Dov M. Gabbay and Larisa Maksimova
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198511748
- eISBN:
- 9780191705779
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198511748.001.0001
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This book focuses on interpolation and definability. This notion is not only central in pure logic, but has significant meaning and applicability in all areas where logic itself is applied, ...
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This book focuses on interpolation and definability. This notion is not only central in pure logic, but has significant meaning and applicability in all areas where logic itself is applied, especially in computer science, artificial intelligence, logic programming, philosophy of science, and natural language. The book provides basic knowledge on interpolation and definability in logic, and contains a systematic account of material which has been presented in many papers. A variety of methods and results are presented beginning with the famous Beth's and Craig's theorems in classical predicate logic (1953-57), and to the most valuable achievements in non-classical topics on logic, mainly intuitionistic and modal logic. Together with semantical and proof-theoretic methods, close interrelations between logic and universal algebra are established and exploited.Less
This book focuses on interpolation and definability. This notion is not only central in pure logic, but has significant meaning and applicability in all areas where logic itself is applied, especially in computer science, artificial intelligence, logic programming, philosophy of science, and natural language. The book provides basic knowledge on interpolation and definability in logic, and contains a systematic account of material which has been presented in many papers. A variety of methods and results are presented beginning with the famous Beth's and Craig's theorems in classical predicate logic (1953-57), and to the most valuable achievements in non-classical topics on logic, mainly intuitionistic and modal logic. Together with semantical and proof-theoretic methods, close interrelations between logic and universal algebra are established and exploited.
Roger Undy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199544943
- eISBN:
- 9780191719936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544943.003.0007
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR
Amalgamating partners' negotiating powers are taken to be a function of their interdependence. On this basis, the amalgamations studied are divided into three groups: dominant partner unions' ...
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Amalgamating partners' negotiating powers are taken to be a function of their interdependence. On this basis, the amalgamations studied are divided into three groups: dominant partner unions' negotiations conducted under competitive conditions; dominant partners unions' negotiations in the absence of competitive bids; and balanced partner unions' negotiations in the absence of competitive bids. Dominant partner amalgamation negotiations are found to be similar to transfer negotiations. In contrast, balanced partner amalgamation negotiations are more complex and generally provide the opportunity to transform the partner unions' internal organization.Less
Amalgamating partners' negotiating powers are taken to be a function of their interdependence. On this basis, the amalgamations studied are divided into three groups: dominant partner unions' negotiations conducted under competitive conditions; dominant partners unions' negotiations in the absence of competitive bids; and balanced partner unions' negotiations in the absence of competitive bids. Dominant partner amalgamation negotiations are found to be similar to transfer negotiations. In contrast, balanced partner amalgamation negotiations are more complex and generally provide the opportunity to transform the partner unions' internal organization.
Roger Undy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199544943
- eISBN:
- 9780191719936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544943.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR
Dominant‐partner amalgamations are briefly discussed before focusing on balanced‐partner amalgamations. The outcomes of dominant‐partner amalgamations are similar to those generated by transfers. In ...
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Dominant‐partner amalgamations are briefly discussed before focusing on balanced‐partner amalgamations. The outcomes of dominant‐partner amalgamations are similar to those generated by transfers. In contrast, balanced‐partner amalgamations generally have a more marked effect on both the new unions' external relations with employers and its internal organization. However, the context may limit the amalgamated unions' abilities to exercise any increase gained in latent collective bargaining power. Internally, the balanced‐partner amalgamations vary considerably in their reforming effects: some have positive outcomes, while others generate unintended and politically destabilizing consequences.Less
Dominant‐partner amalgamations are briefly discussed before focusing on balanced‐partner amalgamations. The outcomes of dominant‐partner amalgamations are similar to those generated by transfers. In contrast, balanced‐partner amalgamations generally have a more marked effect on both the new unions' external relations with employers and its internal organization. However, the context may limit the amalgamated unions' abilities to exercise any increase gained in latent collective bargaining power. Internally, the balanced‐partner amalgamations vary considerably in their reforming effects: some have positive outcomes, while others generate unintended and politically destabilizing consequences.
