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Cold War and rhetoric: conceptually and critically / Robert L. Scott -- Rhetoric and Cold War: a strategic approach / Martin J. Medhurst -- Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace": a case study in the strategic use of language / Martin J. Medhurst -- Rhetoric portraiture: John F. Kennedy's March 2, 1962, speech on the resumption of atmospheric tests / Martin J. Medhurst -- Cold War motives and the rhetorical metaphor: a framework of criticism / Robert L. Ivie -- Diffusing Cold War demagoguery: Murrow versus McCarthy on "See it Now" / Robert L. Ivie -- Metaphor and the rhetorical invention of Cold War "Idealists" / Robert L. Ivie -- Critical and classical theory: an introduction to ideology criticism / Philip Wander -- The rhetoric of American foreign policy / Philip Wander -- Political rhetoric and the Un-American tradition / Philip Wander -- The prospects of Cold War criticism / Robert L. Ivie

Offers a survey of research trends in sociolinguistics around the world. This work focuses on traditional variationist sociolinguistics and on the areas of bi- and multilingualism together with diglossia and code-switching, language and culture, language and power and language planning

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Understanding Power: Traditional Approaches -- The power debate -- Pluralism -- Rational choice theory -- Conclusion -- 2 Understanding Power: Radical Approaches -- The other dimensions of power -- Power: luck or structure? -- Power and structure -- Poststructuralism and the defacing of power -- Conclusion -- 3 The State and Power -- The liberal perspective: pluralism and rational choice -- Rational choice theory and state power -- Elitism and neo-Weberian approaches to state power -- Radical approaches to state power -- Conclusion -- 4 A Framework for Analysing Power and the State -- Power, capacity and agents -- A framework for understanding power -- Conclusion -- 5 The Development of the State from Modernity to Pastmodernity -- The development of the modern and pastmodern state -- From extensive to intensive to fragmented power -- Postmodern delivery -- The partiality of the modern state -- Conclusion -- 6 Legitimacy, Authority and Bureaucracy -- Legitimacy and the liberal state -- The modern state: bureaucracy, authority and force -- The problem of authority -- Nationalism and legitimacy -- Fear, trust and authority -- Conclusion -- 7 Force and Terror -- Force and terror in authoritarian regimes -- From force to terror -- The problem of totalitarianism -- Using force and terror in 'democratic' regimes -- Conclusion -- 8 Rationality and Regulation -- Rational choice ontology and incentives -- Principal-agent theory -- Incentives and public policy -- Regulation and choice -- Conclusion -- 9 Surveillance -- Developing surveillance -- The implications of surveillance -- Conclusion -- 10 Risk -- Understanding the dimensions of risk -- Risk and government -- Analysing risk in politics -- Implicit with risk is a notion of power.

On the high seas -- Queensland, 1869-1889 -- Fiji, 1875-1885 -- Trinidad and the Bahamas, 1886-1897 -- India : the setting -- India : in the legal arena, 1889-1922 -- Kenya, 1905-1934 -- British Honduras, 1934

An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work demonstrates the importance of the processes of criminal justice to the history of the empire and the advantage of a trans-territorial approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of its workings. An Empire on Trial is of interest to those concerned with race, empire, or criminal justice, and to historians of modern Britain or of colonial Australia, India, Kenya, or the Caribbean. Political and post-colonial theorists writing on liberalism and empire, or race and empire, will also find this book invaluable