Lord Leverhulme S Ghosts

Author : Jules Marchal
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784786335

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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts by Jules Marchal Pdf

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme’s rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.

Author : Ewout Frankema,Frans Buelens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136759475

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Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development by Ewout Frankema,Frans Buelens Pdf

Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature analyzing the marked differences in economic and political development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era. Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and development economics.

Author : Christoph Lindner,Miriam Meissner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317554431

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Global Garbage by Christoph Lindner,Miriam Meissner Pdf

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate – but also sometimes counter – the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis.

Author : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,Eric Ndushabandi,Kopano Ratele
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781991201584

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Historical trauma and memory by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,Eric Ndushabandi,Kopano Ratele Pdf

How wounds from a previous generation may weigh on children and grandchildren contain much of interest. Yet if we unpack the ghostly, the eerie, and the spectral in transgenerational hauntings, if we allow for the suffering or the disturbed to forge social links, such contacts may enable breaking into reconnections and afterlives. … One only needs to think of the near epidemic of rape in South Africa to sense violent hypermasculinity erupting as madness, mediated by a history of brutal, racialised reduction. But it is also important to move beyond the brutalities and madness, to consider the individual and collective refigurations surfacing out of layers of catastrophe. Nancy Rose Hunt: Conference Keynote Address, “Beyond Trauma? Notes on a Word, a Frame, and a Diagnostic Category.” Historical Trauma and Memory: Living with the Haunting Power of the Past is based on essays presented at a conference with the same name which was held in Kigali, Rwanda in April 2019. The book gives readers front row seats as an interdisciplinary group of scholars from law, psychology, history, the arts, anthropology, theology, and philosophy address the complex matrix of the emotional legacies of historical trauma, cultural legacies, people interacting with their social and political environment, and the interplay of these factors in different post-conflict societies.

Author : Charles Lord Halifax Lindley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338045997

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Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Charles Lord Halifax Lindley Pdf

"Lord Halifax's Ghost Book" by Charles Lord Halifax Lindley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Charles Lindley,Vicount Halifax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : OCLC:255314147

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Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Charles Lindley,Vicount Halifax Pdf

Author : Charles Lindley Wood Halifax (Viscount)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 1555211232

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Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book by Charles Lindley Wood Halifax (Viscount) Pdf

Author : Sven Beckert,Christine Desan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231546065

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American Capitalism by Sven Beckert,Christine Desan Pdf

The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more. But an understanding of the history of American capitalism is as elusive as it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism change our understanding of American history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the racialization of capitalism; labor beyond industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and contested by participants, how it spreads across the globe, and how it can be reconceptualized without being universalized. A major statement for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work that the history of capitalism can provoke.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0855946407

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Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony E. Grudin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520383579

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Like a Little Dog by Anthony E. Grudin Pdf

A bold, compelling, and original study of nonhuman life in Warhol. Like a Little Dog examines a dimension of Andy Warhol that has never received critical attention: his lifelong personal and artistic interest in nonhuman life. With this book, Anthony E. Grudin offers an engaging new overview of the iconic artist through the lens of animal and plant studies, showing that Warhol and his collaborators wondered over the same questions that absorb these fields: What qualities do humans share with other life forms? How might the vulnerability of life and the unpredictability of desire link them together? Why has the human/animal/plant hierarchy been so rigidly, violently enforced? Nonhuman life impassioned every area of Warhol’s practice, beginning with his juvenilia and an unusually close creative collaboration with his mother, Julia Warhola. The pair codeveloped a transgressive animality that permeated Warhol’s prolific career, from his commercial illustration and erotica to his writing and, of course, his painting, installation, photography, and film. Grudin shows that Warhol disputed the traditional claim that culture and creativity distinguish the human from the merely animal and vegetal, instead exploring the possibility of art as an earthy and organic force, imbued with appetite and desire at every node. Ultimately, by arguing that nonhuman life is central to Warhol’s work in ways that mirror and anticipate influential texts by Toni Morrison and Ocean Vuong, Like a Little Dog opens an entirely unexplored field in Warhol scholarship.

Author : Tapiwa N. Mucherera,Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498221887

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Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts by Tapiwa N. Mucherera,Emmanuel Y. Lartey Pdf

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical, theological, social scientific, and cultural contextual perspectives, these African Christians offer much needed insights to assist in the care and counseling of persons towards healing, health, and well-being.

Author : Derek Byerlee,Walter P. Falcon,Rosamond Naylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190222987

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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution by Derek Byerlee,Walter P. Falcon,Rosamond Naylor Pdf

The overall aim of the book is to provide a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers of the rapid expansion of oil crops in the tropics; its economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. After introducing the dramatic surge in oil crops, chapters provide a comparative perspective from different producing regions for two of the world's most important crops, oil palm and soybeans in the tropics. The following chapters examine the drivers of demand of vegetable oils for food, animal feed, and biodiesel and introduce the reader to price formation in vegetable oil markets and the role of trade in linking consumers across the world to distant producers in a handful of exporting countries. The remaining chapters review evidence on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the oil crop revolution in the tropics. While both economic benefits and social and environmental costs have been huge, the outlook is for reduced trade-offs and more sustainable outcomes as the oil crop revolution slows and the global, national, and local communities converge on ways to better managed land use changes and land rights.

Author : Elena Cavagnaro,George H. Curiel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000626353

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The Three Levels of Sustainability by Elena Cavagnaro,George H. Curiel Pdf

Understanding the complexity of sustainability is crucial for the leadership of business organizations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations. This second edition of the bestselling book The Three Levels of Sustainability uses the same interdependent three-level and three-dimensional framework as the first edition, encompassing societal, organizational, and individual levels, to clearly demonstrate what sustainability means and how to implement it. This new edition incorporates important developments in reporting and measuring, corporate behaviors, the impact of COVID-19, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. More and more societies are becoming aware of their dependence on earth’s resources. However, there is still a deep-rooted lack of awareness of the connection between society’s ambitions for economic growth, earth’s limitations, and unequal distribution of wealth. Prominent institutions and organizations and their leaders rely on the conformable belief that "more quantity" equals "more quality" and that "more growth" equals "more development". Although some progress has been made since the publication of the first edition, the world is increasingly characterized by division, rising dissatisfaction, and growing inequality between countries, communities, and people. At the same time, it is anticipated that global warming will reach a point of no return between 2030 and 2052. The fundamental paradigm shift in the way the development process must be navigated is better served by a holistic and inclusive, multilevel and multidimensional approach meant to gradually align the critical institutional and individual factors essential to the pathway toward sustainable development. The book has been established as an excellent primer to explain the complex issues around sustainability for postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as busy professionals and those already in management and leadership positions in the private, public, or non-profit sectors.

Author : Des Fitzgerald
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781541674516

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The Living City by Des Fitzgerald Pdf

A sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything—and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure. However, argues sociologist Des Fitzgerald, green spaces are not the panacea that people think. In The Living City, Fitzgerald tours the international green city movement that has flourished across the world and discovers the deep, sometimes troubling, roots of our desire to connect cities to nature. Talking to policy makers, planners, scientists, and architects, Fitzgerald suggests that underneath the wish to turn future cities green is another wish: to make the modern city, and perhaps the modern world, disappear altogether. Ultimately, he makes an argument for celebrating the contemporary city as it is—in all its noisy, constructed, artificial glory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858045086778

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G.K.'s Weekly by Anonim Pdf