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South Africa, the present as history : from Mrs Ples to Mandela & Marikana
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ISBN: 178204292X 1782042431 184701092X Year: 2014 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate,on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent in the world - underscored by the police shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana in 2012 - regionsof deep poverty and environmental degradation, rising inequality and high unemployment rates. This book looks at this paradox by examining the precise character of the post-apartheid state, and the roots of the hope that something better than the semi-liberation that the ANC has presided over must not be long delayed - both within the ANC itself and within the broader society of South Africa.
The authors present a history of South Africa from earliest times, with today's post-apartheid society interpreted and understood in the context of and through the lens of its earlier history. Following the introduction, which offers an analytical background to the narrative that follows, they track the course of South African history: from its origins to apartheid in the 1970; through the crisisand transition of the 1970s and 1980s to the historic deal-making of 1994 that ended apartheid; to its recent history from Mandela to Marikana, with increasing signs of social unrest and class conflict. Finally, the authors reflect on the present situation in South Africa with reference to the historical patterns that have shaped contemporary realities and the possibility of a 'next liberation struggle'.

John S. Saul is Professor Emeritus at York University (Canada). Patrick Bond is Senior Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban).

Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana


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The musical novel
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ISBN: 9781571135926 1571135928 9781571138910 1640140271 1571138919 Year: 2014 Publisher: Rochester, New York Camden House

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What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music (rhythm, timbre, the simultaneity of multiple voices) to microstructural (jazz riffs, call and response, leitmotifs) and macrostructural elements (themes and variations, symphonies, albums). The musical novel also evokes the performance context by imitating elements of spontaneity that characterize improvised jazz or audience interaction. The Musical Novel builds upon theories of intermediality and semiotics to analyze the musical structures, forms, and techniques in two groups of musical novels, which serve as case studies. The first group imitates an entire musical genre and consists of jazz novels by Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Stanley Crouch, Jack Fuller, Michael Ondaatje, and Christian Gailly. The second group of novels, by Richard Powers, Gabriel Josipovici, Rachel Cusk, Nancy Huston, and Thomas Bernhard, imitates a single piece of music, J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Emily Petermann is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz.


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Distant readings
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ISBN: 9781571135391 1571135391 9781571138903 157113896X 1571138900 9781571138965 Year: 2014 Volume: *104 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all? This anthology seeks new answers to the scholarly quandary of the abundance of text. Responding to Franco Moretti's call for "distant reading" and modeling a range of innovative approaches to literary-historical analysis informed by theburgeoning field of digital humanities, it asks what happens when we shift our focus from the one to the many, from the work to the network. The thirteen essays in this volume explore the evolving concept of "distant reading" and its application to the analysis of German literature and culture in the long nineteenth century. The contributors consider how new digital technologies enable both the testing of hypotheses and the discovery of patterns and trends, as well as how "distant" and traditional "close" reading can complement each another in hybrid models of analysis that maintain careful attention to detail, but also make calculation, enumeration, and empirical descriptioncritical elements of interpretation. Contributors: Kirsten Belgum, Tobias Boes, Matt Erlin, Fotis Jannidis and Gerhard Lauer, Lutz Koepnick, Todd Kontje, Peter M. McIsaac, Katja Mellmann, Nicolas Pethes, Andrew Piper and Mark Algee-Hewitt, Allen Beye Riddell, Lynne Tatlock, Paul A. Youngman and Ted Carmichael. Matt Erlin is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis.


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Economic interdependence and war
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ISBN: 0691161593 1400852706 9781400852703 9781322158419 132215841X 9780691161587 0691161585 9780691161594 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for vital raw materials and markets. Moving beyond the stale liberal-realist debate, Economic Interdependence and War lays out a dynamic theory of expectations that shows under what specific conditions interstate commerce will reduce or heighten the risk of conflict between nations.Taking a broad look at cases spanning two centuries, from the Napoleonic and Crimean wars to the more recent Cold War crises, Dale Copeland demonstrates that when leaders have positive expectations of the future trade environment, they want to remain at peace in order to secure the economic benefits that enhance long-term power. When, however, these expectations turn negative, leaders are likely to fear a loss of access to raw materials and markets, giving them more incentive to initiate crises to protect their commercial interests. The theory of trade expectations holds important implications for the understanding of Sino-American relations since 1985 and for the direction these relations will likely take over the next two decades.Economic Interdependence and War offers sweeping new insights into historical and contemporary global politics and the actual nature of democratic versus economic peace.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. --- HISTORY / World. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- Economic history --- Military history, Modern. --- Natural resources --- Competition, International. --- War --- Modern military history --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- International competition --- World economics --- International relations --- International trade --- Causes of war --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Political aspects. --- Causes. --- Economic aspects --- History. --- American oil embargo. --- China. --- Cold War. --- Europe. --- European great powers. --- Japanese economy. --- Japanese foreign policy. --- Manchuria. --- Nazism. --- Pacific War. --- Russo-Japanese War. --- Shidehara Kijuro. --- Sino-American relations. --- Taisho democracy. --- USЃhinese relations. --- USЊapanese relations. --- USГoviet relations. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- case study research. --- causal theories. --- colonial territory. --- commerce. --- commercial expectations. --- conflict. --- democratic peace. --- economic interdependence. --- economic peace. --- existing literature. --- existing scholarship. --- future probabilities. --- future trade. --- global politics. --- global war. --- great power politics. --- great power system. --- great powers. --- historical analysis. --- imperial expansion. --- interdependence. --- international political economy. --- international relations. --- interstate commerce. --- investment. --- large-N quantitative research. --- leader expectations. --- liberalism. --- modern conflict. --- nineteenth-century geopolitics. --- political control. --- preventive wars. --- quantitative analysis. --- rare events research. --- realism. --- third-party territories. --- trade expectations theory. --- trade expectations. --- trade. --- war.

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