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This book examines the history of the Cyprus Tribute, and takes a longer and broader view of the issue than previous studies. It analyses the regional context of the decision to use revenue surpluses for the repayment of debt within the framework of the Eastern Question and Ottoman bankruptcy. We ...
The Cyprus Tribute and Geopolitics in the Levant, 1875-1960
This book examines the history of the Cyprus Tribute, and takes a longer and broader view of the issue than previous studies. It analyses the regional context of the decision to use revenue surpluses for the repayment of debt within the framework of the Eastern Question and Ottoman bankruptcy. We see that the island was always strategically and financially overshadowed by Egypt. Scrutinising political developments in Cyprus through the prism of the tribute issue facilitates a better understanding of its considerable effect on them. The absence of any imperial role for Cyprus as a 'place d'armes' meant that there was no imperial interest in funding the infrastructural development of the island. British policy was treasury-driven. Diana Markides analyses why it failed, and how its failure resulted in the local colonial government having to impose a deeply unpopular fiscal policy, for which there was no adequate explanation. She examines the extent to which local resistance to this policy affected not only constitutional development on the island and Anglo-Cypriot relations, but the nature of the relations between the two major communities.
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by Diana Markides
The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is retold in an original narrative that relies on a close examination of the sources. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's ...
A History of Humanitarianism, 1755-1989: In the Name of Others
The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is retold in an original narrative that relies on a close examination of the sources. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long history unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. In terms of its contents, narrative style, interpretative approach the book is aimed at a large and diverse public including: scholars who are studying and teaching humanitarianism; students who need to learn about humanitarianism as part of their training or research; operators and volunteers who are engaged in the field; non-specialist readers who are interested in the topic because of its relevance to current events. -- .
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by Silvia Salvatici
in Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have made New York one of ...
Atlantic Metropolis: An Economic History of New York City
This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have made New York one of the twenty-first century's few truly global cities. A recurrent analytic theme of this work is that the ups and downs of New York's trajectory are best understood in the context of what was happening elsewhere in the broader Atlantic world. Readers will find that the Atlantic perspective viewed through an economic lens goes a long way toward clarifying otherwise quite perplexing historical events and trends.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-atlantic-metropolis-an-economic-history-of-new-york-city-9783030133511/
by Aaron Gurwitz
in Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their landlord and given one way tickets to the USA. They refuse to leave Ireland, unknowingly placing themselves in grave peril. When Jack falls in with a rebel group, his father is killed and ...
Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine: A Graphic Novel
A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their landlord and given one way tickets to the USA. They refuse to leave Ireland, unknowingly placing themselves in grave peril. When Jack falls in with a rebel group, his father is killed and Jack and his family are left to fend for themselves in a Ireland during the famine in 1847. This is one family's story of Ireland's great hunger told in powerful illustration and compelling words. This graphic novel brings the suffering and immediacy of the Irish Famine. Following on from the success of political graphic novels this is accessible, informative and insightful history at its best.
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by Damien Goodfellow
Two of the most commonly alleged features of Japanese society are its homogeneity and its encouragement of conformity, as represented by the saying that the nail that sticks up gets pounded. This volume's primary goal is to challenge these and a number of other long-standing assumptions regarding Tokugawa (1600-1868) society, ...
Individuality in Early Modern Japan: Thinking for Oneself
Two of the most commonly alleged features of Japanese society are its homogeneity and its encouragement of conformity, as represented by the saying that the nail that sticks up gets pounded. This volume's primary goal is to challenge these and a number of other long-standing assumptions regarding Tokugawa (1600-1868) society, and thereby to open a dialogue regarding the relationship between the Japan of two centuries ago and the present. The volume's central chapters concentrate on six aspects of Tokugawa society: the construction of individual identity, aggressive pursuit of self-interest, defiant practice of forbidden religious traditions, interest in self-cultivation and personal betterment, understandings of happiness and well-being, and embrace of neglected counter-ideological values. The author argues that when taken together, these point to far higher degrees of individuality in early modern Japan than has heretofore been acknowledged, and in an Afterword the author briefly examines how these indicators of individuality in early modern Japan are faring in contemporary Japan at the time of writing.
https://magrudy.com/book/individuality-in-early-modern-japan-thinking-for-oneself-9780367336875/
by Peter Nosco
A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic ...
The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe
A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great Cauldron invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe. Marie-Janine Calic reveals the many ways in which southeastern Europe's position at the crossroads of East and West shaped continental and global developments. The nascent merchant capitalism of the Mediterranean world helped the Balkan knights fight the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. The deep pull of nationalism led a young Serbian bookworm to spark the conflagration of World War I. The late twentieth century saw political Islam spread like wildfire in a region where Christians and Muslims had long lived side by side. Along with vivid snapshots of revealing moments in time, including Kruje in 1450 and Sarajevo in 1984, Calic introduces fascinating figures rarely found in standard European histories. We meet the Greek merchant and poet Rhigas Velestinlis, whose revolutionary pamphlet called for a general uprising against Ottoman tyranny in 1797. And the Croatian bishop Ivan Dominik Stratiko, who argued passionately for equality of the sexes and whose success with women astonished even his friend Casanova. Calic's ambitious reappraisal expands and deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples, faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire.
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by Marie-Janine Calic
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith ...
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought. A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history--and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.
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by Adam Gopnik
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative ...
Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community.
https://magrudy.com/book/desire-and-empathy-in-twentieth-century-dystopian-fiction-9783319889788/
by Thomas Horan
in Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance. The Vietnam War lives on famously and infamously, dependent on political points of view, but those who have been there, done that have ...
Valor in Vietnam 1963-1977: Chronicles of Honor, Courage, and Sacrifice
Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance. The Vietnam War lives on famously and infamously, dependent on political points of view, but those who have been there, done that have a highly personalized window on the time they spent in Vietnam creating that history. Valor in Vietnam focuses on nineteen stories of Vietnam, stories of celebrated characters in the veteran community, compelling war narratives, vignettes of battles, and the emotional impact on the combatants. It is replete with leadership lessons as well as lessons learned that are just as applicable today as they were forty years ago. Dedicated to our comrades-in-arms, who did not return with us from Vietnam, and to those who did, but carry scars in body, soul and spirit, this is an anecdotal history of America's war in Vietnam composed of firsthand narratives of Vietnam War veterans, collected by the author, who is also a Vietnam War veteran, and presented in chronological order. These are intense, emotional, and highly personal stories. The Vietnam War transcended the relatively small geographic area within which it was contained. Depending on where you served, when you served, and what your work entailed- Green Beret A-team leader near the Laotian border, rifle company commander fighting in the Ia Drang Valley, Phoenix operative in the Delta, Swift Boat skipper patroling the mangrove swamps of the U Minh forest and Ca Mau Peninsula, air force F-4 Phantom pilot over Hanoi, combat medic in the A Shau Valley, piloting a navy A-1 Skyraider over the South China Sea-your experience was likely different, dramatically different from that of other veterans. The stories in Valor in Vietnam cover all this ground... and much more. Included are the experiences of vets from all four of America's armed forces: the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force. Historical commentary is provided by prominent military historian Lewis Sorely, West Point class of 1956 and Vietnam War veteran, and author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated Vietnam history A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) and Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam (2011) among other books. This commentary provides the connective tissue between the stories: setting the stage, discussing what was going on during the war at that time, detailing the geography of the story, and presenting the then-current strategy of the war. Valor in Vietnam presents a historical overview of the war through the eyes of the participants, men and two women who lived it. Simply put, their stories serve to reflect the commitment, honor, and dedication with which America's veterans performed their service in Vietnam.
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by Allen B. Clark
In the middle of the twentieth century, a new class of marketing expert emerged beyond the familiar ad men of Madison Avenue. Working as commercial designers, consumer psychologists, sales managers, and market researchers, these professionals were self-defined consumer engineers, and their rise heralded a new era of marketing. To what ...
Consumer Engineering, 1920s-1970s: Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness
In the middle of the twentieth century, a new class of marketing expert emerged beyond the familiar ad men of Madison Avenue. Working as commercial designers, consumer psychologists, sales managers, and market researchers, these professionals were self-defined consumer engineers, and their rise heralded a new era of marketing. To what extent did these efforts to engineer consumers shape consumption practices? And to what extent was the phenomenon itself a product of broader social and cultural forces? This collection considers consumer engineering in the context of the longer history of transatlantic marketing. Contributors offer case studies on the roles of individual consumer engineers on both sides of the Atlantic, the impact of such marketing practices on European economies during World War II and after, and the conflicted relationship between consumer activists and the ideas of consumer engineering. By connecting consumer engineering to a web of social processes in the twentieth century, this volume contributes to a reassessment of consumer history more broadly.
https://magrudy.com/book/consumer-engineering-1930s-1970s-marketing-between-expert-planning-and-consumer-responsiveness-9783030145637/
in Worlds of Consumption
This book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War. It argues that party-politics, which often ran along geographical, linguistic, and religious lines, prevented both Flemings and Walloons from reconciling their regional identities into a unified concept of Belgian nationalism. Equally, it ...
The Belgian Army and Society from Independence to the Great War
This book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War. It argues that party-politics, which often ran along geographical, linguistic, and religious lines, prevented both Flemings and Walloons from reconciling their regional identities into a unified concept of Belgian nationalism. Equally, it obstructed the army from satisfactorily preparing to uphold Belgium's imposed neutrality before 1914. Situated uneasily between the two powerhouses of nineteenth-century Europe, Belgium offers a unique insight into the concepts of citizenship and militarisation in a divided society in the era of fervent nationalism. By examining the composition, experience, and image of the army's officer corps and rank and file, as well as those of the auxiliary forces, this book shows that although military and civilian society often stood aloof from one another, the army, as a national institution, offered a fleeting glimpse into the dichotomy that was pre-war Belgium.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-belgian-army-and-society-from-independence-to-the-great-war-9783319889290/
by Mario Draper
From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain's reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to Assassin's Creed to Snapchat-with alarming social consequences. We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive ...
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain's reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to Assassin's Creed to Snapchat-with alarming social consequences. We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the history and character of the global enterprises that create and cater to our bad habits. The Age of Addiction chronicles the triumph of limbic capitalism, the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory. We see its success in Steve Wynn's groundbreaking casinos and Purdue Pharma's pain pills, in McDonald's engineered burgers and Tencent video games from China. All capitalize on the ancient quest to discover, cultivate, and refine new and habituating pleasures. The business of satisfying desire assumed a more sinister aspect with the rise of long-distance trade, plantation slavery, anonymous cities, large corporations, and sophisticated marketing. Multinational industries, often with the help of complicit governments and criminal organizations, have multiplied and cheapened seductive forms of brain reward, from junk food to pornography. The internet has brought new addictions: in 2018, the World Health Organization added gaming disorder to its International Classification of Diseases. Courtwright holds out hope that limbic capitalism can be contained by organized opposition from across the political spectrum. Progressives, nationalists, and traditionalists have made common cause against the purveyors of addiction before. They could do it again.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-age-of-addiction-how-bad-habits-became-big-business-9780674737372/
by David T. Courtwright
Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the 'night-time' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars' victims were likely to ...
Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968
Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the 'night-time' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars' victims were likely to be in the bedroom, asleep and unawares, when the intruder crept in, prowling near them in the darkness. Yet fear sometimes gave way to sexual fantasy; eroticized visions of handsome young thieves sneaking around the boudoirs of beautiful, lonely heiresses emerged alongside tales of violence and loss in popular culture, confounding social commentators by casting the burglar as criminal hero. Night Raiders charts how burglary lay historically at the heart of national debates over the meanings of 'home', experiences of urban life, and social inequality. The book explores intimate stories of the devastation caused by burglars' presence in the most private domains, showing how they are deeply embedded within broader histories of capitalism and liberal democracy. The fear and fascination surrounding burglary were mobilized by media, state, and market to sell insurance and security technologies, whilst also popularising the crime in fiction, theatre, and film. Cat burglars' rooftop adventures transformed ideas about the architecture and policing of the city, and post-war 'spy-burglars' theft of information illuminated Cold War skirmishes across the capital. More than any other crime, burglary shaped the everyday rhythms, purchases, and perceptions of modern urban life.
https://magrudy.com/book/night-raiders-burglary-and-the-making-of-modern-urban-life-in-london-1860-1968-9780198840381/
by Eloise Moss
This book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development. Since 1948, the OECD and its forerunner, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) worked on almost every subject of interest to national governments ranging from economic growth to education ...
The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948
