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The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting the success or failure of a given grand strategy? The present volume provides answers to these questions by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies as strategies of rising status quo and declining powers as well as through historical illustrations of each type. The reader is thus exposed to strategies such as divide and conquer biding your time opportunity strike primacy semi-detachment concert and appeasement through the experiences of leaders such as Bismarck Peter the Great Metternich Deng Xiaoping Neville Chamberlain and Stalin. This analysis is then brought to bear on present developments in the grand strategies of the United States China and Russia. The volume should be of interest to both the academic and foreign policy-making communities and in particular to students of international relations diplomacy history and current international affairs. | The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

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Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

This book looks at the evolution of the role of Europe in US grand strategy and unpacks how US administrations have instrumentalized this relationship in pursuit of extra-European objectives. The work considers geopolitical pressures in conjunction with leaders’ strategic ideas to provide an account of the evolution of the role of Europe in the context of US grand strategy. Observers generally agree on the vague notion that Europe has been de-prioritized in Washington’s external affairs. Against this background the book makes the case that such de-prioritization of Europe in the context of US grand strategy also entails a reconceptualization of the transatlantic relationship namely as a region featuring long-standing relationships that can at times be leveraged in pursuit of non-European goals. The United States has a long history of seeking European support or acquiescence for its role as the leader of the international system but whereas during the Cold War Washington enlisted its European allies in a grand strategic struggle against a European power more recently it has sought to enlist European allies in extra-European struggles of different types. Thinking about the role of Europe in US grand strategy now requires new theoretical and empirical tools that allow for the recognition of this very fact. Accordingly this book proposes that strategic ideas on the viability of international cooperation held within the White House crucially shape what – if any - type of support the United States seeks from Europe on the global stage. In doing so the book adds important nuance to other accounts proclaiming either the proverbial death of the transatlantic relationship or the eternal and unchanging nature thereof. This book will be of much interest to students of European security US foreign policy and International Relations. | Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

GBP 130.00
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China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach

China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach

This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era. Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place – even in the midst of oppression – and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique. China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history international business and wider Chinese studies. | China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach

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Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s. As modern-day sleeper services are being resurrected across European rail networks this book looks at the complex organisation that was required to run their forbears with sleeping cars with clean bedding and conductors and dining cars with food and drink were in the right place at the right time across many different nations systems and time-zones. | Grand European Expresses The Story of the Wagons-Lits

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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861 Grand Duchess Elena born Princess Charlotte of W¼rttemberg (1807-1873) acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared the greatest and most complex of the reforms the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The Grand Duchess’s involvement in these crucial events in Russian history highlights the considerable influence aristocratic women had in Russian society quite unlike women of the same class and status in Western Europe. A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time the Romanovs’ role in them the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources published documents and literature of the period in French Russian German Italian and English this is the first book about Grand Duchess Elena and it expertly interweaves the story of a woman’s life with that of Imperial Russian high politics. | Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

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Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural

Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural

Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the author’s experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate bounded national or civilisational cultures. This book provides critical insight that: DeCentres how we encounter and research the intercultural by means of a third-space methodology Recovers the figurative creative flowing and boundary-dissolving power of culture Recognises hybrid integration which enables us the choice and agency to be ourselves with others in intercultural settings Demonstrates how early native-speakerism pulls us back to essentialist large-culture blocks. Aimed at students and researchers in applied linguistics intercultural studies sociology and education this volume shows how cultural difference in stories personal space language practices and values generates unexpected and transcendent threads of experience to which we can all relate within small culture formation on the go.

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Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education

Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education

The Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) provides an agenda for society and for the social work profession. The 13 GCSW have been codified by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and are emerging as a significant underpinning in the education of undergraduate and graduate social work students throughout the USA. This volume serves as a guide as to how this can best be achieved in alignment with the 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) from the Council of Social Work Education. Divided into four parts: Individual and Family Well-Being Stronger Social Fabric A Just Society The Grand Challenges in the Field Each chapter introduces a Grand Challenge situates it within the curricula and provides teaching practices in one of the targeted domains as well as learning objectives class exercises and discussions. By showing how to facilitate class discussion manage difficult conversations and address diversity equity and inclusion as part of teaching the topic this book will be of interest to all faculty teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It should be noted that there are additional supplementary chapters beyond the 13 GCSW that provide further context for the reader. | Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education

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Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

‘Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences’ is one of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenges for Social Work a programme launched in 2012. This book reports on the work of many social work and allied professions scholars describing current strategies for achieving the ambitious goals identified in this Grand Challenge. The chapters in this book fall into two broad categories: ‘general’ pieces and those which address specific workforce development issues for meeting the Grand Challenge. The contributors cover the problem of alcohol misuse from a number of perspectives including racial/ethnic disparities in alcohol treatment services; adolescents and emerging adults; and trauma/PTSD. The book also explores both technology-based interventions for reducing alcohol misuse and its consequences and various models for preparing the workforce by effectively engaging in screening brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for those experiencing alcohol-related problems complicated by other social and behavioural health problems. The book concludes with two interviews focused global initiatives and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions. | Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

