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What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, albeit mutated and evolved? In Critique of Political Decolonization, Bernard Forjwuor challenges what, in normative scholarship, has become a persistent conflation of two different concepts: political decolonization and political independence. This scholarly volume is an antinormative and critical refutation of the decolonial accomplishment of political independence or self-determination in Ghana. He argues that political independence is insufficiently a decolonial claim because it is framed within the context of a country, where a permanent col...
This volume brings together academic specialists in politics, law, development and area studies and scholar practitioners who have a detailed working knowledge of the relevant institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union, multilateral development banks and others.
Committee Serial No. 4. Considers claim of George A. Carden and Anderson T. Herd against U.S. for losses due to Government operation of seven steamships purchased by claimants from Austria-Hungary shortly before outbreak of WWI.
From the bestselling author of The Predators’ Ball comes the story of the most flamboyant businessman and dealmaker of his generation, Steve Ross. When Steven Spielberg first heard Steve Ross tell his life story, it was such a dramatic rags-to-riches narrative that he thought it was a movie. In a career that started in Brooklyn and spanned Wall Street, Hollywood, and the Mafia, Steve Ross took his father-in-law’s funeral business and a parking lot company and grew them into the largest media and entertainment company in the world, Time Warner. In the upper strata of American business that Ross reached before his death, he was an anomaly. Outrageous, glamorous, charismatic, he presided ov...
A delightful Regency romp from the author of the Fire Series and Newmarket Match, “a magnificent storyteller” (RT Book Reviews). After Lord Haverhill forces Miss Kitty Gordon’s dearest friend into a loveless marriage, she sets her sights on the beastly baron for revenge. Isolating his wife in rural solitude, Haverhill continues to savor all the delights the city has to offer. Determined to force Haverhill to give her friend back her freedom, Kitty hatches a plot to kidnap the baron at gunpoint. But to her surprise, getting her hands on the handsome brute is actually the easy part—it’s the temptation held in his arms that she never planned for.
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