This book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development. Since 1948, the OECD and its forerunner, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) worked on almost every subject of interest to national governments ranging from economic growth to education (PISA rankings), statistics, to the environment. With varying success the OEEC/OECD thus played a key role as a warden of the West and of capitalist development. However, it has remained one of the least understood international organizations. Bringing together a number of case studies by scholars from around the world, this first source-based volume on the history of the OEEC/OECD in global governance offers not only a new understanding of the Organization's key areas of activities, but also its multiple relations to member states, other international organizations, and private networks. The volume thus critically re-examines postwar international history, most importantly decolonization and the Cold War, through the prism of one international organization in its various contexts.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-oecd-and-the-international-political-economy-since-1948-9783319868158/
This book tells the story of Terania Creek - the world's first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the Australian counterculture was a mere imitation of overseas models, the Australian movement, coalescing with a home-grown environment movement, came of ...
Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism
This book tells the story of Terania Creek - the world's first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the Australian counterculture was a mere imitation of overseas models, the Australian movement, coalescing with a home-grown environment movement, came of age at Terania Creek. After five years of `polite' campaigning failed to stop the logging of ancient Gondwanan rainforest, an organic and spontaneous blockade erupted that would see the forging of a number of ingenious blockading techniques and strategies. The activist repertoire developed at Terania Creek has since echoed across the country, and across the Earth. This book draws on extensive oral history interviews as well as photographs taken of the protest in 1979; such rich source material brings the story to life. Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism will therefore appeal to both a scholarly audience as well as activists, practitioners, and counterculturalists.
https://magrudy.com/book/terania-creek-and-the-forging-of-modern-environmental-activism-9783319889443/
by Vanessa Bible
in Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
This book examines one of the most important economic outcomes in American history-the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution. Keynesian thought flourished through the ...
America's Failing Economy and the Rise of Ronald Reagan
This book examines one of the most important economic outcomes in American history-the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution. Keynesian thought flourished through the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford, until stagflation devastated American workers and Jimmy Carter's economic policies faltered, setting the stage for the 1980 presidential campaign. Tracking years of shifting public opinion and colorful debate between free-market and Keynesian economists, this book illuminates a neglected era of American economic history and shows how Ronald Reagan harnessed a vision of small government and personal freedom that transformed the American political landscape.
https://magrudy.com/book/americas-failing-economy-and-the-rise-of-ronald-reagan-9783319889573/
by Eric R. Crouse
Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness prior to 1939 ...
The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War
Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness prior to 1939 by those who did not want to hear of the growing threats to peace in Europe. Although it is a familiar story, it is one we need to unlearn as the truth is somewhat murkier. The End is Nigh is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War. Journeying from the corridors of Whitehall to the smoking rooms of Parliament, and from aircraft factories to summit meetings with Hitler, the book offers a fresh and provocative interpretation of one of the most crucial moments of British history. It assembles a cast of iconic characters-Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, and more-to explore the dangerous interaction between high politics at Westminster and the formulation of national strategy in a world primed to explode. In the twenty-first century we are accustomed to being cynical about politicians, mistrusting what they say and wondering about their real motives, but Robert Crowcroft argues that this was always the character of democratic politics. In The End is Nigh he challenges some of the most resilient public myths of recent decades-myths that, even now, remain an important component of Britain's self-image.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-end-is-nigh-british-politics-power-and-the-road-to-the-second-world-war-9780198823698/
by Robert Crowcroft
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical ...
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical and lay explanations of mental illness and its causes, and patient experiences, were influenced by these concepts. The strong emphasis on land and its interconnectedness with notions of class identity and respectability in Ireland lends a particularly interesting dimension. The book interrogates the popular notion that relatives were routinely locked away to be deprived of land or inheritance, querying how often land grabbing Irish families really abused the asylum system for their personal economic gain. The book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland and the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-cost-of-insanity-in-nineteenth-century-ireland-public-voluntary-and-private-asylum-care-9783319879833/
by Alice Mauger
in Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigate some of the most fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the ...
Encounters with Emotions: Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigate some of the most fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other's emotions to the roles that emotion has played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
https://magrudy.com/book/encounters-with-emotions-negotiating-cultural-differences-since-early-modernity-9781789202236/
George Thatcher served as a U.S. representative from Maine throughout the Federalist Era (1789-1801)-the most critical and formative period of American constitutional history. A moderate on most political issues, the Cape Cod native and Harvard-educated lawyer proved a maverick in matters relating to education, the expansion of the slave interest, ...
The Insurgent Delegate: Selected Letters and Other Writings of George Thatcher
George Thatcher served as a U.S. representative from Maine throughout the Federalist Era (1789-1801)-the most critical and formative period of American constitutional history. A moderate on most political issues, the Cape Cod native and Harvard-educated lawyer proved a maverick in matters relating to education, the expansion of the slave interest, the rise of Unitarianism, and the separation of church and state. Written over his forty-year career as a country lawyer, national legislator, and state supreme court justice, the over two hundred letters and miscellaneous writings selected for this edition will appeal to historians, lawyers and legal scholars, teachers, and genealogists as an encyclopedic resource on the Founding generation, and to all readers captivated by the dramatic immediacy and inherent authenticity of personal letters. Following Thatcher's journey as a New England Federalist, abolitionist, religious dissenter, and pedagogical innovator is to add depth and complexity to our understanding of the early American Republic. Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-insurgent-delegate-selected-letters-and-other-writings-of-george-thatcher-9780997519105/
In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest and advertisement for a merchant firm-a promotional curiosity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. Over the next few years, she would ...
The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America
In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest and advertisement for a merchant firm-a promotional curiosity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. Over the next few years, she would shape Americans' impressions of China even as she assisted her merchant sponsors in selling the largest quantities of Chinese goods yet imported for the burgeoning American market. Americans views of the exotic Far East in this early period before Chinese immigration were less critical than they would later become. Afong Moy became a subject of poetry, a trendsetter for hair styles and new fashions, and a lucky name for winning racehorses. She met Americans face to face in cities and towns across the country, appearing on local stages to sell and to entertain. Yet she also moved in high society, and was the first Chinese guest to be welcomed to the White House. However, this success was not to last. As her novelty wore off, Afong Moy was cast aside by her managers. Though concerned public citizens rallied in support, her fame dwindled and she spent several years in a New Jersey almshouse. In the late 1840s, P.T. Barnum offered Afong Moy several years of promising renewal as the compatriot of Tom Thumb, yet this stint too was short-lived. In this first biography, Nancy E. Davis sheds light on the mystery of Afong Moy's life as a Chinese woman living in a foreign land.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-chinese-lady-afong-moy-in-early-america-9780190645236/
by Nancy E Davis
When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's ...
Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe
When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the gripping story of two of these men-Edward Whalley and William Goffe-and their lives in America, from their welcome in New England until their deaths there. With fascinating insights into the governance of the American colonies in the seventeenth century, and how a network of colonists protected the regicides, Matthew Jenkinson overturns the enduring theory that Charles II unrelentingly sought revenge for the murder of his father. Charles I's Killers in America also illuminates the regicides' afterlives, with conclusions that have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Anglo-American political and cultural relations. Novels, histories, poems, plays, paintings, and illustrations featuring the fugitives were created against the backdrop of America's revolutionary strides towards independence and its forging of a distinctive national identity. The history of the 'king-killers' was distorted and embellished as they were presented as folk heroes and early champions of liberty, protected by proto-revolutionaries fighting against English tyranny. Jenkinson rewrites this once-ubiquitous and misleading historical orthodoxy, to reveal a far more subtle and compelling picture of the regicides on the run.
https://magrudy.com/book/charles-is-killers-in-america-the-lives-and-afterlives-of-edward-whalley-and-william-goffe-9780198820734/
by Matthew Jenkinson
Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence ...
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World
Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.
https://magrudy.com/book/imperial-legacies-how-the-british-empire-planted-the-seeds-of-freedom-across-the-world-9781641770385/
by Jeremy Black
Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region's systems of bondage and human trafficking. Contributors trace intricate links between environmental forces, ...
Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region's systems of bondage and human trafficking. Contributors trace intricate links between environmental forces, human suffering, and political conditions, examining how they have driven people into servile labour and shaped the IOW economy. They illuminate the complexities of IOW bondage with case studies, drawn chiefly from the mid-eighteenth century, on Sudan, Cape Colony, Reunion, China, and beyond, where chattel slavery (as seen in the Atlantic world) represented only one extreme of a wide spectrum of systems of unfree labour. The array of factors examined here, including climate change, environmental disaster, disease, and market forces, are central to IOW history-and to modern-day forms of human bondage.
https://magrudy.com/book/bondage-and-the-environment-in-the-indian-ocean-world-9783319888781/
in Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency. It explores the involvement of the Security Service, the Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East), the Malayan Security Service, Special Branch and wider police service, and military intelligence, to examine how British and Malayan authorities tackled the insurgent ...
Counterinsurgency Intelligence and the Emergency in Malaya
This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency. It explores the involvement of the Security Service, the Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East), the Malayan Security Service, Special Branch and wider police service, and military intelligence, to examine how British and Malayan authorities tackled the insurgent challenge posed by the Malayan Communist Party. This study assesses the nature of the intelligence apparatus prior to the declaration of emergency in 1948 and considers how officials attempted to reconstruct the intelligence structures in the Far East after the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. These plans were largely based upon the legacy of the Second World War but quickly ran into difficultly because of ill-defined remits and personality clashes. Nevertheless, officials did provide prescient warning of the existential threat posed by the Malayan Communist Party from the earliest days of British reoccupation of Malaya. Once a state of emergency had been declared, officials struggled to find the right combination of methods, strategy and management structures to eliminate the threat posed by the Communist insurgents. This book argues that the development of an effective counterinsurgency intelligence strategy involved many more organisations than just Special Branch. It was a multifaceted, dynamic effort that took far longer and was more problematic than previous accounts suggest. The Emergency remains central to counterinsurgency theory and thus this wide-ranging analysis sheds crucial light not only on the period, but on contemporary doctrine and security practices today.
https://magrudy.com/book/counterinsurgency-intelligence-and-the-emergency-in-malaya-1945-1960-9783030166946/
by Roger C. Arditti
in Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of his seminal A Polite ...
Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford
For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of his seminal A Polite and Commercial People, the opening volume in the New Oxford History of England series, Paul's best-known and most influential publication. He was delighted to hear of these plans and the tragic news of his death only made the contributors more determined to see the project through to completion. The importance of A Polite and Commercial People within its own time is unquestionable. Not only did it provide a powerful new vision of eighteenth-century Britain, but it also played a vital part in reviving interest in, and expanding ways of thinking about, Georgian history. As the thirteen contributors to this volume amply testify, any review of the field from the 1980s onwards cannot ignore the profound effect Paul's research had on the social and political publications in his field. This collection of essays combines reflection on the impact of Paul's work with further engagement with the central questions he posed. In particular, it serves to re-connect various recent avenues of Georgian studies, bringing together diverse themes present in Paul's scholarship, but which are often studied independently of each other. As such, it aims to provide a fitting tribute to Paul's work and impact, and a wider reassessment of the current direction of eighteenth-century studies.
https://magrudy.com/book/revisiting-the-polite-and-commercial-people-essays-in-georgian-politics-society-and-culture-in-honour-of-professor-paul-langford-9780198802631/
Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level of individual experience. Excitement, uncertainty, and fear predicated the shaping of a new order, the outcome of which ...
From Revolution to Uncertainty: The Year 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe
Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level of individual experience. Excitement, uncertainty, and fear predicated the shaping of a new order, the outcome of which was anything but predetermined. Recent studies have focused on the ambivalent impact of capitalism. Yet, at the time, parliamentary democracy had equally few traditions to return to, and membership in the European Union was a distant dream at best. Nowadays, as new threats arise, Europe's current political crises prompt us to reconsider how liberal democracy in Eastern Europe came about in the first place. This book undertakes an analysis of the year 1990 in several countries throughout Europe to consider the role of uncertainty and change in shaping political nations.
https://magrudy.com/book/from-revolution-to-uncertainty-the-year-1990-in-central-and-eastern-europe-9780815351788/
in Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed this work shortly before his death, after a lifetime of research ...
Conceiving Mozambique
This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed this work shortly before his death, after a lifetime of research and close contact with many of the major Mozambican nationalists of the time. Assembled from his rich archive of unpublished letters, diaries, and transcribed conversations with figures such as Eduardo Mondlane, Adelino Gwambe, and Marcelino dos Santos, this book captures the key issues and personalities that shaped the era. With unique insight into the Mozambican struggle and the tragic short-sightedness of U.S. policy, Conceiving Mozambique encourages a dispassionate re-examination of the movement's costs as well as its remarkable accomplishments.
https://magrudy.com/book/conceiving-mozambique-9783319881447/
by John A. Marcum
in African Histories and Modernities


