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Most books about the Irish Famine tend to take Ireland's reliance on potato for granted and treat the arrival of the deadly blight in 1845 as merely the trigger event that launched a humanitarian crisis-one that the British government famously failed to manage. In this work, considerable attention is paid to the origins and nature of Ireland's dangerous potato dependency. Although introduced into Ireland as a cultivated plant, the potato nevertheless had the impact of an invasive species, disrupting and reorganizing Irish agriculture. Drawing upon ecology and systems theory, this study provides a detailed account of the intricacies of Ireland's potato economy built upon an unstable and unsustainable monoculture that became a cybernetic trap. When almost the whole potato crop failed in the fall of 1846, what began as an ecological disaster quickly became a political one. Hampered by long-standing prejudice and Anglo-Irish tensions, the British government's various attempts to deal with the humanitarian crisis were muddled by competing economic and social goals. Among these was the idea that the Famine represented an "e;opportunity"e; to purge Ireland of fragmented land holding and potato dependency by encouraging an English-type market-driven agriculture. Changes did occur, but the government's imperial dreams eventually ran up against Irish realities.This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work shows how cultural, economic and political influences shaped British attitudes and policies. Although Britain's policies reflected anti-Irish prejudices, it was not the "e;Irish people"e; who were the victims of the Famine, but rather the Irish poor. By the mid-1840s, Great Britain was an emerging, middle-class democracy imbued with a faith in free markets and a deep suspicion of the poor, English as well as Irish. The Government's response to the Irish Famine reflects the problems democracies often have setting aside class and racial prejudice in order to deal with humanitarian crises.

In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.

Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of "Iran," this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland's partition and the founding of Irish Free State in 1922.

This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939.

The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed to achieve a substantial impact on views about Brazil, by means of conveying a well-planned message.

This book investigates the Brazilian health cooperation in Mozambique through the implementation of a pharmaceutical factory in Maputo.

Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx 'to the field' in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.

The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever's quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing tensions between rich and poor. In The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman Smit reconstructs the lessons we can learn from a courageous pioneer who was also ahead of his time.

The Insider's Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.

Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.

The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a "true blue" Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul's deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.

The High School Placement Test (HSPT), is a high school entrance exam taken by students in grade 8 seeking admission to parochial high schools. This HSPT Test Prep book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the HSPT: Verbal Skills, Quantitative Skills, Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary, Mathematics Concepts, and Language Arts. There are almost 900 questions across three full-length practice tests. Each test comes with test taking directions, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real HSPT.The book is developed in collaboration with a successful HSPT test prep institute with years of test prep experience with hundreds of successful students. It will help students not only get familiar with the HSPT in general, but even help them ace the test. The book also includes how the HSPT results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.

This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Bauman's ideas - his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research - remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters devoted to different aspects of Bauman's work and ideas, and all chapters are devoted to the presentation and discussion of themes and ideas that were characteristic of Bauman's way of doing and writing sociology.

This book builds on Le Bon's classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.

This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne's greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne's recurring themes.

This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Ab¿ ¿¿mid al-Ghaz¿l¿ (d. 1111). Al-Ghaz¿l¿ contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.

The book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American exceptionalism; civic discourse; the Trump presidency; campus life; and immigration, citizenship, and refugee policy. The author, a self-described "militant moderate," draws on his participation as a commentator in these and many other public debates.

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcock's films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.

Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.

The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spatial literary studies, cultural critique, globalization and postmodernity.

Jean Lescure's General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.