Tag: Restraint

Free Download G. John Ikenberry, "After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars"
English | 2000 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0691050902, 0691169217, 0691192847 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power and how do they use it to build order? In examining the postwar settlements in modern history, he argues that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power.

Free Download Lesa Scholl, "Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature "
English | ISBN: 135025651X | 2022 | 166 pages | EPUB | 536 KB
Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers – Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler – each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives. While many studies look at fasting as a form of spiritual discipline or punishment, or alternatively as anorexia nervosa, this book positions limiting food consumption as an ethical choice in response to the food insecurity of others. By examining their works in this way, this study repositions feminine religious practice and writing in relation to food consumption within broader contexts of ecocriticism, economics and social justice.