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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Unfit for heroes
Reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars
by Kent Fedorowich
Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration. This book examines two parallel but complementary themes: the settlement of British soldiers in the overseas or 'white' dominions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, between 1915 and 1930. One must place soldier settlement within the larger context of imperial migration prior to 1914 in order to elicit the changes in attitude and policy which occurred after the armistice. The book discusses the changes to Anglo-dominion relations that were consequent upon the incorporation of British ex-service personnel into several overseas soldier settlement programmes, and unravels the responses of the dominion governments to such programmes. For instance, Canadians and Australians complained about the number of ex-imperials who arrived physically unfit and unable to undertake employment of any kind. The First World War made the British government to commit itself to a free passage scheme for its ex-service personnel between 1914 and 1922. The efforts of men such as L. S. Amery who attempted to establish a landed imperial yeomanry overseas is described. Anglicisation was revived in South Africa after the second Anglo-Boer War, and politicisation of the country's soldier settlement was an integral part of the larger debate on British immigration to South Africa. The Australian experience of resettling ex-servicemen on the land after World War I came at a great social and financial cost, and New Zealand's disappointing results demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to outside economic factors.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017The West must wait
County Galway and the Irish Free State, 1922–32
by Una Newell
The West must wait presents a new perspective on the development of the Irish Free State. It extends the regional historical debate beyond the Irish revolution and raises a series of challenging questions about post-civil war society in Ireland. Through a detailed examination of key local themes - land, poverty, politics, emigration, the status of the Irish language, the influence of radical republicans and the authority of the Catholic Church - it offers a probing analysis of the socio-political realities of life in the new state. This book opens up a new dimension by providing a rural contrast to the Dublin-centred views of Irish politics. Significantly, it reveals the level of deprivation in local Free State society with which the government had to confront in the west. Rigorously researched, it explores the disconnect between the perceptions of what independence would deliver and what was achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal administration.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2021Shakespeare and the denial of territory
by Pascale Drouet
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True stories2019District D
by Artem Chekh
District D is a collection of stories united through a common time period and location, from which gradually emerges a portrait of the author against the backdrop of “other shores,” on which his childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood passed. The book paints a self-critical portrait of the author in which one can discern the features of husbandry and cosmopolitanism, pettiness and magnanimity, and much else. Simultaneously, it paints a group portrait of a few dozen more or less registered residents of the aforementioned Cherkasy district with their more or less successful attempts at surviving the unexpected transition from post-soviet to newly independent Ukraine. According to the author, District D served as therapy for his own traumatic experiences because he wrote it while serving in the war: “I would write it out of me and would feel better; I escaped from that war and those experiences into writing.”
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Social services & welfare, criminologyOctober 2014Ireland's District Court
Language, immigration and consequences for justice
by Kate Waterhouse
For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos. This comprehensive account of the court's criminal proceedings, based on an original study which involved observing hundreds of cases, aims to demystify the mayhem and provide the reader with descriptions of language, participant discourse and procedure in the typical criminal case. In addition, the book captures a recent and important change in the District Court: the advent of the immigrant or the Limited-English-proficient (LEP) defendant. It traces the rise of these defendants and explores the issues involved in ensuring access to justice across languages. It also provides an original description of LEP defendants and interpreters in District Court proceedings, ultimately considering how they have altered the institution and how the characteristics of the District Court affect how limited English proficient defendants access justice at this level of the Irish courts system.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018Changsha Traditional Family Values and Rules
by Changsha Discipline Inspection Committee
This book collects Changsha traditional family rules, family values, and family mottos, and contains a lot of folk proverbs and sayings. It uses pictures, footnotes, and content reviews to help readers have a better understanding. The author hopes to keep this good tradition and promote the building of family values and rules.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 1998Irish Home Rule
by Alan O'Day, Mark Greengrass
