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outcome appeared to be comic.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
What was never discussed was whether the Company was legally empowered to try Zafar at all. For though the government took the position that Zafar received a pension from the Company, and was therefore the Company’s pensioner and thus subject, the actual legal position was considerably more ambiguous. While the Company’s 1599 charter to trade in th
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quests for self-determination. One of the few states that did offer such open support was China during the Mao era, strongly endorsing independence for East Timor, Angola,…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
I thank Lucy Rhymer for placing her faith or, rather, hope in me when others thought this was a hopelessly ambitious work and for stepping far beyond her role as acquisition editor to help me draw my wandering gaze back to the reader.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Best-practice steam engine technology could have saved the equivalent of a quarter of labor costs at most plants. Inefficient furnaces were oxidizing away huge amounts of metal. The Germans were pulling ahead in the use of overhead belt conveyors. It was absurdly wasteful to support 119 rail-shape standards. Better management of furnace linings, mo
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
During this period, McNeill writes, “even the mightiest European command structures became dependent on an international money and credit market for organizing military and other undertakings.”20
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
the difficulty with this viewpoint is the extreme passivity it requires of actors in the environment.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
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