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The contributors to this book analyse the major types of international response to state terror since the Cold War and their outcomes and wider implications for the future of international relations.

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This book seeks to resolve the disconnections in research and governance by breaking down interdisciplinary barriers to develop innovatory food security solutions.

This bookseeks to resolve the disconnections in research and governanceby breaking down interdisciplinary barriers to develop innovatory food security solutions.

A collection of some of the best known geographers currently writing on gender and sexuality. Issues such as citizenship, work, domestic and homophobic violence and marginalized sexual identities are examined within a geographical context.

In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world. This fascinating case study reveals the spatial fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower, and offers a welcome non-state dimension to current work on studies of governmentality in geography.

Excerpt from The English in Spain: Or the Story of the War of Succession Between 1834 and 1840One of the chief difficulties to be encountered by the student of Spanish history lies in the absence of maps of sufficient accuracy and detail to enable the frequent move ments of the opposing armies to be traced and understood. The accompanying Map demands the reader's indulgence.The Author of England's Artillerymen, Mr. James Browne, has with his u...

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Single mothers are seen in different ways around the industrialized world: as mothers, workers or an uneasy combination of the two. This collection explores variations in state policy, labour markets and the status of single mothers.

Examining constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature, this book analyzes texts ranging from the 1890s through the 1990s. It provides a historical context for the author's discussion of how Italian narrative sheds light on Italian homosexuality and on the issues attending contemporary sexuality, including factors such as race.

Excerpt from A Description of the Island of St. Helena: Containing Observations on Its Singular Structure and Formation, And an Account of Its Climate, Natural History, and Inhabitants Perhaps some persons, who shall in future visit St. Helena, may not be able at once to discover in its structure all that order and regularity which are here described. For, at first sight, and to those who only take a superficial view of some parts of it, ther...

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No book will ever come closer than this to providing an inside overview of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover's nuclear propulsion program. The author, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) historian assigned to the admiral's office, spent years observing the project and its controversial leader in action, and the insights he provides here reflect both his familiarity with the subject and his ability to remain an objective observer. From 1974 to the day Ri...

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This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis on the importance of luck and risk management while deemphasizing the importance of honesty and hard work. Duncan discusses the history of gambling in A...

James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.

James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.

In this highly influential study of art forms as models for a theory of communications, Hugh Dalziel Duncan demonstrates that without understanding of the role of symbols in society, social scientists cannot hope to develop adequate models for social analysis. He reviews critically major contributions to communication theory during the past century: Freud's analysis of dream symbolism, Simmel's concept of sociability, James' insights into reli...