“…Brings together pioneering literary works by African American authors who made a revolutionary impact on UK and Irish nineteenth-century transatlantic literary cultures and political historiesIncludes an in-depth introductory essay, author biographies, annotations, and detailed bibliographies in order to provide specialist and general audiences with the literary, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts that were fundamental to nineteenth century Black transatlantic literary productionThe nineteen texts constitute radical declarations of Black artistic and political independence by bearing witness to each author’s determination to resist white racist attempts to script, edit and censor Black acts and arts of imaginative literary productionThis is the first scholarly anthology of nineteen narratives written by African American authors and published in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century.These literary works share the powerful life stories of inspirationally pioneering writers: Charles Freeman, Phebe Ann Jacobs, Benjamin Crompton Chisley/William Jones, John Hart, John Williams, Henry (surname unknown), James Watkins, William Gustavus Allen, John Comber, Sarah Parker Remond, James Cheeney Thompson, Dinah Hope Browne, John Sella Martin, Lewis Smith, James Alfred Johnson, D. E. Tobias and Benjamin William Brown. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- The what, why, and how of planning history / Carola Hein -- Writing planning history : agents, theories, methods, and typologies -- The pioneers, institutions and vehicles of planning history / Stephen V Ward -- Interdisciplinarity in planning history / Nancy H.Kwak -- Planning history and theory : institutions, comparison, and temporal processes / André Sorensen -- The history of planning methodology / Peter Batey -- Biographical method / Robert Freestone -- Planning diffusion : agents, mechanisms, networks and theories / Stephen V Ward -- Global systems foundations of the discipline : colonial, post-colonial and other power structures / Robert Home -- Time, place and culture : from Euro-American to global planning history -- The ancient past in the urban present : the use of early models in urban design / Michael E. Smith, Carola Hein -- Writing planning history in the English-speaking world / Robert Freestone -- Key planning histories of the developing western tradition from the mid-19th century to the early-20th century / David Massey -- Urbanisme, urbanismo, urbanistica : Latin European urbanism / Javier Monclâus, Carmen Díez Medina -- Urbanisme and the francophone sphere / Clément Orillard -- The German traditions of Städtebau and Stadtlandschaft and their diffusion through global exchange / Celina Kress -- Planning history in and of Russia and the Soviet Union / Maria Taylor, Irina V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The meaning of brand in scholarly publishing and academic librarianship / Anthony Watkinson, Kent Anderson, Dean Smith, Hazel Woodword, Allen Renear. -- Charleston Conference observatory: are social media impacting in research? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories -- Introduction -- 1 Explaining it Away -- 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction -- 3 Adorned in Zeitgeist -- 4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture -- PART TWO What fashion is and is not -- Introduction -- 5 Fashion -- 6 Art -- 7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation -- 8 Fashion -- 9 Extract from Fashion and Anti Fashion -- PART THREE Fashion and (the) image -- Introduction -- 10 Fashion Photography -- 11 Going Beyond 'The Fashion System': A Critique -- 12 'Doing Fashion Photographs' -- 13 Introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith -- PART FOUR Sustainable fashion -- Introduction -- 14 Consumers' Perceptions of 'Green': Why and How Consumers Use Eco-Fashion and Green Beauty Products -- 15 Fashion, Needs and Consumption -- 16 Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes we Wear -- PART FIVE Fashion as communication -- Introduction -- 17 Social Life as a Sign System -- 18 The Analysis of the Rhetorical System -- 19 Do Clothes Speak? …”

“…Different historical periods are marked by greater and lesser degrees of regulation. Much of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations amounts to a critique of the extensive regulation of trade and commerce that was part and parcel of the mercantile system. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Electoral Systems and Voter Turnout -- Daniel M. Smith -- 11. Electoral Systems and Citizen-Elite Ideological Congruence -- Matthew Golder and Benjamin Ferland -- 12. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hadjivassiliou, Arianna Tassinari, Werner Eichhorst, and Florian Wozny -- Stressed economies, distressed policies, and distraught young people : European policies and outcomes from a youth perspective / Mark Smith, Janine Leschke, Helen Russell, and Paola Villa -- Labor market flexibility and income security: changes for European youth during the Great Recession / Janine Leschke and Mairéad Finn -- Policy transfer and innovation for building resilient bridges to the youth labor market / Maria Petmesidou and María González Menéndez -- How do youth labor flows differ from those of older workers? …”