The silk interest and the fiscal-military state

This chapter examines the relationship between the silk industry in eighteenth-century Britain and the fiscal-military state, specifically with Customs and Excise

People vs. things: the Worshipful Company of Weavers and regulation in eighteenth-century London

This paper compares the efforts of the Worshipful Company of Weavers in London to control the movement of technology and textiles with its more laissez - faire management of migrant weavers, over the long eighteenth century. From the introduction of the engine loom in the 1670s, the Weavers’ Company regulated new technology in the London textile industries. The Company was involved in stopping weaving tools from leaving England for other European countries, such as Spain. It was even more effective in lobbying Parliament to have foreign cottons and silks banned from England in order to protect London producers. The Company also controlled access to French silk designs seized by customs officers. By contrast, it made no formal attempts to regulate the movements of textile workers, either in or out of London. It allowed large number of Huguenot and Irish workers to enter the textile industry. In times of unemployment, many weavers left London often signing up for military service; they faced no restrictions on their movement and often re - entered the textile trades at a later date. The Company helped organise campaigns against ‘foreign’ textiles but allowed foreign - born weavers to work in London, often ignoring xenophobic campaigns from journeymen. This paper suggests that that the difference between the regulation of things and people can be understood in terms of the particular regime of ‘proto - globalization’ in the eighteenth century, and the differences in importance between technology and the tacit knowledge of artisans

The Character of the Solar Wind, Surface Interactions, and Water

We discuss the key characteristics of the proton-rich solar wind and describe how it may interact with the lunar surface. We suggest that solar wind can be both a source and loss of water/OH related volatiles, and review models showing both possibilities. Energy from the Sun in the form of radiation and solar wind plasma are in constant interaction with the lunar surface. As such, there is a solar-lunar energy connection, where solar energy and matter are continually bombarding the lunar surface, acting at the largest scale to erode the surface at 0.2 Angstroms per year via ion sputtering [1]. Figure 1 illustrates this dynamically Sun-Moon system

Fragmentation, Frustrated Revolt, and Off-Shore Opportunity: A Comparative Examination of Jihadi Mobilization in Central Asia and the South Caucasus

This research presents analysis for identifying common risk and resilience factors that contributed to or hindered Salafi jihadi mobilization of citizens of Central Asia and the South Caucasus and examines the extent to which these factors had differing internal and external outcomes on Salafi jihadi mobilization. Three levels of analysis provide examination of regime characteristics, behavior of jihadi organizations that mobilized individuals from the region, and case studies through interviews in communities affected by jihadi mobilization in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia. This research reveals that early distinctions in Islamist subnational struggles had oriented violence towards governments within Central Asia, while neighboring struggles in the North Caucasus oriented jihadi participants from Azerbaijan and Georgia largely towards external authorities in the north. Further, this research suggests that the dual phenomena of domestic jihadi manifestation of violence and foreign fighter mobilization to external theatres are inversely related and affected by the patterns of jihadi organizational displacement, co-location with larger entities engaged in conflict abroad, and expansion of organizations seeking new members within these external jihadi theatres. Additionally, state behavior, including state coercive capacity, solidification of elite cooperation, and regime legitimation through the construction of well-curated national identities, has served as a strengthening bulwark against jihadi organizational effectiveness internally in the region. Yet, interview data from this study indicates that state behavior has also engendered notable grievances among ethnic and religious minority populations in areas of jihadi foreign fighter origin. Despite these society-fragmenting perceptions of injustice, prejudice, and lack of trust in governance, grievances have not galvanized into viable sustained internal jihadi action throughout the region. Rather, this research suggests that punitive state pressures on outgroups and patterns of economic migration across the entire population have contributed to a venting process that limits the potential manpower available for internal violent agendas. Yet this same venting process presents some individuals avenues for jihadi mobilization, strengthening the recruitment possibilities for offshore jihadi organizations

Oft Forgotten Leadership Fundamentals

A vital function of the military leader is to influence the behavior of his subordinates in ways that will impel them to successfully complete the mission. Through experience, the effective leader acquires the necessary skills to fashion a unit into a cohesive organization intent on fulfilling the stated goals

Who Will Be With You When I Go Away? : When I\u27m Far Away From You

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Terrorism Is?

When one speaks of terrorism it is nor always dear just what one has in mind. The term has no precise and completely accepted definition. Some countries label those who engage in violent acts against them as \u27\u27terrorists.·• Freedom fighters rarely label them• selves in such a way, but they often claim they are subjected to governmental terror. In short, the definition of terrorism seems to depend on point of view-it is what the \u27bad guys\u27 do.\u27\u27