An Example For All The Land

Author : Kate Masur
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899321

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An Example for All the Land by Kate Masur Pdf

An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised study explores how concerns about public and private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period's debate over rights and citizenship.

Author : Eric Denis,Marie-Hélène Zérah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788132236160

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Subaltern Urbanisation in India by Eric Denis,Marie-Hélène Zérah Pdf

​This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.

Author : Elena Milanova
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482294477

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Understanding Land-Use and Land-cover Change in Global and Regional Context by Elena Milanova Pdf

Most of the papers of this book were presented in the "IGU-LUCC 2003 Moscow Workshop on Global and Regional Land Use/Cover Changes" and at International Conference "Society and Environment Interaction Under Global and Regional Changes" which was held in Barnaul (Altai), Russia in summer 2003.

Author : Stephen L. Pevar
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814767184

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The Rights of Indians and Tribes by Stephen L. Pevar Pdf

Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.

Author : Ephraim Nkonya,Alisher Mirzabaev,Joachim von Braun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319191683

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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development by Ephraim Nkonya,Alisher Mirzabaev,Joachim von Braun Pdf

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Author : Ulla Secher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782253761

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Aboriginal Customary Law: A Source of Common Law Title to Land by Ulla Secher Pdf

Described as 'ground-breaking' in Kent McNeil's Foreword, this book develops an alternative approach to conventional Aboriginal title doctrine. It explains that aboriginal customary law can be a source of common law title to land in former British colonies, whether they were acquired by settlement or by conquest or cession from another colonising power. The doctrine of Common Law Aboriginal Customary Title provides a coherent approach to the source, content, proof and protection of Aboriginal land rights which overcomes problems arising from the law as currently understood and leads to more just results. The doctrine's applicability in Australia, Canada and South Africa is specifically demonstrated. While the jurisprudential underpinnings for the doctrine are consistent with fundamental common law principles, the author explains that the Australian High Court's decision in Mabo provides a broader basis for the doctrine: a broader basis which is consistent with a re-evaluation of case-law from former British colonies in Africa, as well as from the United States, New Zealand and Canada. In this context, the book proffers a reconceptualisation of the Crown's title to land in former colonies and a reassessment of conventional doctrines, including the doctrine of tenure and the doctrine of continuity. 'With rare exceptions ... the existing literature does not probe as deeply or question fundamental assumptions as thoroughly as Dr Secher does in her research. She goes to the root of the conceptual problems around the legal nature of Indigenous land rights and their vulnerability to extinguishment in the former colonial empire of the Crown. This book is a formidable contribution that I expect will be influential in shifting legal thinking on Indigenous land rights in progressive new directions.' From the Foreword by Professor Kent McNeil (to read the Foreword please click on the 'sample chapter' link).

Author : Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Communism
ISBN : 9780992329730

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Communism by Kiyoshi Kobayashi Pdf

Book three of Kiyoshi Kobayashi's memoir and philosophical treatise. Communist doctrines and practice in Russia and China.

Author : Christine Koggel
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551117485

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Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 2: Human Diversity and Equality - Second Edition by Christine Koggel Pdf

Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on current moral issues by moral and political theorists from around the globe. Each volume seeks to challenge the standard approaches to morality and moral issues shaped by Western liberal theory and to extend the inquiry beyond the context of North America. Covering a broad range of issues and arguments, this collection includes critiques of traditional liberal accounts of rights, justice, and moral values, while raising questions about the treatment of disadvantaged groups within and across societies affected by globalization. Providing new perspectives on issues such as war and terrorism, reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, and the environment, each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective incorporates work by race, class, feminist, and disability theorists. Human Diversity and Equality, the second of the three volumes, examines issues of equality and difference and the effects, within and across borders, of kinds of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, class, and sexual orientation. Nine essays are new, four of which were written especially for this volume. Moral Issues in Global Perspective is available in three separate volumes—Moral and Political Theory, Human Diversity and Equality, and Moral Issues.

