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Leadership on the China Coast

Leadership on the China Coast

Originally published in 1984 Leadership on the China Coast brings together four independent empirical studies of leadership exercised on China’s southern coastland. Written by academics from across several disciplines the book presents a wealth of research on methods of constructing authority in China and on informal politics as a process integrated with formal bureaucratic administrations in which idiosyncratic leadership operates on all levels under shared ideological and legal constraints. Leadership on the China Coast will appeal to those with an interest in the social and political history of China.

GBP 27.99
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Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission community to sustain their efforts. | Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

GBP 175.00
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The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Their Customs Religion and Folklore

The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Their Customs Religion and Folklore

First published in 1920 Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast is a study of the ethnological attributes of a West African tribe. It was meant as a record of personal observations for European merchants soldiers or officials who wanted to explore and colonize West Africa. While a meticulous anthropologist the author does not claim to understand the reasons behind the practices of indigenous people. For the modern reader the overt racism might be unsettling but it is also evidence of the perceptions that propelled the white man’s research. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this republication. This book will be of interest to students of history anthropology and ethnic studies. | The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Their Customs Religion and Folklore

GBP 85.00
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The Akan Doctrine of God A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion

The Akan Doctrine of God A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion

First Published in 1968. Danquah's desire with this title is to expound Akan thought in such a way as to make it comprehensible to western thinkers and to demonstrate that it is comparable to their system. In pursuance of this objective he calls forth his philosophical training and indulges in metaphysical and ethical speculation. The effects of this are evident in the whole book whether in his discussion of the nature of the supreme Being or in his exposition of Akan ethical thought. | The Akan Doctrine of God A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion

GBP 44.99
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Tribes of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Western Africa Part V

Tribes of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Western Africa Part V

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | Tribes of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Western Africa Part V

GBP 35.99
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The Ewe-Speaking People of Togoland and the Gold Coast Western Africa Part VI

The Ewe-Speaking People of Togoland and the Gold Coast Western Africa Part VI

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | The Ewe-Speaking People of Togoland and the Gold Coast Western Africa Part VI

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A History of Ghana

A History of Ghana

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana. The African histories are particularly important as many village traditions and more so those of larger towns have traditions that date back hundreds of years and whose accuracy can be tallied with those of their neighbours. Accounts from Western sources do not shy away from detailing British mistakes in government and the resulting book is an even-handed history with much under-read research direct from African sources.

GBP 115.00
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Treaty Ports in Modern China Law Land and Power

Treaty Ports in Modern China Law Land and Power

This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled through unequal treaties whole cities or parts of cities outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired the flow of people good and information specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports and technical advances exploration and innovation in government. | Treaty Ports in Modern China Law Land and Power

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Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control – avoiding/seeking decisive encounters weakening enemy naval forces over time counter-containment of enemy naval forces destroying the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea attacks on the enemy coast defense of the coast defense/capturing important positions/basing areas and defense/capturing of a choke point. A majority of the world’s navies are currently of small or medium-size. In the case of a war with a much stronger opponent they would be strategically on the defensive and their main objective then would be to dispute control of the sea by a stronger side at sea. This book provides a practical guide to such a strategy. This book would be of much interest to students of naval power maritime security strategic studies and military/naval history. | Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

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The Barrington Papers Vol. I

The Barrington Papers Vol. I

Samuel Barrington (1729-1800) a son of the first Viscount Barrington entered the Royal Navy in 1740. He was posted in 1747 and eventually was promoted to Admiral in 1787. Papers in the possession of Barrington’s collateral descendants form these two volumes and cover his naval career. They comprise order books (1747-71) a private letter book (1770-99) his journal and three bound documents relating to the Leeward Islands command (1778-79) some loose correspondence and printed matter: the general sailing and fighting Instructions two signal books and instructions. None of Barrington’s public letter books survives. This includes Barrington’s negotiations at Tetuan to release British subjects held by the Barbary corsairs and his cruising off the coast of Guinea where some Royal Navy captains had been personally profiting from commercial dealings including the transportation of slaves. Commanding the 60-gun Achilles he served from 1757-59 off the coast of France in 1760 under Captain the Hon John Byron destroying the fortifications of Louisbourg in North America and in 1761 under Commodore Augustus Keppel in the operations against Belle-Île. From 1762 until the 1763 Treaty of Paris he commanded the 74-gun Hero. From 1768 when he again took to sea until 1778 when he received his flag he saw service in the dispute with Spain over the Falkland Islands (1771) and in the Channel. | The Barrington Papers Vol. I

