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"Saving Stalin's Imperial City is a story of preservation, restoration, and commemoration in Leningrad during and after World War II. It is a history of the successes and failures in historic preservation and of Leningraders' determination to preserve the memory of the terrible siege the city had survived. The book stresses the counterintuitive nature of Stalinist policies, which allocated scarce wartime resources to save historic monuments from the tsarist and imperial past when the very existence of the Soviet state was threatened, and again after the war, when housing, hospitals, and schools needed to be rebuilt. While not all monuments were safe from destruction, the state's ideological move toward promoting Soviet patriotism led to policies that promoted heritage preservation, especially after Germany systematically sought to destroy monuments as a means of erasing evidence of Russian history and culture. When the war ended, Leningrad was at the forefront of a concerted restoration effort, fueled by commemorations that glorified the city's wartime experience, encouraged civic pride, and mobilized residents to restore their hometown. For Leningrad, the restoration of monuments and commemorations of the siege were intimately intertwined, served similar purposes, and were mutually reinforcing"--Provided by publisher

"Zeitzeugen erscheinen als selbstverständlicher Bestandteil heutiger 'Erinnerungs'- und 'Geschichtskultur'. Jedoch ist das Wort 'Zeitzeuge' eine sprachliche Neubildung, die erst seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre in der Bundesrepublik nachweisbar ist und erstmals 1991 im 'Einheitsduden' lexikalisiert wurde. Der Begriff und die mit ihm verbundenen Erscheinungsformen und Praxen von 'Zeitzeugenschaft' sind heterogen und befinden sich in kontinuierlichem Wandel. Sie bauen auf jahrhundertelangen kulturellen Traditionen von Zeugenschaft auf und haben sich im Rahmen zeitgeschichtlicher Diskurse seit 1945 durch Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Bereichen Forschung, Justiz, Medien und Pädagogik ausgeformt und differenziert. Die Entwicklung von Formen und Funktionen von Zeitzeugenschaft in Kontexten der 'NS-Vergangenheitsbewältigung' und der 'Aufarbeitung' und Vermittlung' der DDR-Geschichte wird in diesem Beitrag in einer Zusammenschau von Forschungsliteratur und ersten Ergebnissen des Projekts 'Arbeit mit Zeitzeugen zur DDR-Geschichte in der außerschulischen Bildung' nachvollzogen, um daraus Schlussfolgerungen für die Oral History und die Arbeit mit Zeitzeugen abzuleiten. Dabei wird deutlich, dass sich die Funktionen und Formen des 'Einsatzes von Zeitzeugen' seit den 1990er Jahren durch Offizialisierungsprozesse der 'Erinnerungskultur' bei gleichzeitiger Differenzierung im Zeichen des Medienwandels im 'digitalen Zeitalter' stark verändert haben. Um die vielschichtigen Voraussetzungen und Prozesse von Zeitzeugenarbeit angemessen beschreiben zu können, wird eine begriffliche Unterscheidung von impliziter und expliziter Zeitzeugenschaft vorgeschlagen." (Autorenreferat)

Issue of the University of Scranton student newspaper, The Aquinas. This edition includes a four-page special insert on the 1992 presidential election.

Issue of the University of Scranton student newspaper, The Aquinas. This edition includes an eight-page pullout section, "Common Ground."

Issue of the University of Scranton student newspaper, The Aquinas. This edition includes an eight-page pullout section, "Common Ground."

Mrs. Spew is spending a couple of weeks with me in Europe, so I thought we would wander through the middle of Germany before going to northern Italy.  We wanted to see some castles and some history, and we have gotten a heap of both.Our first stop was Dresden, which, of course, resonated with me since I read Slaughterhouse Five in high school, which was in the context of the firebombing that utterly destroyed the city and is now seen as something far worse than gratuitous.  We saw occasional memorials and unrepaired walls here and there, but it was mostly out of sight.  Definitely not out of our minds.  We stayed in the old town area, which is how we maximize the walking and the sightseeing.  We were close to the massive central cathedral, heaps of palaces (now museums), city halls, and the river.  We had some excellent food here including both Spanish and German tapas (best German food I have had, I think, in my three months here).  There was a wonderfully silly, cheesy "experience" where one gets some headphones to listen to the narration of a character from long ago trying to figure out how he died as we get a tour of the remnants of the fortress.  We also went into a pretty amazing art museum that had a great collection of statues including a replica of David and a display of East Germany/communist era art, which tended to focus on American imperialism.      We spent our next morning at Schloss Weesenstein, which is between Dresden and the border with Czechia.  It looked v ery small and uncastle-like from the road, but very big and very castle-ish from the inside.  It had some very funky display tendencies including paintings that would then have a figure/mannequin sticking out of it to give the face in the picture a 3-D body.  It was one of the places where the Nazis put (stolen) art to protect it from the bombing with the castle at Nuremberg being another. Leipzig was the least spectacular place.  Still some pretty sights, big cathedrals including one where J.S. Bach is buried (but we couldn't find the actual site within the place). Speaking of which, Nuremberg is pretty spectacular.  On the way in, we stopped by the Zeppelin grounds where the Nazis had huge rallies.  The structures don't look the same, in part because the American troops blew up the giant swastika on the platform, and partly because other parts of the superstructure were falling apart, so they got demolished.  It was strange to be standing exactly where Hitler stood way back when. We then drove into Nuremberg, where google maps led us astray a bit.  We managed to get to our hotel and then walked around, yes, the older part of town.   A very pretty river runs through the city.  We went up to the hill to the Imperial castle that overlooks the town.  We spent most of our time there, looking at the gardens and going through the museum.  It had lots of medieval armor/arms displays and much discussion of how imperial rule worked.  The emperor didn't stay put, but would visit castles around the empire to network, to show that his authority was everywhere, to rule on local disputes, etc.  The big tower had at the top pictures on each side, showing what that view looked like before the war, at the end of the war, and then after the rubble was picked up.  Nuremberg got hit very hard by allied bombing--because of its symbolic importance as well as being a transportation hub and industrial center.        And then to put all this into context, on our way out, we stopped by the Nuremberg Trial Memorial/Museum.  there was a whole lot of history packed into  a relatively small space.  Surprisingly, nearly all of the text was in German despite the tribunal being an English/French/Russian affair, and a sharp contrast to the rally grounds displays.  So, we had to listen to the audio guide read the English translation of the displays.  It slowed us down a bit, and we had to skip some stuff.  But a fascinating experience and a nice bookend to the rally grounds.   Then it was on to Erfurt, a smaller city that avoided being bombed.  I asked my wife which of the places we visited had the highest burgermeister/meisterburger quotient, and Erfurt edged out the others.  A really beautiful town with a funky covered bridge with shops, a very large citadel, and more ice cream stores per linear meter than pretty much anywhere else.  Why they have a bread dude statue?  I have no idea.Random observations along the wayI guess the whole thing of densely populated areas is that the areas in between are empty?  So much of the roads in between these places had nothing but farms, windmills, and solar panels.  Autobahn!  Superfast but lots of places with strict limits--keeps you awake.  The roads are so well constructed that it is easy to go uber-fast without feeling it--our rental car is also pretty smooth.  So, yeah, I have generally been driving at speeds that I would never approach in North America... while still getting passed by much, much faster cars.Strange parking processes.  In a mall in Leipzig, the parking machine spit out a yellow token, not a ticket.  So, when I returned to the car, I had to put the token into a normal payment machine, which I had expected to spit out a ticket. Nope, it spit out another token.  But it worked.  In another parking structure, it takes a picture of your license plate, so on your way to your car, you enter your license plate number into the machine and it spits out a ticket to let you out of the lot?  Speaking of driving, I learned how to drive a manual in high school, shortly after passing my driving test.  My mother's Datsun 310 only had four gears plus reverse.  I did learn the funkiness of how to get some sticks into reverse when I was a parking attendant in high school--yes, they hired a 16 year old!  Anyhow, after leaving home, my manual car experiences have been far apart and few, like when I landed in Brussels to drive to the Arnhem bridge (it was not too far for me, but my next stop was as jet lag hit me hard) about fourteen years ago.  So, this rental SUV has got six gears, which means I sometimes put into third rather than fifth or fourth rather than sixth.  Oops.  Oh, and my first gear skilz (the hardest gear) are not so great.  So, a few clumsy starts at stop lights.  Unlike the hard time I had figuring out how to get into reverse at the forementioned Brussels airport, I quickly realized the trick with this car was pushing down on the stick to get it into reverse.Lunches on the road didn't always work out.  We kept finding restaurants near our routes to be closed--on the way out of Dresden/Schloss and in Bamberg in between Nurenberg and Erfurt.  We ultimately just waited to eat in Leipzig. In Bamberg, we settled for a Turkish doner cart in the parking lot of a grocery store, and, as all of my Turkish doner experiences have been in Germany this year, it was super tasty.I don't remember the trams being this fast in Berlin.  In Erfurt and in some of the other places, they are fast and jeez, they are close to the sidewalks.  Tomorrow, we drive back to Berlin, drop off the rental car, and get on a plane to Venice.  We will have about five days in Italy split between Venice and Milan.  I have never been to either place, and Mrs. Spew last visited ... before Iran-Contra.  She has been keeping me from getting gelato since it supposed to be pretty good where we are going.  Auf wiedersehn! 

Yes, I went back to the East Side Gallery my firstweekend, as it was not closed on Sunday most shopping is closed) I have been in Berlin for one week thus far, with nearly three months to go.  It has been a very busy week, and it did not just involve getting situated.  But, yes, that took some effort and time as well.  So, what have been up to in the shadow of the TV tower that is featured in any movie that wants to depict Berlin as a destination?  First, yes, getting situated.  I am staying near the Hertie School's Center for International Security, which is just off of Alexanderplatz.  The apartment has much of what I need, but I had to go out and get a pillow (made in Canada!), a printer, groceries, and a residence permit.  Yes, the country of Max Weber is very bureaucratic.  Because there is much demand these days for all kinds of paperwork, I was lucky to snare an appointment on the farthest southern edge of Berlin.   I got my paperwork stamped, so I can reside in Berlin officially.  woot!        President of Hertie, the Chinese former VM, and Tobias BundeSecond, it turns out that my timing is good and the Hertie School is a happening place.  Tobias Bunde, one of the researchers here, is also a/the organizer of the Munich Security Conference which happened the weekend I arrived.  So, he brought a former Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs to a packed room (the Hertie students are from all over and they are keeners) where she presented her take on what happened at Munich and what are the major trends in international relations.  I found her to be the best representative of the Chinese government: her English was great, she was not overly polemical, she knew her audience, and so forth.  She definitely presented a biased point of view, but a clear one that was well asserted.  She noted for instance that only four panels out of a hundred at the conference were on Gaza. She pointed that the discussions on that and on Ukraine were focused on problems, not solutions.  But she was not pressed to offer any solutions. She contrasted the threat to freedom of the seas--that it is a problem for commercial shipping in the Red Seas but only a threat to American warships in the South China Sea.  Hmmmm.  She talked about Asia's long peace, she seems to be omitting the occasional Indo-Pakistan conflict.  Speaking of omissions, she argued that occupation never works, and that this something the Americans should have known in 2003 and the Russians should have known two years ago.  I was tempted to ask about Tibet or perhaps Chinese intentions towards Taiwan, but the event was for students.  It was a great way to jump into things and meet a bunch of folks.No pics of Peter K, but of other important thinkersAnother event was a session with Peter Katztenstein--one of the most important scholars in both International Relations and Comparative Politics for the past fifty years.  Required reading, indeed.  He was presented his latest book project (no retirement yet) that is pretty complex, raising meta questions about our thinking and about our need to think about uncertainty.  It was similar to Debbi Avant's presidential address at the ISA a couple of years ago.  He gave us a few chapters, the crowded room had read it, and so it was mostly Q&A.  After the talk, he sat near me and we chatted a bit.  That he has written books comparing Germany and Japan was not lost on me given my latest projects.  Next week, there will be a conference I am crashing at Hertie on the state of Zeitenwende and whether other countries are experiencing it as well.  Huh?  Oh, this refers to a speech by Germany's Chancellor  Olaf Scholz shortly after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, that we live in a watershed moment, that we need to have a revolution in foreign and defense policy.  He committed to a lot more defense spending and ending German dependence on Russian energy.  The big questions are: how much of this has and is happening and whether other countries are rethinking their place in the world. I hope to find out next week.Third, I have been getting some work done.  I have started arranging interviews for the German case, finalizing the details for a trip to Finland in April to do that case study, doing the same for a research presentation at Central European University in Vienna in a few weeks (and, yes, nailing down the details for an Alps ski trip).  I also revised three chapters of the Steve/Dave/Phil book before Dave tries to find some interest at the ISA in April.  I hope to do my turn on the rest of the book in the next week.  Fourth, I have, of course, been touristing.  I spent last weekend and today walking around this part of Berlin.  I am far more familiar with west Berlin, as I have been largely based at hotels in west Berlin.  My first walks were more targeted as I was looking for grocery stores (and google maps kept lying about where they were).   Some observations, which may be due to change over time or may be due to East Berlin being a bit different than West Berlin:Less adherence to the guidance of the little green/red Ampelmännchen, as I saw more people walking despite the red signs.  Is this a sign that German society is breaking down?Or is that the walk signals in East Berlin are too damned short?  I can't tell you on how many streets I have been stuck in the middle (mostly where the trams go) as the light turns red very quickly.I don't remember this much graffiti all over the place last time.  On the bright side, when a store or something has nice wall art, the vandals or artists paint elsewhere.Lots of reconstruction and renovations going on.Lots more Five Guys burger places than I can recall.  I haven't tried them yet, as I am mostly doing my own modest cooking (this apartment's kitchen is not well equipped, so no baking and only basic dinners).  I did start off my time here with currywurst and chips, but I think my go-to cheap food will be kebabs/shawarma stuff.  I did happen to walk past an Indonesian place, so I will be returning to that neighborhood when I am tired of my own cooking.Today's walk was more random, as I would head in one direction and then find something interesting on the map.  Which took me to a memorial for those who the East German government killed at the Berlin Wall, which, yes, has been down longer than it has been up.  I learned a great deal:I should have realized how dynamic the interplay between Communist government and those seeking to escape would be.  The wall such as it was kept evolving as the government learned via the escapes and attempts.Part of the memorial showingwhere the house got built over by the wallIncluding tunneling!  57 people got out through one tunnel--amazing.The wall itself caused more people to want to leave as it signaled more repression.The evolution of the barrier included destruction of a church (one dedicated to Reconciliation!) and the movement of dead bodies from a graveyard, it involved boarding up and then destroying houses.   There were a fair amount of German tour groups going through this area, so yes, still much interest even as it recedes in our memories. The other new experience for me is a 21st century gym.  I have mostly exercised on ultimate fields, bike rides through neighborhoods, the treadmill in our basement, and the occasional hotel fitness center.  There is a spiffy, reasonable place near me that has the stuff I need (treadmills, space to stretch to try to fix my balky knee) and far more stuff.  The denizens are in much, much better shape than I am, doing all kinds of exercises that I would not attempt, so that has been a funky distraction while I sweat out the pastries I have been buying.  The bakeries here are good, and, yes, they like their donuts.  I have resisted mightily but not entirely.  Next week, I will report what I learned at zeintenwende-fest.    Some random pics from my walks: Vegetarian butcher?  Funky signs, not sure there is an actual cafe here.