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The Environmental Voter Project (feat. Nathaniel Stinnett)
Environmentalists don't vote. At least not nearly as much as the general population. They have a turnout problem. By Nathaniel Stinnett's estimate, 10.1 million registered voters who consider climate change or the environment as one of their top two priorities, sat out the 2016 presidential election. An even larger number stayed home for the 2014 midterms. But for Stinnett, those big numbers mean a big opportunity. Right now, his Environmental Voter Project is targeting 2.4 million environmentalists in Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Pennsylvania – registered voters who are considered unlikely to vote. Stinnett employs an unusual messaging strategy to get them to the polls– which he explains in our conversation. If he succeeds, he believes no candidate will be able to get their name on a ballot without talking about the environment.
Jane Alexander: Live @ The Nantucket Book Festival
Jane Alexander's illustrious acting career was launched in 1968 by her breakthrough performance in The Great White Hope.
March Madness Special: Thriving in College Basketball & Living With Rare Disease
6'2" Carey Kauffman, a March Madness veteran of the Duke University Blue Devils, couples her insights from a life in basketball with her experie
ISIS Briefing1: feat. Emma Sky
Emma Sky was U.S. General Odierno's chief political adviser during the the surge - building alliances with the Sunni leaders who would defeat Al

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President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
The Friday Forum was pleased to read the report of the recommendations of the committee to inquire into the Welikada prison riots in 2012, which recommendations were released to the public on 25 June 2015. However we call on you, in the public interest, to release in full the report of the inquiry, as we have a right to know what took place inside the prison which caused 27 inmates to lose their lives.
The Friday Forum was also pleased to note the handing over to you of the interim report of the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints regarding Missing Persons (Paranagama Commission) in early April. Here too we ask for its release and publication in the public interest. We welcome the actions of the Commission to facilitate issuing of death certificates, payment of compensation, intervention in employment and land matters etc over and above its mandate. However we note with concern the Commission's regret that written requests to the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Justice to release to the Commission names of persons who were in custody of prisons, detention camps, refugee camps, and rehabilitation centres had not been complied with. We urge you to ensure compliance by these two Ministries in order to further facilitate the identification and location of missing persons.
Dr. G. Usvatte- Aratchi, Ms. Suriya Wickremasinghe, Prof. Arjuna Aluwihare, Rev. Dr. Jayasiri Peiris, Mr. Faiz-Ur. Rahman, Mr. Ananda Galappatti, Ms. Damaris Wickremasekera, Dr. Selvy Thiruchandran, Ms. Manouri Muttetuwegama, Prof. Camena Guneratne, Ms. Shanthi Dias, Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda, Prof. Gameela Samarasinghe, Dr. Deepika Udagama, Mr. J. C Weliamuna, Dr. A.C. Visvalingam, Professor Ranjini Obeyesekere, Mr. Ahilan Kadirgamar, Rt. Rev. Bishop Duleep de Chickera, Mr. D. Wijayanandana, Mr. S.C.C.Elankovan and Mr. Chandra Jayaratne.


