“…Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children's literature circulating on both sides of the Atlantic, Gabrielle Owen argues that adolescence has a logic, a way of thinking, that emerges over the course of the nineteenth century and that survives in various forms to this day. …”

“…This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Duke University.A portrait of the game of capoeira and its practice across borders Originating in the Black Atlantic world as a fusion of dance and martial art, capoeira was a marginalized practice for much of its history. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Leviathan -- The neoconservative illusion -- The frailty of human affairs -- Crises of the republic -- The argument -- Seized by power -- Death and the governor of Texas -- The new American exceptionalism -- The cold warrior myth -- Kant with Arendt -- Targeting Iraq -- Al Qaeda and ultimate ends -- A grammar of motives -- The imagination of power -- State of exception -- Arendt versus Agamben -- Schmitt and Hobbes -- Decision and covenant -- The ordeal of universalism -- September 11 and fables of the left -- First response -- Multilateral ambivalence -- Terrorism as symptom -- Chomskian certitudes -- Hardt and Negri's Empire -- The multitude and prophecy -- Iraq : delirium of war, delusions of peace -- The idealism of means -- The idealism of ends -- Neither left nor right -- The Atlantic misalliance -- Diplomatic intrigues and political truths -- Repudiations of the UN left and right -- The Hobbesian nightmare : occupied Iraq -- The ordeal of universalism -- Democracy and war -- Postnational cosmopolitanism versus liberal nationalism? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the Atlantic World -- Chapter 9 Rice and Revolution -- Chapter 10 Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement -- Chapter 11 Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Postwar Sierra Leone -- Chapter 12 Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers and Global Flows of Child Protection Expertise -- Part IV Interregional Integration -- Chapter 13 The 'Mandingo Question' -- Chapter 14 Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer -- Chapter 15 Market Networks and Warfare -- Index…”

“…And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. …”

“…Modern readers of the Gospels, however, especially those born and raised in the North Atlantic postindustrial societies, have other values and institutions, and relate to each other according to other cultural codes. …”

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“…The third chapter relates to Atlantic salmon, the first OECD biosafety publication to address an animal species. …”

“…Based on the prior that countries are likely to make efforts to reduce the trade hindering effects of domestic food regulation within regional trade agreements, we focus on three different RTAs, including the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, the EU-Switzerland Free Trade Agreement (and more precisely, the EU-Switzerland Agreement on Trade in Agricultural Products), and the EU-Chile Free Trade Association. …”

“…Some gave to people who reflected their own worldview and sense of importance, or who could strategically advance their power on either side of the Atlantic. Others supported causes they considered essential to the progress of German-American relations in the early Cold War. …”

“…"The enormous leaps of growth and development experienced by Eastern and Southeast Asian states since the 1960s on account of their astonishing industrial development have led to concerns that a resulting global economic and political shift might favour the Pacific region at the expense of the "Atlantic region". A "Pacific century" was proclaimed, in which it was predicted that Asian-Pacific countries would out pace the traditional leading powers of the West. …”