Roger Undy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199544943
- eISBN:
- 9780191719936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544943.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR
The effect of mergers on the partner unions' post‐merger performance is addressed before assessing the implications of union mergers for the wider trade union movements' revitalization. It is ...
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The effect of mergers on the partner unions' post‐merger performance is addressed before assessing the implications of union mergers for the wider trade union movements' revitalization. It is concluded that transfers in general benefit the minor or transferor unions rather than the major or transferee unions. Amalgamations, in contrast, have more mixed outcomes. They offer an opportunity for transformation, but this is frequently hard to achieve post‐merger. As for British union mergers' wider revitalization effects, these are incidental and problematic.Less
The effect of mergers on the partner unions' post‐merger performance is addressed before assessing the implications of union mergers for the wider trade union movements' revitalization. It is concluded that transfers in general benefit the minor or transferor unions rather than the major or transferee unions. Amalgamations, in contrast, have more mixed outcomes. They offer an opportunity for transformation, but this is frequently hard to achieve post‐merger. As for British union mergers' wider revitalization effects, these are incidental and problematic.
Roger Undy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199544943
- eISBN:
- 9780191719936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544943.003.0006
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR
The potential for amalgamations to transform union organization is discussed before outlining the main characteristics of the ten amalgamated and two aborted amalgamations at the heart of the study. ...
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The potential for amalgamations to transform union organization is discussed before outlining the main characteristics of the ten amalgamated and two aborted amalgamations at the heart of the study. Amalgamations involving primarily private sector unions are considered prior to exploring amalgamations organized by unions concentrated in the public sector. The different factors motivating the partner unions are assessed by reference to their job territories; political objectives and means; democratic ethos and government; administration; and leaders' imperatives. Merger objectives and strategies are found to vary between partner unions in some significant respects.Less
The potential for amalgamations to transform union organization is discussed before outlining the main characteristics of the ten amalgamated and two aborted amalgamations at the heart of the study. Amalgamations involving primarily private sector unions are considered prior to exploring amalgamations organized by unions concentrated in the public sector. The different factors motivating the partner unions are assessed by reference to their job territories; political objectives and means; democratic ethos and government; administration; and leaders' imperatives. Merger objectives and strategies are found to vary between partner unions in some significant respects.
D.M. Gabbay and L. Maksimova
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198511748
- eISBN:
- 9780191705779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198511748.003.0001
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This introductory chapter explains various options and aspects of interpolation. It gives some case study examples and presents an overview of the book's contents.
This introductory chapter explains various options and aspects of interpolation. It gives some case study examples and presents an overview of the book's contents.
D.M. Gabbay and L. Maksimova
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198511748
- eISBN:
- 9780191705779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198511748.003.0006
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This chapter contains a full description of superintuitionistic logics with Craig's interpolation property CIP. It turns out that in the continuum of intermediate logics, only seven have Craig's ...
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This chapter contains a full description of superintuitionistic logics with Craig's interpolation property CIP. It turns out that in the continuum of intermediate logics, only seven have Craig's interpolation. All of them are finitely axiomatizable and have the finite model property. For the proof, the algebraic semantics via varieties of Heyting algebras is used, and the equivalence of CIP in a logic L to amalgamability of the corresponding variety V(L) is stated. It is also proved that the interpolation problem over the intuitionistic logic Int is decidable: for any finite set Ax of axiom schemes to determine, whether the calculus Int+Ax has CIP; also the amalgamation problem is base-decidable for varieties of Heyting algebras.Less
This chapter contains a full description of superintuitionistic logics with Craig's interpolation property CIP. It turns out that in the continuum of intermediate logics, only seven have Craig's interpolation. All of them are finitely axiomatizable and have the finite model property. For the proof, the algebraic semantics via varieties of Heyting algebras is used, and the equivalence of CIP in a logic L to amalgamability of the corresponding variety V(L) is stated. It is also proved that the interpolation problem over the intuitionistic logic Int is decidable: for any finite set Ax of axiom schemes to determine, whether the calculus Int+Ax has CIP; also the amalgamation problem is base-decidable for varieties of Heyting algebras.
