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As Cardinal Hugo and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages. Coming to prominence under Pope Innocent III, Hugo played an important political role, particularly as legate on various occasions, as well as being a major promoter of the new religious orders. As pope, his battle with Emperor Frederick II is one of medieval history's most absorbing conflicts. But he also acted as peacemaker, promoter of the Crusades, instigator of mission for the sake of conversion, refomer of the Curia, patron of arts and liturgy, and as a passionate advocate of Church reform. His decretal collection, the Liber Extra, was the most influential of the Middle Ages. A full examination of Gregory's pontificate is very long overdue. The current volume brings together a team of international scholars, each of them expert in dealing with a particular aspect of the pontificate, and provides what will be a collection of studies of lasting scholarly value on a central figure of the medieval papacy.

"In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants," England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin.0Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of "global" Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain's relationship with the world."

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical Geographies of Dispossession in Palestine -- Chapter 2. Geographical Modes of Occupation -- Chapter 3. Sovereignty and Safety -- Chapter 4. Turning Back the Clock -- Chapter 5. A Political Economy of Land and Labor in Palestine -- Chapter 6. "Freedom Has No Meaning Here" -- Conclusion. Resistances, Concessions, and Solidarity -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sexuality is often understood to be uniquely private and intimate--something that can and should be protected from capitalism's influence. This book argues, in contrast, that the histories of capitalism and sexuality are closely intertwined. Integral to this story has been the illusion that economic and sexual practices are tied to fundamentally different realms. Focusing on the history of sex work in Britain, the book shows that capitalism has long needed the construction of artificial boundaries around sex and work in order to extract profit from sexual labor, both paid and unpaid.

What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The text interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields that have often overlooked each other, international political economy and queer theory.

What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The text interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields that have often overlooked each other, international political economy and queer theory.

"In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN peace operations. The operation rested on a liberal paradigm of statehood, including nascent ideas on gender in peacebuilding processes. This book provides a critical feminist examination of the form and function of a gendered peace in Timor-Leste. Drawing on policy documents and field research in Timor-Leste with national organisations, international agencies and UN staff, the book examines gender policy with a feminist lens, exploring and developing a more complex account of 'gender' and 'women' in peace operations. It argues that gendered ideologies and power delimit the possibilities of building a gender-just peace, and contributes deep insight into how gendered logics inform peacebuilding processes, and specifically how these play out through the implementation of policy that explicitly seeks to reorder gender relations at sites in which peace operations deploy. By utilising a single case study, the book provides space to examine both international and national discourses, and contextualises its analysis of Women, Peace and Security within local histories and contexts. This book will be of interested to scholars and students of gender studies, global governance, International Relations, and security studies"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- List of Illustrations -- PART 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 China in the Post-Utopian Age -- Introduction: China's New Great Transformation -- Is China Losing Its Way at the End of the Millennium? -- Comparative Postsocialisms: Life in the Post-Utopian Age -- An Outline of the Book -- 2 China and the Geographical Imagination -- Introduction: Geographical Imperatives in Contemporary China -- Space, Place, and the Geographical Imagination -- Standing Up or Keeping Silent? -- PART 2 SPACE, SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN CHINA -- 3 Culture Change in Contemporary China -- Introduction: Mao Zedong Makes a Comeback -- Guanxi and Gift-Giving in China: The Resilience of an Ancient Custom -- Locating the Chinese Cross-Culturally -- Modernization and Culture Change -- The Four Modernizations and the Commodification of Personal Relationships -- New Cultural Trends in China -- 4 China's Political Economy and the Transition out of Socialism -- Introduction: China's Transition -- China's Marxism -- Political Economy and the Socialist Transformation in China -- Politics and Reform in Post-Mao China -- Deconstructing Deng Xiaoping and His Legacy -- 5 China's Population: Resistance, Compliance, and the National Interest -- Introduction: The Politics of Reproduction -- A Brief Population Geography -- Implementing the One-Child Policy: A Description -- Resisting the One-Child Policy: An Evaluation -- Compliance with the One-Child Policy: An Interpretation -- Side Effects of the One-Child Policy -- Population Policy in the Future: Reducing Coercion, Solving Contradictions -- 6 Life, Death, and the Commodification of Health Care in China -- Introduction: The Health Care a Society Deserves? -- The People's Medicine: Health Care in the Maoist Era -- Medicine and Reform: Health Care Concerns in the Dengist Era.

Introduction -- An introduction to the XVA and bond valuation using a binomial tree -- Valuing traditional fixed-rate corporate bonds -- Valuing floating-rate notes and interest rate caps and floors -- Valuing fixed-income bonds having embedded call and put options -- Valuing interest rate swaps with CVA and DVA -- Valuing an interest rate swap portfolio with CVA, DVA, and FVA -- Structured notes -- Summary -- Appendix: The forward rate binomial tree model -- References

Art and the creation of Mexico's Communist Party, 1919-1930 -- The gendering of the cultural revolution, 1919-1934 -- Trotsky in Mexico : artists united, artists divided, 1930-1940 -- Revolutionary women in the new society, 1930-1954 -- Revolutionary printmakers : the LEAR and the TGP, 1934-1957

"Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression in matters both artistic and political, Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage. But the government, Smith shows, also had reason to accommodate artists, and a surprising and volatile interdependence grew between the artists and the politicians. Involving well-known artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as some less well known, including Tina Modotti, Leopoldo Mendez, and Aurora Reyes, politicians began to appropriate the artists' nationalistic visual images as weapons in a national propaganda war. High-stakes negotiating and co-opting took place between the two camps as they sparred over the production of generally accepted notions and representations of the revolution's legacy--and what it meant to be authentically Mexican."--