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The Trojan legend became hot property during the Anglo-Scots Wars of Independence. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the English traced their ancestry to Brutus and the Trojans and used this origin myth tobolster their claims to lordship and ownership of Scotland; while in a game of political one-upmanship, and in order to prove Scotland's independence and sovereignty, Scottish historians instead traced their nation's origins to aGreek prince, Gaythelos, and his Egyptian wife, Scota. Despite the wealth of scholarship on the Trojan legend in English and European literature, very little has been done on Scotland's literary response to the same legend,even though a mere glance at the canonical material of late medieval Scotland indicates that it remained equally current north of the Border, a gap which this book fills. Through a detailed analysis of a range of Older Scots textsfrom c. 1375 to c. 1513, notably The Scottish Troy Book, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Douglas' Eneados, it provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Scottish response to the Trojan legend. It considers the way in which Scottish texts interact with English counterparts, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia, Chaucer's Troilus, Lydgate's Troy Book, and Caxton's Eneados, and demonstrates how despite - or perhaps because of - its use in the Anglo-Scots Wars of Independence, the Trojan legend was for the most part neither neglected nor pejoratively treated in Older Scots literature. Rather, the Matter of Troy and related Matter of Greece were used not just as an origin myth, but also a metaphor for Anglo-Scots political relations, guide to good governance, and locus through which poets might explore broader issues of literary tradition, authority, and the nature of poetic truth. Emily Wingfield is a lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham.

Scottish literature --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Trojans in literature. --- Scottish authors --- Scots literature --- British literature --- Anglo-Scots Wars. --- Emily Wingfield. --- Matter of Greece. --- Matter of Troy. --- Older Scots texts. --- Scottish response. --- Trojan legend. --- literary tradition. --- manliness. --- origins. --- political relations.

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The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisationsand national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in Education focuseson Brazil, China, and Russia, part of the so-called emerging nations? BRICSblock, and draws on a four-year project to develop a new theoretical andmethodological approach. The book builds a comparative, sociohistorical, and transnational understandingof political relations in education, with a particular focus on the policies andpractices of quality assurance and evaluation (QAE). Tracking QAE processesfrom international organisations to individual schools, contributors analyse howQAE changes the dynamics in the roles of state, expertise, and governance. Thebook demonstrates how national and sub-national actors play a central role inthe adaptation, modification, or rejection of transnational policies. Politics of Quality in Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students engaged in the study of comparative and internationaleducation, as well as educational policy and politics. It should also be essentialreading for practitioners and policymakers.

Education --- Education and state --- Comparative education. --- Standards --- Education, Comparative --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- History --- Government policy --- russia. --- political relations. --- qae. --- political space. --- political situation. --- political possibilities. --- brazil. --- quality. --- education. --- china.

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Memory and Landscape explores how Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past cultural and environmental changes. In this beautifully illustrated volume, contributors document how Indigenous communities maintain and strengthen their cultural identity while also embracing forces of disruption.

Memory. --- Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland, Siberia, Yakutat Tlingit, Yupik, Yup’ik, Dene, Inuit, Inupiaq, Innu, Cup’ig, colonialism, Indigenous languages, oral history, anthropology, ), ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology, cultural geography, environmental history, landscape studies, toponymy, land use and resource mapping, Indigenous land claims, settler-Indigenous political relations.

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";No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book.";-The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating "operations" against Gaza's largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade. What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster. Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza's martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law. But Finkelstein also documents that the guardians of international law-from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the UN Human Rights Council-ultimately failed Gaza. One of his most disturbing conclusions is that, after Judge Richard Goldstone's humiliating retraction of his UN report, human rights organizations succumbed to the Israeli juggernaut. Finkelstein's magnum opus is both a monument to Gaza's martyrs and an act of resistance against the forgetfulness of history.

Human rights --- Palestinian Arabs --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Crimes against --- Gaza Strip --- Qiṭāʻ Ghazzah --- Retsuʻat ʻAzah --- Palestine --- History --- act of resistance. --- gaza. --- genocide. --- history is bound to repeat itself. --- human rights activist. --- human rights council. --- human rights studies. --- human rights watch. --- israel. --- israeli pressure. --- martyr. --- middle eastern politics. --- political relations. --- un. --- war in the middle east. --- National movements --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Polemology --- Israel

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Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for Intuition theorizes phaticity-the processes by which people make, check, discern, or describe channels and contacts, judging them weak or strong, blocked or open. This historical ethnography of intuition juxtaposes telepathy experiments and theatrical empathy drills, passing through settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes, where locals open channels with foreigners, and where skeptics of contact debate naifs. Tacking across geopolitical borders, the book demonstrates how contact and channel shift in significance over time, through events and political relations, in social conflict, and in conversation. The author suggests that Cold War preoccupations and strategies have marked theoretical models of communication and mediation, even while infusing everyday, practical technologies for intuition.

Telepathy --- Paranoia --- Cold War --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Mental telepathy --- Mind-reading --- Thought-transference --- Political aspects --- Influence --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Cold War (1945-1989) --- Telepathy. --- War --- Influence. --- Political aspects. --- Cold War (1945-1989). --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychoses --- Extrasensory perception --- america. --- american history. --- anthropology. --- cold war history. --- cold war propaganda. --- cold war. --- communication failure. --- communication. --- empathy drills. --- empathy. --- ethnography. --- geopolitical borders. --- global history. --- international. --- intuition. --- linguistics. --- media. --- mediation. --- performance. --- political relations. --- politics. --- propaganda. --- relationship with russia. --- russia. --- russian history. --- social conflict. --- social science. --- technology. --- telepathy.