D.M. Gabbay and L. Maksimova
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198511748
- eISBN:
- 9780191705779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198511748.003.0012
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This chapter shows that actions of interpolation in extensions of the provability logic G differs from that over S4. A logic Gγ is constructed, which possesses Craig's interpolation property but is ...
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This chapter shows that actions of interpolation in extensions of the provability logic G differs from that over S4. A logic Gγ is constructed, which possesses Craig's interpolation property but is neither finitely axiomatizable nor finitely approximable. Nevertheless, this logic is decidable. In addition, Gγ is the greatest among the infinite-slice logics over G with interpolation property. A continuum of logics with CIP is constructed, and a short proof of the Beth property in logics over G is found.Less
This chapter shows that actions of interpolation in extensions of the provability logic G differs from that over S4. A logic Gγ is constructed, which possesses Craig's interpolation property but is neither finitely axiomatizable nor finitely approximable. Nevertheless, this logic is decidable. In addition, Gγ is the greatest among the infinite-slice logics over G with interpolation property. A continuum of logics with CIP is constructed, and a short proof of the Beth property in logics over G is found.
D.M. Gabbay and L. Maksimova
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198511748
- eISBN:
- 9780191705779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198511748.003.0017
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This chapter discusses further directions of research. A brief review of the results obtained on interpolation and definability, which were not included in this volume, is presented.
This chapter discusses further directions of research. A brief review of the results obtained on interpolation and definability, which were not included in this volume, is presented.
Roman Kossak and James H. Schmerl
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198568278
- eISBN:
- 9780191718199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568278.003.0002
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This chapter introduces some techniques for constructing elementary simple extensions. In particular, it includes proof of the existence of superminimal elementary end extensions of countable models ...
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This chapter introduces some techniques for constructing elementary simple extensions. In particular, it includes proof of the existence of superminimal elementary end extensions of countable models and a construction of a Jónsson model. The MacDowell-Specker Theorem is proved and some of its consequences derived, including results on conservative extensions, rather classless models and amalgamations. The chapter concludes with a discussion of nonelementary extensions and the theorem of Wilkie on end extensions which are not σ1-elementary.Less
This chapter introduces some techniques for constructing elementary simple extensions. In particular, it includes proof of the existence of superminimal elementary end extensions of countable models and a construction of a Jónsson model. The MacDowell-Specker Theorem is proved and some of its consequences derived, including results on conservative extensions, rather classless models and amalgamations. The chapter concludes with a discussion of nonelementary extensions and the theorem of Wilkie on end extensions which are not σ1-elementary.
Stephen R. Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195142792
- eISBN:
- 9780199834280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195142799.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter continues an exploration of the distinctive ways in which Genesis 9:20–27 was read by American proslavery apologists with emphasis on the themes of order and disorder. It is argued that ...
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This chapter continues an exploration of the distinctive ways in which Genesis 9:20–27 was read by American proslavery apologists with emphasis on the themes of order and disorder. It is argued that the way these themes animate proslavery commentary on the story of Noah and his sons reflects the popular belief that the “Negro” (Hamitic) character was exemplified in a penchant for disorder – including a desire for amalgamation.Less
This chapter continues an exploration of the distinctive ways in which Genesis 9:20–27 was read by American proslavery apologists with emphasis on the themes of order and disorder. It is argued that the way these themes animate proslavery commentary on the story of Noah and his sons reflects the popular belief that the “Negro” (Hamitic) character was exemplified in a penchant for disorder – including a desire for amalgamation.
Matthew Rebhorn
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199751303
- eISBN:
- 9780199932559
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751303.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, Drama
All these performances reveal a frontier that worked to highlight the theatricality of Manifest Destiny, as opposed to its factuality, and derived its aesthetic energy from interrogating the ideology ...