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Nick Vertucci is the affluent founder of the famed NV Real Estate and a shrewd poker player. As a poker player, he has competed against astute players including David Benyamine, Kenny Tran, and James Woods. Nick has been playing poker before becoming a mogul in the real estate industry.
Over the years, he has advanced his poker game while refining his strategies of establishing wealth in real estate. He employs intelligence bluffing in poker games. This tactic involves discouraging your opponent from playing or telling the broker to increase their offer because you have better terms in the seller's hand. Nick applies the ability to read the others to determine their opponent's next move in the game.
Poker game requires players to employ emotional control because it is the key to reading others and bluffing. The game is about being confident to intimidate opponents, improve risk assessment, and keep a player in the game. Poker requires players to be easily adaptable. Change is inevitable in poker, for instance, the flop can turn a game; therefore, an effective player should apply adaptability to play the game. Apart from these skills, Nick Vertucci employs aggressiveness, discipline, and patience in poker. He has participated in international tournaments like World Poker Tournament and Poker After Dark.
Before venturing into real estate, Nick faced financial challenges while growing up. He joined a real estate academy to get proper training about the industry. After completing his studies, he invested in single-family homes where he purchased fore-closed houses, fixed, and rented them out to tenants. Nick Vertucci also educates aspiring real estate owners in his radio show: The Real Estate Investing Hour. Nick is also the author of Seven Figure Decisions. The books highlight the principles he applied to achieve his current financial freedom.


