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This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America.

Officer recruits - "young gentlemen" - entered the Royal Navy with dreams of fame, fortune and glory, but many found promotion difficult, with a large number unable to progress beyond lieutenant. Recent scholarship has argued that during the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social background of around 4,000 "young gentlemen" a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories, including captains' servants, volunteers and masters' mates. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that as the Admiralty grip on the appointment and management of officer aspirants increased, especially after 1815, aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic increase in cases of indiscipline and insubordination, concluding that although there was a marked increase in courts martial for insubordination during and after the French Wars there is no evidence that such cases related more to the elites than to young aspirants in general". The book includes many case study examples of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", illustrating what life was like for them and how they themselves viewed their situation. S.A. CAVELL is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology and Louisiana State University and completed her doctorate at the University of Exeter.

This volume deals with the medieval shu'?biyyah movement (in which non-Arab Muslims sought equality of power and status with Arabs) in al-Andalus, Muslim Spain. By analysing a letter composed by Ibn Garcma during the 11th century, the tensions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims are discussed in detail. Symbols, stories and legends used in the shu'?biyyah corpus of writings are analysed in the light of the political and theological development in al-Andalus and the Muslim world. Authority, legitimacy and power are central both to the discussion of Ibn Garcma's letter and the history of the shu'?biyyah movement. The first part gives the historical background to the history of al-Andalus. Ethnic conflicts and tensions related to authority and power are of special interest. The second part, gives a detailed analysis of Ibn Garcma's shu'?biyyah letter in relation to the historical and contemporary situation in al-Andalus.

La historia general de las Islas Canarias contienen la descripción geográfica de todas ellas, una idea del origen, caracter, usos y costumbres de sus antiguos habitantes: de los descubrimientos y conquistas que sobre ellas hicieron los europeos, de su gobierno eclesiastico, politico y militar, del establecimiento y sucesion de su primera nobleza, de sus varones ilustres por dignidades, empleos, armas, letras y santidad,asi como de sus fabricas, producciones naturales y comercios con los principales sucesos de los ultimos siglos.

Noticias de la historia general de las Islas Canarias, que contiene la descripción geográfica de estas. También se da una idea del oriegn, carácter, usos y costumbres de sus antiguos habitantes, de los descubrimientos y conquistas que sobre ellas hicieron los europeos.

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia s embrace of the world s nuclear order Though a nonnuclear state Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century From uranium extraction to nuclear testing Australia s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development The continent was subject to rampant nuclear colonialism However this history is not just one of imposition Aboriginal communities bearing the brunt of these processes have persistently resisted reclaiming their rights to Country and demanding reparations As Jessica Urwin shows extraction weapons testing and nuclear waste disposal have caused incalculable physical spiritual and cultural harm to Aboriginal communities and lands Yet Indigenous peoples all over the world have not only survived nuclear colonialism but challenged it time and time again Tracking the colonial mechanisms Australia used to pursue a nuclear industry Urwin simultaneously highlights how Aboriginal peoples refused and reshaped those same mechanisms over time A groundbreaking book Contaminated Country reveals how Australia s deep nuclear past has been entangled with colonialism locally nati

State led conservation transformed Gansu s landscape rural communities bore the costs From the 1940s to the 1960s soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid erosion prone environment of China s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people Remaking the Earth Exhausting the People explores how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and how the communities navigated those demands Weaving together archival research and oral history interviews Micah S Muscolino demonstrates that for the inhabitants of China s countryside conservation programs became part of an extractive mode of accumulation that intensified labor demands and entailed loss of control over resources Muscolino recounts how changes to the physical environment played out in villages on farms and within households His multitiered investigation uncovers the relationship between the forces of nature Chinese state policies and the embodied experiences of rural men and women The book also highlights the contestations and compromises that the state s environmental interventions triggered in rural society By illustrating how state building and revolution in modern China altered human relationships with the natural world Muscolino shows that examini