The pamphlet attack on Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes's began with the Queen Mother's revolt. The anti-Luynes attack accelerated with the southwestern campaign against the Protestants, and continued for a year after his death. Historians agree that Cardinal Richelieu participated in this campaign, but they disagree on his role. The short-term effects of the anti-Luynes pamphlet campaign are difficult to determine because of Luynes's sudden death. Fearing the effects of widespread unpopularity, Luynes launched a vigorous counterattack by publishing pamphlets that defended his role as a favorite. Richelieu's political style was harsher than that of Luynes. Luynes was the forerunner of Richelieu as a minister favorite. Louis XIII had initially disliked Richelieu because of his arrogance, but Richelieu learned from Luynes how to manage the king by making him feel appreciated and understood.

The difference in critical estimation of the cartoon-style comedies and science fiction animations has much to do with the divergent modes of address and performance styles associated with the two genres. Titan A. E. and Final Fantasy featured star voices, although these tended to belong to actors new to animation voiceover and who had clearer previous attachments to 'straight' as opposed to comic performance. As a genre that has been concerned with displacing ontological certainty, any sense of presence that a star performer might confer is often diluted in science fiction cinema. A Scanner Darkly works with the codes and conventions of both the animated cartoon and science fiction film and playfully puts the power of performance back on the agenda. Hollow Man's substituted performance via digital mapping and the extensive use of 'motion capture' in the creation of characters in Final Fantasy relied on the recording of human performance.

This chapter seeks to make a modest contribution to the growing body of work on gender and the rural, and more specifically on the relationships between rurality and masculinity. It focuses on two films, which can be seen to be very different in terms of genre, production values and intended audience, but which nevertheless share certain thematics; most notably, in their depictions of urban and rural men. The films are the comedy City Slickers, and the horror movie Hunter's Blood. Reading City Slickers and Hunter's Blood in tandem, there are clear divergences that emerge; the former is more firmly in the sensitive-guy film mould, while the latter belongs more squarely with the humiliation-redemption set. The chapter explains the ways in which City Slickers and Hunter's Blood articulate different modes of masculinity, in relation to rurality.

This chapter examines China’s evolving governance of international marriages through the lens of sovereign concerns, focusing on border stability, population management and national security. It explores how material and affective processes inform the regulations and representations of marriage migration to China. The discussion shows how the Chinese state continually revises its administrative and legal framework for international marriage, and also highlights the historical, racialised and gendered forces embedded in this process. The argument contends that the regulatory framework of marriage migration is shaped by shifting ‘structures of feeling’ that define belonging in Chinese society. These intersecting spheres of state affective and regulatory practices reveal new power dynamics and inequalities in China’s relations with the outside world.

The form of a ship has changed significantly in recent decades, both structurally and technically. Despite this, one element remains constant: the crew. They have always been on board, responsible for the ship’s operation, maintenance, navigation, and safety. Recent advances in shipbuilding and automation have made unmanned vessel operation feasible. Given their economic benefits and potential for improved navigational safety over human-controlled ships, these partially or fully autonomous vessels are likely to see widespread use soon. Despite their benefits, autonomous ships also pose risks. A major challenge is the potential legal issues tied to their use, as current maritime law was designed for crew-controlled ships. The compatibility of current laws with autonomous ships remains unanswered. To address industry concerns, potential issues should be analyzed from various aspects of shipping. The purpose of this paper is to analyse autonomous ships, focusing on the carriage of goods by sea. It examines how the concept of charterparty applies to this new generation of ships; how the obligations and rights of shipowners and charterers under contracts of carriage affect by autonomous operations; and to what extent the current contractual framework, especially charter forms, must change to accommodate the carriage of goods by such vessels.

Thomas More was the first to question the application of the death penalty to a particular offence. Theft had long been classified as a capital crime in the penal codes and practices of Britain and elsewhere. In More’s Utopia, a range of arguments is marshalled against the execution of thieves, echoed by later progressive thinkers. More’s critique brings to bear a whole armoury of arguments, including proportionality, deterrence, the public good, the law of God, and the causal relationship between poverty and petty crime. His argumentation was picked up by radical thinkers in Britain in the seventeenth century and gave impetus to a movement to formulate and promote alternative punishments for trivial offences. The principal candidates were hard labour and exile, the latter involving, in Britain, transportation to America and later Australia. Transportation had obvious disadvantages, and in any case it began to be asked, ‘How can the criminal be made maximally economically useful to the mother country?’ The contribution of Sir William Petty in the first decade of the Restoration (1760s) was crucial in this, and the idea finally finds articulation in the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.