Dannyboy Perone left a steady job in government to work in the hop and grain-encrusted beer industry. Now, he spends his days around shining beer kettles that dwarf even his towering 6'5" frame.
Arbor Brewing Company Brewpub] in Ann Arbor first attracted Perone about a decade ago with its friendly atmosphere and tasty brews. He soon became a regular and now works as a facilities manager at its sister microbrewery, the Corner Brewery and Beer Garden in Ypsilanti.
"I stumbled into Arbor Brewing Company, and it felt like home. It was my Cheers," Perone says, who volunteered and worked part time at the Corner Brewery, which opened in 2006. "It just kept me coming back for more, and the beers were great."
Arbor Brewing Company Brewpub opened in July 1995, about two years after microbreweries and brewpubs were legalized in Michigan.
"We were basically looking for a neighborhood pub," says co-owner, Rene Greff, in reference to her and her husband's first brewpub. "[It's] a neighborhood hub that's sort of the center of politics and culture."
Grizzly Peak Brewing Company followed soon after, and both pubs flourished in Ann Arbor. Townies and students stop by to sip every variety of beer, from light pilsners to hoppy IPAs to nutty stouts and porters brewed in house.
As of 2008, Michigan is ranked 15th among states in terms of breweries per capita and 5th in total number of breweries (70 at last count), according to the Brewers Association. After more than a decade, Ann Arbor's downtown has several different brewpubs touting unique flavors and atmospheres. Dexter, Milan and Ypsilanti have also become home to microbreweries that sell beer across the state or even around the country.
Ann Arbor's craft beer scene, in part, feeds off of the college town's demographic which includes people with education, disposable income, and a fair amount of traveling under their belt, says Rene Greff.
"Ann Arbor has always been a college town, and it's always been a pretty big beer town," says Duncan Williams, head brewer at Grizzly Peak, adding that places like Royal Oak, with its more urban sensibility, is more conducive to wine and cocktails.
Some of Ann Arbor's original settlers might also have something to do with the beer-friendly culture, says Ron Jeffries, owner of Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales microbrewery and the new Jolly Pumpkin Café & Brewery. Settled in part by Germans, Ann Arbor is no stranger to beer-infused gatherings, like the Oktoberfest celebrations that are currently underway.
"You see how communities were settled carrying through hundreds of years later," Jeffries says. "On the west side of the state, the Holland area for example, had Dutch Calvinist settlers. I know the brewers over there in New Holland have had a devil of a time with some of these conservative anti-alcohol attitudes."
Further fueled by local bars like Ashley's and Old Town Tavern that carry craft brews and a strong following of home brewers in the Washtenaw County region, beer culture thrives.
"The whole scene feeds off each other. The more brew pubs open, the more beer culture exists. The more beer culture exists, the more people get into it," Williams says.
And once you try good craft beer – like good coffee, artisan bread, or ice cream – there's no going back, says Jeffries.
"In general, Americans have become more educated about beers, and our palates have all become sophisticated. I think people have become more adventurous," Rene Greff says. "It's a completely different palate than it was ten years ago."
Brad Sancho had only a decade-long passion for home brewing at his disposal when he opened up Original Gravity microbrewery on a rural county road in Milan a little more than a year ago.
Sancho single-handedly brought craft beer culture to Milan, and, with no formal training, he saw the lack of competition as a major draw. Situated in a largely residential area, Original Gravity has been successful even without the help of a beer culture-infused community that brewpubs depend on.
"Microbreweries and brewpubs are two really different businesses, so they can live in really different areas," says Jeffries, whose Jolly Pumpkin microbrewery resides in Dexter. Whereas brewpubs can only serve their beer on the premises, microbreweries can exist in a rural or remote location because it can ship beer locally or all over the country, and you're not really tied to a building or downtown area, he adds.
And Sancho's strategy has worked so far. The majority of his customers are locals, and Sancho has taken to indoctrinating local craft beer virgins with light, crisp beers that even the craft beer veterans favor.
Like Original Gravity, the Corner Brewery is a microbrewery situated in an old warehouse near residential Ypsilanti. Students stop in to study in the lounge's booths, a handful of regular telecommuters work using the microbrewery's free WiFi, and friends and co-workers come in for a drink, with the large groups filling up the full-sized wooden dining room tables.
Sales at the Corner Brewery have been up, though Rene Greff says she's hesitant to guess why. Similarly, Sancho's barely year-old business has also been riding out the economic turbulence with ease. And Jeffries is confident that his newly-opened Jolly Pumpkin Café in downtown Ann Arbor will do fine, adding that the current, less than savory economic climate is just a "weird coincidence."
With consumers still wary of spending, this beer-related success seems out of place. But maybe human nature has something to do with it, Jeffries muses. More than ever, people communicate via phone and internet in their work and social lives, and it makes it difficult for people to maintain a feeling of community.
"When you have a beer that you know where it's from – it's from that building there on the corner. You may know the people who work there. Or if it's a brewpub, you can go in there and have a beer at their bar and eat food with your friends and family," says Jeffries. "And so you get this tie, this sense of community."
Creating a neighborhood gathering place has been what Rene and Matt Greff have been after from the start. Their establishments have hosted everything from The Shadow Art Fair to political events and movie nights.
"[Our customers are] super supportive, and we're supportive of them," Perone says. "We'll host business meetings, and people just know that the space is available… We have a lot of community events, like neighborhood association meetings. It's almost like a mini-town hall in some respects."
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chuumpa, 15 Aug 2010are you serious sharp, 2mp for this camera?They don't want to produce high-end camera phones for other parts of the world. ONLY in Japan you can buy high-end Sharp phones.
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Construction firm in £7m celebration
Projects worth about £7million have been secured by Ashe Construction through its new Midland regional office in Rugby.
They include a major school-building project, two new motor dealerships - and giving a new life to redundant offices in Birmingham.
The latest awards take the tally of contracts secured by the Rugby office since it was launched early in 2000 to more than 30.
Almost half of these come from repeat clients - including Nottingham-shire County Council, which has employed it to build an art and drama block at a comprehensive school.
It has also been chosen to build a new Renault showroom for Sutton Park Motors in Lichfield Road, Tamworth, in a deal worth about £825,000.
The new regional operation was set up by David Ainge, managing director of Ashe Construction, who has lived in Rugby most of his life. He said: "As we enter our fifth year of operation, we have a turnover of approximately £11mil-lion and a staff of 16.
"Due to continuing growth, we are looking to recruit more senior project management staff, as well as generating further work for skilled trades in the region."


In America and England, where new wave is just another flavor of nostalgia, bands that make music with those values can't escape the taint of parody or contrived style-mongering. In Mexico, however, the energetic sound of early-'80s jumparound music hasn't yet lost its currency, and offbeat rockers like Caifanes and Cafe Tacuba can still rev up cheesy organ and skittery ska rhythms without making an issue of it. Fronted by flamboyant brat singer Cosme (aka Juan; his given name is Rubén Albarrán), who shapes his fire-red hair into devil horns, the un-self-conscious and eclectic quartet from Mexico City makes a pan-cultural game of rock en español, throwing hip-hop, acoustic pop, romantic balladry, ranchera, mariachi, funk, new wave and whatever happens across the radar screen into the mix on the infectious Cafe Tacuba. The instrumentation switches as often as the tempos — piano, melodica, string bass, acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers and percussion (as well as accordion by Flaco Jiménez and trumpet) all shape the whimsical songs — but Cosme's melodramatic delivery is what holds the energetic party together. Pick hit (for its dead-catchy chorus): "Noche Oscura" ("Dark Night").
Re is a far more ambitious undertaking, as a dozen guests help the newly politicized Cafe Tacuba through a musical funhouse that yanks open doors to reveal an endless array of idioms and traditions. The band shifts gears repeatedly, often within songs: "El Ciclinto" is a wild Sly Stone/Beatles/Plastic Bertrand/Manfred Mann/Sugarcubes mix-and-match. "El Borrego" goes for a distorted Ministry-like techno kill, while "Ixtepec" can only be called flamenco house, "El Metro" is pop-funk, "El Fin de la Infancia" is speedy mariachi, "Pez" is spare pop and "Las Flores" bounces to a ska beat. "El Baile y el Sal�n" quotes Labelle; "La Pinta" rips a mighty electric guitar hole. Making eclectic unpredictability its strong stylistic statement, Re amazingly holds together.


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Vendegies-sur-Écaillon è un comune francese di 1.120 abitanti situato nel dipartimento del Nord nella regione dell'Alta Francia.

Come si evince dal toponimo stesso, il territorio comunale è bagnato dal fiume Écaillon.

