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In honor of this famous literary work, we had a student essay competition where undergraduate and PhD students submitted essays related to I R.U.R. i , robots, artificial life, and/or artificial intelligence. This special issue of I Artificial Life i journal presents some of the best papers of the Conference on Artificial Life ALIFE 2021, which was originally scheduled to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on July 19-23. I wish to thank all of the reviewers and meta-reviewers who contributed to the review process of both the conference proceedings and this special issue and without whom a successful conference would not have been possible. [Extracted from the article]

Seeking to combat southern proslavery ideologues, abolitionists pointed out that nations abolishing slavery hardly ever slipped into disaster or dislocation. By the early nineteenth century, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands had begun to end slavery, and, as Abbott demonstrates convincingly, black and white abolitionists in the United States watched these changes in geopolitics with intense interest. $89.99 cloth $29.99 paper Utilizing traditional historical sources, many of which have been digitized, Abbott offers scholars a deeply researched and well-crafted narrative of how international antislavery movements shaped the thinking of American activists. [Extracted from the article]

Wendy Warren’s deeply researched New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America depends on investigation of handwritten texts rather than the several new databases about slavery and the slave trade. Warren has tracked down references in the extant literature and added research in unpublished court cases, wills, probate inventories, and private papers in New England as well in London. With her ability to convert a line or two in a court deposition or a will into an argument about the nature of New England slavery, Warren successfully circumvents the illegibility of the archive. The theme of this highly accessible study is how the immoral conjunction of cultivating staple crops for export and racialized slavery reshaped the entire Atlantic world, beginning with a fateful exchange of goods and people between the Caribbean and New England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

$105.00 cloth $35.00 paper $34.99 pdf In this ambitious book, Sewell argues that the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France led to the rise of civic equality and its triumph in the Revolution. The philosophes Voltaire, Denis Diderot, the Abbé Morellet, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau took advantage by publishing attacks on the privileges and restrictions of the old régime, which they saw as violating civic equality and hindering economic growth. [Extracted from the article]

In sum, Winchell's ethnography offers a provocative regional corrective to state-centered analyses of the mas paradigm of pro-Indian rhetoric, institutional centralization, and highland land-reform efforts, which together have disrupted local customs and alienated Quechua farmers and mine workers in the region. $85.00 cloth $29.95 paper and e-book Anchored in Bolivia's highland Quechua-speaking region of Ayopaya, Winchell's book offers a fascinating ethnography of local experiences, perceptions, and reactions to Bolivia's heralded "plurinational" project under President Evo Morales (2006-2019). [Extracted from the article]

By bringing these histories together, I Biotic Borders i is an important intervention into ideas about immigration and the function of race and species in nation-building. $95.00 cloth $30.00 paper In I Biotic Borders i , Shinozuka investigates how immigration exclusion affected both race and species during the rise of the U.S. nation-state. Thus, the management of species at the U.S. border, as Shinozuka demonstrates, was predicated on the racial logics of exclusion that governed immigration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [Extracted from the article]

If Chayes had taken history (and economics) seriously, she might have written a thoughtful and persuasive analysis that could have bolstered her thesis that America has entered a new Gilded Age. $28.95 cloth $16.00 paper The era between the New Deal and the Reagan Revolution was, according to Chayes, a period of enlightened democracy and restrained capitalism: The franchise was extended to previously excluded groups. [Extracted from the article]

The contract was signed by eighty-three witnesses in the parish of Notre Dame de la Peine, Angoulême, in southwestern France, on December 9, 1764. The groom was in the process of becoming a schoolmaster, while the bride's brother Gabriel Ferrand was in the same trade, suggesting (to this reviewer, anyway; Rothschild does not mention it) that the couple met each other through Gabriel. Estienne Allemand (later called Allemand Lavigerie or just Lavigerie) lived to the east of Notre Dame de la Peine, in the parish of St. Antonin, near the rue de la Cloche Verte. [Extracted from the article]

The groom was in the process of becoming a schoolmaster, while the bride's brother Gabriel Ferrand was in the same trade, suggesting (to this reviewer, anyway; Rothschild does not mention it) that the couple met each other through Gabriel. The contract was signed by eighty-three witnesses in the parish of Notre Dame de la Peine, Angoulême, in southwestern France, on December 9, 1764. Estienne Allemand (later called Allemand Lavigerie or just Lavigerie) lived to the east of Notre Dame de la Peine, in the parish of St. Antonin, near the rue de la Cloche Verte. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson: 1740-1766," the first volume in a series, edited by John W. Tyler and Elizabeth Dubrulle, is presented.

By Manfred Stede and Jodi Schneider (University of Potsdam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 40), 2018, xvi+175 pp; paperback, ISBN 978-1-68173-459-0; ebook, ISBN 978-1-68173-460-6; doi:10.2200/S00883ED1V01Y201811HLT040. [Extracted from the article]

Illinois i , even though the Supreme Court's affirmation of state warehouse regulation remains the single best-known warehouse-related event in American history. Orenstein is right to observe that foreign-trade foreign trade zones challenge conventional assumptions about national sovereignty, labor standards, and supply chains. For Orenstein, as for historians of capitalism, capitalism is a monster abstraction that no individual, group, or institution can check. [Extracted from the article]

That said, Rakove, channeling his inner Madison, saliently stresses that "control of the government depend[s] on control of the presidency" (397). Rakove and Sheehan provide a telling indication in their introduction: "The early readers of I The Federalist i would not have cared which author wrote any particular essay" (1). Their formidable intellects and breadth of experience are such that "nothing equals [ I The Federalist i ] in analytic breadth and conceptual power."[3] In a similar vein, we will come to believe that the I Companion i , though not in any sense exhaustive or definitive, will become an essential resource for those who care deeply about matters constitutional. [Extracted from the article]