marxist-Leninist values subtly affect Soviet and GDR responses but at the same time the environmental crisis is forcing a reevaluation of some aspects of Marxist-Leninist theory and ideology itself. | The Environment And Marxismleninism The Soviet And East German Experience

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