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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: 22 cm
    Edition: Reprinted; [Nachdr. der Ausg. Calcutta] 1881
    Uniform Title: Tabaqāt-i Nāṣirī 〈engl.〉
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    Keywords: Islamic Empire ; History
    Note: First published, 1881, in the Bibliotheca Indica series, by Asiatic Society of Bengal
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  • 2
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    Paris : École Française d'Extrème-Orient
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    ISBN: 9782855396583 , 9782855396590
    Language: English , French
    Series Statement: Études thématiques 22
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    Keywords: Buddhism Foreign public opinion 19th century ; History ; Buddhism Foreign public opinion 20th century ; History ; National characteristics, Tibetan ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tibet ; Kultur ; Tibetischer Buddhismus ; Rezeption ; Westliche Welt ; Japan ; China ; Geschichte 1800-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Papers in English or French, summaries in English and French
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  • 3
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    New York ; London :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
    ISBN: 978-1-03-257492-9 , 978-1-03-257298-7
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 234 Seiten.
    Edition: Fourth edition
    Series Statement: Themes in world history
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    DDC: 303.48/209
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Globalisierung ; Interkulturelle Kommunikation ; Internationale Politik ; Weltwirtschaft ; Wirtschaft. Geschichte ; Globalization History ; World history ; International economic relations History ; Economic history ; Human beings Migrations ; History ; International relations History ; Intercultural communication History ; Culture diffusion History ; Diseases and history ; Globalisierung. ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780226823683
    Language: English
    Pages: 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The life of ideas
    DDC: 339.2/2
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    Keywords: Grundeinkommen ; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Basic income History ; Basic income Philosophy ; History ; Economic assistance, Domestic History ; Economic assistance History ; Friedman, Milton 1912-2006 ; Garantiertes Mindesteinkommen ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Ideengeschichte
    Abstract: "A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities; for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't constrain capitalism. By appealing differently to different political sensibilities, basic income has persisted in the political imagination for centuries. In this deeply erudite and original work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora offer the first historical examination of basic income as a policy of convenience--and, critically, as an intellectual backstop for the shortcomings of capitalism. With modern origins in works of neoliberals like Friedrich Hayek, basic income was conceived as a form of market-friendly welfare state-a safety net around capitalism that wouldn't impinge on capitalism. Although neoliberals failed to make the idea a reality, they succeeded in seeding a fascination that would permeate all corners of late-century capitalism, from supply-side Democrats to neoclassical economists and barons of Silicon Valley. Basic income, Jäger and Zamora show, is no mere political sideshow. Amid societies' ongoing search for market-friendly utopianism, it may be a policy whose time has finally come."
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  • 5
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    Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY :The American University in Cairo Press,
    ISBN: 9781649032775 , 1649032773
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 309 Seiten ; , 24 cm.
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    Keywords: Egypt / Rural conditions ; Egypt ; 1800-1899 ; Land tenure / Egypt / History / 19th century ; Land tenure / Law and legislation / Egypt ; Peasants / Egypt / History / 19th century ; Land tenure ; Land tenure / Law and legislation ; Peasants ; Rural conditions ; History
    Abstract: "This book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or altogether forgotten. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, it argues that state policy targeting the peasant land tenure regime was informed by the dual economic principles of the Ottoman, or traditional, philosophy of statecraft, and that the workings of the relevant regulations did not produce extensive peasant land loss and impoverishment. Maha Ghalwash presents a rich, detailed analysis of such crucial issues as land legislation, tax impositions, the system of tax collection, modes of land acquisition, large-scale peasant abandonment of land, the emergence of surplus lands, the formation of large, privileged estates, distribution of village land, female land inheritance, and the nature of peasants' political activity. In investigating these issues, she highlights peasant voices, experiences, and agential power. Traditional interpretations of the rural history of nineteenth-century Egypt generally specify an avaricious state, so indifferent to peasant well-being that it consistently developed harsh policies that led to unremitting, extensive peasant impoverishment. Through an examination of the relationship between the absolutist state and the majority of its subject population, the peasant smallholders, during 1848-63, this study shows that these ideas do not hold for the mid-century period. State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt will be of interest to students of Middle East history, especially Egyptian rural history, as well as those of peasant studies, subaltern studies, gender studies, and Ottoman rural history."--
    Description / Table of Contents: The Land Laws -- Peasants and Taxes -- System of Tax Collection -- Land Tenure in Peasant Villages -- Peasant Women and Inheritance of Land
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  • 6
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    New Haven ; London :Yale University Press,
    ISBN: 978-0-300-26658-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 469 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln : , Illustrationen, Karten.
