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This book addresses the long-standing global issue of poverty. An introductory chapter explores concepts and definitions of poverty, the subsequent chapters providing detailed examinations of poverty in ten different countries: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands, The Philippines and Zimbabwe.
Each chapter follows a consistent format, to facilitate comparison and focuses on the following issues: -
* the socio-economic and historical context within which poverty exists
* the extent and nature of poverty
its causes
* the measures that...

In many areas of the world, there has been an earlier indigenous population, which has been conquered by a more recent population group. This book examines the treatment of indigenous populations from five continental areas: Africa (Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe); Australasia and New Zealand; Central and South America (Brazil, Mexico); Europe (Scandinavia, Spain) and North America. It shows that, regardless of whether the newer immigrants became the majority population, as in North America, or the minority population, as in Africa, there are many similarities in how the indigenous peoples were...

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage...