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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.

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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

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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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Barbot on Guinea Volume II

Barbot on Guinea Volume II

Jean Barbot who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2 in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous printed sources. The work was interrupted by his flight to England as a Huguenot refugee in 1685 and not finished until 1688. When Barbot found that his lengthy French account could not be published he rewrote it in English enlarging it even further and then continually revising it up to his death in 1712. The manuscript was eventually published in 1732. Barbot's book had considerable influence on later European attitudes to Black Africa and the Atlantic slave trade and in modern writings on both subjects is frequently cited as evidence. The French account serves as the base for the present edition and is presented in English translation but additional material in the later English version is inserted. The edition concentrates on Barbot's original information. He copied much from earlier sources - this derived material is omitted but is identified in the notes. The original material mainly on Senegal Sierra Leone River Sess Gold Coast and the Calabars is extensively annotated not least with comparative references to other sources. Apart from its narrative interest the edition thus provides a starting point for the critical assessment of a range of early sources on Guinea. The edition opens with an introductory essay discussing Barbot's life and career and analysing his sources. Barbot provided a large number of his own drawings of topographical and ethnographical features in particular drawings of almost all of the European forts in Guinea. Many of these illustrations are reproduced. This volume covers the coast from the River Volta to Cape Lopez. The main pagination of this and the previous volume (2nd series 175) series is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1991. | Barbot on Guinea Volume II

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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

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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

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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

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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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Future North The Changing Arctic Landscapes

Future North The Changing Arctic Landscapes

The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast Northern Norway the Russian Kola Peninsula Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary design-based and future-oriented perspective. The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012 mapped landscapes and settlements documented stories and practices and discussed possible futures with local actors. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project the authors in this book look at political and economic strategies urban development land use strategies and local initiatives in specific locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides a combined view on the built environment and urbanism as well as the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic and engage with futures cultural landscapes and communities in ways that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory methods. | Future North The Changing Arctic Landscapes

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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

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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

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Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415) and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences. | Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

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Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the everyday lived experience of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense the author offers an alternative that taps the unique nature of each human situation. First published in 1990 this book is a classic of social science methodology and phenomenological research selling tens of thousands of copies over the past quarter century. Left Coast is making available the second edition of this work never before released outside Canada. Researching Lived Experience offers detailed methodological explications and practical examples of inquiry. It shows how to orient oneself to human experience in education and how to construct a textual question which evokes a fundamental sense of wonder and it provides a broad and systematic set of approaches for gaining experiential material which forms the basis for textual reflections. The author: -Discusses the part played by language in educational research-Pays special attention to the methodological function of anecdotal narrative in research-Offers approaches to structuring the research text in relation to the particular kinds of questions being studied | Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

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Africans and the Holocaust Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

Africans and the Holocaust Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe and in former German colonies in sub-Saharan Africa during the Second World War. An intellectual and diplomatic history of World War II and the Holocaust Africans and the Holocaust looks at the period from the perspectives of the colonized subjects of the Gold Coast Nigeria Sierra Leone Kenya Tanganyika and Uganda as well as the sovereign peoples of Liberia and Ethiopia who wrestled with the social and moral questions that the war and the Holocaust raised. The five main chapters of the book explore the pre-Holocaust history of relations between Jews and Africans in West and East Africa perceptions of Nazism in both regions opinions of World War II interpretations of the Holocaust and responses of the colonized and sovereign peoples of West and East Africa to efforts by Great Britain to resettle certain categories of Jewish refugees from Europe in the two regions before and during the Holocaust. This book will be of use to students and scholars of African history Holocaust and Jewish studies and international or global history. | Africans and the Holocaust Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

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Britain Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion 1778–1914

Britain Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion 1778–1914

From the time of Cook the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'. The studies collected here trace how under the influences of the Royal Navy and British statecraft the British came to dominate the area with expeditions sent from London Bombay and Macau and the Canadian quest from overland. The North West Company came to control the trade of the Columbia River despite American opposition and British sloop diplomacy helped overcome Russian and Spanish resistance to British aspirations. Elsewhere in the Americas the British promoted trans-Pacific trade with China harvested British Columbia forests conveyed specie from western Mexico and established the South America naval station. The flag followed trade and vice versa; empire was both formal (at Vancouver Island) and informal (as in California or Mexico). This book features individuals such as James Cook William Bolts Peter Pond and Sir Alexander Mackenzie. It is also an account of the pressure that corporations placed on the British state in shaping the emerging world of trade and colonization in that distant ocean and its shores and of the importance of sea-power in the creation of modern Canada. | Britain Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion 1778–1914

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A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence

A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence

A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence is a concise and accessible volume that presents the history of the Iberian presence in the Americas from the era of exploration and conquest to the disruption and instability following independence. This history of the Iberian presence in the Americas contains stories of curiosity vision courage missed communication miscalculation insatiability prejudice and native collaboration and resistance. Beginning in 1492 Ramirez establishes the context for the era of exploration and conquest that follows. The book then surveys the activities of Cortes and Pizarro and the impact on native peoples Portuguese activity on the eastern coast of South America the demographic collapse of the native population the role of the Catholic Church and new policy initiatives of the Bourbons who inherited the throne in 1700. The narrative involves Spaniards Native Americans of innumerable ethnic groups Moorish native and black slaves and a whole new category of people of mixed blood collectively known as the castas acting in the steamy tropics of the lowlands marching across parched deserts trekking to oxygen-low mountain summits and settling all the ecological niches in between. The book includes important primary documents and maps to provide students with even more context to this important part of Latin American history. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American history and culture.

