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  • 1
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    Social media intelligence (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139381338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23/1
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    QP 650
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Consumers / Research ; Social media ; Marketing / Social aspects ; Internet marketing / Social aspects
    Abstract: In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to political campaigns continuously monitor online opinions in an effort to guide their actions. Are consumers satisfied with our product? How are our policies perceived? Do voters agree with our platform? Measuring online opinion is more complex than just reading a few posted reviews. Social media is replete with noise and chatter that can contaminate monitoring efforts. By knowing what shapes online opinions, organizations can better uncover the valuable insights hidden in the social media chatter and better inform strategy. This book can help anyone facing the challenge of making sense of social media data to move beyond the current practice of social media monitoring to more comprehensive use of social media intelligence
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    Speech communities (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139151269
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 190 pages)
    Series Statement: Key topics in linguistic anthropology
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    DDC: 306.44
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    ES 120
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Interkulturelle Kommunikation ; Languages in contact ; Speech / Social aspects ; Communities / Social aspects ; Intercultural communication ; Speech and social status ; Sociolinguistics ; Ethnolinguistik ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachgemeinschaft ; Sprachgemeinschaft ; Soziolinguistik ; Ethnolinguistik
    Abstract: What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech communities are not organized around linguistic facts but around people who want to share their opinions and identities; the language we use constructs, represents and embodies meaningful participation in society. This book focuses on a range of speech communities, including those that have developed from an increasing technological world where migration and global interactions are common. Essential reading for graduate students and researchers in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. What are speech communities?; 2. Representing speech communities; 3. Constructing speech communities; 4. The African-American speech community; 5. Youth communities: the hip-hop nation; 6. Voice and empowerment in gender and sexuality; 7. Online speech communities; 8. Language in and out of the classroom; 9. Performance and play in speech communities; 10. Power, ideology and prejudice
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  • 3
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    The power of feasts : from prehistory to the present (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107337688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 426 pages)
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    DDC: 394.2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Festivals ; Fasts and feasts ; Food supply / Social aspects ; Food supply / Political aspects ; Agriculture and politics
    Abstract: In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of the practice from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times. This study explores recurring patterns in the dynamics of feasts as well as linkages to other aspects of culture such as food, personhood, cognition, power, politics, and economics. Analyzing detailed ethnographic and archaeological observations from a wide variety of cultures, including Oceania and Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia, Hayden illuminates the role of feasts as an invaluable insight into the social and political structures of past societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Before the feast : overview of the importance of feasting -- Food sharing and the primate foundations of feasting behavior by Suzanne Villeneuve -- Simple hunter/gatherers -- Transegalitarian hunter/gatherers -- Domesticating plants and animals for feasts -- The horticultural explosion -- Chiefs up the ante -- The first states -- Feasting in industrial societies
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  • 4
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    The social evolution of human nature : from biology to language (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107295179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
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    DDC: 302
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    ES 415
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Social evolution ; Cognition / Social aspects ; Social psychology ; Soziale Evolution ; Sprache ; Sozialpsychologie ; Soziale Evolution ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sprache
    Abstract: This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us with far more interesting answers. He discusses the core problem of how we can understand language evolution in terms of inclusive fitness theory, and investigates how scientific and conceptual insights can be integrated into one explanatory framework, which he contrasts with the alternative Cartesian-derived framework. He then explores the differences between these explanatory frameworks with reference to co-operation and conflict at different levels of biological organization, the evolution of communicative behaviour, the human mind, language, and moral behaviour. His book will interest advanced students and scholars in a range of subjects including philosophy, biology and psychology
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The major evolutionary transitions and Homo loquens -- 2. The conceptual foundation of human nature -- 3. Inclusive fitness theory and genomic imprinting -- 4. Evolution, teleology, and the argument from design -- 5. Dualism, monism and evolutionary psychology -- 6. Weismann, Wittgenstein and the homunculus fallacy -- 7. Language evolution : doing things with words versus translating thought into language -- 8. Moral behaviour : a conceptual elaboration of Darwin's ideas -- 9. Epilogue
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  • 5
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    An exiled generation : German and Hungarian refugees of revolution, 1848-1871 (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107110335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages)
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    DDC: 305.83/1009034
    RVK:
    NP 2720
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    NP 5904