Author : Frank H. Baumgardner
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875863658

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Killing for Land in Early California by Frank H. Baumgardner Pdf

"This is a history of the clash between the White settlers and the Native Americans in what is now an affluent county in California. The frontier wars gave land and gold to Whites and reservations to the Native Americans. Eyewitness accounts and extensive research show the conflicting roles played by the Army, State Legislature and the US Congress"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Arthur Henry Joel,Charles Calvert Smoot,Charles Knesal Cooperrider,Clarence Sheldon Slater,Cyril Oliver Bratley,Eugenia Cuvillier,George Henry Hepting,George Luther Schnur,George W. Barber,George Wallace Musgrave,Harold Blaisdell Shepard,Herbert George Barott,James Stewart Wiant,James William Park,Lawrence Zeleny,Lewis Bertie Olmstead,Margaret Blanche Hays,Norman Julian Wall,Paul Lewis Harding,R. L. Piemeisel,R. W. Leukel,Stephen Harold Hastings,Stuart Bevier Show,William Henry Black,Barnard Andrew Hendricks,Dan Hansen,David Augustus Coleman,E. I. Kotok,Edwin Alfonso Trowbridge,F. F. Dicke,Francis Raymond Lawson,George Grant Hedgcock,Jacob Martin Lutz,Oscar Roland Mathews,R. S. Holmes,Ralph Wylie Frey,Robert Arthur Norton,J. I. Hardy,Dean Humboldt Rose,Horace Greeley Byers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Agricultural credit
ISBN : OSU:32435027441104

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Soil Erosion and Stream Flow on Range and Forest Lands of the Upper Rio Grande Watershed in Relation to Land Resources and Human Welfare by Arthur Henry Joel,Charles Calvert Smoot,Charles Knesal Cooperrider,Clarence Sheldon Slater,Cyril Oliver Bratley,Eugenia Cuvillier,George Henry Hepting,George Luther Schnur,George W. Barber,George Wallace Musgrave,Harold Blaisdell Shepard,Herbert George Barott,James Stewart Wiant,James William Park,Lawrence Zeleny,Lewis Bertie Olmstead,Margaret Blanche Hays,Norman Julian Wall,Paul Lewis Harding,R. L. Piemeisel,R. W. Leukel,Stephen Harold Hastings,Stuart Bevier Show,William Henry Black,Barnard Andrew Hendricks,Dan Hansen,David Augustus Coleman,E. I. Kotok,Edwin Alfonso Trowbridge,F. F. Dicke,Francis Raymond Lawson,George Grant Hedgcock,Jacob Martin Lutz,Oscar Roland Mathews,R. S. Holmes,Ralph Wylie Frey,Robert Arthur Norton,J. I. Hardy,Dean Humboldt Rose,Horace Greeley Byers Pdf

Author : Mark Elmore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520290549

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Becoming Religious in a Secular Age by Mark Elmore Pdf

"Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age narrates their discovery and the ways it transformed their relations to their pasts, to themselves, and to others. And as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity more generally. Tracing the emergence of religion as a widely accepted category, Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. To become modern ethical subjects is to become religious, and this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Shimeon Bar-Efrat
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850751335

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Narrative Art in the Bible by Shimeon Bar-Efrat Pdf

"This new series is designed with the needs of introductory level students in mind. It will also appeal to general readers who want to be better informed about the latest advances in our understanding of the Bible and of the intellectual, political and religious world in which it was formed." "The authors in this series bring to light the methods and insights of a whole range of disciplines - including archaeology, history, literary criticism and the social sciences - while also introducing fresh insights and approaches arising from their own research."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : A. Allan Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317513759

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Converting Land from Rural to Urban Uses (Routledge Revivals) by A. Allan Schmid Pdf

This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular. Ultimately, this book aims to develop the information useful to public decisions on zoning, taxation, public investments, transport systems, new towns, and so on, as they might affect the cost and quality of the conversion process. This book will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11486679

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Report on the administration of Assam by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ingle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000599947

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Church Property So-called:- who are Its Real Owners? Seven Lectures Delivered in the Church of S. Olave, Exter, in January and February 1876 (To which are Added Remarks on Mr. R.W. Dale's Recent Article in the Fortnightly Review and Mr. J.C. William's Pamphlet on the Burial Bill.). by John Ingle Pdf