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This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile oil market now poses to economic recovery under the conditions of high debt, low growth and quantitative easing. The author argues that the 'Gordian knot' created by the economic and political dynamics of supply and demand oil in the present international economy poses a fundamental challenge to the assumption of economic progress embedded in Western democratic expectations.
Political science. --- Fossil fuels. --- Business logistics. --- Political economy. --- United States --- Macroeconomics. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political Economy. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- US Politics. --- Supply Chain Management. --- Politics and government. --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects. --- United States-Politics and gover. --- International Political Economy. --- Supply chain management --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Economics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- United States—Politics and government. --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals
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This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies. Unlike many discussions of democracy that treat authority as a problem primarily of domestic politics or normative values, this book puts the international economy at the centre of the analysis.This volume shows how changes in the international economy from the inter-war years to the end of the twentieth century impacted upon the success and failures of democracy. It makes the argument by considering a range of different cases, and it traces the success and failure of democracies over the past ce
Representative government and representation --- Democracy --- Power (Social sciences) --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- History. --- Economic aspects. --- History --- authority. --- comparative analysis. --- democracies. --- developed countries. --- developing countries. --- domestic politics. --- inter-war years. --- international economy. --- normative values. --- state.
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Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth century, Thompson argues, domestic novelists appropriated the standard of political modernity advanced by John Locke and others as a citizen's free or "ingenuous" assent to the law. The domestic novel figures feminine political difference not as women's deviation from an abstract universal but rather as their failure freely or ingenuously to submit to the power retained by Enlightenment husbands.Ingenuous Subjection claims domestic novelists as vital participants in Enlightenment political discourse. By tracing the political, philosophical, and generic significance of feminine compliance, this book revises our literary historical account of the rise of the novel. Rather than imagining a realm of harmonious sentiment, domestic fiction represents the persistent arbitrariness of eighteenth-century men's conjugal power. Ingenuous Subjection revises feminist theory and historiography, locating the genealogy of feminism in a contractual model of ingenuous assent which challenges the legitimacy of masculine conjugal government. The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous Subjection recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.
English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Domestic fiction, English --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Families in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Literature --- Family in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- History --- Women authors --- Literature and feminism --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.
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This monograph is the first to present the work of the award-winning, Texas-based but internationally recognized landscape architecture studio Hocker. Founded in 2005 by David L. Hocker, the studio has over fifteen years of practice earned wide acclaim for projects that are meticulously detailed, evince a superlative understanding of materials, thoughtfully address environmental context, and promote an arrestingly contemporary aesthetic. Hocker's work, and the fifteen projects featured in the book, represent a range of typologies, from residential gardens to urban parks. Among them are landscapes for a weekend retreat in the Sonoma Hills (winner of the 2019 ASLA Award of Excellence), a former power station-turned-contemporary art center (winner of a 2016 ASLA Honor Award), the revitalized Dallas Museum of Art (winner of a 2017 ASLA Texas Chapter Merit Award), a historic synagogue, and a Cistercian abbey and preparatory school. Equipped with the knowledge necessary to confront complex environmental and programmatic challenges, Hocker nevertheless approaches each project with the ambition of creating spaces that are simple and restrained, but beautiful and engaging.
Paysage --- Jardin privé --- Paysagisme --- Hocker, David --- Hocker Design Group --- Landschapsarchitectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 20ste eeuw
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"Hard Times explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade, showing how the Covid-19 crisis blew apart fault lines in western democracies, the US-China relationship, NATO, and the European Union that had been accumulating for decades. The book tells three historical stories. The geopolitical story begins with the inherent difficulties the United States faced as an ascendant non-Eurasian power in the early twentieth century, especially in the Middle East, and culminates in the American turn away from China in a world in which the United States is simultaneously a declining military power and a resurgent energy and financial power. The economic story begins in the 1970s and explains how the rise of the Eurodollar system and the decade's energy crises remade the monetary world and the European Union, and how the Federal Reserve and China's response to the 2007-8 crash in preventing an economic collapse let lose a succession of economic and energy problems that cannot now be resolved. The final story situates the present instability in the need for democracies to maintain 'losers' consent' and to be repaired when they become unbalanced. It also shows why such repair is so difficult under present geopolitical and economic conditions"--