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Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective this volume builds upon recent research that pushes beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead it explores a much broader pattern of travel undertaken by people of varied backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as a unique and distinctive practice this volume represents an important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in northern and western Europe rather than in Italy particularly in Britain the Low Countries and Germany the essays in this collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in response to changing political economic and intellectual contexts. In so doing the reasons for travel in northern Europe are subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously only been directed on Italy. By doing this the volume demonstrates the variety of travel experiences including the many shorter journeys made for pleasure health education and business undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences of varied categories of traveller – from children to businessmen – which have traditionally been largely invisible in the historiography of travel. | Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

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A History of the Symphony The Grand Genre

A History of the Symphony The Grand Genre

A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre identifies the underlying cultural factors that have shaped the symphony over the past three hundred years presenting a unified view of the entire history of the genre. The text goes beyond discussions of individual composers and the stylistic evolution of the genre to address what constitutes a symphony within each historical period describing how such works fit into the lives of composers and audiences of the time recognizing that they do not exist in a vacuum but rather as the products of numerous external forces spurring their creation. In three parts the text proceeds chronologically drawing connections between musical examples across regions and eras: The Classical Symphony The Romantic Symphony The Symphony in the Modern Era Within this broad chronology—from the earliest Italian symphonies of the 18th century to the most experimental works of the 20th century—discussion of the development of the genre often breaks down along national lines that outline divergent but parallel paths of stylistic growth. In consideration of what is and is not a symphony musical developments in other genres are presented as they relate to the symphony genres such as the serenade the tone poem and the concert overture. Suitable for a one-semester course as well as a full-year syllabus and with illustrative musical examples throughout A History of the Symphony places composers and works in sociological and musical contexts while confronting the fundamental question: What is a symphony? | A History of the Symphony The Grand Genre

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Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time including Super Mario Bros. Grand Theft Auto III Doom The Sims and many more. Drawing on interviews as well as the authors' own lifelong experience with videogames the book discusses each game's development predecessors critical reception and influence on the industry. It also features hundreds of full-color screenshots and images including rare photos of game boxes and other materials. Vintage Games is the ideal book for game enthusiasts and professionals who desire a broader understanding of the history of videogames and their evolution from a niche to a global market. | Vintage Games An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto Super Mario and the Most Influential Games of All Time

GBP 175.00
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The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn) this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'. Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons. The extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms including personal diaries (Montagu) family letters (Hammond) and formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his servant Robert Moody) and how these texts should now be interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections of prints engravings curiosities coins and antiquities assembled by such travellers. | The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa’s largest dam but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation its regional and global implications the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling and the need for participatory and transparent decision making. By applying law political science and hydrology to sharing water resources in general and to large-scale dam building filling and operating in particular it offers concrete qualitative and quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract by Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational very soon the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water cooperation and conflict management. | The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation

GBP 42.99
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The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? The Wicked Learning Workbook is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss. The book offers a new pedagogical approach that we call 'wicked' because it is unorthodox ambitious and tackles complex problems that won’t go away. The pedagogy is also international at the course level rather than the conventional exchange semester enabling institutions to embed international approaches to their core teaching. The Wicked Learning Workbook speaks directly to academics who are looking for solutions that provide stimuli for research and teaching while giving students an innovative international learning experience. The approach develops student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as broad-scale societal issues which are difficult if not impossible to ‘solve’. An important outcome of this approach is the laboratory-style classroom that creates opportunities for faculty students and companies to co-create solutions that are immediately implementable. The resulting methodology is based on industry–university collaboration (such as IKEA and Nestlé). The methodology is of interest to corporate leaders pursuing sustainability goals and business transformation. Achieving sustainability requires cross-boundary cross-disciplinary experimental approaches that allow for scalability. Wicked problems can only be tackled with wicked solution approaches. | The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

GBP 36.99
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Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites Networks and Grand Strategy

Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites Networks and Grand Strategy

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa. This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both structural and descriptive levels the GBM complex is a function of the synergy between the state’s quest for power businesses’ need for expansion and the informational and hegemonic functions of media actors. The United States’ GBM complex in Africa is supported—and in some locations spearheaded—by its military with dispossessing effects on local actors. Drawing from African case studies analytical accounts and empirical case studies this book explores AFRICOM’s role within this broader strategy. The volume maps both the methods and the scope of this expansion as well as local resistance to this process and comprises perspectives from the five regions of Africa key sub-regional organizations and voices from Africa’s regional hegemons. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies strategic studies African politics and International Relations. | Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites Networks and Grand Strategy

