This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay World and wrote fiction and "faction" (writing that portrays real people or events in ...a dramatised manner) during their sojourn - regardless of whether they continued to stay in the region, returned to their home country, or migrated to another country. The essays tend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries as the contributors of this book are drawn from various fields within the arts and humanities, including history, geography, language and literature and translation. All of them, however, deal with colonial texts, the Malay World, or primarily cover the period from the 18th to the 20th century. Including readings of fiction, diaries, vignettes, letters written by traders or colonial officers, the uniqueness of this book lies in the personal, private and/or informal nature of the various documents studied. The encounters of these 'outsiders' with the 'natives' not only offer fascinating historical insights into the Malay World, but, to a significant degree, vividly express the views and personalities of the writers themselves, as mediated through their assigned commercial and colonial roles.
This volume contains contributions from speakers at the 2015-2018 joint Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland Complex Geometry Seminar. It begins with a survey article on recent ...developments in pluripotential theory and its applications to Kähler-Einstein metrics and continues with articles devoted to various aspects of the theory of complex manifolds and functions on such manifolds.
Explores the politics and meanings of citizenry and citizens’ rights in the nineteenth-century American South: from the full citizenship of some white males to the partial citizenship of women with ...no voting rights, from the precarious position of free blacks and enslaved African American anti-citizens, to postwar Confederate rebels who were not “loyal citizens" according to the federal government but forcibly asserted their citizenship as white supremacy was restored in the Jim Crow South.
This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity.
This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume ...focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Das Thema »Verzeihen« wird in den Human- und Sozialwissenschaften viel diskutiert. Es kann als eine universale, anthropologische Konstante des menschlichen Zusammenlebens aufgefasst werden, die ihre ...Allgemeingültigkeit an die Fehlbarkeit von Menschen knüpft. Doch trotz seiner großen Reichweite ist das Verzeihen in der Soziologie eher wenig beachtet worden.Anhand zahlreicher historischer Beispiele von Gesellschaften, die von einer schweren Humankatastrophe getroffen wurden, stellen die Beiträger_innen die Unverzichtbarkeit dieser Kategorie für die Sozialtheorie heraus und betonen das bislang kaum systematisch ausgedeutete gesellschaftsfundierende Potenzial des Verzeihens.
Corporate governance, the internal policies and leadership that guide the actions of corporations, played a major part in the recent global financial crisis. While much blame has been targeted at ...compensation arrangements that rewarded extreme risk-taking but did not punish failure, the performance of large, supposedly sophisticated institutional investors in this crisis has gone for the most part unexamined. Shareholding organizations, such as pension funds and mutual funds, hold considerable sway over the financial industry from Wall Street to the City of London.Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisisexposes the misdeeds and lapses of these institutional investors leading up to the recent economic meltdown. In this collection of original essays, edited by pioneers in the field of fiduciary capitalism, top legal and financial practitioners and researchers discuss detrimental actions and inaction of institutional investors.Corporate Governance Failuresreveals how these organizations exposed themselves and their clientele to extremely complex financial instruments, such as credit default swaps, through investments in hedge and private equity funds as well as more traditional equity investments in large financial institutions. The book's contributors critique fund executives for tolerating the "pursuit of alpha" culture that led managers to pursue risky financial strategies in hopes of outperforming the market. The volume also points out how and why institutional investors failed to effectively monitor such volatile investments, ignoring relatively well-established corporate governance principles and best practices. Along with detailed investigations of institutional investor missteps,Corporate Governance Failuresoffers nuanced and realistic proposals to mitigate future financial pitfalls. This volume provides fresh perspectives on ways institutional investors can best act as gatekeepers and promote responsible investment.
Sceptical Paths gathers a variety of innovative studies that inquire into the presence and function of sceptical elements, strategies, and approaches in various traditions throughout Ancient, ...Medieval, Modern, and contemporary philosophy. Special attention is given to the place of sceptical argumentation in religious authors, challenging commonly held distinctions within the historiography of scepticism, and introduction of lesser-known thinkers.
