Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin LitchfieldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin LitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Proud to be a Rebel
Author: Pam YoungPublisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The African Roots of Marijuana
Author: Chris S. DuvallPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478004533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.
Power in Economic Thought
Author: Manuela MoscaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319940392
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active participation of economists in the management of power. The book is organized into four main conceptions of power relations: i) Power as embedded in political institutions; ii) Power as emerging from the asymmetric relations caused by the unequal distribution of income and wealth; iii) Power as associated to the monopolistic or oligopolistic position held by some firms in the market; and iv) Power as the management of economic policies by the state. Mosca brings together contributions from a range of scholars to analyse how economists have considered the role of power, putting the discussion into a much needed historical context.
Antiquarian Notes: a Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands. [Reprinted from the Inverness Advertiser and the Scottish Highlander.] 2 Ser
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Author: Charles Fraser MackintoshPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
Author: Sabine Baring-GouldPublisher:
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Ivy PinchbeckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136936904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles Darwin
Author: Henrietta Emma LitchfieldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Women in Prehistory
Author: Margaret R. EhrenbergPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
" "ocial attitudes in our culture have led to the assumption that early advances in human knowledge were the achievements of men; the role of women in prehistoric times has been largely overlooked. In this thought-provoking book, however, Margaret Ehrenberg argues that the true contribution of women especially in the discovery and development of agriculture was much greater than has been acknowledged to date. Examining the evidence from archaeological, anthropological, and classical documentary sources, Ehrenberg throws new light on the lives of women and their social status in Europe from the Palaeolithic era to the Iron Age. The relationship between the role of women and economic production is a central theme of this survey. In Bronze Age and Iron Age societies individual women are seen to be in positions of power. Although available evidence is fragmentary and often controversial, Ehrenberg shows how information can be gathered from skeletons and grave goods found in burials, from settlement sites, from rock carvings and sculpted figurines, as well as from anthropological parallels, to enable significant inferences to be drawn about the life of prehistoric women.
The Politics of Labour and Development in Trinidad
Author: Ray KielyPublisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766400170
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This thesis is a labour history of Trinidad and Tobago, concentrating on the period from 1937 to 1990. The study attempts to show that there is not a unified or homogenous working class, and for this reason both traditional Marxist and industrial relations theories are rejected. Instead, the history of labour focuses on how the working classes have been divided by factors such as race, gender, class structure and politics. These divisions are used as an explanation for the absence of a popular socialist party in the country. It concludes that the economic recession of the 1980s has led to the worst crisis in the history of the labour movement, but at the same time, this has laid the framework for a new strategy of social movement unionism, which attempts to constructively engage with, rather than ignore, divisions within the working classes. The main sources of data were documentary and archival material, and in particular, reports made by the British TUC and Colonial Office, industrial relations legislation, and trade union and political party documents and manifestoes. For the contemporary period, these sources of data were supplemented by fifteen interviews with leading figures in trade union and labour politics. The work is based on a macro approach to the study of labour, and as such constitutes a new and original approach to the study of labour in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, more contemporary trade union documents and interviews provided the researcher with new and original material.