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Download or read book Island Rule written by Katie M. Flynn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell. An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub your entire reputation and create a new one…for a price. A failed actor on a reality show turns into an unlikely world savior. And much more. Through each of these twelve interconnected stories, Katie Flynn masterfully blends people, places, and even realities. From a powerful and “radiant” (Kassandra Montag, author of After the Flood) new literary voice to be reckoned with, this collection will stay with you after turn the final page.
Book Synopsis The Rule of the Road at Sea and in Inland Waters by : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Download or read book The Rule of the Road at Sea and in Inland Waters written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Justice, Legality and the Rule of Law by : Dawn Oliver
Download or read book Justice, Legality and the Rule of Law written by Dawn Oliver and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British colony of fifty souls in the Pacific Ocean, Pitcairn Island was settled by the Bounty mutineers and nineteen Polynesians in 1790. In 2004 six Pitcairn men were convicted of numerous offences against girls and young women, committed over a thirty year period, in what appears to have been a culture of sexual abuse on the island. This case has raised many questions: what right did the British government have to initiate these prosecutions? Was it fair to prosecute the defendants, given that no laws had been published on the island? Indeed, what, if any, law was there on this island? This collection of essays explores the many important issues raised by the case and by the situation of a small, isolated community of this kind. It starts by looking at the background to the prosecutions, considering the dilemma that faced the British government when the abuse was uncovered, and discussing the ways in which the judges dealt with the case, as well as exploring the history of the settlement and how colonial law affects it. This background paves the way for an exploration of the philosophical, jurisprudential, and ethical issues raised by the prosecutions: was it legitimate for the UK to intervene, given the absence of any common community between the UK and the island? Was the positivist 'law on paper' approach adopted by the British government and the courts appropriate, especially given the lack of promulgation of the laws under which the men were prosecuted? Would alternative responses such as payment of compensation to the female victims and provision of community support have been preferable? And should universal human rights claims justify the prosecutions, overriding any allegations of cultural relativism on the part of the UK?
Book Synopsis Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400–1700 by :
Download or read book Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400–1700 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and modes of rule as well as on colonial daily realities and connectivities.
Book Synopsis Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 by : Tay-sheng Wang
Download or read book Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 written by Tay-sheng Wang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan’s modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People’s Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Western law during the 19th-century and when it occupied Taiwan--a frontier society composed of Han Chinese settlers--its codes were instituted for the purpose of rapidly assimilating the Taiwanese people into Japanese society. Tay-sheng Wang’s comprehensive study lays a solid foundation for future analyses of Taiwanese law. It documents how Western traditions influenced the formation of Taiwan’s modern legal structure through the conduit of Japanese colonial rule and demonstrates the extent to which legal concepts diverged from the Chinese legal tradition and moved toward Western law.
Book Synopsis Strangers in Their Own Land by : Francis X. Hezel
Download or read book Strangers in Their Own Land written by Francis X. Hezel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of [a] succession of colonial regimes, drawing upon a broad range of published and archival sources as well as his own considerable knowledge of the region. This is a ‘conventional’ history, and a very good one, focused mostly on political and economic developments. Hezel demonstrates a fine understanding of the complicated relations between administrators, missionaries, traders, chiefs and commoners, in a wide range of social and historical settings." —Pacific Affairs "The tale [of Strangers in Their Own Land] is one of interplay between four sequential colonial regimes (Spain Germany, Japan, and the United States) and the diverse island cultures they governed. It is also a tale of relationships among islands whose inhabitants did not always see eye-to-eye and among individuals who fought private and public battles in those islands. Hezel conveys both the unity of purpose exerted by a colonial government and the subversion of that purpose by administrators, teachers, islands, and visitors.... [The] history is thoroughly supported by archival materials, first-person testimonies, and secondary sources. Hezel acknowledges the power of the visual when he ends his book by describing the distinctive flags that now replace Spanish, German, Japanese, and American symbols of rule. the scene epitomizes a theme of the book: global political and economic forces, whether colonial or post-colonial, cannot erode the distinctiveness each island claims."—American Historical Review
Book Synopsis The Model Occupation by : Madeleine Bunting
Download or read book The Model Occupation written by Madeleine Bunting and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting’s pioneering study, we begin to find the answers to this age-old question. Though rarely remembered today, the Nazis occupied the British Channel Islands for much of the Second World War. In piecing together the fragments left behind – from the love affairs between island women and German soldiers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the individual acts of resistance – Madeleine Bunting has brought this uncomfortable episode of British history into full view with spellbinding clarity.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire by : William J. Bulman
Download or read book The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire written by William J. Bulman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular assembly with responsibility for the fate of a nation. The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. William J. Bulman analyzes its sudden appearance in the English House of Commons and its adoption by the elected assemblies of Britain's Atlantic colonies in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions. These events made it overwhelmingly likely that the United Kingdom, the United States, and their former dependencies would become and remain fundamentally majoritarian polities. Providing an insightful commentary on the state of democratic governance today, this study sheds light on the nature, promise, and perils of majority rule.
