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After Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary to southern

Southern States --- History --- Etats-Unis (Sud) --- Histoire

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La mobilisation autour de la conférence Paris Climat 2015 (COP 21) a été l'occasion de mettre en relief la vulnérabilité des milieux et des populations du Sud face au réchauffement climatique. Certaines régions de la zone intertropicale en subissent déjà les effets, que ce soient les vagues de chaleur au Sahel, la perturbation des systèmes de mousson, la fonte des glaciers andins, les menaces sur la biodiversité, l'élévation du niveau des océans. Cet ouvrage en donne un aperçu synthétique décliné en trois temps : observer et comprendre le changement climatique, analyser ses principaux impacts en fonction des milieux, remettre les sociétés et les politiques publiques nationales au cœur du défi climatique. En insistant sur les capacités de résilience des populations et des écosystèmes face à l'évolution du climat, l'ouvrage explore les solutions conciliant atténuation du changement climatique et adaptation, préservation de l'environnement et réduction des inégalités.

Sustainability --- Sociology --- changement --- climatique --- climat --- environnement --- risque --- COP21 --- Écosystème --- Sud

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This book contains a set of different works unified by a common theme and by a common analysis approach: historical linguistics and the processes of linguistic change and standardisation. The volume combines two types of contributions, providing contact with research directions and research projects being conducted in different parts of the world. Some texts discuss theoretical and methodological subjects currently considered in linguistic studies, particularly in the field of historical linguistics. Other chapters aim to study the change of linguistic structures and linguistic usages. In these cases, detailed analysis of empirical and diversified data is provided. Finally, some contributions of this volume take codificatory work over Portuguese as corpus. Such data supports research on the knowledge of the ancient language and provides the researcher with relevant elements for the comprehension and clarification of the standardisation processes, a phenomenon that usually accompanies the elaboration of languages.

Sotho du sud --- Gramaticography --- Corpora --- Ardisation --- Linguistic change --- Historical linguistics

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Law --- Droit --- South Africa. --- Afrique du Sud. --- South Africa

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Corruption has an impact. It is about time that anticorruption starts having an impact, too. This is the first annual policy report of the European Seventh Framework Research Project ANTICORRP, which has started in 2012 and will continue until 2018. Based on the work of 21 different research centers and universities gathering original data, ANTICORRP offers yearly updates on the latest from corruption research, analyzing both the consequences of corruption and the impact of policies attempting to curb it. This first report offers a methodology to evaluate corruption risk and quality of government at country, region and sector level by means of corruption indicators that are sensitive to change and policy intervention. The aim of the project is to offer testable, easy to handle policies which reduce corruption risk. Corruption distorts market competition, bolsters deficits on behalf of discretionary spending, hurts real investment in public health and education, reduces tax collection, detriments the absorption rate of EU funds, and generates vulnerable employment and brain drain. This study estimates that if EU member states would all manage to control corruption at the Danish level, tax collection in Europe would increase by 323 billion Euro per year - double of the EU budget for 2013. Korruptes Verhalten unterläuft die legalen Institutionen und Regeln eines politischen Systems und ruft bei Wahrnehmung beziehungsweise Aufdeckung eine Erosion des Vertrauens der Bürger_innen hervor. Entsprechend ist Korruption ein wichtiger Untersuchungsgegenstand der Wissenschaft. Die Erforschung stellt die empirisch?analytisch arbeitende Politikwissenschaft allerdings vor überaus große Herausforderungen, denn Korruption ist informell und größtenteils illegal, findet also vielfach im Geheimen statt. Am durch das 7. EU?Forschungsrahmenprogramm geförderte Projekt ANTICORRP (Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption) nehmen 21 Forschungszentren und Universitäten teil, die seit 2012 für die EU, Südosteuropa und das Gebiet der früheren Sowjetunion Daten sammeln. Sie versuchen auf dieser Grundlage Aussagen über die Gründe und Mechanismen, die Perzeptionen, Erfahrungen und Konsequenzen von Korruption sowie die Auswirkungen von Antikorruptionspolitiken zu treffen. Das Buch ist der erste Jahresbericht von ANTICORRP. Pw-portal.de, 31.07.2014

Anticorruption --- European Union --- transformative power --- Europe du Sud-Est. --- Caucase.