Società

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ZOE HOOP and The Global Goals
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In 2015 the world's countries agreed on 17 goals for a brighter and more sustainable future. 17 goals which require courage and willingness from single individuals, world leaders and businesses. It is the most ambitious agenda for sustainable development that has been adopted globally. By 2030, the ambition is to eradicate extreme poverty, reduce inequalities and injustice, promote peace and justice and to solve the climate crisis. This sounds ambitious, right? But it is also a wonderful objective!
Your choices and my choices in everyday life can contribute to a step in this very direction. ZOE HOOP has chosen to especially focus on 5 of these goals.
Goal 1: No poverty
Poverty is a more complex state than lack of money. Often, it also includes aspects such as freedom, security, education and health. It involves gaining material support, but also access to health care and clean water. Poverty can be measured in a number of different ways. One of the objectives is to eradicate the so-called extreme poverty by 2030. Most importantly, the first goal focuses on the opportunities for individuals to maintain worthy and safe lives.
The access to resources, labour market, decision making and freedom from violence is still unevenly distributed between women and men. Gender equality is a key factor for a sustainable development, where all persons independent of gender are given the opportunity to live on equal terms in society. Some of the objectives under the fifth goal are to eradicate gender discrimination and to ensure the empowerment of all women and girls.
Goal 8: Decent working conditions and economic growth
More than half of the world's workforce today find themselves in insecure employment. Far too many are exposed to human trafficking and child labour, in a number of sectors. Among the objectives for goal number eight are safe working environments and equal wage conditions. It also promotes decent work opportunities, sound enterprise and a sustainable economic growth.
Goal 9: Sustainable industry, innovations and infrastructure
Today, a majority of the world's population live in urban areas. A sustainable and inclusive infrastructure is a key factor for a society to be able to tackle both environmental and economical challenges. Innovation, eco-friendly technologies and sustainable industries are needed in both low-income and high-income countries to create sustainable development. Among the objectives of goal 9 are possibilities to promote more effective use of resources and greener industry processes.
Goal 12: Sustainable consumption and production
The resources of the earth are not exuberant and how we live today affects our future as well as the future of coming generations. A responsible consumption and production has positive effects for both the environment and people's employment and health. Goal number twelve is simply about finding a more sustainable lifestyle – that we need to take care of our footprint over natural resources, our waste management and our consumption and production patterns.
The focus of many of the global goals are in many ways in line with what the Bible points to. An early definition of sustainable development is to "ensure the needs of today without endangering the needs of coming generations". The Bible speaks of loving our neighbor, giving support and help to the weak and being responsible stewards of creation.
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Rate cuts alone will not lift markets
But potential benefits could be overrun by costs and a spike in risks
Published: September 05, 2019 20:12 Mohamed A. El-Erian, Bloomberg
Euro sign at European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Image Credit: Agency
Fearing market disruptions, both the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve will most likely take more stimulus measures this month regardless of what their analyses tell them about the potential impact on the economy and financial assets. That has implications for both future economic prosperity and medium-term financial stability, and it adds to the to-do list for policymakers and investors.
Markets expect central banks — not just in advanced economies but also in emerging markets — to go on a loosening tear, cutting more than 1,000 basis points in interest rates worldwide over the next year. Markets have already baked this in for the ECB and the Fed so heavily that a material failure by them to validate such expectations would most likely lead to a spike in volatility in financial markets, which are already nervous because of the deteriorating global economic outlook.
Hoping to keep the risk of such volatility from undermining household and corporate sentiment, these two central banks will feel compelled to loosen monetary policy further, first on September 12, with the ECB cutting its rates further into negative territory and resuming asset purchases, and then on September 18, with the Fed cutting interest rates again.
Will cuts help?
The best way to think of the implications is in terms of the "benefits-costs-risks" equation that Ben Bernanke, the former Fed chair, elegantly set out in August 2010 when the world's most powerful central bank pivoted to using unconventional monetary policy for outcomes that well exceeded the narrow objective of stabilising dysfunctional financial markets. In the current equation, the relationship between central banks, the economy and markets can be broken down into three main views.
In the first — which the majority of economists and market participants now adhere to — central bank loosening is unlikely to do much, if anything, to boost economic activity significantly and sustainably, for two simple reasons: The cyclical and structural factors undermining growth are beyond the direct reach of central bank tools, and the use of financial assets to boost the household wealth effect and corporate animal spirits is too ineffective to move the needle materially on economic activity. (And let's not forget the handful of economists who think that domestic economic conditions do not warrant a US interest rate cut now or quantitative easing in Europe.)
Not as influential
The second, while not as uniform, tempers a potentially beneficial central bank influence on the economy with growing scepticism about the calming effects on financial volatility. While disagreements still linger, a growing number now also doubt the ability of central banks to continue to deliver higher asset prices that decouple markets even more from underlying fundamentals.
This comes in stark contrast to what had been an almost universal faith in the ability of central banks to remain the markets' BFF. As such, there is less enthusiasm among investors and traders for buying market dips ahead of central bank loosening.
The third view is even more pessimistic. Building on the second one, proponents worry about the costs and risks of further policy loosening that has no positive economic impact. This includes fuelling irresponsible risk-taking — particularly outside the banking sector — as well as eroding institutional credibility and using measures that would be needed were the US to stumble into a recession.
Given the high likelihood that both the ECB and Fed will adopt stimulus measures this month and beyond, policymakers need to take account of all this and redouble efforts to widen their oversight of risks, complementing their traditional focus on banks with a better monitoring of non-banks. For their part, investors should realise that they increasingly won't be able to rely on an approach that has worked so well for many years, enabling them to sidestep economic weakness: betting on central banks' willingness and ability to repress financial volatility and boost asset prices.
Mohamed A. El-Erian is the chief economic adviser at Allianz SE, the parent company of Pimco, where he served as CEO and co-CIO. He is president-elect of Queens' College, Cambridge, senior adviser at Gramercy and professor of practice at Wharton. His books include 'The Only Game in Town' and 'When Markets Collide.'
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THE COMPLETE LIST OF THINGS & PLACES SURAT IS FAMOUS FOR
Popularly known as the diamond city of the world, Surat is a hub for diamond cutting and polishing. It is referred as diamond city because 90 percent of the world's diamonds are polished in this city. It is also famous for its silk fabric and cotton mills. Apart from this, it is also famous for its delicious Gujarati food, religious places and beaches. If you are looking in for things to eat, stuff to buy and fun places to visit then this is just the list you need. We've rounded up all the amazing things that surat is famous for in one comprehensive post.
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What Surat is Famous For
Diamond and Gold Jewellery
Jewelry Shopping in surat
Of course, right? Surat is widely known for its diamond industry.The people here have mastered the art of cutting and polishing of diamonds.You can find a lot of gold shops selling diamonds or jewelry as you pass by the streets of Surat. Some of the famous shops from where you can buy are Ratnasagar Jewelers, Charu Jewels, Hira Panna Shopping Mall, Diam Jewels and Hardeep Jewelers.
The clean streets of Surat
Surat is one of the cleanest cities in India. While a few decades ago, the city of Surat was extremely unclean, this began to change after the city was struck by plague in the early nineties. The municipal commissioner of the time, S R Rao, introduced several steps to ensure that the city was kept clean. The result? The city of Surat has consistently been ranked as one of the cleanest in the country for the past 20 years.
Unique Street Food
Surti Locho
Gujarati cuisine is highly underrated. From Locho to Khamani to Ponk Vadas and Fafda, there are several stellar street food items. And the Gujaratis of Surat do like to head out late into the night for a good snack. Some of our favourite places to go are Gopal Locho Khaman House, Madhi Ni Khamni and Lashkari (on Dumas Beach). While not available on the street, another must-try while here is Undhiyu, a dish made using at least eight vegetables. Few places that serve best undhiyu are Gordhan Thal and Jalaram Khichdi.
Beautiful Silk Sarees
Silk saree shopping in surat
Surat is known as the textile city of Gujarat. Shopping is never complete without buying a silk saree in Surat. They offer good quality, finely fabricated and different varieties of skill sarees such as Kinkhab, Gajee and Tanchoi. The city has both private and government emporiums. Surat is also famous zari manufacturing in the country. And definitely shop garments with the embroidery work of salma, kinari and zari.
Surat is well known for its art and handicrafts. They offer different types and varieties of handmade arts and crafts which have their own taste or style. They have various collection of wooden, tiny, ivory and many more other types of handicrafts available for sale. For wooden items at reasonable prices, Government Emporium is one of the places to visit. For antiques or decorative items, Shanivari Market near Makai Pul is one of the largest flea markets.
Dumas Beach in Surat
The beaches are a popular spot for locals to hangout at all times of the day. While Surat has several beaches, its Dumas, Dandi and Suvali beaches are most famous. The Dumas beach has black sand and is, therefore, called a haunted beach (though it was also widely used to cremate the dead). Dandi Beach, you may recall, as the place Mahatma Gandhi and his followers began their march for freedom.
Surat Castle
Surat castle or Surat fort is a 16th century old monument built by Khudawand Khan. This was constructed to defend the city from frequent attacks. This place bears a significant relevance to history and was thus renovated for the visitors, it now stands as an epitome of hard work and brilliance.This place is open for visitors only during the day and that is the time you can get the best out of it.
Sardar Patel Museum
Also known as the Sardar Sangralaya, this museum was established in 1889. The museum has a mixture of rich history and culture of Surat. If you are interested in the Indian history this place should be on your bucket list. It also stands as a memorial to the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhai Patel. The museum is open from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm and remains closed on Mondays.
Jagdishchandra Bose Aquarium
Located in the Pal region of Surat, this wonderful aquarium has over 100 species of aquatic creatures. The entire beauty of these creatures can be witnessed in the 52 tanks that are created; each tank has its own ecosystem. This will be a delightful outing for children. The aqua life includes exotic species like angel fish, freshwater Piranhas, turtles and jellyfish. The aquarium is a great entertainment spot for outsiders who love catching a glimpse of aquatic ecosystems.
The Dutch Garden
The Dutch Garden or the Dutch cemetery is located in Nanpura and is a popular attraction of Surat. Besides being the beauty it is, this garden has historical significance, too. The well-planned and well-maintained European style garden is a refreshing getaway from city life. The Dutch Garden is also the resting place of certain English and Dutch explorers who landed and settled in Surat. The most remarkable mausoleum is that of Baron Adrian Van Reed.
Blues Adventure
Blues Adventures is a complete recreational and fun place, offering water-sports, an amusement park and restaurants for the people. It has well-maintained rides and good food, making it an ideal place for a picnic. The place has amazing adventure activities like jet skiing, zip through Tapi river and much more. This adventure park is open everyday of the week from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm.
Ambika Niketan Temple
There are many religious places of great significance in Surat. The Ambika Niketan Temple and ISCKON Temple are certainly the first that come to mind, particularly given that the latter is spread over a whopping 13,600 square feet. But there are a bunch of others, too, such as an ancient Jain temple, Chintamani Jain Temple, which features carved designs on wood and vegetable dye paintings of the Jain preacher Acharya Hemchandra.
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Aus DoD awards improvised explosive device contract
GREENGUM force protection system
key enablers | 12 July 2017 | Reporter
A Queensland-based company has secured a contract from the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) for its REDWING counter-improvised explosive device (IED) force protection systems.
L3 Micreo will provide the lightweight, handheld GREENGUM version to equip dismounted forces, and the more powerful GREYGUM device for fitting to light vehicles.
The total contract value is $9.5 million, with 34,000 units to be delivered within a six-month period.
L3's chairman and CEO Michael Strianese said the IED technology will be instrumental in saving lives.
"L3 is committed to providing innovative counter-IED technology in a heightened global threat environment," said Strianese.
"This technology saves lives and helps us build on our strong relationship with the Australian DoD. We continue to focus on delivering technology enhancements to our market-leading force protection systems."
The L3 IED systems were developed under the Australian DoD's REDWING program. L3 Micreo and Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group developed low-cost, robust and lightweight force protection systems for use in austere operating environments by military and police units.
The systems function with minimal operator training and limited logistical support. A significant quantity of these counter-improvised explosive devices have already been produced and extensively deployed to Afghanistan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF).
Sarah Earey, L3 Micreo's general manager said, "The REDWING project is an example of Australian industry and defence collaboration, entrepreneurship and innovation to deliver a unique solution that is able to help address a persistent threat in Afghanistan, protecting the country's soldiers and police from IED attacks."
L3 Micreo, which is part of L3's Sensor Systems business segment, designs and produces RF and photonic products for radar and electronic warfare systems. Located in Brisbane, L3 Micreo has installed products in several front-line military aircraft.
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Chapel was built in 1780, on land donated by Philip Barratt, a prominent political figure in Kent County, Delaware. Barratt, who had recently become a Methodist, wanted to build a center for the growing Methodist movement in Delaware.
Barratt's Chapel is the oldest surviving church building in the United States built by and for Methodists. But it earns its title as the "Cradle of Methodism" because of what happened here in 1784.
Methodism began in England as a movement within the Church of England led by John and Charles Wesley. As members of the Methodist Societies emigrated to the American colonies, Methodism took root in the New World.
Between 1768 and 1774 John Wesley sent Francis Asbury and seven other Methodist lay preachers to the colonies to minister to the growing societies. When the Revolutionary War broke out only Asbury and James Dempster chose to remain in America. Dempster withdrew to a farm in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York, where he remained for the rest of his life, preaching occasionally in the surrounding area. Asbury became the effective leader of American Methodists.
In 1784, with peace returned, John Wesley sent his friend Thomas Coke to America with instructions to find Asbury and to discuss with him the future of American Methodism. Coke came to Barratt's Chapel on Sunday, November 14, 1784, expecting to find Asbury. As Wesley's personal emissary Coke was invited to preach. During the sermon Asbury arrived. Coke came down from the pulpit and embraced him. A star in the floor of the Chapel commemorates this historic meeting. During this service the sacraments of baptism and communion were administered for the first time by ordained Methodist clergy.
Following the service, Coke and Asbury adjourned to the home of Philip Barratt's widow, across the field from the Chapel. That evening they formulated plans to call all the Methodist preachers together for a meeting in Baltimore on Christmas Day. At this Christmas Conference of 1784, the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized.
The Chapel as it appears from the outside today looks very much the way it did when Coke and Asbury met there. Inside the Chapel has undergone several renovations. The present appearance dates from 1842.
Barratt's Chapel is an officially designated Heritage Landmark of the United Methodist Church. Today it is owned and maintained by the Commission on Archives and History of the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Several thousand people visit the Chapel each year. The Commission sponsors two major services each year at the Chapel: the Anniversary Service on the second Sunday of November commemorating the meeting of Coke and Asbury, and a Christmas Carol Service on a Sunday in December. The Chapel is also used for many weddings, baptisms, funerals, and other special services.
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Boechout is een gemeente in de Belgische provincie Antwerpen. De gemeente telt ruim 13.000 inwoners, verdeeld over de deelgemeentes Boechout en Vremde. De gemeente grenst aan Wommelgem, Ranst, Lier, Lint, Hove, Mortsel en Borsbeek.