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1848-1871 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Revolutions / Social aspects / Europe / History / 19th century ; Germans / Migrations / History / 19th century ; Hungarians / Migrations / History / 19th century ; Exiles / History / 19th century ; Political refugees / History / 19th century ; Deutscher Flüchtling ; Revolution ; Flüchtling ; Ungarischer Flüchtling ; Ungarische Revolution ; Exil ; Europa ; Schweiz ; Türkei ; USA ; Europe / History / 1848-1849 ; Switzerland / Social conditions / 19th century ; Turkey / Social conditions / 19th century ; England / Social conditions / 19th century ; United States / Social conditions / 19th century ; Schweiz ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Osmanisches Reich ; Ungarn ; Württemberg ; Baden ; Ungarische Revolution ; Revolution ; Deutscher Flüchtling ; Ungarischer Flüchtling ; Geschichte 1848-1871 ; Schweiz ; Osmanisches Reich ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Deutscher Flüchtling ; Ungarischer Flüchtling ; Exil ; Geschichte 1848-1871 ; Baden ; Württemberg ; Revolution ; Flüchtling ; Ungarn ; Ungarische Revolution ; Flüchtling
    Abstract: Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions. While exile is often presented as an individual challenge, Tóth studies its collective aspects in the realms of the family and of professional and social networks. Exploring the interconnectedness of these areas, she argues that although we often like to sharply distinguish between labor migration and exile, these categories were anything but stable after the revolutions of 1848–9; migration belonged to the personal narrative of the revolution for a broad section of the population. Moreover, discussions about exile and amnesty played a central role in formulating the legacy of the revolutions not only for the émigrés but for their social environment and, ultimately, the governments of the restoration
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: "Our story belongs to you" -- Leaving -- "What good does it do to ruin our family?" -- Exile as a profession, professions in exile -- The roots of the uprooted : émigré networks -- Returning -- Conclusion
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  • 6
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    Emotional and sectional conflict in the antebellum United States (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107706453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)
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    DDC: 303.6097309/034
    RVK:
    HD 472
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    NP 6013
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    NP 6032
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1815-1860 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865) ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / Political aspects / United States / History / 19th century ; Slavery / Social aspects / United States / History / 19th century ; Sectionalism (U.S.) / History / 19th century ; Emotions / Social aspects / United States / History / 19th century ; Emotions / Political aspects / United States / History / 19th century ; Social conflict / United States / History / 19th century ; Gefühl ; Sklaverei ; Konflikt ; USA ; United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Causes ; United States / Social conditions / To 1865 ; United States / Politics and government / 1815-1861 ; USA ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Gefühl ; Konflikt ; Geschichte 1815-1860
    Abstract: The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it culminated in disunion and war. Emotions from indignation to jealousy were inextricably embedded in antebellum understandings of morality, citizenship, and political affiliation. Their arousal in the context of political debates encouraged Northerners and Southerners alike to identify with antagonistic sectional communities and to view the conflicts between them as worth fighting over. Michael E. Woods synthesizes two schools of thought on Civil War causation: the fundamentalist, which foregrounds deep-rooted economic, cultural, and political conflict, and the revisionist, which stresses contingency, individual agency, and collective passion
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Finding the heart of the sectional conflict -- Prologue: Slavery, sectionalism, and the affective theory of the Union -- Part I. Emotion and the Growth of Sectional Political Identities -- Free labor, slave labor, and the political economy of happiness -- Managed hearts and unmanageable slaves -- Jealousy and the sectionalization of emotional styles -- Part II. Emotion and the Mobilization of Sectional Coalitions -- Indignation and the fitful growth of mass antislavery sentiment, 1820-1856 -- Indignation and the Northern mobilization for war, 1856-1861 -- Political jealousy and Southern radicalism from nullification to secession -- Mourning and the mobilization of reluctant secessionists, 1860-1861 -- Epilogue: Reconstructing the affective theory of the Union
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    Masters, slaves, and exchange : power's purchase in the Old South (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107110236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
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    DDC: 306.3/620975
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    NW 8295
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Slavery / Economic aspects / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Slavery / Social aspects / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Slaves / Southern States / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Slaveholders / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Plantation owners / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Exchange / Social aspects / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Consumer behavior / Social aspects / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Paternalism / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Southern States / Economic conditions / 19th century
    Abstract: This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters. The slaves' internal economy focused intense paternalist negotiation on a ground where categories of exchange - provision, gift, contraband, and commodity - were in constant flux. At once binding and alienating, these ties endured constant moral stresses and material manipulation by masters and slaves alike, galvanizing conflict and engendering complex new social relations on and off the plantation
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  • 8
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    Towards a knowledge society : new identities in emerging India (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107588349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 379 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/330954