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All these performances reveal a frontier that worked to highlight the theatricality of Manifest Destiny, as opposed to its factuality, and derived its aesthetic energy from interrogating the ideology undergirding Buffalo Bill's and Turner's imperialistic fantasies. Nowhere is this energizing dismantling more evident than in the way Dion Boucicault uses the two plots of his “tragic mulatta” melodrama The Octoroon (1859) to dispute the frontier's “legacy of conquest.” This chapter thus argues, first ,that Boucicault employs the play's main plot to critique the theatrical practice of performing the frontier melodramatically, that is, as a “black-or-white” dialectic that reinforces the ideology of American imperialism, insofar as that ideology depended on a clear division between the white, civilized “self” and the racial, savage “other.” More important, by then focusing on the play's largely ignored subplot, centered on an Indian played by Boucicault, the chapter develops the idea that Boucicault emplots the frontier as a necessarily blurred, “black-and-white” set of performative practices that challenge the “black-or-white” opposition that defines both melodrama and imperialism.Less
All these performances reveal a frontier that worked to highlight the theatricality of Manifest Destiny, as opposed to its factuality, and derived its aesthetic energy from interrogating the ideology undergirding Buffalo Bill's and Turner's imperialistic fantasies. Nowhere is this energizing dismantling more evident than in the way Dion Boucicault uses the two plots of his “tragic mulatta” melodrama The Octoroon (1859) to dispute the frontier's “legacy of conquest.” This chapter thus argues, first ,that Boucicault employs the play's main plot to critique the theatrical practice of performing the frontier melodramatically, that is, as a “black-or-white” dialectic that reinforces the ideology of American imperialism, insofar as that ideology depended on a clear division between the white, civilized “self” and the racial, savage “other.” More important, by then focusing on the play's largely ignored subplot, centered on an Indian played by Boucicault, the chapter develops the idea that Boucicault emplots the frontier as a necessarily blurred, “black-and-white” set of performative practices that challenge the “black-or-white” opposition that defines both melodrama and imperialism.
Michael Hanchard
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195176247
- eISBN:
- 9780199851003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176247.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter uses part of a speech by the famous orator and abolitionist, Henry Highland Garnet, to examine some of the similarities between late 19th- and early 20th-century ideologies of racial ...
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This chapter uses part of a speech by the famous orator and abolitionist, Henry Highland Garnet, to examine some of the similarities between late 19th- and early 20th-century ideologies of racial egalitarianism in the New World and contemporary advocacy of hybridity, or what one scholar refers to as the “amalgamation thesis.” It further uses Garnet's declaration that the Western world is destined to become a “mongrel race” to pose a counterfactual for students of African-American studies, black politics, and African diaspora studies: What if Garnet's dictum, rather than Du Bois's declaration in the The Souls of Black Folk concerning “the color line” were the dominant trope for the probing of racial identification, categorization, and consciousness?Less
This chapter uses part of a speech by the famous orator and abolitionist, Henry Highland Garnet, to examine some of the similarities between late 19th- and early 20th-century ideologies of racial egalitarianism in the New World and contemporary advocacy of hybridity, or what one scholar refers to as the “amalgamation thesis.” It further uses Garnet's declaration that the Western world is destined to become a “mongrel race” to pose a counterfactual for students of African-American studies, black politics, and African diaspora studies: What if Garnet's dictum, rather than Du Bois's declaration in the The Souls of Black Folk concerning “the color line” were the dominant trope for the probing of racial identification, categorization, and consciousness?
Byunghan Kim
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198567387
- eISBN:
- 9780191746512
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567387.001.0001
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This book is about simple first-order theories. The class of simple theories was introduced by S. Shelah in the early 1980s. Then several specific algebraic structures having simple theories have ...
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This book is about simple first-order theories. The class of simple theories was introduced by S. Shelah in the early 1980s. Then several specific algebraic structures having simple theories have been studied by leading researchers, notably by E. Hrushovski. In the mid-1990s the author established in his thesis the symmetry and transitivity of non-forking for simple theories and, with A. Pillay, type-amalgamation for Lascar strong types. Since then a great deal of research work on simplicity theory, the study of simple theories and structures has been produced. This book starts with the introduction of the fundamental notions of dividing and forking, and covers up to the hyperdefinable group configuration theorem for simple theories.Less
This book is about simple first-order theories. The class of simple theories was introduced by S. Shelah in the early 1980s. Then several specific algebraic structures having simple theories have been studied by leading researchers, notably by E. Hrushovski. In the mid-1990s the author established in his thesis the symmetry and transitivity of non-forking for simple theories and, with A. Pillay, type-amalgamation for Lascar strong types. Since then a great deal of research work on simplicity theory, the study of simple theories and structures has been produced. This book starts with the introduction of the fundamental notions of dividing and forking, and covers up to the hyperdefinable group configuration theorem for simple theories.
