1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390777003316

Autore

Grenfield Thomas

Titolo

The fast [[electronic resource] ] : As it was delivered in a sermon at St. Margarets in Westminster, before the honorable House of Commons upon Wednesday the 12th. of June 1661. being the day appointed by His Majesty and the Parliament, for a solemn humiliation upon the late abundance of rain, and the danger of famine, and pestilence likely to ensue thereby. / / By Tho: Grenfield A.M. Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincoln's-Inne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1661

Edizione

[The second impriession [sic].]

Descrizione fisica

[7], 26 [i.e. 30], [1] p

Soggetti

Fast-day sermons - 17th century

Sermons, English - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With a preliminarly license leaf.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Incorrectly identified as Wing G1937 on UMI microfilm, reel 1462:13.

Reproductions of original in Harvard University Library (reels 1462:13 and 1794:9), Folger Shakespeare Library (reel 2922:8) and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford). Library (reel 2977:26).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0216



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790225603321

Titolo

Mexico's security failure [[electronic resource] ] : collapse into criminal violence / / edited by Paul Kenny and Mónica Serrano ; with Arturo Sotomayor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-280-68355-4

9786613660497

1-136-65051-2

0-203-80578-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KennyPaul <1959->

SerranoMónica

SotomayorArturo

Disciplina

364.972

Soggetti

Crime - Mexico

Violent crimes - Mexico

Internal security - Mexico

Criminal justice, Administration of - Mexico

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

Cover; Mexico's Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Security Failure Versus State Failure; Part I: The Background; 1. The Mexican State and Organized Crime: An Unending Story; 2. Transition to Dystopia: 1994-2008; Part II: Security Failure at Home; 3. Arbitrariness and Inefficiency in the Mexican Criminal Justice System; 4. Accounting for the Unaccountable: The Police in Mexico; 5. Security Versus Human Rights: The Case of Contemporary Mexico; Part III: ...and Abroad

6. Drug Trafficking and United States-Mexico Relations: Causes of Conflict7. Mexico's War on Terrorism: Rhetoric and Reality; 8. The Mesoamerican Dilemma: External Insecurity, Internal Vulnerability; Conclusion: Authoritarian Evolution; About the Authors; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexico's security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the book-security failure-brings these perspectives together on an intermestic level of analysis. It is a view that runs counter to the standard emphasis on the external, trans-national nature of criminal threats to a largely inert state.Mexico's Security Failure is both timely,