Texto en castellano; Letra del S. XVIII ; El tít. aparece en el mismo fol. que el índice ; En el fol. IIIv. consta: 'Don Antonio Capony Capitan. Dia de junio a 28 de' (tachado) y en el fol. 239 v. 'dia de Junio a 28 de 1741' y la misma firma; en blanco los folios 160 a 163; reclamos; caja de escritura 26 x 14,5 cm; 25-32 lín. por p. ; 1. Discurso sobre los motibos, que hubo para las difidençias entre la Reina Madre Dª Mariana de Austria siendo Governadora de estos Reinos y D[o]n Ju[an] de Austria . (fols. 1-2) -- 2. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. Carta o Memorial de D[o]n Juan de Austria para la Reyna Madre . (fols. 2-9 v.) -- 3. MARIANA DE AUSTRIA. Reina de España. Decreto de la Reyna Madre mandando a D[o]n Ju[an] de Austria se boluiese a Consuegra sin entrar en Madrid. . (fol. 9 v.) . Madrid 3 de Agosto de 1668. Heste fue el decreto . (fols. 10-10 v.) -- 4. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. Carta q[ue] D[o]n Juan de Austria escriuio a la R[ein]a M[adr]e contra el Ynquisidor General Ju[an] Eberardo, su fecha en Consuegra a 21 de Octubre de 1668. . (fols. 10 v.-12) [Relación de lo sucedido después] -- 5. Política çensura a la carta que D[o]n Juan de Austria escriuio a la Reyna M[adr]e contra el Ynq[uisid]or General su Confesor, que esta ynclusa en el discurso antezedente . (fols. 14-17) -- 6. Juiçio de un Cortesano, echo sobre el contexto de la referida carta de D[o]n Ju[an] de Austria . (fols. 17-20 v.) -- 7. BLASCO DE LOYOLA. Carta de D[o]n Blasco de Loyola Secretario del despacho Uniuersal de horden de la Reina M[adr]e a D[o]n Ju[an] de Austria en 28 de ott[ubr]e de 1668 . (fols. 21-23 v.) -- 8. JEAN EVERARDE NITHARD. Consulta que hizo el Ynquisidor General Confesor de la R[eyn]a Madre respondiendo a la Carta de D[o]n Juan de Austria de 21 de oct[ubr]e de 1668 y satisfaciendo a los cargos q[ue] le hace en ella . (Madrid, 25 de octubre de 1668) (fols. 23 v.-39) -- 9. ANTONIO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO. Duque de Alba. Carta del Duque de Alua para don Ju[an] de Austria, su fecha en Madrid a 17 de Hen[er]o de 1669 . [sobre las diferencias de éste con el P. Everardo] (fols. 39-39 v.) -- 10. CONSEJO DE CASTILLA. Consulta del consejo de Castilla sobre la prision de don Bernardo Patiño y de la q[ue] la R[eyn]a M[adr]e mando al Marq[ue]s de Salinas hiciese de la p[e]na de D[o]n Juan de Austria, y la fuga, que este ejecuto desde Consuegra a Aragon . (29 de octubre de 1668) (fols. 40-45) -- 11. ANTONIO DE CONTRERAS. Voto particular de D[o]n Ant[oni]o de Contreras del Cons[ej]o y Camara de Castilla sobre lo contenido en la consulta antezedente . (fols. 45-46 v.) -- 12. Censura contra el voto de D[o]n Ant[oni]o de Contreras . (fols. 47-51) -- 13. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas sobre sus diferencias con el P. Everardo: a) A la Reina Madre (La Torre de Lledo, 23 de Nouiembre de 1668) b) Al Cardenal Aragon (13 de Nouiembre de 1668) c) A D. Diego de Valladares Presidente de Castilla d) A D. Blasco de Loyola, Secretario del Despacho Universal e) Al Arzobispo de Zaragoza Gamboa] (fols. 51-55) -- 14. Carta de los Menistros de la Junta de gouierno respondiendo a la de D[o]n Juan de Austria . (Madrid, 25 de Noviembre de 1668) (fols. 55-60 v.) -- 15. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas de D. Juan de Austria sobre el mismo asunto: a) Al Reino de Aragon (Torre de Lledo, 13 de Noviembre de 1668) b) A la Reina Madre (12 de Diciembre de 1668) c) Al Conde de Peñaranda (12 de Diciembre de 1668) d) Al Reino de Aragon (3 de Noviembre de 1668) e) A un Consejero de Estado (12 de Diciembre de 1668) f) A la ciudad de Barcelona (14 de Diciembre de 1668)]. (fols. 60 v.-70 v.) -- 16. MARIANA DE AUSTRIA. Reina de España. Respuesta de la Rey[n]a M[adr]e a una consulta del Rey[n]o de Aragon . (fols. 70 v.-71) -- 17. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. Carta de D[o]n Juan de Austria a la Reyna Madre en [Barcelona] 22 de Henero de 1669 [sobre su ida a la Corte] . (fol. 71-71 v.) -- 18. GASPAR TELLEZ GIRON. Duque de Osuna. [Dos Cartas del Duque de Osuna: a) A la Reina Madre sobre la marcha de D. Juan, 22 de Enero de 1669 . (fols. 72-72 v.) b) Al Conde de Peñaranda 22 de Enero de 1669 . (fol. 72 v.) -- 19. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. Carta de D[o]n Juan de Austria a la ciudad de Barcelona, imbiandole copia, de la que escrivio a la Reyna Madre en [Barcelona] 23 de henero de 1669 . (fol. 73) -- 20. ANTONIO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO. Duque de Alba. Carte del Duque de Alba a d[o]n Juan de Austria en [Madrid] veinte y siete de henero de 1669 . (fols. 73-73 v.) -- 21. REINO DE ARAGON. Carta de la diputazion del Reino de Aragon a la Reyna Madre en [Zaragoza] 11 de febrero de 1669 . (fols. 73 v.-75 v.) -- 22. Copia de la notificaz[i]on hecha al Reyno de Aragon por el Abogado fiscal [y proposición y respuesta de los diputados y de los abogados, 5 de febrero de 1669] (fols. 75 v.-76) -- 23. REINO DE ARAGON. Carta del Consistorio del Reyno de Aragon a D[o]n Juan de Austria . [Zaragoza, 9 de febrero de 1669] (fol. 76 v.) -- 24. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas de D. Juan de Austria: a) Al Consistorio del Reyno de Aragon (La Puebla a 9 de febrero de 1669) b) Dos a la Reyna Madre con un papel de avisos (Junquera, 22 de febrero de 1669) c) Al Cardenal Aragon, Arçobispo de Toledo (Junquera 22 de febrero de 1669) (fols. 76 v.-82 v.) -- 25. Decreto de la Reina Madre dando lizençia al P. Heverardo su Confesor para retirarse de estos Rey[n]os y haziendole merçed de Embajador extrahordinario de Alemania, o, de Roma . (Madrid, 25 de febrero de 1669). Relaçion de la salida de Madrid del P. Juan Heverardo Confesor de la Reyna Madre Lunes 25 de Febrero de 1669 . (fols. 83-89) -- 26. