Courage to dissent [[electronic resource] ] : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement / / Tomiko Brown-Nagin

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247970703316
• Autore: Brown-Nagin Tomiko <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-19-025972-8; 1-282-97778-4; 9786612977787; 0-19-975060-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (603 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.7308/5
• Soggetti: Segregation - Law and legislation - Georgia - Atlanta - History; Segregation - Law and legislation - United States - History; Segregation - Georgia - Atlanta - History; Civil rights movements - Georgia - Atlanta - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. A.T. Walden and pragmatic civil rights lawyering in the postwar era -- "Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism -- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 -- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 -- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 -- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 -- pt. 2. The movement, its lawyers, and the fight for racial justice during the 1960's -- Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 -- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964 -- Local people as agents of constitutional change : legal dead ends, the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 -- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967 ; -- pt. 3. Questioning Brown : lawyers, courts, and communities in struggle -- A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1971 -- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1971-1974 -- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction against centuries of racial discrimination. In this sweeping history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta--the South's largest and most economically important city--from the 1940's through 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that the movement featured a vast array of activists and many sophisticated approaches to activism. Long before ""black power"" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a new name, African Americans in Atlanta debated the meaning of equality and the step

Advances in Game Theory. (AM-52), Volume 52 / / Melvin Dresher, Albert William Tucker, Lloyd S. Shapley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154750703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©1964
• ISBN: 1-4008-8201-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (693 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 302
• Disciplina: 512.8
• Soggetti: Game theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface / Dresher, M. / Shapley, L. S. / Tucker, A. W. -- Contents -- 1. Some Topics in Two-Person Games / Shapley, L. S. -- 2. Games With a Random Move / Restrepo, Rodrigo A. -- 3. A Search Game / Johnson, Selmer M. -- 4. The Rendezvous Value of a Metric Space / Gross, O. -- 5. Generalized Gross Substitutability and Extremization / Nikaidò, Hukukane -- 6. Adaptive Competitive Decision ; / Rosenfeld, Jack L. -- 7. Infinite Games of Perfect Information / Davis, Morton -- 8. Continuous Games of Perfect Information / Mycielski, Jan -- 9. A Theory of Pursuit and Evasion / Ryll-Nardzewski, C. -- 10. A Variational Approach to Differential Games / Berkovitz, Leonard D. -- 11. A Differential Game Without Pure Strategy Solutions on an Open Set / Berkovitz, Leonard D. -- 12. The Convergence Problem for Differential Games, II / Fleming, Wendell H. -- 13. Markov Games / Zachrisson, Lars Erik -- 14. Homogeneous Games, III / Isbell, J. R. -- 15. Solutions of Compound Simple Games / Shapley, L. S. -- 16. The Tensor Composition of Nonnegative Games / Owen, Guillermo -- 17. On the Cardinality of Solutions of Four-Person Constant- Sum Games / Galmarino, Alberto Raul -- 18. The Doubly Discriminatory Solutions of the Four-Person Constant-Sum Game / Hebert, Michael H. -- 19. Three-Person Cooperative Games Without Side Payments / Stearns, R. E. -- 20. Some Thoughts on the Theory of Cooperative Games / Jentzsch, Gerd -- 21. The Bargaining Set for Cooperative Games / Aumann, Robert J. / Maschler, Michael -- 22. Stable Payoff Configurations for Quota Games / Maschler, Michael -- 23. On the Bargaining Set M0 of m-Quota Games / Peleg, Bezalel -- 24. A Property of Stability Possessed by Certain Imputations / Radstrom, Hans -- 25. Coalition Bargaining in n-Person Games / Nering, Evar D. -- 26. The n-Person Bargaining Game / Miyasawa, Koichi -- 27. Valuation of n-Person Games / Selten, Reinhard -- 28. Mixed and Behavior Strategies in Infinite Extensive Games / Aumann, Robert J . -- 29. A General Solution for Finite Noncooperative Games Based on Risk-Dominance / Harsanyi, John C.
• Sommario/riassunto: The description for this book, Advances in Game Theory. (AM-52), Volume 52, will be forthcoming.

Colonial exploitation and economic development : the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared / / edited by Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792047603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2013; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-55940-1; 1-299-31977-7; 1-136-75940-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: Routledge explorations in economic history ; ; 64
• Altri autori (Persone): BuelensFrans <1951->; FrankemaEwout
• Disciplina: 330.9598/022
• Soggetti: Congo (Democratic Republic) Economic conditions; Congo (Democratic Republic) Economic policy; Congo (Democratic Republic) Colonial influence; Indonesia Economic conditions; Indonesia Economic policy; Indonesia Colonial influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; 0.1 Colonial exploitation and economic development; 0.2 Comparing the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies; 0.3 Post-colonial economic divergence; 0.4 Differences in the evolution of colonial connections; 0.5 Organization; 1 Extractive institutions in the Congo: checks and balances in the longue durée; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Pre-colonial history: traditional checks and balances; 1.3 Colonial history: unchecked power1.4 Post-colonial history: the unbalanced failing state; 1.5 Conclusions; 2 Colonial extraction in the Indonesian archipelago: a long historical view; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The ; Dutch East India Company (VOC), 1602-1799; 2.3 The transformation of colonial rule, 1799-1830; 2.4 The Cultivation System (CS), 1830-70; 2.5 The liberal reforms, 1870-1900; 2.6 The Ethical Policy, 1900s-20s; 2.7 The Great Depression, the Japanese occupation, and Indonesia's independence, 1929-45; 2.8 Conclusion; 3 Varieties of exploitation in colonial settings: Dutch and Belgian policies in Indonesia and the Congo and their legacies3.1 Colonial exploitation: some definitions; 3.2 Explaining the divergence in GDP growth after 1970; 3.3 Indonesia, 1830-1942: a better class of exploitation?; 3.4 The evolution of the Congo Colonial State: comparisons with Indonesia; 3.5 Looking again at the post-1970s divergence; 4 The land tenure system in the Congo, 1885-1960: actors, motivations, and consequences; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Staking a claim: land ownership status in the Congo Free State, 1885-1908; 4.3 From the Congo Free State to the Belgian Congo: hesitant reform4.4 Surveying the land: the decree of 1934 and formalized land adjudications; 4.5 Land legislation disputes and the end of colonialism; 4.6 Land policies and rural development; 4.7 Conclusion; 5 In the shadow of opium: tax farming and the political economy of colonial extraction in Java, 1807-1911; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The expansion of tax farming under Dutch colonial rule; 5.3 The opium tax farm; 5.4 The small tax farms; 5.5 The end of tax farming and its long-term effects; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Fiscal policy in the Belgian Congo in comparative perspective6.1 Introduction; 6.2 A difficult inheritance: the fiscal legacy of the Congo Free State; 6.3 Reforming the Congo's tax system after 1908; 6.4 Public spending: a more familiar pattern; 6.5 Financial relations between the Congo and the Belgian state after 1908; 6.6 Conclusion: a colonial state struggling to catch up; 7 Colonial education and post-colonial governance in the Congo and Indonesia; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Different approaches to colonial educational development; 7.3 Comparing school enrollment rates, 1880-2000; 7.4 The success of the missionary effort in the Congo
• Sommario/riassunto: Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines.This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world power,