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The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power

The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power

This book offers an original critique of the billionaire founders of US West Coast tech companies addressing their collective power influence and ideology their group dynamics and the role they play in the wider sociocultural and political formations of digital capitalism. Interrogating not only the founders’ political and economic ambitions but also how their corporations are omnipresent in our everyday lives the authors provide robust evidence that a specific kind of patriarchal power has emerged as digital capitalism’s mode of command. The ‘New Patriarchs’ examined over the course of the book include: Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google Elon Musk of Tesla Jeff Bezos of Amazon Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Peter Thiel. We also include Sheryl Sandberg. The book analyses how these (mostly) men legitimate their rapidly acquired power tying a novel kind of socially awkward but ‘visionary’ masculinity to exotic forms of shareholding. Drawing on a ten million word digital concordance the authors intervene in feminist debates on patriarchy masculinity and postfeminism locating the power of the founders as emanating from a specifically racialised structure of oppression tied to imaginaries of the American frontier the patriarchal household and settler colonialism. This is an important interdisciplinary contribution suitable for researchers and students across Digital Media Media and Communication and Gender and Cultural Studies. | The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power

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Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Five Years After 9/11

Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Five Years After 9/11

No event has shaped international events of recent years more than the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001. Tragically less than four years later Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. In less than five years the United States has experienced its worst terrorist attack and worst natural disaster both in terms of the number of lives lost and in the costs needed for reconstruction. Both events have clearly indicated that there are tremendous threats to the security and well-being of Americans in their own country. Furthermore these events have demonstrated the importance of criminal-justice agencies who are the first responders to threats to the United States. Since the threats of further terrorist attacks natural disasters epidemics and cybercrime continue to lurk as potential dangers to the United States homeland the American Criminal Justice System must be committed to mitigating preparing for responding to and recovering from these tragic events. In addition its commitment must be steadfast and ubiquitous. This highly topical book analyzes the nexus of homeland security to the discipline of criminal justice by addressing in depth issues and challenges facing criminal-justice students practitioners and faculty in the burgeoning field of homeland security. This book was previously published as a special issue of Criminal Justice Studies. | Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Five Years After 9/11

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A Narrative of my Professional Adventures by Sir William Henry Dillon 1790-1839 Vol. I

A Narrative of my Professional Adventures by Sir William Henry Dillon 1790-1839 Vol. I

Sir William Henry Dillon (1780-1857) was born in Birmingham the illegitimate son of the distinguished writer and traveller John Talbot Dillon (1734-1806) a baron of the Holy Roman Empire. The elder Dillon had briefly served in the Royal Navy apparently obtaining his discharge in a fit of pique after being ejected when a midshipman from the Parade Coffee House in Portsmouth a hostelry reserved for captains. Sir William’s long enjoyable and informative memoirs edited by Professor Michael A Lewis one of the doyens of naval historians are arguably the best by any naval officer of the period and for anyone seeking an intimate glimpse into the workings of the Georgian navy and the professional concerns and vexations of its officer corps they are essential reading. The narrative never dull is enhanced by the editor’s erudite and where appropriate witty commentaries by the sense we derive of the author’s personal foibles and by his numerous exasperated references to ‘Mrs V’ (Matilda Voller) a middle-aged widow who ensnared Dillon into marriage when he was a young lieutenant recently returned from incarceration in France. Other illuminative Georgian memoirs in the NRS series of publications are those of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin (vols 12 19 24) Captain John Harvey Boteler (vol 82) and Commander James Anthony Gardner (vol 31) Gardner’s being like Dillon’s especially vivid. William Dillon entered the navy in 1790 and saw action on the Glorious First of June in 1794 in Lord Bridport’s engagement off the Île de Groix in 1795 and at the capture of St Lucia in 1796. Commissioned lieutenant in 1797 he served off the coast of Wexford during the Irish rebellion. This volume takes his career up to 1802. | A Narrative of my Professional Adventures by Sir William Henry Dillon 1790-1839 Vol. I

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People Places and Policy Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

People Places and Policy Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

The Open Access version of this book available at www. tandfebooks. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change People Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local regional national) it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic social and political geographies of Wales which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities – Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff) central and west coast regions (Ceredigion Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) – are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies and the more bounded administrative concerns which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales’ regional geography. | People Places and Policy Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

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