Steven Zohn
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195169775
- eISBN:
- 9780199865536
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195169775.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Georg Philipp Telemann provided a rich legacy of instrumental music from the 18th century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and ...
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Georg Philipp Telemann provided a rich legacy of instrumental music from the 18th century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. Music for a Mixed Taste considers Telemann’s music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. It investigates the composer’s cosmopolitan “mixed taste”—a blending of the French, Italian, English, and Polish national styles—and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the sonata in concerto style (“Sonate auf Concertenart”) and overture-suite with solo instrument (“Concert en ouverture”). The book examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann’s “characteristic” overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion, and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer’s keen sense of musical humor. It then explores Telemann’s unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J. S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed Taste further reveals how Telemann’s style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.Less
Georg Philipp Telemann provided a rich legacy of instrumental music from the 18th century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. Music for a Mixed Taste considers Telemann’s music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. It investigates the composer’s cosmopolitan “mixed taste”—a blending of the French, Italian, English, and Polish national styles—and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the sonata in concerto style (“Sonate auf Concertenart”) and overture-suite with solo instrument (“Concert en ouverture”). The book examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann’s “characteristic” overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion, and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer’s keen sense of musical humor. It then explores Telemann’s unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J. S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed Taste further reveals how Telemann’s style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.
Greg Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814772492
- eISBN:
- 9780814790489
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814772492.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar ...
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Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, this book reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. The book re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, the book explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. It traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The book sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America.Less
Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, this book reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. The book re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, the book explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. It traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The book sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America.
Steven Zohn
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195169775
- eISBN:
- 9780199865536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195169775.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Telemann’s penchant for stylistic and generic amalgamation is perhaps most vividly expressed in his sonatas. Scored in one to seven parts for a vast array of instrumental combinations, these works ...
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Telemann’s penchant for stylistic and generic amalgamation is perhaps most vividly expressed in his sonatas. Scored in one to seven parts for a vast array of instrumental combinations, these works chart his compositional inclinations over the course of a half century. This chapter considers the earliest among them, which reveal sides of the composer that seem far removed from the galant aesthetic he would later cultivate in his published sonatas at Hamburg, yet are hardly less compelling for it. Embodied in this music is Telemann’s youthful mastery of the principal Italian, French, and German idioms of the late 17th century. Present, too, is an emerging individuality of expression that culminates, by the time of his first four sonata publications (1715–18), in a stylistic eclecticism anticipating that of the later Hamburg works.Less
Telemann’s penchant for stylistic and generic amalgamation is perhaps most vividly expressed in his sonatas. Scored in one to seven parts for a vast array of instrumental combinations, these works chart his compositional inclinations over the course of a half century. This chapter considers the earliest among them, which reveal sides of the composer that seem far removed from the galant aesthetic he would later cultivate in his published sonatas at Hamburg, yet are hardly less compelling for it. Embodied in this music is Telemann’s youthful mastery of the principal Italian, French, and German idioms of the late 17th century. Present, too, is an emerging individuality of expression that culminates, by the time of his first four sonata publications (1715–18), in a stylistic eclecticism anticipating that of the later Hamburg works.
Brian Dollery, Michael A. Kortt, and Simone de Souza
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447310273
- eISBN:
- 9781447310297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447310273.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Australian local government plays a pivotal role not only as a major element in the democratic structure of the country but also as a significant economic entity in its own right. This chapter ...
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Australian local government plays a pivotal role not only as a major element in the democratic structure of the country but also as a significant economic entity in its own right. This chapter provides a synoptic description of Australian local government and its main problems.It considers the policy environment surrounding Australian local government, and the policy-making and policy capacity in Australian local government. It proposes a stylised model of policy-making in Australian local government using structural reform through forced municipal mergers as a salient example. The chapter ends with concluding remarks about the general and academic preoccupation with ensuring the ongoing financial sustainability of local government, and makes suggestions for empirical research.Less
Australian local government plays a pivotal role not only as a major element in the democratic structure of the country but also as a significant economic entity in its own right. This chapter provides a synoptic description of Australian local government and its main problems.It considers the policy environment surrounding Australian local government, and the policy-making and policy capacity in Australian local government. It proposes a stylised model of policy-making in Australian local government using structural reform through forced municipal mergers as a salient example. The chapter ends with concluding remarks about the general and academic preoccupation with ensuring the ongoing financial sustainability of local government, and makes suggestions for empirical research.
