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The demise of sterling as an international currency was widely predicted after 1945, but the process took thirty years to complete. Why was this demise so prolonged? Traditional explanations emphasize British efforts to prolong sterling's role because it increased the capacity to borrow, enhanced prestige, or supported London as a centre for international finance. This book challenges this view by arguing that sterling's international role was prolonged by the weakness of the international monetary system and by collective global interest in its continuation. Using the archives of Britain's partners in Europe, the USA and the Commonwealth, Catherine Schenk shows how the UK was able to convince other governments that sterling's international role was critical for the stability of the international economy and thereby attract considerable support to manage its retreat. This revised view has important implications for current debates over the future of the US dollar as an international currency.

Pound, British --- Monetary policy --- International economic relations --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- British pound --- English pound --- Pound sterling --- Sterling area --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Pound, British - History - 20th century --- Monetary policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century --- International economic relations - History - 20th century --- 332.494109045 --- 331.157 --- 333.432.3 --- 333.432.8 --- 333.453 --- AA / International- internationaal --- GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- Geldwezen sedert 1945 --- Sterlinggebied --- Internationale monetaire organisatie. Internationaal Muntfonds. Algemene leningovereenkomsten --- Internationale munt. Rekeneenheden

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When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate on their way to adolescence and adulthood. This volume shines new light on this important transition by tracing how these contexts -- cultural, economic, historical, political, and social -- can support or undermine children's pathways, and how children's own actions and the actions of those arou

Child development. --- Children --- School children. --- Children with social disabilities. --- Socially handicapped children --- Children with disabilities --- People with social disabilities --- Elementary school students --- Primary school students --- Pupils --- School children --- Schoolchildren --- Students --- Child study --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Social conditions. --- Education --- Development

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In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as steeped in inflexible traditions, come to welcome this modernist trend? Catherine R. Osborne's innovative new book finds the answer: the alignment between postwar advancements in technology and design and evolutionary thought within the burgeoning American Catholic community. A new, visibly contemporary approach to design, church leaders thought, could lead to the rebirth of the church community of the future. As Osborne explains, the engineering breakthroughs that made modernist churches feasible themselves raised questions that were, for many Catholics, fundamentally theological. Couldn't technological improvements engender worship spaces that better reflected God's presence in the contemporary world? Detailing the social, architectural, and theological movements that made modern churches possible, American Catholics and the Churches of Tomorrow breaks important new ground in the history of American Catholicism, and also presents new lines of thought for scholars attracted to modern architectural and urban history.

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From a history of repressive regimes and genocidal warfare, the Balkan region is undergoing full-scale transformation, politically, economically, culturally, and psychologically. These conditions make this part of the world a microcosm of peacebuilding, in terms of both the traumatic past that must be addressed and prospects for future nonviolence. Balancing optimism with realism, Peace Psychology in the Balkans analyzes the complex causes of violence and explores peace efforts in Romania, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Macedonia. The range of peace objectives is shown in this unique context, from promoting the absence of conflict to advocating for justice, equality, and positive relations between groups. Contributors consider the peacebuilding potential of the schools, the arts and media, national symbols, and other cultural institutions. And an analysis of ethnocentrism offers valuable insights into why conflict arises and how it may be prevented. Among the topics covered: The role of schools in inter-ethnic peacemaking. Transforming violent masculinities in Serbia and beyond. Ten years after the war: internalizing and externalizing symptoms in Bosnian young adults. Risk and resilience among refugees in Serbia. Overcoming ethnic hatred: peacebuilding and violence prevention in divided societies. Coming to terms with the past: collective moral responsibility and reconciliation. The chapters of Peace Psychology in the Balkans provide profound lessons for peacebuilding across nations and settings, contributing to the book’s value for researchers and students in peace and conflict studies, cultural psychology, and political science.  .

Conflict management -- Asia. --- Conflict management -- Balkan Peninsula -- Psychological aspects. --- Political psychology -- Balkan Peninsula. --- Sociology & Social History --- Law, Politics & Government --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- Social Sciences --- History & Archaeology --- International Relations --- Social Change --- Balkan Peninsula --- Peace-building --- Peace. --- Peace --- Psychological aspects. --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Psychology. --- Political science. --- European Economic Community literature. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Community psychology. --- Environmental psychology. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Community and Environmental Psychology. --- European Integration. --- Political Science. --- Cognitive ergonomics --- Ecological psychology --- Ecopsychology --- Ecotherapy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental social sciences --- Human factors science --- Psychoeology --- Psychology --- Psychotherapy --- Ecological Systems Theory --- Psychology, Applied --- Social psychology --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Psychological aspects --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Security, International --- War --- Conflict management --- Peacekeeping forces --- Consciousness. --- Applied psychology. --- European Economic Community lite. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Spirit --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics