This chapter examines the historiography of the comparisons made between Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944) of Iran and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) of Türkiye in scholarship published in the three main languages connected to the United States (English), Türkiye (Turkish), and Iran (Persian). I focus on two events that Anglophone history has identified as sites of salient difference. First is the fact that Atatürk instituted a republic in Türkiye (1923), whereas Reza Shah continued monarchical rule in Iran under a new dynasty (1925). Second is the contrast between a harshly enforced nationwide ban on women’s veiling in Iran under Reza Shah and the absence of such a law in early republican Türkiye.

The final chapter explores the problems of agency and conformity among the enslaved at both individual and communal levels. I situate the Shepherd among ancient Mediterranean writers who understood enslaved persons to function as extensions of their own personae, as well as in conversation with Africana, feminist, postcolonial, and slavery studies on the agency of enslaved and possessed individuals. I suggest that God’s enslaved persons, as possessed instrumental agents of God, are imagined to be empowered by the enslaver to take particular actions and acquire particular virtues that contribute both to their enslaved obedience and their salvation. I then turn to the construction of a tower, the most lengthy visionary account in the Shepherd. Placed alongside Vitruvius’s On Architecture and Sara Ahmed’s scholarship, I argue that the Shepherd portrays the bodies of the enslaved as (ideally) uniformly shaped pieces of a monolithic ecclesiastical whole. Being “useful for the construction of the tower” is made manifest by how the various stones are shaped, reshaped, or rejected from being used to build a tower that is said to represent both God’s house and the Christian assembly itself.

This chapter provides a detailed account of the implementation of digital solutions in supply chains. It first presents four elements of sales & operations planning (S&OP): demand planning, supply planning, supply–demand consolidation, and profit and loss (P&L) analysis. Next, it details all crucial aspects of sales and operations execution (S&OE) such as demand forecasting, supply management, inventory management, and order and fulfillment management. Finally, it shows five classes of digital applications and links them to S&OP and S&OE.

On modern-day Grenada, African work is the most enduring and significant cultural inheritance of both enslaved and liberated Africans. Using oral narratives produced by M. G. Smith in 1952-3 and collected by this author between 2009 and 2023, Chapters 7, 8, and 9 complicate Smith's early twentieth century conceptualisation of African work as a surviving cultural practice of a large group of Ijesha-speaking Yoruba recaptives. Chapter 7 delineates Yoruba aspects of African work, arguing that some Yoruba influences can be located beyond the Ijesha. Yoruba cultures appealed to a diverse audience, leading to the Yorubisation of various African beliefs. Eventually, Yoruba-derived religious cultures came to be known as 'African' in response to local circumstances, such as the rejection of exogenously imposed labels by practitioners and the appeal from the broader African-descended population.

Chapter 3 highlights the centrality of Spain in the development of a particular kind of ‘professional revolutionary’ deployed by the Comintern in the late 1930s and 1940s. It focuses on the life of the Italian communist Ilio Barontini and follows his long militancy within the anti-fascist front. Barontini, unlike most Europeans of his generation, had been confronted with violent fascism since the early 1920s. Nevertheless, the Spanish Civil War marks a watershed in his life, as it was in Spain that he refined his skills as a fighter. But Spain influenced Barontini’s trajectory in a political sense, too, as it was during the period of intense fighting at Guadalajara in early 1937 that fellow volunteers in the Italian brigade began to discuss the need to bring the anti-fascist fight to the colonial front as well. In the following years, Barontini went both to fight and to train new recruits in Ethiopia, France, and Italy. In this way, the chapter offers a glimpse of one way in which anti-fascism and anti-imperialism connected in this period.

Chapter 2 situates the Buchanan v. Warley case and the conflict over Louisville’s racial zoning ordinance in the historical context of African American movements for civil rights and racial justice, often collectively called the Long Black Freedom Movement. It describes the drive to create residential segregation in Louisville as part of white supremacists’ efforts to establish a residential apartheid in the awful depths of post-Emancipation oppression of Blacks. It weaves human stories of racial justice activism into a social and legal history of the Buchanan case and its aftermath. This history gives insight into how racial justice movements emerge and grow despite the persistence of white supremacy, insight that is particularly relevant to a much-needed racial reckoning in the American land-use system.

Northern Ireland typifies a highly constrained government. In this case, institutional constraints on the British government lead to a strategy of concession in which transition justice is offered to appease the demands of strong domestic constituencies without a genuine attempt to reckon with past wrongdoings by the British state. By engaging transitional justice for some emblematic cases and not others, the government further propagates the sectarian divisions that legitimate British control. The chapter begins with a discussion of the conflict in Northern Ireland and outlines the wrongdoings committed by the British state. I then evaluate the concessionary strategy that accommodates only certain demands for state accountability. Next is an evaluation of that strategy in practice through a focus on public inquiries and the Historical Enquiries Team. These mechanisms showcase the way certain events and experiences have been thoroughly investigated and adjudicated while other incidents have been obstructed or ignored. To explore the strategy beyond Northern Ireland, I examine transitional justice in the Central African Republic.

In the Introduction, the key considerations, scope, and structure of the book are outlined. The chapter sets the stage for a comprehensive exploration of Mind Datafying Technologies (MDTs) and their regulatory landscape. The primary themes and objectives are introduced, providing readers with an understanding of what to expect in the subsequent chapters.