edinburgh university press after the terror sep 2002

... 2007 15:15 1 The frontiersmen of mankind the liberation of their continent made the second half of the twentieth century a triumphant period for the peoples of Africa, but at the end of the century ... people who make the world; the bush has wounds and scars.’ At the heart of the African past, therefore, has been a unique population history that links the earliest huma...

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... of the global environment – the vast polar ocean areas, largely frozen on the surface but teeming with life beneath their cold covers. The Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean are special in the ... of their provisions. Disregarding for a moment both their unique features and the impact of the Arctic and Southern Oceans on the global environment, their sheer size deserves clo...

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... of the courts and the bureau- cracy that either already surrounded themor inevitably awaited them. Their own “self-relation” – their sense of how their life was to go, their awareness of how they ... world, they found that the institutions and practices surrounding themgave themlittle help, since they could not “find” themselves or “see” themselves reflected in those practices. They becam...

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... Mafeking in the news throughout the siege, updating readers on the occasional sorties from the town, the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison. The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention ... help but catch the interest of the British public very decisively. The press followed the events of the war in such detail that Haggard decided by the end o...

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... England, where it was the out- come of the lapsing of the Licensing Act in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution. In Amer ica a ‘mature’ political press w as the product of the struggles for independence ... in the context of the part played by the press in the political upheavals of the time. The collection ex- amines the relationship between newspapers and...

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... as the other to the masculine. These lectures express many of the core ideas of Levinas’s later work, the central- ity of the other, and the claim that time determines the relation between the ... labour in the forest. His camp had the number 1492, the date of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain! The Jewish prisoners were kept separately from the non-Jews and wo...

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... depressing verdict on the possibilities of ‘ordinary’ life. The setting is the key to this. The tribulations of the four main protago- nists in love and career are set against the backdrop of the ... retain some of their force. One has to grant, further, that the picture he painted has remained partially true of the post-war novel, notably the preoccupation with parochial...

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... public perceptions to their own advantage, which is why, in the modern age, they seek the help of expert political advisers. They know that to survive the political game they must strive constantly ... The honor of politicians having so often proved as hollow as their promises, their reputation as a class has frequently tended to fall, like the salesman’s, to the level of the sc...

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... wars after 1945 and of the advent of war against terrorism brings the story to the present day. STEPHEN C . NEFF is a Reader in Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is the ... when the Christian knights indulged in a horrible massacre in liberating the tomb of their saviour, who had urged all men to turn the other cheek when smitten. 3 If the piou...

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... Union punishes its mother from within and threatens its father, too, ‘‘across the water’’ (). The ‘‘legacy’’ () of force and violence, the poem suggests, is more of the same: the crossing of two cultures ... brutality. Now, more than thirty years after the renewal of ‘ the troubles,’’ it may be difficult to read the ‘‘legacy’’ of the Act of Union in any other way. The t...

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