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    LC 13385
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Information society / India ; Knowledge economy / India ; Information technology / Social aspects / India ; Soziale Identität ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Indien ; Indien ; Indien ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Soziale Identität
    Abstract: This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the processes of construction of new social identities therein are studied. This book delineates both the hope and despair, as produced with the arrival of the knowledge society, and identifies the scope and conditions of alternative choice and liberation for the people within the emerging socio-economic order of this society. Rich in empirical data, this monograph will interest students, researchers, teachers, policy planners and social activists
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : conceptualising knowledge society : critical dimensions and ideal image -- Critiquing and contextualising knowledge society -- Strategising for knowledge society in India : the shifting backdrops and emerging contexts -- Education for knowledge society in India -- Information and communication technologies for knowledge society -- Indian growth story : service and knowledge dynamics -- Education, ICTs and work : the divergent empirical reality -- knowledge society : work, workers and work relations -- knowledge society : culture, continuity and contradictions -- Conclusion : marginality, identity, fluidity and beyond
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  • 9
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    Consumerism and the emergence of the middle class in Colonial America : the genteel revolution (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139540612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    DDC: 306.30973/09033
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    NW 7600
    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Consumption (Economics) / Social aspects / United States / History / 18th century ; Middle class / United States / Economic conditions / 18th century ; Consumer behavior / United States / History / 18th century ; USA
    Abstract: This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the 'emulation thesis', a common assumption that wealthy elites led fashion and culture change while middling sorts only followed, Hodge shows how middling consumers were in fact discerning cultural leaders, adopting genteel material practices early and aggressively. By focusing on the rise and emergence of the middle class, this book brings new insights into the evolution of consumerism, class, and identity in colonial America
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    Origins of possession : owning and sharing in development (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139424608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages)
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    DDC: 306.3/2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Psychologie ; Property / Social aspects ; Property / Psychological aspects ; Possessiveness ; Self-actualization (Psychology) ; Self-actualization (Psychology) in children ; Besitz ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sozialphilosophie ; Besitz ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sozialphilosophie
    Abstract: Human possession psychology originates from deeply rooted experiential capacities shared with other animals. However, unlike other animals, we are a uniquely self-conscious species concerned with reputation, and possessions affect our perception of how we exist in the eyes of others. This book discusses the psychology surrounding the ways in which humans experience possession, claim ownership, and share from both a developmental and cross-cultural perspective. Philippe Rochat explores the origins of human possession and its symbolic development across cultures. He proposes that human possession psychology is particularly revealing of human nature, and also the source of our elusive moral sense
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Psychology: Principles of Human Possession: 1. Experiencing possession; 2. Claiming ownership; 3. Possession and ownership transfer; 4. Symbolic spinoffs of possession; Part II. Development: Human Ontogeny of Possession: 5. First possession; 6. Ownership in development; 7. Sharing in development; Part III. Culture: Human Possession in Context: 8. Culture and possession; 9. Possession in children across cultures; Conclusion: great transformation
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    Science and human experience : values, culture and the mind (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107337879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages)
    Uniform Title: Essays
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science / Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? Written by Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, this book places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience. Widely considered to be a highly original thinker, Cooper has written and given talks on a large variety of subjects, ranging from the relationship between art and science, possible limits of science, to the relevance of the Turing test. These essays and talks have been brought together for the first time in this fascinating book, giving readers an opportunity to experience Cooper's unique perspective on a range of subjects. Tackling a diverse spectrum of topics, from the conflict of faith and science to whether understanding neural networks could lead to machines that think like humans, this book will captivate anyone interested in the interaction of science with society
    Description / Table of Contents: Part One. Science and Society: 1. Science and human experience; 2. Does science undermine our values?; 3. Can science serve mankind?; 4. Modern science and contemporary discomfort : metaphor and reality; 5. Faith and science; 6. Art and science; 7. Fraud in science; 8. Why study science? The keys to the cathedral; 9. Is evolution a theory? A modest proposal; 10. The silence of the second; 11. Introduction to Copenhagen; 12. The unpaid debt -- Part Two. Thought and Consciousness: 13. Source and limits of human intellect; 14. Neural networks; 15. Thought and mental experience : the Turing test; 16. Mind as machine : will we rubbish human experience?; 17. Memory and memories: a physicist's approach to the brain; 18. On the problem of consciousness -- Part Three. On the Nature and Limits of Science: 19. What is a good theory?; 20. Shall we deconstruct science?; 21. Visible and invisible in physical theory; 22. Experience and order; 23. The language of physics : on the role of mathematics in science; 24. The structure of space; 25. Superconductivity and other insoluble problems; 26. From gravity and light to consciousness : does science have limits?