Book Synopsis The Regime of Islands in International Law by : Hiran Wasantha Jayewardene
Download or read book The Regime of Islands in International Law written by Hiran Wasantha Jayewardene and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1990-05-18 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rule of the Admirals by : Jerry Bannister
Download or read book The Rule of the Admirals written by Jerry Bannister and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Bannister's The Rule of the Admirals examines governance in Newfoundland from the rule of the fishing admirals in 1699 to the establishment of representative government in 1832. It offers the first in-depth account of the rise and fall of the system of naval government that dominated the island for more than a century. In this provocative look at legal culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Newfoundland, Bannister explores three topics in detail: naval government in St. John's, surrogate courts in the outports, and patterns in the administration of law. He challenges the conventional view that early Newfoundland was a lawless frontier isolated from the rest of the Atlantic world, and argues that an effective system of naval government emerged to meet the needs of those in power. An original and perceptive work, Bannister's argument demands that we reconsider much of our knowledge of early Newfoundland history. As he re-examines governance prior to an elected assembly and places his analysis firmly within the material conditions of Newfoundland society, Bannister provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a critical period in the island's colonial development. Ultimately, The Rule of the Admirals sheds light on one of the most misunderstood chapters in Canadian and British colonial history.
Book Synopsis Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932 by : Lennox A Mills
Download or read book Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932 written by Lennox A Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1964, " Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932" is an important contribution to History.
Book Synopsis Cyprus under British Colonial Rule by : Christos P. Ioannides
Download or read book Cyprus under British Colonial Rule written by Christos P. Ioannides and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines British rule in Cyprus from 1878 to 1954. The author analyzes the cultural and religious dimensions of Cypriot responses to British rule and the ways in which Greek Orthodox culture was a primary conduit for resistance to the colonial system.
Download or read book The Island Rule written by Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ah, yes," Jajumbee nodded. "The sea is a beeeeg place, and hard to know who your neighbor is. Everybody always moving about. From here to there. There to here." He moved his arms in big swishing motions. "One never knows where she'll be tomorrow, not in the sea. But here . . ." "Different," croaked Boofo. "Right, my friend," the gecko continued. "It's different here. Folks stay put, and so we learn to give and take. . . ."Zani the sea turtle has washed ashore on an island filled with welcoming creatures. However, their welcome comes with a catch-the Island Rule. But when unruly baboons shipwreck on the beach, they want to make their own rules. Pirate seadogs also lurk about with revenge on their minds-revenge against the islanders for aiding their long time foes, two mice last known sailing on the Westing Wind. Should Zani help or head back to sea?
Book Synopsis Rule of law in the governance of new frontiers of the marine environment by : Yen-Chiang Chang
Download or read book Rule of law in the governance of new frontiers of the marine environment written by Yen-Chiang Chang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels by : United States Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels written by United States Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Rule the Waves written by Bruce Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly painted forty-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits from it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in vivid, closely observed prose, Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases—from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America’s standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time—for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate—are playing out atop, within, and below the world’s oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?
Book Synopsis Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific by : Daniel P. Ryan
Download or read book Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific written by Daniel P. Ryan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an anthropological approach,Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific highlights how regional customary and traditional law interact with Anglo-American concepts of contract and sales law to produce a unique amalgam of substantive law in this Pacific region. Author and law professor Daniel P. Ryan compiles and discusses the current contract and sales law applicable in the Pacific region, including the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Ryan compares and contrasts this regional law to international standards, including the UN Sale of Goods Convention, the UNIDROIT Principles of Contract Law, UNCITRAL Model Law for E-Commerce, the Uniform Commercial Code, the Revised Uniform Commercial Code, and the Restatement (Second) of Contracts. Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific is essential reading for members of the judiciary, academics, practitioners, students, and businesses within the region and their major trade partners.