“…It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyses visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions that have been considered tedious or boring in the past five centuries…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: the constitutional protection of foreign subjects in the Age of Revolution / Daniel Hulsebosch -- The state of slavery : the slave, grace, and the rise of pro-slavery constitutionalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Patricia Hagler Minter -- The royal proclamation of 1763 : an indigenous Magna Carta's rough ride in British Columbia / Hamar Foster -- Law : challenges to authority and the recognition of rights : examples from British India / Raymond Cocks -- Unfortunate necessities of warfare? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Note for Contributors; Contents; Authors in this volume; European Anti-Catholicism in Comparative and Transnational Perspective -- The Role of a Unifying Other: An Introduction; Part I -- General Perspectives; North Atlantic Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Overview; Settembrini's World: German and Italian Anti-Catholicism in the Age of the Culture Wars; Part 2 -- Anti-Catholicism and National Identity; Healing a Whorish Heart: The Whore of Babylon and Protestant Interiority in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I Escaping from National Narratives:The New Global History in China and Japan -- Global History, the Role of Scientific Discovery and the ‘Needham Question’: Europe and China 16th to 19th Centuries -- Encounter and Co-existence: Portugal and Ming China 1511-1610 - Rethinking the Dynamics of a Century of Global-Local Relations -- Challenging National Narratives: On the Origins of Sweet Potato in China as Global Commodity during the Early Modern Period -- Economic Depression and the Silver Question in Nineteenth-Century China -- Kaiiki-shi and World/Global History: A Japanese Perspective -- PART II Trade Networks and Maritime Expansion in East Asian Studies -- Structure and Transformation of the Ming Tribute Trade System -- Nanban Trade and Shuinsen Trade in 16th and 17th Century Japan -- The Jewish Presence in China and Japan in the Early Modern Period: A Social Representation -- Quantifying Ocean Currents as Story Models: Global Oceanic Currents and their Way into Global Navigation -- PART III Circulation of Technology and Commodities in the Atlantic and Pacific -- Global History and the History of Consumption: Congruence and Divergence -- Mexican Cochineal, Local Technologies and the Rise of Global Trade (16th-19th centuries) -- Social Networks and the Circulation of Technology and Knowledge in the Global Spanish Empire -- Global Commodities in Early Modern Spain -- Big History as a Commodity at Chinese Universities: A Study in Circulation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Considerations for Developing Applied Health Policy Models: The Example of HIV Treatment Expansion in Resource-Limited Settings -- Cost-effectiveness Analysis Using Registry and Administrative Data -- Public Health Modeling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- OR in Public Health: A Little Help Can Go a Long Way -- Review of Operations Research Tools and Techniques Used for Influenza Pandemic Planning -- Analytical Long-Term Care Capacity Planning -- Managing Community-based Care for Chronic Diseases: The Quantitative Approach -- Project Management Approach to Implement Clinical Pathways: An Example for Thyroidectomy -- EMS Planning and Management -- Impact of In-patient Reimbursement Systems on Hospital Performance: The Austrian Case-based Payment Strategy -- Assessing Prevention for Positives: Cost-Utility Assessment of Behavioral Interventions for Reducing HIV Transmission -- Modeling the Impact of New HIV Prevention Techniques in Sub-Saharan Africa -- REACH: A Practical HIV Resource Allocation Tool for Decision Makers -- Active Vaccine and Drug Surveillance Towards a 100 Million Member System -- Application of Operations Research to Funding Decisions for Treatments with Rare Disease -- Modeling Risk Sharing Agreements and Patient Access Schemes -- Evaluating Health Care Policy Decisions: Canadian Blood Services in Atlantic Canada -- Improving the Efficiency of Cost-effective Analysis to Inform Policy Decisions in the Real World: Lessons from the Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit at Cancer Care Ontario…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Geographies: Reading the oceans; The Black Atlantic (the abyss); Indian Ocean narratives; The Indian Ocean as a public sphere; By way of conclusion: oceans and ecologies of world literature; Note; References; 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: The Exchange of Commercial Law in Fifteenth- -- Century Bruges / Bart Lambert -- Wörter für Wucher: Ius commune and the 16th Century Debate on the Legitimacy of South German Trading Houses / David von Mayenburg -- Transfer of Credit, Mercantile Mobility, and Language among Jewish -- Merchants in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Central and East -- Central Europe / Cornelia Aust -- Coming to Terms with the Atlantic World : German Merchants, -- Language, and English Legal Culture in the Early Modern -- Period / Mark Häberlein -- Laws - Customs - Conventions : French Merchants and French Legal -- Doctrines in the Brazilian Law Courts in the Second Half of the -- Nineteenth Century / Hanna Sonkajärvi…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Migration, Ethnicity, and Religion in Early Modern New Spain / Christian Büschges -- Streifzüge aus dem Leben der armenischen Diaspora / Hacik Rafi Gazer -- Christianity, Mobility, and Frontiers of Change in Africa / David Maxwell -- "The Hand of God Was Upon Them" - Emigration, Diaspora Formation, and Christian Evangelization across the Black Atlantic / Andrew E. Barnes -- Indentured Labour, Oppression, Migration. …”