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UNISA996220850003316 |
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An APEC trade agenda? : the political economy of a free trade area of the Asia-Pacific / / edited by Charles E. Morrison and Eduardo Pedrosa |
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Singapore : , : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2007 |
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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
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Free trade - Asia |
Free trade - Pacific Area |
Asia Commercial policy |
Pacific Area Commercial policy |
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"A joint study by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and the APEC Business Advisory Council." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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An APEC trade agenda / Charles E. Morrison -- A free trade area of the Asia-Pacific in the wake of the faltering Doha Round / C. Fred Bergsten -- The political economy of a free trade area of the Asia-Pacific / Vinod K. Aggarwal -- The political economy of a free trade area of the Asia-Pacific / Sheng Bin -- Japan's FTA strategy and a free trade area of the Asia-Pacific / Shujiro Urata -- Lessons from the free trade area of the Americans for APEC economies / Sherry M. Stephenson -- Prospects for linking preferential trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region / Robert Scollay -- ASEAN perspective on promoting regional and global freer trade / Chia Siow Yue and Hadi Soesastro. |
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The proposal for an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade agreement is one of the oldest ideas for promoting mutually beneficial regional cooperation dating back to the mid-1960s. In more recent times, the idea has found new support for two main reasons: as a plan B to the stumbling Doha Development Agenda (DDA) round of WTO negotiations; and as a solution to the noodle bowl of bilateral agreements in the region. This report assesses the political feasibility of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) proposal and looks at alternative modalities for achieving free trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific. The report includes trade policy perspectives from the three largest economies of |
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the region: the United States, China and Japan, lessons from similar proposals such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), possible convergence among the many preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the region, and alternative approaches to regional economic integration. |
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UNINA9910808235203321 |
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Jungnickel Katrina |
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Bikes and bloomers : Victorian women inventors and their extraordinary cycle wear / / Kat Jungnickel |
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London : , : Goldsmiths Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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1-906897-79-4 |
1-906897-77-8 |
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1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) |
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Women cyclists - Clothing - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Women's clothing - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Cycling - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear.The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing “rational” cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking |
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a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women's rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the “Hyde Park Safety Skirt,” which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling's past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.--publisher. |
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UNINA9910136607603321 |
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After the Program Era : The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University / / edited by Loren Glass |
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Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General |
Literature - Study and teaching (Higher) |
American fiction - Study and teaching |
Creative writing (Higher education) |
Electronic books. |
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"The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl's The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English department in the United States housed some version of a creative writing program by the time of its publication, literary scholars had not previously considered that this institutional phenomenon was historically significant. McGurl's groundbreaking book effectively established that "the rise of the creative writing program stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history," forcing us to revise our understanding not only of the relationship between higher education and literary production, but also of the periodizing terminology we had previously used to structure our understanding of twentieth-century literature. After the Program Era explores the consequences and implications, as well as the lacunae and liabilities, of McGurl's foundational intervention. Glass focuses only on American fiction and the traditional MFA program, and this collection aims to expand and examine its insights in terms of other genres and sites. |
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Postwar poetry, in particular, has until now been neglected as a product of the Program Era, even though it is, arguably, a "purer" example, since poets now depend almost entirely on the patronage of the university. Similarly, this collection looks beyond the traditional MFA writing program to explore the pre-history of writing programs in American universities, as well as alternatives to the traditionally structured program that have emerged along the way. Taken together, the essays in After the Program Era seek to answer and explore many of these questions and continue the conversations McGurl only began. CONTRIBUTORS Seth Abramson, Greg Barnhisel, Eric Bennett, Matthew Blackwell, Kelly Budruweit, Mike Chasar, Simon During, Donal Harris, Michael Hill, Benjamin Kirbach, Sean McCann, Mark McGurl, Marija Rieff, Juliana Spahr, Stephen Voyce, Stephanie Young"-- |
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