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The British came to India in search of wealth and power. But it was a man's world and women, especially English women, were few. An English bride for long remained an expensive proposition, costing a small fortune to bring to Calcutta, and was quite out of the reach of young career-minded officers and civil servants. Driven by loneliness, lust or just plain longing, many looked foe companionship among Indian women, or where the more rakish amo...

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This book provides a self-contained presentation of the optical methods used to measure the structure and dynamics of complex fluids that are subject to the influence of external fields. Starting with the basic Maxwell field equations, this book discusses the polarization properties of light, including Jones and Mueller calculus, and then covers the transmission, reflection, and scattering of light in anisotropic materials. Spectroscopic inter...

In this graceful, deeply learned book Steven Chase takes readers on a contemplative and theological journey into the angelic wisdom at the heart of the symbol of the cherubim. Providing the guiding hand for this journey is Richard of St. Victor whose twelfth century treatise on contemplation, De arca mystica, focuses on God's instructions to Moses on the construction of the ark and cherubim in Exodus 25: 18-20. The text from Exodus contains th...

The first book-length treatment of its topic, this study is aimed at abolishing the old cliche that Congregationalism failed to adapt to the democratizing culture of the westward migration. Drawing on hundreds of previously unused letters, journals, and sermons, the author argues that Congregational missionaries were aggressive evangelists who successfully adjusted to the egalitarian demands of the early republican frontier. Keepers of the Cov...

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A comprehensive introduction to the economic, social and political forces which have shaped contemporary patterns of industrialization in the USA and other countries. The changing nature of production and systems are also examined in detail

The conflicts within the women's suffrage movement eventually lead to the split between the suffragettes, who supported militancy, and those who opposed it. Not surprisingly, the historical record has been shaped by the political persuasions of a particular narrator. For example, the story of "Women's Social and Political Union" as told by Christabel Pankhurst differs from her sister Sylvia's "The Suffragette Movement" on the same topic: Chris...

This work contains an introduction explaining the growth of the diaspora from the Middle Ages to 1917, case-studies of areas with large Russian populations, and analyses of the problems of Russians in non-Russian states and how these might be resolved without armed conflict or forced migrations.

Presents case studies of experiences with democracy in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. The authors describe the factors that facilitate and obstruct the development of democracy around the world. This second edition includes a chapter on South Africa.

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The great outburst of literary theory in the eighteenth century was instrumental in establishing literary theory in the nineteenth century as an area of intellectual activity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, more than anyone transformed both the status and the nature of literary theory. Arguing that questions about poetry and literature could lead to a structured system of assessment and judgements that had a validity that was different only in degre...

The nine contributors to this volume study the rapid development of airpower during the twentieth century as well as the methodological problems involved in assessing such change.

This work emphasizes scientific, technical and environmental principles to illustrate the processes of municipal and industrial solid and liquid wastes, and the impacts resulting from waste disposal in the environment. Economic, social, legal and political aspects of waste management are addressed.

Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men, yet very little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use.Gendered Moods offers the first feminist analysis of the gendered character of psychotropic drug use, based on studies of long-term psychotropic drug users and the content of drug advertising. The authors argue that gender differences in psychotropic drug use are manifestations of the...

An introduction to the impasse in development sociology. The author builds in empirical material and encompasses functionalist and world system theory to produce a well-rounded analysis.

Presents information focused on the practical aspects of working with ion sources. This work explains the working principles of various ion sources and provides examples of each type of ion source along with their operational data. It covers ion beam generation, control, measurement and modeling.