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas de D[o]n Juan de Austria: a) A la Reyna Madre (Torrejón de Ardoz, 26 de Febrero de 1669) b) Respuesta de la Reyna Madre (Madrid, 10 de marzo de 1669) c) Otra a la Reina Madre (Torrejón de Ardoz, 4 de Marzo de 1669) d) Otra a la misma (Torrejón de Ardoz, 10 de Marzo de 1669) e) Al Marqués de Aytona (Torrejón de Ardoz, 4 de Marzo de 1669)] (fols. 89-93 v.) -- 27. PEDRO TELLEZ GIRON. Duque de Osuna Carta del Duque de Osuna a la Reina M[adr]e su fecha en Barzelona [sin fechar] . (fols. 93 v.-94) -- 28. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas de D. Juan de Austria: a) Al Nuncio de su Santidad (Guadalajara, 10 de Marzo de 1669) b) A la Reyna Madre (Guadalajara 10 de Marzo de 1669) c) Al Cardenal de Aragon (Guadalajara 10 de Marzo de 1669) d) A la Reyna Madre (Guadalajara 31 de Marzo de 1669) e) Al Nuncio (Guadalajara, 31 de Marzo de 1669), con los puntos que éste ajustó con la Reina sobre las pretensiones de D. Juan (26 de Marzo de 1669)] (fols. 94 v.-100) -- ; 29. MARIANA DE AUSTRIA. Reina de España. Decreto de su Magestad al Presidente de Castilla D[o]n Diego Sarmiento sobre la formazion de la Junta p[ar]a alivio de los tributos . (fols. 100-101) -- 30. ANTONIO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO. Duque de Alba. Carta que el Duque de alba escriuio a D[o]n Juan de Austria . (Madrid, 10 de abril de 1669) (fols. 101-101 v.) -- 31. MARIANA DE AUSTRIA. Reina de España. [Varios Decretos]: Consulta de la Villa de Madrid sobre la formaçion del Regimiento; Propozision [sic], que D[o]n Antonio de Contreras hizo en la Junta de aliuios para que se quitasen los tributos y quedase beneficiada la real haçienda, año de 1669 (fols. 102-109) -- 32. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas de D. Juan de Austria: a) A la Reina Madre (Guadalajara, 5 de Mayo de 1669) b) A D. Blasco de Loyola (Guadalajara, 5 de Mayo de 1669) c) Carta de la Reina Madre respondiendole (Madrid, 17 de mayo de 1669) d) Dos cartas de D. Juan de Austria a la Reina Madre (Guadalajara, 20 de Mayo y 2 de Junio de 1669, respectivamente), y respuesta de la Reina Madre (Madrid, 4 de junio de 1669) e) Decreto por el que se nombra Virrey de Aragón a D. Juan de Austria f) Carta a Clemente 9.º (Guadalajara, 7 de Junio de 1669)] (fols. 109-118 v.) -- 33. CONSEJO REAL. Consulta del Cons[ej]o r[ea]l . en [Madrid,] 26 de Agosto de 1669 sobre . la buena disciplina de los soldados del Regimiento (fol. 118 v.-123) -- 34. CONSEJO DE CASTILLA. Otra Consulta del Consejo de Castilla . [Madrid,] 4 de Nouiembre de 1669 sobre lo mismo, que la antezedente (fols. 123-125 v.) -- 35. JUAN JOSE DE AUSTRIA. Infante de España. [Varias cartas de D. Juan de Austria: a) A todos los Ministros de la Junta de Gouierno (Zaragoza, l0 de Marzo de 1670) b) Dos a D. Pedro Fernández del Campo (Zaragoza Marzo de 1670) c) Tres a la Reina Madre (Zaragoza 5 y 15 de Abril y 17 de Junio de 1670 (fols. 125 v.-131 v.)] -- 36. Las disputas. sobre cuio hijo es D[o]n Juan de Austria. a) Question 1.ª . (fols. 131 v.-134 v.) -- 37. Cartas de los Difuntos a los Viuos halladas dentro del tumulo de la Encarnazion real el dia de finados: a) . de Joseph Gonzalez a la R[eyn]a M[adr]e b) . del Marques de Carasena para el Consejo de estado c) . del Cardenal Macerino al Ynquisidor gener[a]l d) . del Cadenal D[o ]n Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros para el mismo Ynq[uisid]or Gen[era]l e) . de Machiabelo para D[o]n Ju[an] de Austria f) . del Ynq[uisid]or General D[o]n Diego de Arze y Reinoso para el Ynqu[isid]or General g) . de d[o]n Joseph Malladas para d[o]n Pedro Penilla h) . del Secretario Antonio Perez para la Justizia de Aragon i) Carta del Rey Phelipe 4º p[ar]a D[o]n Ju[an] de Austria j) . del Maestre Nicolas çirujano del hospital de Anton Martin para d[o]n Juan de Austria k) . de D[o]n Quixote a d[o]n Juan de Austria l) . de San Ygnacio de Loyola a D[o]n Juan de Austria m) Copia de carta, en que se discurre las materias presentes . [sobre D. Juan de Austria y el Padre Juan Everardo] n) Copia de un papel de un veridico y desapasionado contra una Carta de un indiferente fingido [sobre el Padre Juan Everardo] (fols. 134 v.-155 v.) -- 38. Sueño de El Bosco . (fols. 156-159) -- 39. El escaparate de D[o]n Babiles para el entretenimiento de las Navidades . (fols. 164-171 v.) -- 40. Los tres de la fama. Junta de muertos, y desengaño de Vivos . (fols. 171 v.-177 v.) -- 41. Memorial de España a la Reyna . D[oñ]a Mariana de Austria . Censura del memorial antecedente por un estranjero, afecto a España y celoso de su mayor bien . (fols. 177 v.-198) -- 42. El cauterio . (fols. 198-216) -- 43. Parecer desinteresado sobre el estado presente de las materias publicas . (fols. 216 v.-223) -- 44. Discurso sobre si D[o]n Juan de Austria azerto, o no en uenir a Madrid armado sin admitir satisfacion, ni empleo [sobre las circunstancias políticas] (fols. 223-225 v.) -- 45. Los dos Genios: Discurso christiano y politico efectos infelices del eclipse del sol, Phelipo el grande sucedido a 17 de septiembre de 1665 . (fols. 225 v.-236) -- 46. Conferencia (fingida) entre el Marq[u]es de Aytona y D[o]n Blasco de Loiola el dia que paso muestra en esta Corte, el regimiento de Infanteria con titulo de la guardia del Rey n[uest]ro Señor D[o]n Carlos segundo, cuia conuer[sa]z[i]on, oyo un miron cortesano y conoçimiento de lo que pasa en los tiempos presentes . (fols. 236-238) -- 47. Decimas al s[eñ]or Don Juan . (fol. 238-238 v.) -- 48. Divertimiento del ocio en una mano del hombre. Romance . (fol. 239- 239 v.)