De gemeente behoort tot het kieskanton en het gerechtelijk kanton Kontich.

Toponymie
De oudste vermelding van de gemeentenaam is Buocholt (974). Later volgende nog Bucolt (1108), Bouchout (1221) en Bocouth (1223). Het toponiem zou zijn afgeleid van de Germaanse woorden boko (beuk) en hulta (bos). Boechout kan dus vertaald worden als Beukenbos.

Geschiedenis

Middeleeuwen
Het oudste document waarin Boechout wordt vermeld is gedateerd van 974. In deze akte geeft keizer Otto II aan de monniken van de Sint-Baafsabdij te Gent "de villa Buocholt met kerk en afhankelijkheden" gelegen in de pagus Rien terug nadat deze verloren gegaan waren tijdens de invallen van de Noormannen in de 9de eeuw.

De kerk is gesticht door de monniken en is toegewijd aan de Heilige Bavo, kloosterling van dezelfde orde. De bezittingen van de Sint-Baafsabdij te Boechout werden beheerd via haar cijnshof "Het Hof van Sombeke". Dit Hof was ook de zetel van de administratie van haar bezittingen. Zij omvatte een eigen schepenbank: de schepenen van Sombeke.

De hertogelijke gronden te Boechout werden in de 13de eeuw door de hertog van Brabant in leen uitgegeven aan de Berthouts, heren van Mechelen en Berlaar.

In de 14de eeuw behoorde de heerlijkheid Boechout tijdelijk aan Lodewijk van Male, Graaf van Vlaanderen, en kwam nadien onder het gezag van de heren van Cantincrode (Mortsel). Achtereenvolgens behoorde Boechout tot de families Van Ranst, Granvelle, Peckius, van den Cruyce, Stockmans, van Baerland, Courtois en van Colen.

Ancien régime
Zowel tijdens de godsdienstoorlogen van de 16de eeuw, de wraakacties van geuzen in de 17de eeuw tegen het katholieke Zuid-Nederland, als tijdens de Spaans-Franse troonopvolgingsoorlogen kreeg Boechout zijn deel van het oorlogsgeweld en de oorlogsbelastingen te verduren.

Onder Frans bewind (1794-1814) behoorde de gemeente tot het Departement van de Twee Neten. Tijdens de "Boerenkrijg" (1798) kwam het op de grens tussen Boechout en Mortsel tot een open strijd tussen 600 gewapende opstandelingen en Franse troepen, die tot de aftocht gedwongen werden.

Moderne Tijd
Ook de beide wereldoorlogen uit de 20e eeuw eisten te Boechout verschillende slachtoffers, zowel militaire als burgerlijke. Vooral de V-bommen-campagne van het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog blijft nog steeds in het geheugen van de Boechoutenaren gegrift.

In 1977 werd Boechout met de gemeente Vremde verenigd.

Vandaag is Boechout een residentiële licht verstedelijkte randgemeente van de Antwerpse agglomeratie.

Geografie

Deelgemeenten

Aangrenzende gemeenten

Bezienswaardigheden

 De Sint-Bavokerk
 De windmolen Den Steenen Molen
 De Courtoiskapel
 Het Klooster van de Witte Paters
 Het Kasteel Vredenberg of Hof van Boechout
 Het Kasteel Fruithof
 Het Kasteel Ropstock
 Het Jef Van Hoofmonument op het Jef Van Hoofplein
 Het monument van "Bulletje en Bonestaak" (stripfiguren van George van Raemdonck) in het George van Raemdonckpark
 De Schaliehoeve
 Diverse landhuizen en boerderijen

Natuur en landschap
Boechout is gelegen op de scheiding van de Nete en de Schelde met een hoogste punt van ongeveer 18 meter. De plaats ligt aan de rand van de Antwerpse agglomeratie en kent, naast landbouw en glastuinbouw, ook villawijken. Het belangrijkste natuurgebied is het Bos van Moretus.