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State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death

State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death

This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a criminological point of view. Furthermore the book reveals the retrogressive role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Ivory coast contrary to the societal expectations made of 'non-governmental' organisations (NGOs) and CSOs. This book reveals that in the case of this particular example of state-corporate crime civil society as an agency of censure and sanction actually played a distinctly retrogressive role. Here in fact state and state-corporate crime facilitates corruption within the civil society sphere through a process referred to in the book as the ‘commodification of victimhood’ and as a result ensures that impunity is virtually guaranteed for the corporation and the Ivorian government. This book also examines the failure of international and domestic legal measures to sanction the perpetrators alongside civil society’s shortcomings and ultimately advocates a more cautionary approach to civil society’s potential to label censure and sanction large-scale state-corporate crime. This book will help readers understand the difficulties in sanctioning such crime as well as promoting the theoretical framework of state crime the understanding of which could lead to the alleviation of human suffering at the hands of criminal states and corporations. | State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death

GBP 39.99
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Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things Volume 54

Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things Volume 54

The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused on the Ma' Betisek communities on Carey Island off the west coast of Selangor and in particular threevillages - Sungei Sialang Sungei Mata and Sungei Bumbun. Few changes have taken place in the lives of the Betisek people on the island since 1975. On the mainland the Ma' Betisek are busy keeping pace with development and modem life. However despite increasing deforestation and new urban influences on the island the Carey Island communities continue to preservetheir naturistic ideas of how humans should live with plants and animals. Dr Karim's research focuses on this issue. | Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things Volume 54

GBP 38.99
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The Swahili World

The Swahili World

The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization exploring the archaeology history linguistics and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1 500-year sweep of history from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces tombs and mosques set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers farmers traders and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society which has incorporated such influences into the region’s long-standing cosmopolitan tradition. This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the region’s past written by the leading scholars on the subject. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition how Swahili society has changed over time as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies first began. Scholars of the African continent will find the most nuanced and detailed consideration of Swahili culture language and history ever produced. For readers unfamiliar with the region or the people involved the chapters here provide an ideal introduction to a new and wonderful geography at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean world and among a people whose culture remains one of Africa’s most distinctive achievements.

GBP 44.99
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Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings

Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese Spanish German Dutch and Swedish materials from Europe Africa and Latin America. Their work draws on legal suits merchant correspondence Catholic sacramental records and rare newspapers dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Essays cover the volume of the early South Atlantic slave trade; African and African-descended religious and cultural communities in Rio de Janeiro and the Spanish circum-Caribbean; Eurafrican trade alliances on the Gold Coast; and public participation in abolition in nineteenth-century Brazil. These essays change and enrich our understandings of slavery and its end in the Atlantic World. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition. | Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings

GBP 39.99
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The Museum Experience

The Museum Experience

As the first book to take a visitor's eye view of the museum visit The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking integrate their original research from a wide variety of disciplines as well as visitor studies from institutions ranging from science centers and zoos to art and natural history museums. Written in clear non-technical style The Museum Experience paints a thorough picture of why people go to museums what they do there how they learn and what museum practitioners can do to enhance these experiences. This book is an essential reference for all museum professionals and students of museum studies and has been used widely for higher education courses in the U. S. Canada and the U. K. and has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. Originally published in 1992 the book is now available from Left Coast Press Inc. as of November 2010.