" 'As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,' Fred Shuttlesworth observed when he invited Martin Luther King Jr. to the city for the transformative protests of 1963. From the height of the civil rights movement through its long aftermath, the images of police dogs and fire hoses turned against protestors, and the four girls murdered when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, made the city an uncomfortable racial mirror for the nation. But like many white people who came of age in the civil rights movement's wake, Julie Buckner Armstrong knew little about her hometown's history growing up with her single, working class mother in 1960s and 70s. It was only after moving away and discovering writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker that she began to realize that her hometown and her family were part of a larger story of racial injustice and struggle. In recent years, however, Birmingham has rebranded itself as a vibrant, diverse destination for civil rights heritage tourism. Former sites of violence have been transformed into a large moving National Park Service memorial complex that includes a museum, public art, churches, and multiple walking tours. But beyond the tourist map, one can see in Birmingham--just like Anytown, USA--a new Jim Crow reemerging in the place where the old one supposedly died. Returning home decades later to care for her aging mother, Shuttlesworth's admonition rang in her mind. By then an accomplished scholar and civil rights educator, Armstrong found herself pondering the lessons Birmingham has for America in the twenty-first century, where a 2014 Teaching Tolerance report characterized a common understanding of the civil rights movement in "two names and four words: Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and 'I have a dream.'" Seeking to better understand her hometown's complicated history, its connection to other stories of oppression and resistance, and her own place in relation to it, Armstrong embarked on a journey to unravel the standard Birmingham narrative to see what she would find instead. Beginning at the center, with her family's arrival in 1947 in a neighborhood near the color line, within earshot of what would become known as Dynamite Hill, Armstrong works her way out in time and across the map. Pulling at strings and weaving in the personal stories of her white working-class family, classmates, and other local characters not traditionally associated with Birmingham's civil rights history, she expands the cast and forges connections between the stories that have been told about Birmingham as well as those that haven't. From a "funny" cousin whose closeted community was also targeted by Bull Conner's police force to an aunt who served on the jury that finally convicted Robert Chambliss of murdering Denise McNair, Armstrong combines intimate personal stories, archival research, and cultural geography to reframe the lessons of Birmingham through the intersections of race, class, gender, faith, education, culture, place, and mobility. The result is more than a pageant of Birmingham and its people; it's also a portrait of Birmingham rendered on the ground over time--as seen in old plantations, in segregated neighborhoods, across contested boundary lines, over mountains, along increasingly polluted waterways, under the gaze of Vulcan, beneath airport runways, on the highways cutting through and running out of town. In her search for truth and beauty in the veins of Birmingham, Armstrong draws on the powers of place and storytelling to dig into the cracks, complicating the easy narrative of Black triumph and overcoming. Among other discoveries found in the mirror, Armstrong finds a white America that, for too long, has failed to recognize itself in the horrific stories and symbols from Birmingham's past or accept the continuing inequalities from which it unfairly benefits. A literary scholar, Armstrong observes that "many of the best writings on civil rights and race relations describe racism as a wound, a poison, or a sickness--without offering easy prescriptions." Citing James Baldwin, Armstrong knows stories have the power to touch the human heart but warns that resistance to injustice only begins there. Once engaged, it is up to each of us to look again and consider what our stories really reveal about the world and ourselves. In "Learning From Birmingham," Armstrong reminds us that the stories of civil rights, structural oppression, privilege (whether intentional or unconscious), abuse, and inequity are difficult and complicated, but that their telling, especially from multiple stakeholder perspectives, is absolutely necessary"--

Frontmatter --Contenido --Introducción --FEMINIDAD HISTORICA --I. Mujeres con poder --Et de dona Guiomar nascio don Rodrigo Diaz de los Cameros /Cabo, José António Souto --La reina doña Berenguela y la Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris /Astray, Manuel Recuero --Precedentes femeninos invocados por la reina Isabel I de Castilla /Valdivieso, Ma Isabel del Val --La imagen de doña Aldonza de Mendoza: vida y memoria /Fernández, Marta Cendón --Un libro para la reina madre: la traducción del Memoriale Virtutum de Alonso de Cartagena en el entorno de Isabel de Portugal (1447-1496) /Flores, Diana Pelaz --Escribir para construir: la imagen de la reina Juana Enríquez en la correspondencia y la cronística del siglo XV /Domingo, Lledó Ruiz --II. Mujeres en la documentación medieval --Voces, susurros y silencios femeninos en la documentación medieval gallega /García-Fernández, Miguel --Las voces de mujeres medievales a través de los testamentos y los inventarios: el caso de Leonor Pimentel y Zúñiga, I Duquesa de Plasencia /Cebrián, Lorena C. Barco --Las mujeres y el encargo de peregrinaciones post-mortem en los testamentos bajomedievales de los reinos hispánicos /López, Paula Cadaveira --Voces en eco: el ejemplo de María García de Toledo /Blasco, Celia Redondo --Cartas desde la distancia /Via, Mireia Comas --Dones en presència a l'Època Medieval. Proposta per a una epistemologia històrica de la llibertat femenina /Perpinyà, Helena Casas --FEMINIDAD AUTORIAL --I. Voces propias: Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, trobairitz, poetas --Un purgatorio al femminile: il volgarizzamento del Tractatus de purgatorii sancti Patricii di Marie de France /Barillari, Sonia Maura --Christine de Pizan e la scrittura della Sagesce /Caraffi, Patrizia --Naturaleza, identidad y rebeldía en La ciudad de las damas de Christine de Pizan /Fernández, María Elena Ojea --Christine de Pizan e a dimensión pública das mulleres /Domínguez, Laura Pereira --Las cansos de las trobairitz o cuando el canon se mueve /Granda, Rosa Ma Medina --Retórica de Florencia Pinar, poeta de cancionero: introspección y erotismo /Garrido, David González de la Higuera --II. Místicas y religiosas --Escrito en el corazón. Los casos de angela de Foligno, Marguerite Porete y Marguerite d'oingt /Cirlot, Victoria --Voces femeninas alrededor de Santo Domingo. Sor Angélica, sor Cecilia /Rucquoi, Adeline --La obra de Marguerite Porete en su espacio público /Sánchez, Antonia Víñez --Li vida de Doucelina de Dinha, de Felipa Porcelleta. Imaginería, prácticas devocionales y legitimación de la vida beguina en el Mediterráneo /Fibla, Sergi Sancho --Mística y amor cortés /Cuadrada, Coral --FEMINIDAD TEXTUAL --I. La ficción lírica (profana y religiosa) --La dedica alla 'Nobile Dama': un rito o un'occasione per i trovatori provenzali in Piemonte? /Piccat, Marco --Vozes do silêncio: algumas considerações sobre as mulheres da lírica galego-portuguesa /Lopes, Graça Videira --O protagonismo feminino na lírica galego-portuguesa. Entre historia e literatura /Gómez, Carmen de Santiago --"Porque se move a razom [dela]". A ficção da voz feminina nas cantigas de amigo galego-portuguesas /Roque, Ana Raquel Baião --A figura da mulher nas canções de malmaridadas no universo românico medieval /Cunha, Viviane --O retrato descortês das damas no Cancioneiro Geral: motivos e imagens da tradição lírica /Cabanas, Maria Isabel Morán --A imagem da mulher judia e muçulmana na lírica galego-portuguesa /Vieira, Yara Frateschi --Algúns tipos femininos nas Cantigas de Santa María /Muíña, Milagros --II. Otras Ficciones Literarias --Féminité textuelle nel Decameron: la novella di Lisabetta da Messina (IV, 5) /Lee, Charmaine --La relación de las hadas artúricas con el saber libresco a través de la Dama del Lago del Baladro del sabio Merlín /García, Santiago Gutiérrez --Esclavas y caballeras en Jacob ben Eleazar: puente literario entre oriente y occidente /García, E. Macarena García / Carretero, Carlos Santos --Susana, objeto de deseo y modelo de castidad /Doreste, Dulce María González / Picón, Francisca del Mar Plaza --Lucrecia: paradigma de castidad /Lojendio-Quintero, María del Pilar / Mendoza-Ramos, María del Pilar --Dido en el Triunfo de la Castidad: ¿una diatriba de Petrarca contra Virgilio? /Mesa, Francisco José Rodríguez --EXPACIO FEMININO EN LA CULTURA ESCRITA Y LIBRESCA --Autores y lecturas en los monasterios femeninos de la Península Ibérica en el siglo X /Rodríguez, Joel Varela --Espacios femeninos de escritura en la Edad Media /Navas, Pablo Alberto Mestre --El libro en la corte. Lecturas femeninas y sus espacios palaciegos en la Baja Edad Media /Pérez, Cristina Pérez --Indice

part PART I THEORIZING SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF CRIME -- chapter 1R.V.G. Clarke (1985), Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture 'Delinquency, Environment and Intervention', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 26, pp. 505–23. -- chapter 2 Christopher Birkbeck and Gary LaFree (1993), 'The Situational Analysis of Crime and Deviance', Annual Review of Sociology, 19, pp. 113–37. -- chapter 3 Wayne D. Osgood, Janet. K. Wilson, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman and Lloyd D. Johnston (1996), 'Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior', American Sociological Review, 4, pp. 635–55. -- part PART II THE PRODUCTION OF CRIMINAL OPPORTUNITIES: ROUTINE ACTIVITY THEORY -- chapter 4 Marcus Felson and Lawrence E. Cohen (1980), 'Human Ecology and Crime: A Routine Activity Approach', Human Ecology, 8, pp. 389–406. -- chapter 5 Marcus Felson (1987), 'Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis', Criminology, 25, pp. 911–31. -- chapter 6 Richard B. Felson (1997), 'Routine Activities and Involvement in Violence as Actor, Witness, or Target', Violence and Victims, 12, pp. 209–21. -- chapter 7 Philip J. Cook (1986), 'The Demand and Supply of Criminal Opportunities', in M. Tonry and N. Morris (eds). Crime and Justice, 7, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1–27. -- part PART III DECIDING TO COMMIT CRIME: THE RATIONAL CHOICE PERSPECTIVE -- chapter 8 Ronald V. Clarke and Derek B. Cornish (1985), 'Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy', in M. Tonry and N. Morris (eds), Crime and Justice, 6, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 147–85. -- chapter 9 Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke (1987), 'Understanding Crime Displacement: An Application of Rational Choice Theory'. Criminology, 25, pp. 933–47. -- chapter 10 Eric Beauregard, D. Kim Rossmo and Jean Proulx (2007), 'A Descriptive Model of the Hunting Process of Serial Sex Offenders: A Rational Choice Perspective', Journal of Family Violence, 22, pp. 449–63. -- chapter 11 Bruce A. Jacobs (2010), 'Serendipity in Robbery Target Selection', The British Journal of Criminology, 50, pp. 514–29. -- chapter 12 Michael Levi (2008), 'Organized Fraud and Organizing Frauds: Unpacking Research on Networks and Organization', Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8, pp. 389–419. -- chapter 13 Clyde W. Holsapple, Deepak Iyengar, Haihao Jin and Shashank Rao (2008), 'Parameters for Software Piracy Research', The Information Society, 24, pp. 199–218. -- part PART IV 'BOUNDED' RATIONAL CHOICE: GOOD ENOUGH OR NOT ENOUGH -- chapter 14 Ronald L. Akers (1990), 'Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Social Learning Theory in Criminology: The Path Not Taken', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 81, pp. 653–76. -- chapter 15 Keith Hayward (2007), 'Situational Crime Prevention and Its Discontents: Rational Choice Theory versus the -- chapter 16 Graham Farrell (2010), 'Situational Crime Prevention and Its Discontents: Rational Choice and Harm Reduction versus -- chapter 17 Nick Tilley (2004), 'Karl Popper: A Philosopher for Ronald Clarke's Situational Crime Prevention?', Israeli Studies in Criminology, 8, pp. 39–56. -- part PART V VARIANTS BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE AND ROUTINE ACTIVITY -- chapter 18 Per-Olof H. Wikstrom, Vania Ceccato, Beth Hardie and Kyle Treiber (2010), 'Activity Fields and the Dynamics of Crime: Advancing Knowledge about the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 25, pp. 55–87. -- chapter 19 Richard Wortley (2001), 'A Classification of Techniques for Controlling Situational Precipitators of Crime', Security Journal, 14, pp. 63–82. -- chapter 20 Paul Ekblom and Nick Tilley (2000), 'Going Equipped: Criminology, Situational Crime Prevention and the Resourceful Offender', British Journal of Criminology, 40, pp. 376–98. -- part PART VI IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIME PREVENTION -- chapter 21 R.V.G. Clarke (1980), ' -- chapter 22 Marcus Felson (1992), 'Routine Activities and Crime Prevention: Armchair Concepts and Practical Action', Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention, 1, pp. 30–34. -- chapter 23 Angela Gorta (1998), 'Minimising Corruption: Applying Lessons from the Crime Prevention Literature', Crime, Law and Social Change, 30, pp. 67–87. -- chapter 24 Ronald V. Clarke, Ronald P. Cody and Mangai Natarajan (1994), 'Subway Slugs: Tracking Displacement on the London Underground', British Journal of Criminology, 34, pp. 122–38. -- chapter 25 Rob T. Guerette amd Kate J. Bowers (2009), 'Assessing the Extent of Crime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits: A Review of Situational Crime Prevention Evaluations', Criminology, 47, pp. 1331–68.

