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Across the Oceans
In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considere...
The Ketcheson Family
William K. Ketchison was born 7 July 1759 in Howden, Yorkshire, England. His parents were William Ketchison (1736-1763) and Sally Ayr. He emigrated in 1775 and settled in Virginia. He fought with the British in the American Revolution. He married Mary Rull (1761-1842) 16 March 1779 in Bedford, New York. They had ten children. They migrated to Canada in 1783 and settled first in Nova Scotia and then moved to Sidney, Ontario. William died in 1848 in Belleville, Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived throughout Ontario.
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Software Evangelism and the Rhetoric of Morality
Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert software developers, as well as non-technical lay users, from one platform to another (e.g., from the operating system Microsoft Windows to Linux). This book argues that software evangelism, like its religious counterpart, must also be understood as constructing moral and political values that extend well beyond the boundaries of the development culture. Unlike previous studies that locate such values...
La Tragédie de la caserne d'Agban
Mars 1981, Côte d’Ivoire. Dans une cellule de 9m2 de la caserne de gendarmerie d’Agban, 57 personnes s’entassent. Il fait plus de 40 degrés. Quand on ouvre la porte le lendemain, 46 personnes sont mortes d’asphyxie. Ano Thomson, un jeune migrant de 18 ans, a quitté son Ghana natal pour réaliser son rêve de devenir footballeur professionnel. Comme certains de ses codétenus, il se trouvait sur l’île Boulay chez son oncle quand il a été interpellé par des agents des forces de l’ordre dans le cadre de la prévention de la criminalité sous prétexte de vérifier son identité. Après avoir été humilié et battu, il est jeté dans cet enfer sans motif valable. Comment survivre à ce cauchemar ? L’auteur, Jules-Yeboua Igbrago, nous raconte la terrible catastrophe de la caserne d’Agban à travers les yeux d’un jeune migrant confronté aux risques et embûches de la migration.
America's Economic Moralists
Since colonial times, two discernable schools have debated major issues of economic morality in America. The central norm of one morality is the freedom, or autonomy, of the individual and defines virtues, vices, obligations, and rights by how they contribute to that freedom. The other morality is relational and defines economic ethics in terms of behaviors mandated by human connectedness. America's Economic Moralists shows how each morality has been composed of an ethical outlook paired with a compatible economic theory, each supporting the other. Donald E. Frey adopts a multidisciplinary approach, not only drawing upon historical economic thought, American religious thought, and ethics, but also finding threads of economic morality in novels, government policies, and popular writings. He uses the history of these two supported yet very different views to explain the culture of excess that permeates the morality of today's economic landscape.