Damon Ieremia Salesa
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199604159
- eISBN:
- 9780191729423
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604159.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Social History
In the troubled British Empire of 1830s, an apparently new strategy for approaching empire, with its ‘other’ races, became widespread. These ideas informed abolition in the slave colonies, the ...
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In the troubled British Empire of 1830s, an apparently new strategy for approaching empire, with its ‘other’ races, became widespread. These ideas informed abolition in the slave colonies, the proposed reform of the Canadas, and shaped how the first big imperial expansion of the Victorian age, the colonization of New Zealand, was undertaken. Championed by a small but influential cadre of ‘Colonial Reformers’, but popular with people as different as Tories and Whigs, missionaries and businessmen, in New Zealand these reformist impulses inspired ‘racial amalgamation’, where a single colonial political and legal community would be forged by intermarrying and intermixing different races. This was heralded as a new era of systematic and humane colonization. Though in conception and implementation this strategy was gravely flawed, the idea of racial amalgamation proved incredibly durable, popular and important.Less
In the troubled British Empire of 1830s, an apparently new strategy for approaching empire, with its ‘other’ races, became widespread. These ideas informed abolition in the slave colonies, the proposed reform of the Canadas, and shaped how the first big imperial expansion of the Victorian age, the colonization of New Zealand, was undertaken. Championed by a small but influential cadre of ‘Colonial Reformers’, but popular with people as different as Tories and Whigs, missionaries and businessmen, in New Zealand these reformist impulses inspired ‘racial amalgamation’, where a single colonial political and legal community would be forged by intermarrying and intermixing different races. This was heralded as a new era of systematic and humane colonization. Though in conception and implementation this strategy was gravely flawed, the idea of racial amalgamation proved incredibly durable, popular and important.
Damon Ieremia Salesa
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199604159
- eISBN:
- 9780191729423
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604159.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Social History
In its first two decades of colonial rule, New Zealand became a testing ground for the strategy and policies of ‘racial amalgamation’. Already a popular idea with a variety of constituencies in the ...
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In its first two decades of colonial rule, New Zealand became a testing ground for the strategy and policies of ‘racial amalgamation’. Already a popular idea with a variety of constituencies in the British Empire, in New Zealand racial amalgamation was held to offer a new, humane, system of colonization. Quickly it seemed that ‘systematic colonization’ was a complete failure, yet in other ways racial amalgamation was to prove remarkably influential, enduring and successful. Racial amalgamation shaped the contours of policy, in New Zealand, Britain and elsewhere, for decades — though not as its adherents had proposed. Colonial policy, settler views, and missionary priorities worked through amalgamationist racial codes, were preoccupied with racial crossings and half-castes, and envisioned an aggressive inclusiveness that aimed, ultimately, at a tender disappearance of the ‘native race’: a ‘euthanasia of savage communities’ as one policy-maker put it.Less
In its first two decades of colonial rule, New Zealand became a testing ground for the strategy and policies of ‘racial amalgamation’. Already a popular idea with a variety of constituencies in the British Empire, in New Zealand racial amalgamation was held to offer a new, humane, system of colonization. Quickly it seemed that ‘systematic colonization’ was a complete failure, yet in other ways racial amalgamation was to prove remarkably influential, enduring and successful. Racial amalgamation shaped the contours of policy, in New Zealand, Britain and elsewhere, for decades — though not as its adherents had proposed. Colonial policy, settler views, and missionary priorities worked through amalgamationist racial codes, were preoccupied with racial crossings and half-castes, and envisioned an aggressive inclusiveness that aimed, ultimately, at a tender disappearance of the ‘native race’: a ‘euthanasia of savage communities’ as one policy-maker put it.
