1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691726303321

Autore

Houston Laurie L

Titolo

Economics research supporting water resource stewardship in the Pacific northwest [[electronic resource] /] / Laurie L. Houston, Jeffrey D. Kline, Ralph J. Alig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Portland, Or.] : , : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, , [2002]

Collana

General technical report PNW-GTR ; ; 550

Altri autori (Persone)

AligRalph J

KlineJ. D

Soggetti

Water conservation - Northwest, Pacific

Water resources development - Northwest, Pacific

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2002."

Title from title screen.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780993403321

Autore

Valelly Richard M

Titolo

The two reconstructions [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for Black enfranchisement / / Richard M. Valelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004

ISBN

9786612537998

1-282-53799-7

0-226-84527-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

American politics and political economy

Classificazione

HR 1728

Disciplina

323.1196/073/009

Soggetti

African Americans - Suffrage - History

African Americans - History - 1863-1877

African Americans - History - 1877-1964

African Americans - Politics and government

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Political parties - United States - History

Election law - United States - History

United States Politics and government 1865-1877

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

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 (p. 251-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. The Strange Career of African American Voting and Office-Holding -- Chapter Two. Forging the Coalition of 1867-1868 -- Chapter Three. Incomplete Institutionalization -- Chapter Four. Party-Building during the First Reconstruction -- Chapter Five. The Limits of Jurisprudence-Building -- Chapter Six. The Vortex of Racial Disenfranchisement -- Chapter Seven. Heralding the Second Reconstruction: The Coalition of 1948 -- Chapter Eight. The Coalition of 1961-1965 -- Chapter Nine. How the Second Reconstruction Stabilized -- Chapter Ten. Institutions and Enfranchisement -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association.



Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award of the Southern Political Science Association The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress lasted only a few decades. Ultimately a "second reconstruction"-associated with the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act-became necessary. How did the first reconstruction fail so utterly, setting the stage for the complete disenfranchisement of Southern black voters, and why did the second succeed? These are among the questions Richard M. Valelly answers in this fascinating history. The fate of black enfranchisement, he argues, has been closely intertwined with the strengths and constraints of our political institutions. Valelly shows how effective biracial coalitions have been the key to success and incisively traces how and why political parties and the national courts either rewarded or discouraged the formation of coalitions. Revamping our understanding of American race relations, The Two Reconstructions brilliantly explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America's development as a political democracy.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792357503321

Autore

Grünfeld Fred <1949->

Titolo

The failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda [[electronic resource] ] : the role of bystanders / / Fred Grünfeld, Anke Huijboom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff, c2007

ISBN

1-282-60195-4

9786612601958

90-474-3131-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxix, 299 p. : ill

Collana

International and comparative criminal law series

Altri autori (Persone)

HuijboomAnke

Disciplina

967.57104/31

Soggetti

Genocide - Prevention

Humanitarian intervention

International agencies

Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Early warnings and early action by bystanders -- The tribunal's interpretation and implementation of the genocide convention -- Rwandan history -- Undermining UNAMIR -- The installment of UNAMIR with Belgian participation -- Early warning of atrocities in 1991-1994 -- Early warnings from November to January -- The genocide fax and the prohibition from U.N. headquarters to act -- The negative response of New York and capitals in the west to the deteriorating situation -- Deteriorating security in Rwanda and the negative response from New York from January up until March -- Requests from Dallaire and from Belgium to New York for a stronger and firmer broadened mandate for UNAMIR -- UNAMIR : its mandate and the offending Belgian role -- The start of the genocide -- Evacuation -- Belgian decision to withdraw its troops -- The response of the Security Council -- The role of the Netherlands throughout the genocide -- Apologies from bystanders ten years later.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is about the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative



action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian U.N. peace-keeping commander General Romeo Dallaire and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York. The communications and the decisionmaking are scrutinized, id est, who received what messages at what time, to whom the messages were forwarded and which (non-) decisions were taken in response to the alarming reports of weapon deliveries and atrocities. This book makes clear that this genocide could have been prevented. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.