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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Travellers in Africa
British travelogues, 1850-1900
by Timothy Youngs
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Security sector reform in transforming societies
Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro
by Timothy Edmunds
This book is about the relationship between societies and their security forces at times of great political and societal change. It uses the experiences of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro to examine the control, management and reform of armed forces, police and intelligence agencies in the aftermath of conflict and authoritarianism. The book assesses the theory and practice of security sector reform programmes in the context of Europe and the Western Balkans, the relationship between security sector reform and normative international policy more generally, and the broader dynamics of post-conflict and post-authoritarian transformation. In so doing it addresses two underlying questions. First, how and in what ways does reform in the security sector interrelate with processes of domestic political and societal transformation, particularly democratisation. Second, how and in what ways do these processes relate and respond to internationally-driven efforts to promote a particular type of security sector reform as a component of wider peacebuilding and democracy promotion strategies.
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Agriculture & related industriesMarch 2003Banana Wars
The Anatomy of a Trade Dispute
by Edited by Timothy E Josling, Timothy G Taylor
In 2001, the EU and US announced the end of a trade dispute over the sale of bananas into the EU market. The allocation of import licences had been found to violate World Trade Organization rules and to discriminate against suppliers from Latin America.This book examines the issues surrounding the dispute, in particular: the dependence of small Carribean economies on European Banana Markets; the role of the private sector in influencing public policy; the relation between the banana trade and the political tensions of the EU Common Agricultural Policy; the domestic political influence of banana companies in the US and the role of the WTO and its settlement of trade disputes.
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June 1996Die Zulässigkeit vergleichender Werbung aufgrund gemeinschaftsrechtlicher Vorgaben.
Das Leitbild des mündigen Verbrauchers und die Öffnung der nationalen Märkte.
by Krüger, Timothy
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1980German into English, II.
21 kommentierte Paralleltexte (einschliesslich Staatsexamensklausuren) für den fortgeschrittenen Anglisten
by Buck, Timothy
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1979German into English I.
Deutsch-englische Paralleltexte mit Übersetzungshinweisen
by Buck, Timothy
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2019The British tradition of minority government
by Timothy Peacock
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Forestry & related industriesJuly 2000Forest Conservation Genetics
Principles and Practice
by Edited by Anthony Young, David Boshier, Timothy Boyle
Effective management of forest genetic resources is a key element in future forest conservation. Genetic diversity is essential for both the long-term stability and the short-term productivity of forest ecosystems. Hence there is a great need for information on forest conservation genetics. The book consists of 22 chapters and is divided into five parts integrating genetic, ecological and socioeconomic information. It also includes, as a CD-ROM, the population genetics software package POPGENE. Contributors include international authorities from the USA and Canada, Europe, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
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July 2011Origenes Orientalis
The Preservation of Origen's Hexapla in the Syrohexapla of 3 Kingdoms
by Law, Timothy M.
