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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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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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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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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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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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The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

In this book Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists archival research and personal collections including films videotapes and sound recordings. At once aesthetic cultural and political this renewed perspective asks new questions and rewrites past assumptions about the artists’ work. The legendary members of the East Coast Pictures Generation emerged at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo in the mid-1970s. These young people had started Hallwalls an artist-run organization that invited artists from a variety of mediums to show their work. It also featured productions by the founding members themselves: Robert Longo Charles Clough Cindy Sherman Nancy Dwyer and Michael Zwack. The works discussed in the volume include performance video films painting music and literature and have been chosen because of the way they foreground states of the body in relationship to conditions of their medium. As a distinguishing feature of Hallwalls artists’ work the practice uses these traces to make metaphors on the process of mechanical reproduction itself. The Hallwalls artists’ work also gives testament to Buffalo and to New York City the cities that formed their historical contexts. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history performance studies film studies and gender studies. | The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

GBP 130.00
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Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world. This book investigates the political networking and internal organizational changes in five British multinationals (United Africa Company John Holt & Co. Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Bank of West Africa and Barclays Bank DCO). These firms were forced to adapt their strategies and operations to changing institutional environments in two English-speaking West African countries Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) and Nigeria from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. Decolonization meant that formerly imperial businesses needed to develop new political networks and change their internal organization and staffing to promote more Africans to managerial roles. This postcolonial transition culminated in indigenization programmes (and targeted nationalizations) which forced foreign companies to sell equity and assets to domestic investors in the 1970s. Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History is the first in-depth historical study on how British firms sought to adapt over several decades to rapid political and economic transformation in West Africa. Exploring both postcolonial transitions and development discourse this book addresses the topics with regard to business and economic history and will be of interest to researchers academics and students in the fields of organizational change political economy African studies and globalization. | Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

GBP 120.00
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Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

Climate change is modifying in varying measure the coastal geography of States. The phenomenon is not temporary but is expected to carry on during the 21st century and beyond. A distinctive feature of modern international law is the concept of maritime zones. Each maritime area is subject to an intricate scheme of States’ rights and obligations. Coastal geography is a fundamental component of a long-standing method developed and agreed upon between States to establish the outward limits of these areas. A feature of this method is the baseline. In international law it is the only reference line from where the outward limits of maritime zones are measured. There are clear rules on how this is established along a coast. There is a concern amongst a number of States that rising sea water levels as a result of climate change may compel them to shift their baselines inward thus affecting the outward limits of their maritime zones. It is clear that the stability of maritime boundaries is put into question and this may bring about serious political legal and economic repercussions. This concern may also affect the outcome of dispute settlement procedures before a competent international court or tribunal the purpose of which is to resolve overlapping maritime claims. Key questions emerge. What is the role played by coastal geography in the legal regime determining the outward limits of maritime zones? What are the consequences of changes to coastal geography? To what extent are dispute settlement procedures before a Court or Tribunal immune from this concern? Is international law able to address this? If so in what way and what are its limits? What can be done to resolve this? | Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

GBP 120.00
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Maritime Accidents and Environmental Pollution - The X-Press Pearl Disaster Causes Consequences and Lessons Learned

Maritime Accidents and Environmental Pollution - The X-Press Pearl Disaster Causes Consequences and Lessons Learned

This book discusses in detail the facts and findings related to the X-Press Pearl container vessel accident that occurred in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo Sri Lanka. The ship was carrying a large consignment of chemicals and diverse hazardous materials that caused a disastrous and vast environmental and social catastrophe in the region. Through many case studies accumulated knowledge and experiences the authors discuss the accident response risk mitigation investigation and damage assessment activities from the very onset of the accident. It helps researchers and regulators understand the facts of this unique marine chemical accident and to formulate necessary future regulations as well as to develop robust safety and sustainability management systems and safety cultures. Features: Written by authorities who led the team involved in accident response and damage assessment Focuses on identifying plausible root causes pitfalls in accident response and weaknesses in current regulatory and management protocols Delivers in-depth understanding of a unique marine chemical accident to help formulate necessary future policies and regulations related to such disasters Includes many case studies related to the accident illustrated with photos and figures that are true evidence of the disaster the response and the mitigation Explains and discusses key research findings in a streamlined manner understandable for a wide audience A valuable resource for readers in environmental management and policy creation as well as for researchers professionals academics and students involved in environmental science chemical engineering technical safety and sustainability management maritime polymer and ocean sciences. Countries where maritime disasters are a concern will also find this book is an important guide for taking a responsible approach when handling similar situations in the future; not least to avert such events from occurring. | Maritime Accidents and Environmental Pollution - The X-Press Pearl Disaster Causes Consequences and Lessons Learned

GBP 145.00
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