Preface / Hayden Lorimer. 1. Landscape biographies, key issues / Jan Kolen and Johannes Renes: Introduction -- Biographical approaches of landscape, a short history -- Landscapes as life worlds -- Key issues and topics of this volume -- The structure of this book. 2. The marsh of modernity / Edward H. Huijbens and Gisli Palsson: Introduction -- Nature as we know it -- Mapping the marsh -- 'Sweet is the Swamp' -- In the bog -- Grand engineering -- The scenic and the unscenic -- To conclude. 3. Biographies of biotopes / Jan Kolen: Introduction, biotopes -- From the primordial landscape to socialized nature -- Fens and birds -- The 'co-scripting' of biotopes -- From dikes and dams to disasters -- conclusion. 4. Automobile authorship of landscapes / Edward Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson: Introduction -- Engaging with the Highlands -- Establishing authorship -- Machines and morality -- Conservation, authority and authorship -- Concluding remarks. 5. Authenticity, artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury / Mark Gillings and Joshua Pollard: Writing a biography -- A search for the authentic Avebury -- Stukeley records a temple -- Keiller builds one -- Purity of vision -- What is Avebury? -- Worshipping at the Temple -- Ancestral values -- Authenticity, artifice and Avebury -- Postscript, time for a new Avebury to emerge? 6. Places that matter / Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay: Introduction -- The importance of places -- Landscape biographies in archaeology -- Biographies of megalithic monuments -- Öland today and in the Neolithic -- The Mysinge Passage graves -- Conclusion, places that matter -- Epilogue, the meaning of archaeology. 7. What future for the life-history approach to prehistoric monuments in the landscape? / Cornelius Holtorf: The unbelievable mess of the past -- The problem of identity -- Conclusion, from monuments to landscapes. 8. "To preserve the terrain in its present state" / Michiel Purmer: Introduction -- THe Eerder Achterbroek Project in the context of Dutch -- Landscape research -- Eerde and the Eerder Achterbroek -- Research method -- Landscape characteristics and landscape change -- The Baron and hist landscape -- The authors of the Eerder Achterbroek -- Conclusions. 9. The quiet authors of an early modern palatial landscape / Hanneke Ronnes: Introduction -- The early palace -- Quiet times -- Legacy -- Aged abode -- State matters and distractions -- Conclusion. 10. Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44 / Jürgen Stoye: Introduction -- THe biography of the landscape -- Marwyn Samuels -- Michel de Certeau -- Victory Boogie Woogie -- Mondrian -- Changes -- Mondrian in New York -- The rhythm of New York -- Victory Boogie Woogie as authored landscape. 11. Shanghai, the biography of a city / David Koren: Introduction -- Landscape biography and the city -- The early colonial city, Shanghai in the 19th century (1842-1899) -- Part of the world system, the heydays (1900-1949) -- Off the radar, the dark years of communism (1949-1989) -- 'In the picture' again, the metropolis awakens (1990-present) -- Conclusion. 12. A kaleidoscopic biography of an ordinary landscape / John de Jong: Introduction -- Landscape dynamics and spatial order -- Continuity of a spatial order -- Transition and transformation -- The process of landscape development -- Framed spatial practices -- Spatial development as private venture -- Socio-politically-based development -- Landscape for the use of leisure -- Iconography of the landscape, a dynamic picture -- Boulevard of social standing and power -- Progress and nostalgia -- The ordinariness of landscape and the importance of everyday practices -- Conclusion. 13. The cultural biography of a street / Wim Hupperetz: Introduction -- Historical research traditions -- The historical city centre as playground for city planners -- Bricks and people -- Housing culture, parcels, building blocks and the body of houses -- Structure -- Historical notion -- Dynamic cultural heritage -- Tradition and renewal -- Recommendations. 14. Post-industrial coal-mining landscapes and the evolution of mining memory / Felix van Veldhoven: Introduction -- Remembering and forgetting in the landscape -- The post-industrial mining landscape of Dutch and Belgian Limburg -- Dutch Limburg -- The post-industrial mining landscape -- The changing will to forget -- Conclusion. 15. Fatal attraction / Rob van der Laarse: Unwanted memory -- Purity and modernity -- Making Heimatscapes -- Hidden continuities, from camps to memorial spaces -- Through the eyes of the perpetrators? 16. A biography for an emerging urban district / Svava Riesto: Introduction -- The Carlsberg site, seen and overlooked -- Overlooked spaces -- Landscape biography for urban redevelopment sites -- Carlsberg, an unexpected turn -- Design survey I, topography -- Landscape biography of a hill -- Design survey II, transportation equipment -- Landscape biography of a route -- Unravelling surveys of Carlsberg -- Prospects for future landscape biography. 17. Layered landscapes / Johannes Renes: Introduction -- Rome -- The Dutch rural landscape -- landscape layers in planning -- Conclusion. 18. Biographies of landscape, Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia / Helen Sooväli-Sepping: Theoretical starting points -- Methodological considerations -- Nationalization of the past, biography of the Rebala landscape -- Protection, for whom and why? -- Whose heritage? -- Discussion.

This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience. Going beyond narrow approaches that are all too prevalent in the field, this work builds on an optimum combination of community-level networks, private market mechanisms and state-based assistance strategies. Its chapters describe best practices in the field and elucidate cutting-edge research on recovery, highlighting the interaction between government, industry and civil society. The book uses new data from a number of recent disasters across southeast and east Asia to understand the interactions among residents, the state, and catastrophe, drawing on events in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, China and Thailand. Grounded in theories of risk mitigation and empirical research, the book provides practical guidance for decision makers along with future research directions for scholars.The Asian region is highly prone to natural disasters which devastate large and mostly poor populations. This book deals with some of the root issues underlying the continued vulnerability of these societies to catastrophic shocks. The book is unusual in that it comprehensively covers resilience and fragilities from community levels to market mechanisms and governance and it analyses these issues in very different economic and structural settings. Recommended for development and disaster risk managers-without question.Professor Debarati Guha-SapirDirector, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED); Professor, University of Louvain, Research Institute Health and Society. About the EditorsDaniel P. Aldrich is an associate professor and university scholar in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Aldrich was a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo's Economics Department for the academic year 2012-2013 and an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at USAID from 2011-2012. He has been a visiting Abe scholar at the University of Tokyo's Law Faculty in Japan, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations, a visiting researcher at Centre Américain, Sciences Po in Paris, France and a visiting professor at the Tata Institute for Disaster Management in Mumbai, India. He is a board member of the journals Asian Politics and Policy and Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy, and is a Mansfield U.S. Japan Network for the Future alumnus. He is the section organizer for the American Political Science Association's Disasters and Crises Related Group. Aldrich received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Sothea Oum is an economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Jakarta, Indonesia. He joined ERIA in 2009 as an associate researcher after completing his Ph.D. in economics, specialized in computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, from Monash University, Australia, on full scholarships. At ERIA, he manages region-wide research projects on ASEAN and East Asian integration and community building process, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), social protection, disaster management, income distribution and poverty. He also holds an M.A in economics from Kobe University, Japan and a B.A from the National Economics University, Hanoi, Viet Nam, both on full scholarships from the governments of Japan and Vietnam, respectively.Yasuyuki Sawada is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He also has been a visiting researcher of the JICA Research Institute of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); faculty fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI) and visiting fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He was a visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012 and a visiting fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (2012-2013) and BRAC (2011-2012). His research interests include econometric investigations of individual, household and firm behaviors under risks using micro-data from developing and developed countries such as China, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Japan. Sawada completed his M.A. in food research and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1996 and 1999, respectively and a B.A from Keio University, Japan. He is also a recipient of the 2013 Nikkei Book Award; the 2011 Ishikawa Prize of the Japanese Economic Association; the 2010 Kiyoshi Kojima Prize of the Japanese International Economic Association; the 2009 Enjoji Jiro Prize and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He is a co-editor of The Japanese Economic Review.