GBP 175.00
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Structured Worlds The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Structured Worlds The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology values and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe Siberia Jomon Japan the Northwest Coast the northern Plains and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement technology mobility migration demography and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs ritual and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need. | Structured Worlds The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

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Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 The Drift to the North Sea

Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 The Drift to the North Sea

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The author identifies seven major systems of migrant labour: the North Sea System (mainly Westphalian workers heading for the German and Dutch North Sea Coast and Walloon/French workers bound for the Belgian and Zeeland coasts); the area between London and the Humber; the Paris Basin; Provence Languedoc and Catalonia; Castile; Piedmont; and central Italy with Corsica. A detailed study of the first of these systems tracing its development and changes is brought into a synchronic relation with data for the other regions. The evidence shows major waves of immigration in the seventeenth century and a rapid diminution of migratory labour to the North Sea in the last quarter of the nineteenth century a time when new ‘pull areas’ were created by the expanding industrial complexes of Germany and labour began to come in from areas outside Europe. | Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 The Drift to the North Sea

GBP 105.00
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Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom The Trials of Nestor Lakoba

Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom The Trials of Nestor Lakoba

Based on extensive original research this book tells the astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader the charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic on the Black Sea coast of the USSR Abkhazia became a vacation retreat for Party leaders and a major producer of tobacco. Nestor Lakoba became the unquestioned boss of Abkhazia constructing a powerful local ethnic machine that became an influential component of Soviet patronage politics provoking along the way accusations of nepotism corruption blood feuds embezzlement racketeering and extrajudicial murder on a scale that shocked even hardened Communist Party investigators. Lakoba and his group faced a series of trials investigatory commissions and tribunals over allegations of malfeasance yet they were repeatedly able to convince their powerful patrons of their irreplaceability until at last they were destroyed through a public show trial during the peak of the Stalinist Terror. Through the prism of tiny Abkhazia this book provides invaluable insights into the nature of the early Soviet system and the governance of Soviet national republics. | Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom The Trials of Nestor Lakoba

GBP 36.99
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Drugs Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume III

Drugs Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume III

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long nineteenth-century the volumes consider how scientific social and cultural experiences with drugs alcohol addiction gambling and prostitution varied around the world. What might be considered vice or addiction could be interpreted in various ways through various lenses and such activities were interpreted differently depending upon the observer: the medical practitioner; the evangelical missionary; the thrill seeking bon-vivant and the concerned government commissioner to name but a few. For example opium addiction in middle class households resulting from medical treatment was judged much differently than Chinese opium smoking by those in poverty or poor living conditions in North American work camps on the west coast or on the streets of Soho. This collection will assemble key documents representing both the official and general view of these various activities providing readers with a cross section of interpretations and a solid grounding in the material that shaped policy change cultural interpretation and social action. | Drugs Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume III

GBP 120.00
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Humanitarianism Human Rights and Security The Case of Frontex

Humanitarianism Human Rights and Security The Case of Frontex

Examining the relationship between humanitarianism human rights and security in the governance of borders and migration this book analyses the case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) challenging the common assumption that humanitarianism and human rights provide a critical basis for countering securitisation. Arguing that these are not three opposing discourses and modes of governing the author contributes to a deeper understanding of their connections and combined effects in border governance. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork interviews and document analysis the book offers three perspectives on Frontex’s changing relationship to humanitarianism and human rights. In doing so it provides a multifaceted account of Frontex and its gradual appropriation of what are often considered pro-migrant discourses. Combining organisational sociology with a Foucauldian analysis the book speaks to ongoing debates on continuity and change in the security field and provides insights into studying security organisations more generally. Drawing on insights from Critical Migration and Border Studies Critical Security Studies Critical Humanitarianism and Human Rights Studies and Organisational Sociology the book will generate interest to multiple disciplines including Sociology International Relations Politics Anthropology European Studies and Geography. | Humanitarianism Human Rights and Security The Case of Frontex

GBP 38.99
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