Irish Home Rule considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is the first account to explain the various self-government plans, to place these in context and examine the motives for putting the schemes forward. The book distinguishes between moral and material home rulers, making the point that the first appealed especially to outsiders, some Protestants and the intelligentsia, who saw in self-government a means to reconcile Ireland's antagonistic traditions. In contrast, material home rulers viewed a Dublin Parliament as a forum of Catholic interests. This account appraises the home rule movement from a fresh angle, distinguishing it from the usual division drawn between physical force and constitutional nationalists It maintains that an ideological continuity runs from Young Ireland, the Fenians, the early home rulers including Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell, to the Gaelic Revivalists to the Men of 1916. These nationalists are distinguishable from material home rulers not on the basis of methods or strategy but by a fundamental ideological cleavage. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2009Direct rule and the governance of Northern Ireland
by Derek Birrell
This is the first comprehensive study of direct rule as the system of governance which operated in Northern Ireland for most of the period between 1972 and 2007. The major institutions of governance are described and examined in detail, including the often neglected sectors of the role of the Westminster parliament, the civil service, local government, quangos, ombudsmen offices, cross-border structures and the public expenditure process. The book explains how the complex system covering transferred, reserved and excepted functions worked and provided viable governance despite political violence, constitutional conflict and political party disagreements. In addition, a comparison is drawn between direct rule and devolution, analysing both the positive and negative impact of direct rule, as well as identifying where there has been minimal divergence in processes and outcomes. It will prove an invaluable reference source on direct rule and provide a comparative basis for assessing devolution for students of public administration, government, politics, public policy and devolution. ;
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Geography & the EnvironmentMarch 2022Plants for Soil Regeneration
An Illustrated Guide
by Sally Pinhey, Margaret Tebbs
This book is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated colour guide to the plants which farmers, growers and gardeners can use to improve soil structure and restore fertility without the use and expense of agrichemicals. Information based on the latest research is given on how to use soil conditioning plants to avoid soil degradation, restore soil quality and help clean polluted land. There are 11 chapters: 1 to 6 cover soil health, nitrogen fixation, green manures and herbal leys, bacteria and other microorganisms, phytoremediators and soil mycorrhiza (plant-fungal symbiosis). Chapter 7 has plant illustrations, with climate range and soil types, along with their soil conditioning properties and each plant is presented with a comprehensive description opposite a detailed illustration, in full colour. Chapters 8 to 10 examine soil stabilisers, weeds and invasive plants, and hedges and trees and the final chapter, contains 5 case studies with the most recent data, followed by an appendix and glossary. The book allows the reader to identify the plants they need quickly and find the information necessary to begin implementation of soil regeneration.
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April 2022Ça va, cher Karl?
Erinnerungen an Karl Lagerfeld
by Sébastien Jondeau
1999 lernen sich Sébastien Jondeau und Karl Lagerfeld kennen. Für den Jugendlichen aus einfachen Pariser Verhältnissen wird ein Traum wahr: Ab diesem Zeitpunkt wird er nicht mehr von der Seite des Modeschöpfers weichen. Jondeau wird Fahrer, Leibwächter, Assistent, Vertrauter, enger Freund. Lagerfeld eröffnet ihm eine Welt, die er, das Arbeiterkind aus einem Pariser Banlieue, sonst nie gekannt hätte: Er fliegt mit ihm in Privatjets, zu den wichtigen Modeschauen in New York, Mailand, Paris, begleitet ihn in seine Luxusvillen und lernt die internationale Prominenz kennen. Lagerfeld wird zu einer Vaterfigur für Jondeau, ein Vorbild, das er bis zu dessen Tod im Jahr 2019 begleitet - und das eine große Lücke in seinem Leben hinterlässt. In »Ça va, cher Karl?« erinnert Jondeau sich an die gemeinsamen Jahre – und erzählt voller Ehrlichkeit, Bewunderung, Demut, aber auch mit Humor und Herz von einem Menschen, dem er so nah war wie kein anderer.
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April 2022Ça va, cher Karl?
Erinnerungen an Karl Lagerfeld
by Sébastien Jondeau, Bettina Seifried, Virginie Mouzat
1999 lernen sich Sébastien Jondeau und Karl Lagerfeld kennen. Für den Jugendlichen aus einfachen Pariser Verhältnissen wird ein Traum wahr: Ab diesem Zeitpunkt wird er nicht mehr von der Seite des Modeschöpfers weichen. Jondeau wird Fahrer, Leibwächter, Assistent, Vertrauter, enger Freund. Lagerfeld eröffnet ihm eine Welt, die er, das Arbeiterkind aus einem Pariser Banlieue, sonst nie gekannt hätte: Er fliegt mit ihm in Privatjets, zu den wichtigen Modeschauen in New York, Mailand, Paris, begleitet ihn in seine Luxusvillen und lernt die internationale Prominenz kennen. Lagerfeld wird zu einer Vaterfigur für Jondeau, ein Vorbild, das er bis zu dessen Tod im Jahr 2019 begleitet - und das eine große Lücke in seinem Leben hinterlässt. In »Ça va, cher Karl?« erinnert Jondeau sich an die gemeinsamen Jahre – und erzählt voller Ehrlichkeit, Bewunderung, Demut, aber auch mit Humor und Herz von einem Menschen, dem er so nah war wie kein anderer.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2017Teens and territory in 'post-conflict' Belfast
by Madeleine Leonard
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017Politics, pauperism and power in late nineteenth-century Ireland
by Virginia Crossman
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