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Page 749 of 1939

A Concise History of the Caribbean
  • 2nd edition
  • B. W. Higman
  • Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    27 May 2021
  • A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonisation, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements towards political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people. In this second edition, Higman covers the political, social, and environmental developments of the last decade, offering sections on insular politics, Cuban communism, earthquakes, hurricanes, climate change, resource ecologies, epidemics, identity and reparations. Written in a lively and accessible style, and current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors.

  • 28 - Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars

  • from Part IV - Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies
  • Stan Owocki, University of Delaware
  • Book:
    Fundamentals of Astrophysics
    Published online:
    08 October 2021
    Print publication:
    03 June 2021, pp 215-223

  • Summary

    This chapter explores observations and properties of quasars, which were first observed in the 1960s as point-like sources that emit over a wide range of energies from the radio through the IR, visible, UV, and even extending to the X-ray and gamma-rays. They are now known to be a type of active galactic nucleus thought to be the result of matter accreting onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the host galaxy.

  • 8 - Congress: Representation and Power

  • Walter J. Stone, University of California, Davis, James A. McCann, Purdue University, Indiana
  • Book:
    Republic at Risk
    Published online:
    15 May 2021
    Print publication:
    03 June 2021, pp 149-166

  • Summary

    Congress is the centerpiece institution of Madison’s Republic. Article I of the Constitution starts with Congress, enumerating an impressive list of specific powers given to government because they are vested in the national legislature. And, if we have a republic, it is because the Congress somehow represents the national interest. It does this, as the above quote from Federalist 10 suggests, by bringing into government the range of interests in society. This is necessarily a messy business. The “necessary and ordinary operations of government” involve the range of factions in society? No wonder there is so much conflict, noise, frustration, posturing, and gridlock in Washington. Congressional politics, in other words, is untidy by design.

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