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- The pitfalls of cultural consciousness
- In "The Empire Fights Back," a lecture delivered at Harvard University, (1) Chinua Achebe hints that his novel, Things Fall Apart, was conceived, among other reasons, as a response to the misrepresentations of Africa in some Westerner stories. He mentions Joseph Conrad and Joyce Cary, whose stereotypical images of Africa...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Racial categories and the politics of difference in late imperial Russia
- The past two decades have produced a virtual explosion in academic interest in racial theory and the history of race and racism. Historians, literary critics, and moral philosophers have published a staggering number of books, articles, and journals and organized countless conferences, symposia, and seminars devoted to these themes. The...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- What History Tells Us About America's Future
- Harvard's Niall Ferguson is a well known and controversial historian who often looks into the financial past to plot parallels with contemporary times. Lately Ferguson has warned of a coming decline in the West and particularly in the US -- see his 2006 book The War of the World:...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Books received
- Adkins, Lisa, and Beverley Skeggs (eds.). Feminism After Bourdieu. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 258 pp. Amesbury, Richard. Morality and Social Criticism: The Force of Reasons in Discursive Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 214 pp. Andrew, Barbara S., Jean Keller, and Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.). Feminist Interventions in Ethics...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- 2003 Ad
- Aberth, John, A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film. New York, Routledge, 2003. xi, 332 pp. Adorno, Theodor W. (ed., Rolf Tiedemann; trans. Rodney Livingstone, and others) Can One Live after Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader. Palo Alto, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xxvii, 525 pp. Agnew,...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Modernity and post-colonialism: the Heart of the Empire
- As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to reread it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which and together with which the dominating discourse acts. In the counterpoint of Western classical...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
- Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1998. xv, 575 pp. $59.95 cloth, $20.00 paper. In the fifty years after 1940, the English-language historical literature of...
- Research articles 1999-08-01
- Jump Start Your Online Empire
- Starting a business - Starting an online business isn't as easy as you'd think. However, there are ways that can limit your investments and help you make a profit quicker than usual. Yes, you read that right. There are ways to jump start your online empire. The average time it...
- White papers 2008-05-16
- Who Is Corporate America's Evil Empire?
- There's always been an evil empire - an aggressive, oppressive, predatory, monopolistic company - which everyone loved to hate. Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco are all in the past. Lately, it's hard to tell. Is it Google? Exxon-Mobil? Wal-Mart? Apple? by Steve Tobak
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
Additional Resources
- KILL BW1376, MO-EMPIRE-DIST-ELECTRIC, and KILL BW1457, MO-CQN-EMPIRE-DIST-ELEC
- Please KILL BW1376 (MO-EMPIRE-DIST-ELECTRIC), The Empire District Electric Company Declaration of Dividends, which ran on Business Wire at 11:13 ET on 06/08/1999. Also KILL the CORRECTION, BW1457 (CQN-MO-EMPIRE-DIST-ELEC), The Empire District Electric Company Corrects Headline, which ran on Business Wire at 12:25 ET on 06/08/1999. REPLACE with BW1493...
- Research articles 1999-06-08
- The Empire District Electric Company and Aquila, Inc. File with MPSC for Order Authorizing Sale
- JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Empire District Electric Company (NYSE:EDE), The Empire District Gas Company, and Aquila, Inc. today filed with the Missouri Public Service Commission MPSC seeking an order authorizing the sale, transfer, and assignment of certain assets and liabilities from Aquila to The Empire District Gas Company. The Empire...
- Research articles 2005-11-08
- UtiliCorp to acquire Empire District Electric company for 27.6 times earnings
- The Deal: In another move towards regional utility consolidation, UtiliCorp United has agreed to acquire is neighbor, Empire District Electric Company, for $505 million in cash and stock. Terms of the deal call for UtiliCorp to pay $29.50 in cash or stock for each Empire share, representing a 39% premium...
- Research articles 1999-05-17
- Congress investigating Empire Blues. (Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield)
- The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is looking into the management and financial condition of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, whose financial reserves stood at only $46.3 million in Oct 1992. Unless Empire is given financial relief by tThe Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is looking into the management...
- Research articles 1992-12-28
- Empire names former CIGNA exec. as new CEO. (Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Robert O'Brien)
- Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield has hired former CIGNA Employee Benefits Co Pres Robert O'Brien as its new chief executive officer. The selection of O'Brien shows Empire Blues' commitment to becoming a managed care company in the future. While at CIGNA,Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield has hired former...
- Research articles 1993-08-23
- Empire Blues propose measures to control cost. (Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, health care cost control)
- The financially troubled Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield Empire Blues has proposed a health care cost control plan for New York State. The plan includes banning medical self-referrals, capping medical fees and preventing health insurers from denying pThe financially troubled Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield Empire Blues has...
- Research articles 1993-02-22
- High drama at Senate hearing on Empire Blues. (Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield)
- The testimony given at the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation's hearings on the financial difficulties of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield seemed to single out suspended Empire Blues CFO Jerry Weissman for blame. Subcommittee Chmn Sen Sam NunnThe testimony given at the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation's hearings on...
- Research articles 1993-07-12
- Shooting war over Empire heats up. (Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield)
- The boards of directors and senior executives of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield have denied allegations that criminal activities brought the health insurer to the brink of bankruptcy. Empire Blues CFO Jerry Weissman denied testimony by auditor Maroa VaThe boards of directors and senior executives of Empire Blue Cross...
- Research articles 1993-07-05
- N.Y. Dept. bars rate increase for Empire in 1994. (New York State Department of Insurance, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield)
- New York State Insurance Commissioner Salvatore Curiale said that the Department of Insurance will not grant any more rate increases to Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield for 1994. Curiale told Empire Blues CEO Robert O'Brien that the department has negateNew York State Insurance Commissioner Salvatore Curiale said that the...
- Research articles 1993-10-11
- Cardone slaps Empire with $100M suit. (Albert Cardone, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield)
- Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, its board of directors and New York State Insurance Superintendent Salvatore Curiale are being sued for $100 million by former Empire Blues CEO Albert Cardone. Cardone apparently resigned in 1993 as a result of allegatioEmpire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, its board of directors...
- Research articles 1994-06-27
- Empire Resorts and Concord Associates Terminate Merger Agreement; Company Obtains Release from Issuing 18 Million Shares
- MONTICELLO, N.Y. -- Empire Resorts, Inc. ("Empire") (NASDAQ: NYNY) announced today that on December 30, 2005 Empire and Concord Associates Limited Partnership mutually agreed to terminate a March 2005 agreement relating to the acquisition by Empire of the Concord and Grossinger's resorts in Sullivan County, New York. As a result...
- Research articles 2006-01-03
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