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    The Golem at large : what you should know about technology (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107589049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Canto classics
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    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1986-1995 ; Gesellschaft ; Technology / Social aspects / Case studies ; Technologie ; Katastrophe ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Krieg ; Risiko ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Gesellschaft ; Techniksoziologie ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Katastrophe ; Risiko ; Geschichte 1986-1995 ; Gesellschaft ; Techniksoziologie ; Technologie ; Krieg ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften
    Abstract: In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not evil, can be dangerous because it is clumsy. In this second volume, the authors now consider the Golem of technology. In a series of case studies they demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science described in the first volume. The case studies cover the role of the Patriot anti-missile missile in the Gulf War, the Challenger space shuttle explosion, tests of nuclear fuel flasks and of anti-misting kerosene as a fuel for airplanes, economic modeling, the question of the origins of oil, analysis of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the contribution of lay expertise to the analysis of treatments for AIDS.
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    Constructing race : the science of bodies and cultures in American anthropology (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511996443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages)
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    DDC: 305.80097309/04
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    Keywords: Boas, Franz ; Century of Progress International Exposition / (1933-1934 / Chicago, Ill.) / Exhibitions ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Physical anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Race / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century ; Somatotypes / United States / History / 20th century ; Race awareness / United States / History / 20th century ; Racism in anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog ; USA ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Boas, Franz 1858-1942 ; Rasse ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race, anthropology, and the American public : an introductory essay -- 2. Franz Boas and race : history, environment, heredity -- 3. Order for a disordered world : The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? : Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- 7. Alternatives to race? : ethnicity, genetics, biology -- 8. Conclusion
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    The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511819582
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 329 Seiten)
    DDC: 306/.3
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Commerce / Social aspects ; Economic anthropology ; Commerce / History ; Rohstoff ; Gütermarkt ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Rohstoff ; Gütermarkt
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511819582
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    The family in Roman Egypt : a comparative approach to intergenerational solidarity and conflict (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511894558
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) , Illustrationen, Karten
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    DDC: 306.8509456/32
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Families / Rome ; Römerzeit ; Familie ; Rom ; Rome / Social conditions ; Rome / Social life and customs ; Rome / Civilization ; Ägypten ; Hochschulschrift 2010 ; Hochschulschrift 2010 ; Ägypten ; Römerzeit ; Familie
    Abstract: This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters and the census returns provide us with a wealth of information on these people not available for any other region of the ancient Mediterranean. The book discusses such things as family composition and household size and the differences between urban and rural families, exploring what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic considerations and/or individual preferences by setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern societies where families adopted such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Intergenerational solidarity and family support networks in cross-cultural perspective -- 2. Household structures, marriage patterns and inheritance strategies -- 3. Balancing benefits and obligations: parental love and filiat pietry over the life course -- 4. Widowhood, remarriage and residence patterns -- 5. Growing old in the household -- 6. The patriarchal household and the incoming daughter-in-law -- 7. Childless old age: the worst of all fates? -- 8. Conclusions
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    The third industrial revolution in global business (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139236706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative perspectives in business history
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    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Internet / Social aspects ; Information technology / Social aspects ; Industrial revolution ; Weltwirtschaft ; Technische Innovation ; Industrielle Revolution ; Digitale Revolution ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Digitale Revolution ; Industrielle Revolution ; Technische Innovation ; Weltwirtschaft