Chapter 3 provides an extensive case study of Granada Television, considering the major contribution made by Granada, one of the original Big Four ITV companies, to television drama in general, and regional television drama in particular, from 1956-82. The chapter discusses in detail the vast output of this important and influential regional ITV company during its first 25 years, before changes in the broadcasting culture gradually eroded its regional identity. Included among the many dramas discussed in this chapter are single plays, including adaptations of the Manchester Plays, anthology series such as The Younger Generation, The Villains and City 68, plays and series by Northern writers such as John Finch and Jack Rosenthal, and popular series such as Coronation Street and A Family at War.

In the context of the complexities of the Cuban publishing infrastructure of 2008–11, this chapter presents the story of one possibly typical work of fiction, tracing its passage from conception to reception, and revealing, in the process, the many complexities, pressures and negotiations that all actors in Cuba's literary culture constantly have to confront. It shows the earlier analysis of the institutional context and the decision-making processes for Cuban writers and readers, highlighting especially the complex set of pressures that shape the normal operations of contemporary Cuban publishing and create Cuba's unusual literary culture.

This chapter assesses how far fascist ideas entered the policing profession. A major locus for public representation of the Interior Ministry Police during the fascist period was Police Day, a national celebration introduced in 1928 and held annually on 18 October. During the period of conception of Benito Mussolini's police state, opposed factions within fascism disputed whether primacy in the creation of the new civilisation should be awarded to the state or the Party. The expectation that policemen should serve the fascist state over and above all other allegiances was written into their induction formula. The chapter analyses procedures for recruitment and training of police personnel. Limited modifications to recruitment and training procedures in the regular police forces hardly responded to the major overhaul of state employment which fascist reformers had envisaged.

This chapter shows how developments such as Catholic emancipation, reform, and the rise of evangelicalism and liberalism forced Catholic authorities and the state to reconsider Catholicism's position within society. This reappraisal would result in a complete transformation of the church's existing infrastructure and change the way in which it absorbed the influence of ultramontanism. The 1830s, 1840s and early 1850s witnessed an explosion in religious voluntarism. Events such as the Disruption, which was when the evangelical Free Church split away from the established Church of Scotland in May 1843, and the Irish Famine encouraged competition between dissenting groups and denominations. Across Europe and North America, women religious successfully navigated the patriarchal terrain to achieve a level of autonomy that was unavailable to most women, let alone Catholic ones.

Floating Nuclear Power Plants (FNPPs) pose novel questions under existing international maritime and nuclear law regimes, as the international community has yet to agree on fundamental issues, such as what constitutes an FNPP. Whether categorized as a facility, a vessel, or a combination of both, such classification has a significant impact on nuclear security, nuclear nonproliferation, and the law of the sea. Their appeal for deployment in remote areas and support activities, such as offshore oil extraction, raises serious questions about the application of international ocean laws and nuclear nonproliferation norms. Utilizing floating nuclear power plants in areas such as the Exclusive Economic Zone and beyond presents challenges to adhering to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and nuclear laws, including the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and its Amendments. What rights does the coastal state have, and what rights does the possible flag state of the FNPP possess if it is categorized as a vessel? Additionally, how would they respond in the event of a nuclear security incident? These questions underscore the connection between maritime and nuclear law and the uncertainty surrounding maritime accidents.

This chapter contextualises the work-based identity insecurity experienced by middle-class professionals in the public sector among the general identity-making problems of postmodernity and other cultural determinants of the group. The problem of achieving a secure identity from among the instabilities of modern life has exercised many contemporary theorists. It is pertinent to question one's capacity for deliberate action when modern life is characterised by an accelerated pace and the ever-changing conditions brought about by the short-termism and quick turnover demands of the new economy. Managing negative emotions requires the development of different strengths of character whose acquisition involves much longer and harder work. In classical psychological theory, an act of narration is required at this point as the means to clarify identity and maintain good mental health.