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...Theodore Ropp The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation . By Field James A. Jr. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xiv , 162 . $2.50 . The Battle for Leyte Gulf . By Vann Woodward C. . New York : The Macmillan Co. , 1947 . Pp. xii , 245 . $4.00...

...Brenda Chalfin Ocean spaces are a dynamic arena of political transformation and claims-making essential to the unfolding of late capitalism. Indicative of the expanding geography of oil prospecting in the South Atlantic Ocean, the deep waters of the western Gulf of Guinea map a political economic...

...Toby Craig Jones Ensuring the flow of oil and providing security for oil producers like Saudi Arabia has long been central to American interests in the Persian Gulf. The security-for-oil argument is a formulation that obscures more than it reveals, however. The division of energy and security...

....’s 1950 study. What I find is a persistent and unbridgeable gulf between method and theory where the former offers seemingly knowable, objective, repeatable, and actionable knowledge about the world, and the latter offers unverifiable particularity, nuance, and contingency. Method seeks to analyze...

...Alain Gresh Africa's largest country, Sudan, is first and foremost part of the Arab world, sensitive to the political tides that sweep the Arab peoples from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. Like other members of the Arab League, Sudan was taken by surprise by the defeat of 1967. It was shaken...

...Tim Dean This essay reconsiders biopolitical theory in relation to Michel Foucault’s pursuit of the problematic of pleasure during the final decade of his work. The question of pleasure straddles the temporal and methodological gulf that separates the first volume of his History of Sexuality from...

... low interest rates around the globe, Leba- non s commercial banks would commonly offer around 10 percent interest even on ordinary deposits (Cornish 2019). These capital inflows came mostly in the shape of deposits from the large and wealthy Lebanese diaspora and from Gulf citizens. Lebanese banks...

.... It has been and still is the main garbage and sewage disposal unit for Mid-America, and each year it also carries hundreds of acres of topsoil into the Gulf, washed out from the alluvial plains which surround Memphis. In addition to these long-standing pollutants, in recent years it has picked up...

...Andrew Ross Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Andrew Ross The Ecology of Images The Target-Rich Environment. At least two urgent needs emerged from the war in the Persian Gulf. First of all, the United States Congress ought to sit down and draft a con­ stitutional amendment...

.... The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation. By James A. Field, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. Pp. xiv, 162. $2.50. The Battle for Leyte Gulf. By C. Vann Woodward. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947. Pp. xii, 245. $4.00. Until the volume covering the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Navy s...

... natural objects. This dualism, it is the view of this book, is the source of man s moral dilemma. Morality is said to exist only so long as there is a gulf between spirit and nature. The end of morality is to bridge this gulf; yet, paradoxically, if the gulf should be bridged, the conditions of morality...

..., is the source of man s moral dilemma. Morality is said to exist only so long as there is a gulf between spirit and nature. The end of morality is to bridge this gulf; yet, paradoxically, if the gulf should be bridged, the conditions of morality would cease. In any event, the two realms may not be fused...

... addressed the U.S. Congress to declare his administration’s deter- mination to launch an attack against Saddam Hussein. Bush presented the Gulf War as a necessary step to guarantee world peace...

... the fac- tors in the stock market decline had been interest rate hikes, spurred in part by rising oil prices as a result of the August crisis in the Persian Gulf. As explained below, the Gulf War brought a further series...

... Dominic . 2015 . “BP Set to Pay Largest Environmental Fine in US History for Gulf Oil Spill.” Guardian , July 2 . https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/02/bp-will-pay-largest-environmental-fine-in-us-history-for-gulf-oil-spill . Szeman Imre . Forthcoming . “Pipeline...

..., bombardments, and encounters with similar small Japanese task forces, the minor battles of Kula Gulf, Vela Gulf, and Empress Augusta Bay. In the last, the largest battle described by Mr. Pratt, our forces consisted of the four cruisers Montpelier, Columbia, Cleveland, and Denver, and eight destroyers...

... of public governance and state protection. Domestic work- ers in these destinations can obtain legal residency through the sponsorship of their employer. They work in countries including Canada, Italy, Denmark, Israel, Lebanon, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Gulf Cooperative Council countries...

.... Yet, between the world of the stage and the stage of the world is a gulf. To cross that gulf in the character of an actor and achieve the revenge for which the drama ineluctably calls is Hamlet s problem after the momentary collapse of Claudius. It was Shakespeare s problem too. For this abyss between...

... on the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries boat anchored here in the Gulf of Mexico; out-ofstate fishermen must register their catch with him. I knew that he was in correspondence with scientific societies around the world, that he had delivered a paper before ornithologists at a convention of the American...

.... If the intelligent design doctrine had any merit at all, it was difficult to escape the conclusion that Katrina, which struck on August 29, and the consequent devastation of New Orleans and the north Gulf Coast at the cost of an estimated 1,570 lives must represent some kind of “intelligent meteorology...