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"As a new consumer culture took root in England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence. In 1699 shoplifting became a hanging offence. Yet whether compelled by need or greed, shoplifters continued to operate in substantial numbers on the shopping streets of London and provincial towns. Regarded initially as exclusively a crime of the poor, the eighteenth century witnessed a transformation in the public perception and understanding of such customer theft, signalled by the shocking arrest of Jane Austen's wealthy aunt for shoplifting in 1799. This book shows, through systematic profiling of those who committed this crime, that shoplifting was primarily a crime of the poor and predominantly an opportunist one. Providing both quantitative analysis and engaging insights into real-life stories, the book describes the variable strategies adopted by shoplifters to raid elite and poorer stores, the practical responses of shopkeepers to this predation and the financial impact on their businesses. It investigates the trade lobbying that led to the passing of the Shoplifting Act, the degree to which retailers co-operated with the judiciary and their engagement with the capital law reform movement of the later eighteenth century. Examining the range of goods stolen, the book also addresses questions of whether or not this form of theft was driven by consumer desire and suggests that more subtle social and economic motives were at work"--Back cover.

Shoplifting --- Theft --- History --- Colonial era. --- Consumer culture. --- Crime. --- Criminal history. --- Eighteenth-Century England. --- Greed. --- Legal changes. --- Need. --- Public prominence. --- Retail expansion. --- Retailers. --- Shoplifting. --- Social impact. --- Society.

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"This book reconstructs the birth and development of the tourism sector in colonial Mozambique, from roughly 1890 to 1975, with a focus on the experiences of African laborers in the industry."--

Tourism --- History. --- Employees --- Social conditions. --- Mozambique --- History --- history of tourism in Africa, tourism in Mozambique, Tourism in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, colonial-era Africa, commercial hunting safaris in Africa, camera safari, Mozambique’s tourist industry.

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In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game's social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan's Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as a remnant of Japanese culture and then strategically employed by the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Even as it was also enthroned by Taiwanese politicians, cultural producers, and citizens as their national game. In considering baseball's cultural and historical implications, Morris deftly addresses a number of societal themes crucial to understanding modern Taiwan, the question of Chinese "reunification," and East Asia as a whole.

Baseball --- Baseball players --- History. --- asia. --- austronesian aborigines. --- baseball history. --- baseball. --- chinese nationalist party. --- colonial era. --- colonialism. --- competition. --- cultural history. --- cultural impact. --- east asia. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- ethnic history. --- government and governing. --- han chinese. --- historical. --- japanese colonialism. --- japanese culture. --- modern history. --- modern taiwan. --- national game. --- pacific. --- political history. --- post war taiwan. --- social history. --- sports history. --- sports. --- taiwan. --- taiwanese politics. --- team sports. --- world war ii.

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In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes? Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.

Bureaucracy -- Pakistan -- Isla ̄ma ̄ba ̄d. --- Capitals (Cities) -- Pakistan -- Planning. --- City planning -- Pakistan -- Isla ̄ma ̄ba ̄d. --- Government paperwork -- Pakistan -- Isla ̄ma ̄ba ̄d. --- Isla ̄ma ̄ba ̄d (Pakistan) -- Politics and government. --- Municipal government -- Pakistan -- Records and correspondence. --- Public records -- Pakistan -- Isla ̄ma ̄ba ̄d. --- Government paperwork --- Bureaucracy --- Capitals (Cities) --- City planning --- Public records --- Municipal government --- Interorganizational relations --- Political science --- Public administration --- Organizational sociology --- Federal paperwork --- Paper work, Government --- Paperwork, Government --- Office practice in government --- Paperwork (Office practice) --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Government records --- Records --- Archives --- Government information --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Capital cities --- Records and correspondence --- Government --- Government policy --- Management --- Islāmābād (Pakistan) --- Islāmābād --- اسلام آباد (Pakistan) --- Politics and government. --- builders. --- bureaucracy. --- bureaucratic documentation. --- bureaucrats. --- businessmen. --- colonial era. --- contemporary history. --- imams. --- islamabad. --- legal anthropology. --- material infrastructure. --- materials. --- middle east scholars. --- middle east. --- modern pakistan. --- nonfiction. --- pakistan. --- paper artifacts. --- paper documents. --- paper mediation. --- political economy. --- politicians. --- postcolonialism. --- property owners. --- social science. --- state government. --- urban bureaucracy. --- urban landscape. --- urbanism. --- villagers.