The ever increasing emission of carbon dioxide due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, unplanned tourism and alteration of land use pattern is causing unprecedented changes to marine biodiversity. Irrespective of political philosophy, nation, caste, sex and religion, mankind is under the appalling shadow of climate change. Today nature-based approaches for the mitigation of climate change are increasingly accepted as part of the low-cost solution. Thrust has been given by several scientific communities to assess the magnitude and viability of carbon sequestering potential of plants. Coastal producer communities like mangroves, salt marsh grass, seagrass beds, and seaweeds absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide during the process of photosynthesis. This carbon known as the 'blue carbon' is thus associated with the marine and estuarine ecosystems. However, a number of gaps in our scientific knowledge on blue carbon domain still exist. Molluscs, coral reefs, phytoplankton, which are amongst the important storehouses of carbon, have not been addressed. Very few scientific studies on the carbon stored in these valuable natural vaults have been performed, and no data bank is available on their carbon sequestering capacity on global basis. The methodologies for assessing blue carbon stock also need further standardization so that credit from blue carbon reservoir is accepted by the International bodies in the form of a concrete policy. It is a matter of great appreciation that Conservation International (CI), the International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources (IUCN), and the Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is collaborating with governments, research institutions, non-governmental and international organizations, and communities around the world to develop management approaches, financial incentives and policy mechanisms for ensuring conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems and implement projects around the world that demonstrate the feasibility of blue carbon accounting, management, and incentive agreements. The present book has critically presented the data bank for each community of blue carbon not merely in the form of text description, but also through case studies that are the outcomes of research projects and pilot programmes. Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Associate Professor and former Head, Dept. of Marine Science, University of Calcutta (INDIA) has been active in the sphere of Oceanography since 1985. He obtained his Ph. D as NET qualified scholar in 1994. Since then he joined Calcutta Port Trust and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature-India), in various capacities to carry out research programmes on environmental science, biodiversity conservation, climate change and carbon sequestration. Presently Dr. Mitra is serving as the advisor of Oceanography Division of Techno India University, Kolkata. He has to his credit about 274 scientific publications in various National and International journals, and 26 books of postgraduate standards. Dr. Mitra is presently the member of several committees like PACON International, IUCN, SIOS, Mangrove Society of India etc. and has successfully completed about 16 projects on biodiversity loss in fishery sector, coastal pollution, aquaculture, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration. Dr. Mitra also visited as faculty member and invited speaker in several Universities of Singapore, Kenya, Oman and USA. In 2008 Dr. Mitra was invited as visiting fellow at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA to deliver a series of lecture on Climate Change. Dr. Mitra also successfully guided 22 Ph.D students. Presently his research areas include environmental science, mangrove ecology, sustainable aquaculture, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration. Dr. Sufia Zaman, presently serving as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography in Techno India University (Kolkata) started her career in the field of Marine Science since 2001. She worked in the rigorous region of Indian Sundarbans and has wide range of experience in exploring the floral and faunal diversity of Sundarbans. She has published 1 book on carbon sequestration, 45 scientific papers and contributed chapters in several books on biodiversity, environmental science, aquaculture and livelihood development. Dr. Zaman is presently a member of Fisheries Society of India. She is also running projects on carbon sequestration by mangroves of Indian Sundarbans. She is the recipient of DST Women Scientist and Jawaharlal Memorial Doctoral fellowship awards. Her areas of research include aquaculture, fish nutrition, phytoplankton diversity, climate change and mangrove ecology. Dr. Zaman is also the first researcher in the maritime state of West Bengal (India), who initiated trial experiments on iron fertilization and subsequent enhancement of primary (phytoplankton) and secondary (fish) productions in the brackish water ponds of Indian Sundarbans with the financial assistance of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

1 Opening Session / Jean Vertut Memorial Session, Eulogy -- Advanced Teleoperation. Introductory Paper. The Advanced Teleoperation Project -- Advanced Teleoperation (I). Control and Supervision in Computer Aided Teleoperation -- Advanced Teleoperation (II). The Generalized Information Feedback Concept in Computer-Aided Teleoperation -- Advanced Teleoperation (III). An Integrated Experiment -- Analysis of a Robot Wrist Device for Mechanical Decoupling of the End-Effector Position and Orientation -- 2 Mechanics 1 -- Robot Motion: Configuration Analysis of Redundant and Non Redundant Manipulators -- Analysis of the Positioning and Orientation Accuracy in 6R Manipulators (Direct Task) -- A Unified Approach to Modelling of Flexible Robot Arms -- Solving the Inverse Kinematic Problem for Robotic Manipulators -- Determination of the Accuracy of Flexible Automatic Positioning Module with Clearances -- Invariant Kinestatic Filtering -- 3 Mechanics 2 -- Redundant Manipulators and Kinematic Singularities The Operational Space Approach -- Modelling and Simulation of Mechanical Process in Hyperstatical Gripping with n-Contact Points -- Computer Aided Modelling of Pneumo-Hydraulic Robots -- A Cartesian Model of Manipulator Kinematics -- A Method for Solving the Inverse Problem of Kinematics of Anthropomorphic Manipulators with Spherical Wrist -- Dynamic Equations of General Robots by Kane's Method -- The Role of Delay in Robot Dynamics -- 4 Synthesis and Design 1 -- Smart Hand Systems for Robotics and Teleoperation -- A Mathematical Model of a Flexible Manipulator of the Elephant's-Trunk-Type -- Analytical Design of Two-Revolute Open Chains -- On a Fundamental Study of Micro Mechanical Gripper Using Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuator -- The Kinematic Design and Mass Redistribution of Manipulator Arms for Decoupled and Invariant Inertia -- Graphical-Interactive System for CAD and Simulation of Manipulation Systems -- 5 Sensing and Machine Intelligence 1 -- Force Feedback in Telemanipulators -- Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Optical Fibre Reflective Sensors for Robotics -- Task Specification and Closed Loop Control of Manipulators in the Presence of External Sensors -- Adaptive Force Control of Grippers Taking into Account the Dynamics of Objects -- Bilateral Remote Control with Dynamic Reflexion -- 6 Control of Motion 1 -- Finger-Arm Coordination Control Method for Multiple Degrees of Freedom Robot -- A Model-Based Expert System for Strategical Control Level of Manipulation Robots -- Robot-Task Adaptability by Semi-Local Correction without Contact -- Robot Control Synthesis in Conjunction with Moving Workpieces -- Dynamic Command Motion Tuning for Robots. A Self Learning Algorithm -- 7 Sensing and Machine Intelligence 2 -- C-Surface Theory Applied to Force-Feedback Control of Robots -- Experimental Investigation of Active Force Control of Robot and Manipulator Arms -- Automatic Grasp Planning. An Operation Space Approach -- A Method of Optical Processing in the Robot Vision -- Tridimensional Optical Syntaxer -- 8 Locomotion and Walking Machines -- Towards Generalized Concepts and Tools for Unconventional Mobile Robots. General Languages, Mobility Modes -- Mobile Robotic Systems for Use in Unstructured Terrain -- Wall Climbing Vehicle Using Internally Balanced Magnetic Unit -- Experimental Development of a Walking Transport Robot -- Legs that Deform Elastically -- Features of Mechanisms Synthesis of Walking Robot Propelling Agents -- Avoiding Obstacles by a Mobile Robotized Vehicle -- 9 Application and Performance Evaluation -- The Automation of the Mine Support Erection Technology with Remotely-Controlled Manipulators -- Experimental Investigations of Robots and Manipulators -- Minimization of Vibrations of a Gantry Manipulator During Positioning -- Experimental Evaluation of Feedforward and Computed Torque Control -- Experimental Research and Development of Methods for Improving Kinematic and Dynamic Robot Characteristics -- 10 Synthesis and Design 2 -- Kinematics and Torque Control of Multi-Fingered Articulated Robot Hand -- Progress towards a Robotic Aid for the severely Disabled -- Logical Structures for Collision Avoidance in Assembly with Robots -- Repositioning-Unit for very Fine and Accurate Displacements Analysis and Design -- 11 Synthesis and Design 3 -- Polyarticulated Mechanical Structure for Decoupling the Position and Orientation of a Robot -- Application of I-Coordinates in Robotics -- Design of Spring Mechanisms for Balancing the Weight of Robots -- Structural and Geometrical Systematization of Spatial Positioning Kinematic Chains Employed in Industrial Robots -- Tasks and Methods of Constructing Mechanical Facilities and Control Systems of Industrial Robots Taking into Account their Force Interaction with the Equipment -- 12 Control of Motion 2 -- Contribution to Solving Dynamic Robot Control in Machining Process -- An Approach to Development of Real-Time Robot Models -- Time-Optimal Robotic Manipulator Task Planning -- Time-Optimal Motions of Some Robotic Systems -- Frequency Space Synthesis of a Robust Dynamic Command -- Structure Strategy Problem on a Redundant Manipulator -- Participants.