    Abstract: The essays in this volume probe the impact the digital revolution has had, or sometimes failed to have, on global business. Has digital technology, the authors ask, led to structural changes and greater efficiency and innovation? While most of the essays support the idea that the information age has increased productivity in global business, the evidence of a 'revolution' in the ways industries are organized is somewhat more blurred, with both significant discontinuities and features which persist from the 'second' industrial revolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Technological revolutions and the evolution of industrial structures : assessing the impact of new technologies on the size, pattern of growth, and boundaries of firms / Giovanni Dosi [and others] -- The long-run dynamics of big firms : the 100 largest employers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan : 1907-2002 / Howard Gospel and Martin Fiedler -- The long-term evolution of the knowledge boundaries of firms : supply and demand perspectives / Pamela Adams, Stefano Brusoni, and Franco Malerba -- Organizing the electronic century / Richard N. Langlois -- Aircraft and the third industrial revolution / Andrea Prencipe -- Aluminum and the third industrial revolution / Margaret Graham -- The role of the state in the third industrial revolution : continuity and change / Andrea Colli and Nicoletta Corrocher -- Celebrating youth : historical origins of the U.S. stock market's appetite for novelty / Mary A. O'Sullivan -- Labor in the third industrial revolution : a tentative synthesis / Stefano Musso -- A tentative conclusion / Louis Galambos
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    A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900 (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139344333
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 127
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    DDC: 306.874/3096761
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 700-1900 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Motherhood / Political aspects / Uganda / History / To 1890 ; Motherhood / Social aspects / Uganda / History / To 1890 ; Mothers / Uganda / Social conditions ; Mutterschaft ; Uganda ; Uganda ; Mutterschaft ; Sozialgeschichte 700-1900
    Abstract: This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region
    Description / Table of Contents: Writing precolonial African history: words and other historical fragments -- Motherhood in north Nyanza, eighth through the twelfth century -- Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early Buganda and south Kyoga, thirteenth through the fifteenth century -- Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga and east Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century -- Contesting the authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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    Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Key themes in ancient history
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    DDC: 304.2/30937
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Space and time / Social aspects / Greece ; Space and time / Social aspects / Rome ; Cultural geography / Greece ; Cultural geography / Rome ; Raum ; Gesellschaft ; Griechenland ; Rom ; Greece / Civilization / To 146 B.C. ; Rome / Civilization ; Römisches Reich ; Griechenland ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Raum ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts, physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Inheriting and articulating a community: the agora at Cyrene; 2. Networks of polytheism: spaces for the gods at Delos; 3. Spaces of alienation: street-lining Roman cemeteries; 4. A spatial approach to relationships between colony and metropolis: Syracuse and Corinth; 5. The place of Greece in the oikoumene of Strabo's Geography; Conclusion: space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds
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    The Hindu family and the emergence of modern India : law, citizenship and community (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139795364
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
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    DDC: 306.850954
    Keywords: Geschichte 1914-1956 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Families / India / History / 21st century ; Hindus / India / Social life and customs ; Hindus / Legal status, laws, etc ; Patriarchy / India ; Women / India ; Familienrecht ; Indien ; Indien ; Indien ; Familienrecht ; Geschichte 1914-1956
    Abstract: Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Making the modern Indian family : property rights and the individual in Colonial Law -- Financing a new citizenship : the Hindu family, income tax and political representation in late-colonial India -- Wives and property or wives as property? : the Hindu family and women's property rights -- The Hindu code bill : creating the modern, Hindu legal subject -- B.R. Ambedkar's Code Bill : caste, marriage and post-colonial Indian citizenship -- Family, nation and economy : establishing a post-colonial patriarchy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: law members involved with the Hindu code bill 1941-56 -- Bibliography
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    Making Citizens in Africa : Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.)
