Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race

Lincoln and Race Big Enough to Be Inconsistent results from George M. Fredrickson’s Du Bois lectures at Harvard University in November 2006. This widely recognized historian of race and racism died in February 2008. His principal work, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in A...

Tennessee\u27s Private Prison Act of 1986: An Historical Perspective With Special Attention to California\u27s Experience

In 1918 James H. Wilkins proudly proclaimed that crime was on the wane. Speaking at the end of a long career in California\u27s state prison system, Wilkins had seen the presumed eradication of the opium habit among State prisoners, the reduction and sup-posed elimination of corporal punishment in the State\u27s prisons,and the introduction of the parole system. He wrote: All this tends to material betterment in the present condition and future out-look of prison populations .... It is a long cry before our prisons, jails and other like institutes of detention will bear upon their rusty gates the legend closed for want of inmates. But we are heading in the right direction, and in that direction I trust society will persevere. We, however, live in another time. Today, few share Wilkins\u27unabashed optimism for the possibility of reforming America\u27s prisons and their inhabitants. Far more common now is the concern that past and present experiments in prison reform have proven too costly. The dominant mood today is that prison management should be more cost-effective. At a time when all social services are under review, state prison expenses are experiencing especially close scrutiny. Within this context, private, for-profit prisons are viewed as a possible alternative.\u2

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898

Repressive reconciliation One (white, Protestant) nation, under God In the first two chapters of Edward J. Blum\u27s Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898, northern opinion leaders during Reconstruction are aflame with redefining th...

The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era

The Politics of the Civil War Era Liberal Republicanism as a Movement Liberal Republican is a term narrowly associated with the presidential election of 1872. Andrew L. Slap\u27s book is concerned with much more than that. At the outset, he orients the reader, explaining that his ...

Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War

Modern memories Essay collection reflects the elusive legacy of the War Legacy of Disunion is a book of essays by twelve different authors, all concerned with modern memories of the nation\u27s most horrific conflict. Susan-Mary Grant, a Reader in American History at the Univ...

Implementation considerations for Big Data Analytics (BDA) : a benefit dependency network approach

The benefits of Big Data Analytics (BDA) are substantial in instances where organisations manage to successfully implement analytical capabilities. These benefits include improved, data driven decision-making, which can lead to deeper insight into business operations and as a result better performing organisations. Not surprisingly, an increased number of organisations are researching best implementation practices for BDA projects. Similar to software projects, research has shown that many BDA projects fail or do not deliver the business value as promised. To address this issue, the main objective of this research is to identify BDA implementation considerations for new BDA endeavors that will help organisations to align their BDA efforts with their overall business strategy to maximize business value. Based on a Benefit Dependency Network (BDN) model as main theoretical underpinning, a structured literature review was conducted focusing on investment objectives, business benefits, enabling changes and IT enablers when implementing BDA. A BDA implementation requires a holistic approach by considering aspects such as the skills of people which will have an impact on the structure of the organisation, business processes and technology changes to deliver benefits and investment objectives. Each of the domains of the BDN should be considered prior to BDA implementations. The research offers a guideline to organisations implementing BDA, based on the foundation of BDN.http://link.springer.combookseries/558hj2021Informatic

Information Warfare and New Organizational Landscapes: An Inquiry into the ExxonMobil–Greenpeace Dispute over Climate Change

A defining characteristic of the emergence of new organizational landscapes is that information is not just being used as a tool by organizations, as it is more usually understood, but also as a weapon in a ?war of position?. As organizations seek to influence public perception over such emotive issues as climate change, conflict at the ideation level can give rise to information warfare campaigns. In this article, we analyse the ways in which ExxonMobil and Greenpeace employ distinctive informational tactics against a range of diverse targets in their dispute over the climate change debate. The purpose of this article is to advance the neo-Gramscian perspective on social movement organizations as a framework for understanding such behaviour. We argue that information warfare is likely to become common as corporations and non-governmental organizations are increasingly sensitive to their informational environment as a source of both opportunity and possible conflict