A standard view of Southern history identifies the Civil War and emancipation as a key stage in the transition to capitalism or “modernization”. This interpretation is closely associated with the work of Charles and Mary Beard, and was epitomized in C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, a survey of postbellum Southern history that remains highly influential today, more than half a centur...

The paper discuss reasons why service-oriented architecture is a new software paradigm and the consequences of this fact for the design of enterprise information systems. It is shown that such systems called confederations need not use web services in the sense of W3C. It is, however, more or less a necessity in e-commerce. Confederations (service-oriented systems with known set of services) ar...

There was an epidemic of plague in the Nanded District situated in the north-west of Hyderabad State in the latter months of 1949 and beginning of 1950. Altogether 407 cases from the Nanded town and neighbouring villages were treated for plague infection in the Headquarters Hospital at Nanded, the population of the town being 70,000 and that of the villages involved about 15,000. The previous e...

This article employs the notion of translation introduced in ANT literature to study the current bio-fuel development in Indonesia. Despite the presence of some activities by scientists, businessmen, policy makers, and farmers, diffusion of bio-fuel innovation seems to remain very limited. The article aims at understanding the bio-fuel development trajectory by seeking to disclose a variety of ...

In recent years, in various sectors of our society, there have been nationalist stirrings which were crystallized and articulated by the late Claro M. Recto, There were jealous demands for the recognition of Philippine sovereignty on the Bases question. There were appeals for the correction of the iniquitous economic relations between the Philippines and the United States. For a time, Filipino ...

Whether Australia and New Zealand should have a single currency is periodically debated in New Zealand. There was a resounding ‘No’ when the question was discussed in the early 1990s, but there was less agreement when the debate resurfaced two or three years ago.2 Indeed, the idea now has considerable support within New Zealand amongst academics, businessmen, and the general public.3 Even the P...