GBP 130.00
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The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art architecture and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to evoke traditional themes in innovative ways. Addressed primarily to a new audience of tourists from abroad the thematic content of the spaces celebrated the greatness of the Borghese family and of Roman tradition while their stylistic diversity and sophistication made a case for the continued vitality - even modernity - of Roman art and culture. Designed for the exercise of a highly refined social performance these sites helped to model the experience of art as a form of enlightened modern civility. | The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

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Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power

Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power

This book examines the changes in Indonesian foreign policy during the 21st century as it seeks to position itself as a great power in the Indo-Pacific region. The rise of 21st-century Indonesia is becoming a permanent fixture in both the domestic and global discourses. Though there has been an increasing level of discussion on Indonesia’s emerging power status there has been little discussion on how the country is debating and signalling its new-found status. This book combines the insights of both neo-classical realism and social identity theory to discuss a reset in an emerging Indonesia’s foreign policy during the 21st century while emphasizing domestic drivers and constraints of its international behaviour. There are three key organizing components of the book – emerging power status signalling and the Indo-Pacific region. The Indo-Pacific region constitutes a spatial framing of the book; the emerging power provides an analytical category to explain Indonesia’s changing international status; and status signalling explains multiple facets of international behaviour through which the country is projecting its new status. Though leaders are adding different styles and characteristics to the rising Indonesia narrative there are a few unmistakable overarching trends that highlight an increasing correlation between the country’s rising power and growing ambition in international behaviour. This book is built around four key signalling strategies of Indonesia as an emerging power – expanded regional canvas power projection leadership projection and quest for great power parity. They represent Indonesia’s growing desire for a status-consistent behaviour its response to the prevailing strategic uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific region and its attempt to advance its strategic interests. This book will be of much interest to students of South-East Asian politics strategic studies international diplomacy security studies and IR in general. | Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power

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Communications Systems Engineers' Choices

Communications Systems Engineers' Choices

Communications Systems (1999) examines various communications systems using satellites and includes much information on coding and modulation systems such as MOBIC digital SNG systems mobile phones MPEG MPEG4 capabilities and Hypermedia the Grand Alliance TV systems MUSE and how it is used in Japan the European and North American Digital Video Broadcasting Systems MMDS and Digital Audio Broadcasting. It explores the rapid convergence occurring between satellite and terrestrial services. It provides a solid base of principles including mathematics where necessary to explain the developments which have taken place within these industries. | Communications Systems Engineers' Choices

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Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of civil society in contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival models including those found in the work of scholars such as John Rawls Jurgen Habermas Michael Walzer Benjamin Barber and Nancy Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. According to his idealization groups of citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility tolerance curiosity and moderation. Moreover their regard for the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative democracy and their regard for democratic virtues principles and practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages that it faces a variety of barriers and that it cannot be realized without luck. | Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

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Cosmic Humanism and World Unity

Cosmic Humanism and World Unity

First published in 1975 Cosmic Humanism and World Unity presents a comprehensive overview of the world view a theory of knowledge a cosmology and a possible universal religion termed as cosmic humanism. It aims to discover and formulate some of the main principles that may help mankind integrate the world ethically aesthetically and spiritually as science and technology have integrated the planet in its physical relationships. It discusses themes like mental pattern for the planet; language and world order; grand strategy of evolution; Helium Psychosphere; cosmic humanism and the space age; and existentialist cosmology and harmony. This is an interesting read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

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Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security Strategies Operations and Structures

Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security Strategies Operations and Structures

This new textbook outlines the main theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines that support homeland security operations structures and strategies. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th homeland security (HLS) grew in importance within the U. S. government (and around the world) and matured from a concept discussed among a relatively small cadre of policymakers and strategic thinkers to a broadly discussed issue in Congress and society with a growing academic presence. Yet the ability to discern a theory of homeland security that would support overall security strategy has been more elusive to both scholars and policymakers. This textbook aims to elucidate a grand theory of homeland security by leveraging the theoretical underpinnings of the disciplines that comprise the strategies operations and structures of the HLS enterprise. In this way each chapter contributes to a grand theory of homeland security as it explores a different discipline that influences or supports a domain of the homeland security enterprise. These chapters cover intelligence systems terrorism origins and ideologies emergency management environmental and human security cybersecurity policy crime and security global governance risk management public health law and policy technology interagency collaboration and the sociology of security. This book will be essential reading for students of Homeland Security and Emergency Response and recommended reading for students of terrorism intelligence cybersecurity risk management and national security. | Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security Strategies Operations and Structures

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Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850

Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850

This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally this book draws attention to repeated tropes and common patterns in the ways in which servants are featured in travelogues; and in so doing offers an account of alternative modes of experiencing and writing about the Home Tour and the Grand Tour. | Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850

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Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Country houses were grand statements of power and status but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout the new technologies and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines religious faith and above all relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them made country houses into homes. | Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

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