Geopolitics --- Western countries - Politics and government - 21st century --- Western countries - Economic conditions - 21st century --- Western countries --- Occident --- West (Western countries) --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- World politics --- International economic relations --- BPB9999 --- geopolitiek --- internationale economie --- democrație --- fossiele brandstof --- energiebeleid --- BPB2211 --- international økonomi --- maailmamajandus --- svjetska ekonomija --- svetovno gospodarstvo --- ekonomi botërore --- internationell ekonomi --- internationale Wirtschaft --- διεθνής οικονομία --- svetové hospodárstvo --- economía internacional --- geilleagar an domhain --- pasaules ekonomika --- ekonomija dinjija --- economie mondială --- économie internationale --- světová ekonomika --- международна икономика --- светска економија --- economia internazionale --- világgazdaság --- world economy --- kansainvälinen talous --- pasaulio ekonomika --- светска привреда --- gospodarka światowa --- economia internacional --- economía mundial --- economia mundial --- economie internațională --- παγκόσμια οικονομία --- économie mondiale --- wereldeconomie --- global ekonomi --- globalna ekonomija --- ekonomi ndërkombëtare --- světové hospodářství --- глобална економија --- rahvusvaheline majandus --- starptautiskā ekonomika --- svjetsko gospodarstvo --- nemzetközi gazdaság --- mezinárodní hospodářství --- verdensøkonomi --- globální ekonomika --- economia mondiale --- tarptautinė ekonomika --- Weltwirtschaft --- världsekonomi --- medzinárodné hospodárstvo --- international economy --- меѓународна економија --- geopolityka --- ġeopolitika --- geopoliitika --- geopolitika --- Geopolitik --- géopolitique --- geopolitik --- геополитика --- geopolitica --- geopolitică --- geopolítica --- γεωπολιτική --- geopolitics --- gjeopolitikë --- geopholaitíocht --- ģeopolitika --- geopolitiikka --- energetická politika --- energetikos politika --- politique énergétique --- energetska politika --- energiapoliitika --- energiapolitiikka --- енергийна политика --- politika tal-enerġija --- ενεργειακή πολιτική --- política energética --- Energiepolitik --- politica energetica --- energiapolitika --- energipolitik --- enerģētikas politika --- politică energetică --- politikë energjetike --- energy policy --- енергетска политика --- polityka energetyczna --- beartas fuinnimh --- strategia energetica --- obiettivo energetico --- политика за енергетика --- politica energetica nazionale --- мерки за енергетска ефикасност --- atomprogram --- opzione energetica --- atompolitik --- politica dell'energia --- piano energetico --- енергетска стратегија --- sviluppo energetico --- degizraktenis --- фосилно гориво --- fjuwil fossili --- fosilní palivo --- fosílne palivo --- fossil fuel --- iškastinis kuras --- fossiilinen polttoaine --- combustibile fossile --- fossiilkütus --- fosilno gorivo --- combustibil fosil --- fossilt bränsle --- combustible fósil --- breosla iontaise --- fossiler Brennstoff --- paliwo kopalne --- изкопаемо гориво --- fosszilis tüzelőanyag --- karburant fosil --- ορυκτά καύσιμα --- fossilt brændsel --- combustible fossile --- combustível fóssil --- οργανικά καύσιμα --- ürgkütus --- karburant fossili --- δημοκρατία --- demokrácia --- demokrātija --- democracia --- demokraatia --- democrazia --- demokracija --- démocratie --- demokratija --- daonlathas --- democracy --- demokratia --- demokracie --- demokracja --- demokrati --- demokraci --- demokracia --- Demokratie --- demokrazija --- демокрация --- демократија --- politický pluralizmus --- pluralizm polityczny --- πολιτικός πλουραλισμός --- folkstyre --- folkestyre --- politiek pluralisme --- politischer Pluralismus --- politiskais plurālisms --- demokrātiska vienlīdzība --- politikai pluralizmus --- égalité démocratique --- politický pluralismus --- ugwaljanza demokratika --- pluraliżmu politiku --- barazi demokratike --- pluralismo político --- politinis pliuralizmas --- politisk jämlikhet --- демократична равнопоставеност --- igualdad democrática --- democratische gelijkheid --- demokratische Gleichheit --- δημοκρατικό πολίτευμα --- demokraattinen yhdenvertaisuus --- poliittinen pluralismi --- demokratična enakost --- democratic equality --- demokratikus egyenlőség --- pluralisme politique --- politisk mångfald --- demokraatlik võrdsus --- igualdade democrática --- politisk pluralism --- ludowładztwo --- политически плурализъм --- politisk pluralisme --- pluralism politic --- pluralismo politico --- pluralizëm politik --- demokratická rovnost --- politički pluralizam --- uguaglianza democratica --- politični pluralizem --- egalitate democratică --- demokratická rovnosť --- political pluralism --- poliitiline pluralism --- demokratinė lygybė --- политички плурализам --- democrație
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This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West. Thompson explains the problems that the rising cost of oil posed in the years leading up to the 2008 crash, and the difficulties that a volatile oil market now poses to economic recovery under the conditions of high debt, low growth and quantitative easing. The author argues that the 'Gordian knot' created by the economic and political dynamics of supply and demand oil in the present international economy poses a fundamental challenge to the assumption of economic progress embedded in Western democratic expectations.
International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Macroeconomics --- International economic relations --- Economics --- Physical distribution --- Business management --- Fuels --- internationale economische politiek --- intern transport --- SCM (supply chain management) --- economie --- politiek --- macro-economie --- internationale economie --- fossiele brandstoffen --- United States of America
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In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conceptions of matter shaped eighteenth-century British culture. Although the scientific revolution championed experimental, sense-based knowledge, chemists claimed that perceptible bodies were made of invisible particles or "corpuscles." Neither modern elements nor classical atoms, corpuscles were reactive, divisible units of matter. Imperceptible but real, the corpuscle transformed empirical knowledge in early modern science and the novel. Thompson offers new analyses of the chemistry, alchemy, color theory, physiology, environmental science, and medicine pioneered by Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hales, John Mitchell, John Arbuthnot, and Thomas Sydenham to argue that they shaped cultural conceptions of racial, class, sex, and species identity. Juxtaposing science with readings of novels by Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, William Rufus Chetwood, and Penelope Aubin, she shows how, at the level of form as well as character, novels represent perceptual knowledge that refers not to innate essence but to dynamic and unstable relations. The realist narrative mode that experimental science bequeaths to literary history, Fictional Matter argues, does not transparently mirror perceptible objects. Instead, novels represent the forms and relations through which imperceptible particles stimulate sensory experience. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular chemistry, Thompson advances a new account of the influence of experimental science and empirical knowledge on the emergent realist novel.
English fiction --- Chemistry --- Literature and science --- Empiricism in literature. --- Chemistry in literature. --- Science --- History and criticism. --- History
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