In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry.

On July 8, 2006, Reno critical nurse Chaz Higgs called 911 to report that his wife wasn’t breathing. His wife, Nevada state controller Kathy Augustine, was one of Nevada’s best-known—and most notorious—politicians. Impeached in 2004 for campaign ethics violations, she’d been allowed to serve out her term, but made plenty of enemies along the way. Chaz was Kathy’s fourth husband. Her third husband had died, leaving Kathy their Las Vegas home and a $1 million insurance policy. Weeks later, she’d married Chaz, a younger man who’d been her husband’s nurse. Investigators wanted to know why a healthy, vibrant fifty-year-old woman with no history of heart trouble suddenly stopped breathing. One nurse had a theory—and it involved her colleague, Chaz Higgs.

Editor's NoteIntroduction by David Buisseret1: Mapping the Chinese City: The Image and the Reality Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt2: Mapping the City: Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance Naomi Miller3: Urbs and Civitas in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain Richard L. Kagan4: Military Architecture and Cartography in the Design of the Early Modern City Martha Pollak5: Modeling Cities in Early Modern Europe David Buisseret6: The Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett: Cartographic and Historical Perspectives Gerald A. DanzerContributors Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

States, Debt, and Power argues for the importance of situating our contextually influenced thinking about European states and debt within a commitment to historically informed and critical analysis. It teases out certain broad historical patterns. The book also examines the inescapably difficult and contentious judgements about 'bad' and 'good' debt; about what constitutes sustainable debt; and about distributive justice at times of sovereign debt crisis. These judgements offer insight into the nature of power and the contingent nature of sovereign creditworthiness. Three themes weave through the book: the significance of creditor-debtor state relations in defining asymmetry of power; the context-specific and constructed character of debt, above all in relation to war; and the limitations of formal economic reasoning in the face of radical uncertainty. Part I examines case studies from Ancient Greece to the modern Euro Area and brings together a wealth of historical data that cast fresh light on how sovereign debt problems are debated and addressed. Part II looks at the conditioning and constraining framework of law, culture, and ideology and their relationship to the use of policy instruments. Part III shows how the problems of matching the assumption of liability with the exercise of control are rooted in external trade and financial imbalances and external debt; in financial markets and vulnerability to banking crisis; in the character of the 'private governance of public debt'; in who has power over indicators of sustainability; in domestic institutional and political arrangements; and in sub-national fiscal governance. Part IV looks at how the problems of mismatch between liability and control take on an acute form within the historical context of European monetary union, above all in Euro Area debt crises.

Whats the fuss about Gobos - a Haven in the Wilderness? It is, in part, the story of a seven year old boy: Gobo Kanyas recollection of his own Nigeria civil war experiences; an odyssey which he paints as a budding writer; he struggles through to tell a story stemming entirely from his richly poignant, insightful and very revealing and awesome introspective perspective. Reminiscent of atypical and a bit of that common but lost childhood experiences, Gobo pens a story of a cherished nostalgia tinged with satire. The story he tells, again, is uncannily contemporary. But then its a blast, and its from the past.