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A Host of Devils

The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture

By: Zachary Kingdon

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A Host of Devils

The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture

By: Zachary Kingdon

A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique. The creation of such works is shown to connect with a regional system of knowledge and practice, within which spirits function as a format for expression. The book describes the ways in which the sculpture emerged, as well as the author's experience of learning how to carve.

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Routledge

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1136476660

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9781136476662

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

By: Zachary Kingdon

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Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

By: Zachary Kingdon

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501337939

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9781501337932

Voting Online

Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

By: Nicole Goodman,Helen A. Hayes,R. Michael McGregor,Scott Pruysers,Zachary Spicer

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Voting Online

Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

By: Nicole Goodman,Helen A. Hayes,R. Michael McGregor,Scott Pruysers,Zachary Spicer

In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation, governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may face additional barriers. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this trend. Voting Online focuses on Canada, where the technology has been widely embraced by municipal governments with one of the highest rates of use in the world. In the age of cyber elections, Canada is the only country where governments offer fully remote electronic elections and where traditional paper voting is eliminated for entire electorates. Municipalities are the laboratories of electoral modernization when it comes to digital voting reform. We know conspicuously little about the effects of these changes, particularly the elimination of paper ballots. Relying on surveys of voters, non-voters, and candidates in twenty Ontario cities, and a survey of administrators across the province of Ontario, Voting Online provides a holistic view of electronic elections unavailable anywhere else.

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144

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228021790

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9780228021797

The Last Campaign

How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election

By: Zachary Karabell

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The Last Campaign

How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election

By: Zachary Karabell

In The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore ("Dewey Defeats Truman," the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for. In 1948, Harry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were flanked on the far left by the Progressive Henry Wallace, and on the far right by white supremacist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. The Last Campaign exposes the fascinating story behind Truman’s legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for “the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was represented,” a time before television fundamentally altered the political landscape.

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Vintage

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0307428869

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9780307428868

The Environmental Policy Paradox

By: Zachary A. Smith,Peter Jacques

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The Environmental Policy Paradox

By: Zachary A. Smith,Peter Jacques

Now in its eighth edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox continues the book's tradition of offering an accessible introduction to the social, economic, legal, and political matters pertaining to environmental policy while also developing the student’s own unique views. The text explains why some environmental ideas shape policy while others do not and illustrates that even when the best short- and long-term solutions to environmental problems are identified, the task of implementing these solutions is often left undone or is completed too late. New to the eighth edition: New topics including environmental social movements and the anti-environmental countermovements, environmental justice, corporate influence in regulatory affairs. Analyzes the growing policy divide between the two parties, and the efforts of both Republicans and Democratic presidents to undo the policies of their predecessor. Updated discussions of environmental justice issues. Includes a range of visual aids in figures and tables to demonstrate trends in the topics covered. A new co-author, Peter Jacques, recognized for his teaching and scholarship in global environmental politics and sustainability. A must-buy for courses in Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, and Public Policy; and as a supplement for courses in American Government and Public Administration.

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Taylor & Francis

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100077483X

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9781000774832

Railroads and American Political Development

Infrastructure, Federalism, and State Building

By: Zachary Callen

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Railroads and American Political Development

Infrastructure, Federalism, and State Building

By: Zachary Callen

America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would demand—a demand that became ever clearer as the power and importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide rail network, it also became clear, far exceeded the resources of state and local government and private industry. The consequences, as seen in this book, amounted to state building from the ground up. In Railroads and American Political Development Zachary Callen tells the story of the federal government's role in developing a national rail system—and the rail system's role in expanding the power of the federal government. The book reveals how state building, so often attributed to an aggressive national government, can also result from local governments making demands on the national state—a dynamic that can still be seen at work every time the US Congress takes up a transportation bill. Though many states invested in their local railroads, and many quite successfully, others were less willing or less capable—so rail development necessarily became a federal concern. Railroads and American Political Development shows how this led to the Land Grant Act of 1850, a crucial piece of legislation in the building of both the nation's infrastructure and the American state. Chronicling how this previously local issue migrated to the federal state, and how federal action then altered American rail planning, the book offers a new perspective on the exact nature of federalism. In the case of rail development, we see how state governments factor into the American state building process, and how, in turn, the separation of powers at the federal level shaped that process. The result is a fresh view of the development of the American rail system, as well as a clearer picture of the pressures and political logic that have altered and expanded the reach of American federalism.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700623000

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9780700623006

The Environmental Policy Paradox (1-download)

By: Zachary A. Smith

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The Environmental Policy Paradox (1-download)

By: Zachary A. Smith

This book examines environmental policy in the United States in air, water, land use, agriculture, energy, waste disposal, and other areas. It discusses the legal processes that come into play when citizens pursue environmental policy goals in the courts.

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Routledge

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1317348583

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9781317348580

The National Environmental Policy Act

Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect

By: Matthew J. Ph. D. Lindstrom,Matthew J. Lindstrom,Zachary A. Smith

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The National Environmental Policy Act

Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect

By: Matthew J. Ph. D. Lindstrom,Matthew J. Lindstrom,Zachary A. Smith

Environmental degradation and the compromised integrity of the earth's ecological system were growing public concerns in the mid to late 1960s. These issues spurred Congress to pass the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the first law to focus such environmental concerns into a comprehensive national policy. The new legislation encompassed an array of environmental values and ethics, as well as administrative tools to achieve the ecological goals of the nation while taking into account other important societal needs. Though NEPA has had a positive effect on U.S. environmental policy and the national quality of life, this challenging new book shows how federal courts and agencies have failed to implement many of the values and goals fundamental to the success of NEPA. To explain this divergence, authors Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith examine NEPA's origins, address how NEPA has been implemented and enforced, and highlight the shortcomings of its practice. Lindstrom and Smith strongly argue that if NEPA were fully and properly implemented, it would prove to be a valuable and realistic tool for balancing the needs of the world population and the protection of the earth's environment. They offer a new, hopeful look at how the law's structure can be properly utilized in order to give future generations hope of living on a sustainable planet. This book is well suited for audiences interested in public policy formation and implementation, especially environmental policy administrators, environmental historians, and those involved in environmental law, its policy, and its politics.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440488

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9781603440486

Before Equiano

A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

By: Zachary McLeod Hutchins

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Before Equiano

A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

By: Zachary McLeod Hutchins

In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the black African experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable, race-based system of domestic oppression.

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UNC Press Books

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1469671557

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A Host of Devils

The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture

By: Zachary Kingdon

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The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture

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Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

By: Zachary Kingdon

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A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

By: Zachary Kingdon

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A Host of Devils

A Host of Devils

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

Voting Online

Voting Online

The Last Campaign

The Last Campaign

The Environmental Policy Paradox

The Environmental Policy Paradox

Railroads and American Political Development

Railroads and American Political Development

The Environmental Policy Paradox (1-download)

The Environmental Policy Paradox (1-download)

The National Environmental Policy Act

The National Environmental Policy Act

Before Equiano

Before Equiano

A Host of Devils

A Host of Devils

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

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