    Series Statement: African Studies
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    DDC: 323.60963
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1991- ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General ; Gesellschaft ; Citizenship Social aspects ; Political participation Social aspects ; Language policy ; Politik ; Soziale Situation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Ethnische Identität ; Äthiopien ; Äthiopien ; Ethnische Identität ; Soziale Situation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Äthiopien ; Politik ; Geschichte 1991-
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    Attitudes to language (2012)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 257 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Gesellschaft ; Sprache ; Language awareness ; Language and languages Variation ; Sociolinguistics ; English language Variation ; English language Social aspects ; Language attitude ; Soziolinguistik ; Werturteil ; Gesellschaft ; Sprachwandel ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachwandel ; Gesellschaft ; Werturteil ; Language attitude
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    Sociolinguistics and contemporary French (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511620768
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 263 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Französisch ; Gesellschaft ; French language / Social aspects ; French language / Social aspects / Foreign countries ; Sociolinguistics ; Französisch ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachgeografie ; Französisch ; Soziolinguistik ; Französisch ; Sprachgeografie
    Abstract: This book deals with the ways in which French is used in different circumstances and settings in France and abroad, with the language attitudes of French speakers and with language policy. It is concerned to examine not only the linguistic data, but also the social, political and economic environment in which contemporary French is used. At the same time it offers an introduction to contemporary sociolinguistic theory, methods and results. After a brief historical introduction and a review of approaches to regionalism, Professor Ager looks at such questions as the conflicts between standard French and regional languages such as Breton, the changing role of French in the world; the distinctiveness of social and professional varieties such as the language of the working class, scientists or immigrants and language variation correlating with interactional factors such as formality or medium. A final chapter deals with language attitude, language policy and language planning. This volume sets language information in its social context and shows how to investigate and evaluate both language variation and the social and political reaction to it
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    Voices of the people in nineteenth-century France (2012)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 296 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge social and cultural histories 18
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    DDC: 398.20944
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Folklore / Social aspects / France ; Oral tradition / France ; Marginality, Social / France / History / 19th century ; Frankreich ; France / Social conditions / 19th century
    Abstract: This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people – peasants, fishermen, textile workers – in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized. David Hopkin explores the ways in which people used traditional genres such as stories, songs and riddles to highlight problems in their daily lives and give vent to their desires without undermining the two key institutions of their social world – the family and the community. The book addresses recognized problems in social history such as the division of power within the peasant family, the maintenance of communal bonds in competitive environments, and marriage strategies in unequal societies, showing how social and cultural history can be reconnected through the study of individual voices recorded by folklorists. Above all, it reveals how oral culture provided mechanisms for the poor to assert some control over their own destinies
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: folklore and the historian -- 1. Storytelling in a maritime community: Saint-Cast, 1879-1882 -- 2. The sailor's tale: storytelling on board the North Atlantic fishing fleet -- 3. Love riddles and family strategies: the Dâyemans of Lorraine -- 4. Storytelling and family dynamics in an extended household: the Briffaults of Montigny-aux-Amognes -- 5. Work songs and peasant visions of the social order -- 6. The visionary world of the Vellave lacemaker -- Conclusion: between the micro and the macro
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    Headhunting and the body in Iron Age Europe (2012)
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    ISBN: 9781139016971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 259 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Headhunters / Europe ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Europe ; Human remains (Archaeology) / Europe ; Rites and ceremonies / Europe ; Violence / Europe ; Iron age / Europe ; Kopf ; Verehrung ; Kopfjäger ; Eisenzeit ; Europa ; Europe / Social life and customs ; Europe / Religious life and customs ; Europa ; Europa ; Eisenzeit ; Kopfjäger ; Kopf ; Verehrung
    Abstract: Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide 'head-cult', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the complex and subtle relationships between power, religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Detached fragments of humanity -- 2. A remarkable spiritual continuity? -- 3. Shamans on the march -- 4. Pillars, heads, and corn -- 5. Neither this world, nor the next -- 6. From the dead to the living -- 7. Gods and monsters -- 8. Bodies of belief
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    Evening's empire : a history of the night in early modern Europe (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 431 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in European history
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Geschichte 1450-1750 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Night ; Night / Social aspects / Europe ; Nightlife / Europe ; Nachtleben ; Finsternis ; Kultur ; Literatur ; Nacht ; Kunst ; Nacht ; Europa ; Europe / Social life and customs ; Europe / History / 16th century ; Europe / History / 17th century ; Europa ; Europa ; Nacht ; Finsternis ; Nachtleben ; Geschichte 1450-1750 ; Europa ; Literatur ; Kunst ; Nacht ; Geschichte 1450-1750 ; Europa ; Kultur ; Nacht ; Geschichte 1450-1750
    Abstract: What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe. He shows how princes, courtiers, burghers and common people 'nocturnalized' political expression, the public sphere and the use of daily time. Fear of the night was now mingled with improved opportunities for labour and leisure: the modern night was beginning to assume its characteristic shape. Evening's Empire takes the evocative history of the night into early modern politics, culture and society, revealing its importance to key themes from witchcraft, piety, and gender to colonization, race, and the Enlightenment
