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Over the last few yrs there has been a move -upwara& from the study of micro-pol'al units to an understanding of the flow of the totality, to apply the insights gained from the study of the individual to the explanation of the behavior of the whole. The results of such studies in voting represent the beginning of a new phase in pol'al analysis. The res's of the Survey Center of the U of Michigan into US voting have led to a considerable N of descriptive facts about the present-day electorate. The behavioral sci'st is in the unique position of being able to provide a realistic statement of the individual acts which together make up the collectivity; he has devised ways of measuring men as they are & not as they are supposed to be. The integration of historical evidence from the elections of the past with survey data from elections of the present seems a natural intellectual enterprise & it is not totally unrealistic to hope that something worthwhile will come from it. IPSA.

In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States are explored. King Cotton, the slave hierarchy on southern plantations, the relationship of the slaveholders and slaves, the slave codes that regulated the absolute control of slaves, the ensuing slave rebellions, and the abolitionist movement and those who spoke out against the atrocities of slavery are among the many topics examined in this comprehensive historical resource. An informative timeline highlights key events and

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Evolution and Environment -- Terms and Concepts -- Environment -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2: The Tropical Rain Forest: Our Distant Birthplace -- The Biome -- The Arican Apes -- The Forest/Woodland Ecotone Bipedalism -- Return to the Forest -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Tropical Savanna -- The Biome -- Australopithecus-Early Work -- Australopithecus and Early Homo: Later Discoveries -- Homo Hablis: Occupation Sites -- The Hadza -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Temperate Forest -- The Biome -- The Cave at Zhoukoudian -- Behavioural Implications -- The Iroquois -- Summary -- Chapter 5: The Norther Grasslands and Coniferous Forest -- The Biome -- Torralba and Ambrona -- Terra Amata -- The Tungus -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The Tundra -- The Biome -- The Magdelenians -- The Nuunamuit -- The Taremuit -- Trade and Reciprocity -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Hunters and Gatherers -- The Lifestyle -- The San Bushman and the Savanna -- San Social Organization -- San Food Resources -- Prospects for Hunters-Gatherers -- Chapter 8: Pastoralism -- Chanelled Productivity -- Pastoralism and Ranching -- The Masai -- Grazing the Commons -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Agriculture and Pollution -- Horticulture and Agriculture -- Agriculture and Energy -- Irrigation -- Agricultural Pollution -- Agriculture, Power and Property -- Summary -- Chapter 10: The City -- The Rise of Cities -- Specialization -- Disease -- Technology and Culture -- Summary -- Chapter 11: The Human Ecosystem: Past, Present, and Future -- The Evolution of the Ecosystem -- From Prehistory to the Present -- Trends in Human Ecology -- Resources and Population -- Development and Exploitation -- The Manifold and the One -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index

Kritik des Weltbank-Engagements in Wohnungsbau-Projekten in Tansania seit den siebziger Jahren. Statt des offiziellen Ziels, Hilfe für die städtischen Armen zu leisten, wurde das Gegenteil erreicht. Die Armen wurden vertrieben, Preise für Land und Mieten steigen. Profitiert haben Kleinbürgertum und Spekulanten. Verantwortlich dafür sind das Insistieren der Bank auf Marktmechanismen und ihre Kontrolle über die lokale Verwaltung. (DÜI-Wsl)

Historical Style' connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood. In a panoptic sweep, 'Historical Style' brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Burgeoning consumer society, Campbell contends, highlighted the distinction between the past and the present, created an expectation of continual change, and forged a sense of history as something that could be tracked through material objects. Campbell assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and David Hume's ideas of novelty as historical form; popular illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds's aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott's costume-saturated historical fiction. In foregrounding fashion to trace eighteenth-century historicism, 'Historical Style' draws upon the interdisciplinary, multimedia archival impressions that fashionable dress has left behind, as well as the historical and conceptual resources within the field of fashion studies that literary and cultural historians of eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain have often neglected