Demografie

Spreiding van de bevolking
80% van de bevolking woont in Boechout zelf (10 674 inw.), de rest in de deelgemeente Vremde (2 592 inw). Samen goed voor 65 nationaliteiten.

Demografische evolutie deelgemeente voor de fusie

Bronnen:NIS, Opm:1831 tot en met 1970=volkstellingen, 1976= inwonersaantal op 31 december

Demografische ontwikkeling van de fusiegemeente
Alle historische gegevens hebben betrekking op de huidige gemeente, inclusief deelgemeenten, zoals ontstaan na de fusie van 1 januari 1977.

Bronnen:NIS, Opm:1806 tot en met 1981=volkstellingen; 1990 en later= inwonertal op 1 januari

Politiek

Structuur
De gemeente Boechout ligt in het kieskanton Kontich, het provinciedistrict Boom, het kiesarrondissement Antwerpen en ten slotte de kieskring Antwerpen.

Gemeentebestuur 2019-2024
De coalitie bestaat uit PRO Boechout&Vremde, CD&V en Groen-Gangmaker met 14 van de 23 zetels.
 Burgemeester: Koen T'Sijen (PRO Boechout&Vremde)
 Schepencollege: Els Augustinus (PRO Boechout&Vremde), Dirk Crollet (CD&V), Rudi Goyvaerts (PRO Boechout&Vremde),  Kris Swaegers (Groen-Gangmaker) en Philip Verstappen (PRO Boechout&Vremde)

Verder bestaat de gemeenteraad uit:
 PRO Boechout&Vremde:  Ria Van Den Heuvel (voorzitter gemeenteraad en OCMW-raad), Bruno Doms, Marleen Dolfeyn, Johan Van Hoof, Fernando do Marques da Silva, Lotte Vanstraelen
 CD&V: Willy Van Genechten
 N-VA: Christel Naenen, Erik Philibert, Sven Snyders, Annelies Veron, Greet van Brussel
 Groen-Gangmaker: Joost Derkinderen
 Vlaams Belang: Wally Liekens
 't Dorp: Filip Peeters, Ines De Keulenaer, Lode Van den Brande

Geschiedenis

(Voormalige) Burgemeesters

Legislatuur 2013 - 2018
De coalitie bestond uit PRO Boechout&Vremde, CD&V en Groen-Gangmaker met 15 van de 23 zetels.
 Burgemeester: Koen T'Sijen (PRO Boechout&Vremde)
 OCMW-voorzitter: Stine Bertels (PRO Boechout&Vremde)
 Schepencollege: Dirk Crollet (CD&V), Rudi Goyvaerts (PRO Boechout&Vremde), Els Augustinus (PRO Boechout&Vremde), Ria Van Den Heuvel (PRO Boechout&Vremde), Mik Renders (Groen-Gangmaker) en Stine Bertels (PRO Boechout&Vremde)

Verder bestaat de gemeenteraad uit:
 PRO Boechout&Vremde: Bruno Doms, Floor Meulepas, Johan Van Hoof, Nancy Vanhees, Sarah Verrees, Philip Verstappen
 CD&V: Jeroen Truyens (voorzitter gemeenteraad), Kathleen Sebreghts,
 N-VA: Fred Entbrouxk, Christel Naenen, Erik Philibert, Sven Snyders, Luc Van Ouytsel, Annelies Veron, Peter Vlemincx
 Groen-Gangmaker: Leen Van den Eeden
 Gemeentebelangen: Albert Mariën

Legislatuur 2007 - 2012
De coalitie bestond uit PRO Boechout&Vremde, Groen! en CD&V met 14 van de 23 zetels.
 Burgemeester: Koen T'Sijen (PRO Boechout&Vremde)
 OCMW-voorzitter: Willy Vangenechten (CD&V)
 Schepencollege: Ria Van Den Heuvel (PRO), Rudi Goyvaerts (PRO), Dirk Crollet (CD&V), Els Augustinus (PRO), Mik Renders (Groen!)

Verder bestond de gemeenteraad uit:

 CD&V: Jeroen Truyens (voorzitter)
 Pro: Bruno Doms, Stef Voets, Johan Van Hoof, Philip Verstappen, Floor Meulepas
 Groen!: Kris Swaegers
 N-Va:
 Gembel: Albert Mariën
 Zetelend als Onafhankelijke: Luk Van Ouytsel en Peter Vleminckx

Resultaten gemeenteraadsverkiezingen sinds 1976

De in vetjes aangeduide getallen geven de bestuursmeerderheid weer. De grootste partij is in kleur.

Cultuur

Evenementen
 Sfinks, is een gratis vierdaags festival in het laatste weekend van de maand juli
 Sfinks Mundial, is het kleine broertje van Sfinks en wordt georganiseerd halverwege de maand mei. Er worden doorgaans enkele optredens georganiseerd. Het hele gebeuren gaat gepaard met een wereldmarkt.
 Wereldkartoenale "George van Raemdonck", een driejaarlijks evenement dat georganiseerd wordt door IHA vzw

Religie en levensbeschouwing

Rooms-katholieke kerk
De gemeente Boechout maakt deel uit van de federatie Boechout-Hove-Vremde die op haar beurt dan weer deel uitmaakt van het dekenaat Rupel-Nete in het Bisdom Antwerpen. De gemeente wordt onderverdeeld in twee parochies, met name de Sint-Bavoparochie (Boechout) en de Sint-Janparochie (Vremde).

Protestants-Evangelische kerk
De Protestants Evangelische kerk verzorgt de Protestantse eredienst.

Sociale kaart

Gezondheid
 Psychiatrisch Centrum Broeders Alexianen, een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis

Sport

Voetbal
 Voetbalclub Boechoutse VV is aangesloten bij de KBVB met stamnummer 125. De club speelt in de provinciale reeksen, maar speelde halverwege de 20ste eeuw bijna twee decennia in de nationale Vierde Klasse.
 In de Antwerpse ere-afdeling van de KVV (Koninklijke Vlaamse Voetbalbond) spelen Oxaco Voetbal en Bacwalde SK.

Andere sporten
 Volleybalclub Boechoutse VC speelt in de Antwerpse Eerste Provinciale.
 Korfbal Boechout-Vremde is een korfbalclub die werd opgericht in 1984 en uitkomt in de tweede klasse (veld) en derde klasse (zaal) van de Koninklijke Belgische Korfbalbond.

Bekende Boechoutenaren

Geboren
 Jan Frans Willems (1793 - 1846), auteur
 Jan Cockx (1891 - 1976), kunstschilder en keramist
 Vic Anciaux (1931 - 2023), politicus
 Theo Mertens (1932 - 2003), muzikant
 Albert Mariën (1936), politicus
 Bart Peeters (1959), muzikant en televisie- en radiopresentator
 Jimmy De Jonghe (1992), voetballer

Woonachtig
Bekende personen die woonachtig zijn of waren in Boechout of een andere significante band met de gemeente hebben:
 Engelbertus Sterckx (1792 - 1867), aartsbisschop en kardinaal
 Flor Van Reeth (1884 - 1975), architect
 Jef Van Hoof (1886 - 1959), laat-romantisch componist
 George van Raemdonck (1888 - 1966), striptekenaar, schilder, cartoonist
 Eugeen De Ridder (1893 - 1962), auteur en volksdichter
 Julia Schuyten (1914 - 2005), onderduikgever
 Gust Geens (1919 - 2013), politicus
 Pom (1919 - 2014), striptekenaar van Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber
 Etienne Aussems, politicus
 Lydia Verbeeck (1948), schrijfster
 Fred Entbrouxk (1949), politicus
 Karel Vingerhoets (1953), acteur
 An Nelissen (1955), actrice
 Hugo Matthysen (1956), muzikant, televisie- en radiopersoonlijkheid
 Ria Van Den Heuvel (1956), politica
 Jan Leyers (1958), muzikant en reportagemaker
 Filip Peeters (1962), acteur
 Koen T'Sijen (1970), politicus
 An Miller (1974), actrice
 Philippe Geubels (1981), stand-upcomedian
 Sven Speybrouck (1981), radio- en televisiepresentator

Nabijgelegen kernen
Mortsel, Hove, Vremde, Borsbeek, Lier

Plaats in Antwerpen (provincie)