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An early modern revolution -- 2. Darkness and the devil, 1450-1650 -- 3. Seeking the Lord in the night, 1530-1650 -- 4. Princes of darkness: the night at court, 1600-1750 -- 5. "An entirely new contrivance": the rise of street lighting, 1660-1700 -- 6. Colonizing the urban night: resistance, gender and the public sphere -- 7. Colonizing the rural night? -- 8. Darkness and enlightenment -- 9. Conclusion
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511977695
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    The condition of the working-class in England in 1844 (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511792700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. British and Irish history, 19th century
    Uniform Title: Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England
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    DDC: 305.5620942
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1842 ; Geschichte 1842-1844 ; Geschichte 1842-1845 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Working class / England / History / 19th century ; Arbeiterklasse ; Wirtschaft ; Soziale Situation ; Gesellschaft ; England / Social conditions / 19th century ; England / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1842-1844 ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1842-1845 ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1842 ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Frederich Engels (1820–1895) was a German businessman and political theorist renowned as one of the intellectual founders of communism. In 1842 Engels was sent to Manchester to oversee his father's textile business, and he lived in the city until 1844. This volume, first published in German in 1845, contains his classic and highly influential account of working-class life in Manchester at the height of its industrial supremacy. Engels' highly detailed descriptions of urban conditions and contrasts between the different classes in Manchester were informed from both his own observations and his contacts with local labour activists and Chartists. Extensively researched and written with sympathy for the working class, this volume is one Engels' best known works and remains a vivid portrait of contemporary urban England. This volume is reissued from the English edition of 1892, which was translated by noted social activist Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky (1859–1932)
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Industrial Proletariat -- 2. The Great Towns -- 3. Competition -- 4. Irish Immigration -- 5. Results -- 6. Single Branches of Industry - Factory Hands -- 7. The Remaining Branches of Industry -- 8. Labour Movements -- 9. The Mining Proletariat -- 10. The Agricultural Proletariat -- 11. Attitude of the Bourgeoisie towards the Proletariat
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    Climate change, ethics and human security (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511762475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Klimaänderung ; Menschenrecht ; Human beings / Effect of climate on ; Human security ; Human rights ; Climatic changes / Social aspects ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltethik ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Umweltethik ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations. The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners concerned with the human dimensions of climate change, as well as to upper-level students in the social sciences and humanities interested in climate change
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    Ritual, belief, and the dead in early modern Britain and Ireland (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511778629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
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    DDC: 393.0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Funde ; Gesellschaft ; Funeral rites and ceremonies / Great Britain ; Funeral rites and ceremonies / Ireland ; Dead / Social aspects / Great Britain ; Dead / Social aspects / Ireland ; Human body / Social aspects / Great Britain ; Human body / Social aspects / Ireland ; Human remains (Archaeology) / Great Britain ; Human remains (Archaeology) / Ireland ; Totenglaube ; Sektion ; Heilmittel ; Leiche ; Bestattungsritus ; Volksmedizin ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Great Britain / Antiquities ; Ireland / Antiquities ; Irland ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Bestattungsritus ; Leiche ; Volksmedizin ; Heilmittel ; Totenglaube ; Sektion ; Geschichte 1500-1700
    Abstract: Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period. This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death: what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary beliefs and practices in early modernity
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Religious belief -- 3. Scientific belief -- 4. Social belief -- 5. Folk belief -- 6. Conclusions
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    Language, migration, and identity : neighborhood talk in Indonesia (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511778247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 221 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.4409598/26
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Anthropological linguistics / Indonesia / Semarang ; Sociolinguistics / Indonesia / Semarang ; Ethnicity / Indonesia / Semarang ; Language and culture / Indonesia / Semarang ; Communication and culture / Indonesia / Semarang ; Soziolinguistik ; Umgangssprache ; Bahasa Indonesia ; Semarang (Indonesia) / Ethnic relations ; Semarang (Indonesia) / Social life and customs ; Bahasa Indonesia ; Soziolinguistik ; Umgangssprache
    Abstract: While much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relationships, we know less about how this plays out interactionally in diverse transient settings. Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social relations in two urban spaces where linguistic and cultural diversity is the norm and where distinctions between newcomers and old timers changes regularly. How do people who do not share expectations about how they should behave build new expectations through participating in conversation? Starting from a view of language-society dynamics as enregisterment, Zane Goebel uses interactional sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication to explore how language is used in this contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations. It will be welcomed by researchers and students working in the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, the anthropology of migration and Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Long term processes of enregisterment; 3. Enregistering local practices and local spaces; 4. Linguistic signs, alternation, crossing and adequation; 5. Women, narratives, identity and expectations in ward 8; 6. Learning to become a good ward member; 7. Emerging identities in a monthly ward 8 male meeting; 8. Chineseness as deviance; 9. Language ideologies and practice in ward 5; 10. Conclusions
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