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    Keywords: Schottland ; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien ; Wales ; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.) ; Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Beziehungen, Arbeitsschutz und Gesundheitsschutz ; Europäische Geschichte ; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte ; HIS015070 ; HIS015090 ; HIS015100 ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century ; HISTORY / Social History ; History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
    Abstract: A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789355725677 , 9355725671 , 9789355725684 , 935572568X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 488 Seiten , Illustration, Karten , 24 cm
    DDC: 934.045
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    Keywords: Aśoka ; Aśoka - King of Magadha - active 259 B.C ; 324 B.C.-1000 A.D ; Inscriptions, Indic ; Inscriptions, Prakrit ; Inscriptions, Indic ; Inscriptions, Prakrit ; History ; India History 324 B.C.-1000 A.D ; India ; Aschokainschrift
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 467 - 484
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781640141087
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 249 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies in German literature linguistics and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Disability in German-speaking Europe
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Leskau, Linda, 1985 - Disability in German-Speaking Europe
    DDC: 305.9080943
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    Keywords: Discrimination against people with disabilities History ; People with disabilities Government policy ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet ; Behinderung ; Geschichte ; Deutsch ; Literatur ; Behinderung ; Geschichte 1909-2010 ; Deutschland ; Disability Studies ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and intellectual disability in particular - remaining largely unquestioned among many. Yet the understanding, depiction, and representation of disability is also clearly in a process of transformation. This volume analyzes that transformation, taking a close look at attitudes toward disability, understood as a "deviation" from what a non-disabled body should ostensibly be able to do and how it should look, in historical and contemporary German-speaking contexts. The volume begins with an overview of the emergence and growth of disability studies in German-speaking Europe against the background of the field's emergence a decade or so earlier in the US and UK. The differences in timing, methodology, and research concentrations bring into focus how each cultural context has shaped the field. Building on recent scholarship that uses a cultural studies approach, the volume's three sections analyze disability and ability constructs in history, memory, and culture. The essays in the history section examine the emotions, morality, and power as they are negotiated on the individual level. Those in the memory section grapple with the origins of the Nazi persecution of people with disabilities, the fight for recognition of this genocide, and the politics of its commemoration. Finally, the culture section offers close readings of disability in literary and filmic texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--
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  • 9
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    New York : Basic Books
    ISBN: 9780465049707
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 326 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Marktwirtschaft ; Free enterprise / History ; Capitalism / History ; Economic history ; Histoire économique ; Capitalism ; Economic history ; Free enterprise ; History ; Marktwirtschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so spectacularly. In 1990, the G7 Countries enjoyed 70 percent of world GDP. In the face of the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was supposed to be a story of the success of free markets. However, in the past thirty years, that number has dropped by half, and Asia has emerged as a major motor of world economic growth. Today, state-run China is the second biggest economy on earth, and tiny Singapore, with its state-owned companies, has become a new model of wealth creation. In other words, Milton Friedman's free market dogma, that only private companies can create wealth and that states hamper it, has not proved very clearly to be untrue. This book shows how we got to the current crisis of free market thought, and suggests how we can find our way out. Contrary to popular free market narratives, early market theorists believed that states had an important role in building and maintaining free markets. But in the eighteenth century, some free-market thinkers began insisting only pure free markets, without state intervention, could work. A tradition of free-market ideological brittleness emerged, and it has led orthodox free market economics to some spectacular failures. It is a paradox that an economic theory rooted in the idea of competition, adaptation and evolution, has refused to follow its own precepts. This book shows that we need to go back to the origins of free market thought in order to understand its dynamism, as well as its inherent weaknesses, and to develop new economic concepts to face the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century"
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9780813947358
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 326 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Reconsiderations in southern African history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Arndt, Jochen S., 1972- Divided by the word
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Arndt, Jochen S., 1972 - Divided by the Word
    DDC: 305.800968
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    Keywords: Language and culture History ; Zulu language History ; Zulu (African people) Ethnic identity ; Xhosa language History ; Xhosa (African people) Ethnic identity ; Missionaries History 19th century ; South Africa Ethnic relations ; History
    Abstract: Introduction -- "What Does Stick to People-More Than Their Language-Is Their Isibongo": Language and Belonging in South Africa's Deeper Past -- "Surrounded on All Sides by People That Differ from Them in Every Point, in Color . . . and in Language": The Birth of the "Caffre" Language Paradigm -- "All Speak the Caffre Language": Missionaries, Migrants, and Defining the Target Language for Bible Translation -- "Their Language Had an Affinity with That of Both of These Nations": African Interpreters, Métissage, and the Dynamics of Linguistic Knowledge Production -- "The Natives. In What Respects, If Any, Do They Differ from the Southern Caffres?": American Missionaries and the Zulu Question -- "To Speak Properly and Correctly, viz. Uku-Kuluma-Nje": Americans, Africans, and Zulu as a Superior Language -- "Many People . . . Explain This Identity Primarily in Terms of the Language They Speak": The Language-Based Zulu-Xhosa Divide in South African Consciousness -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: "This book argues that foreign missionaries and their African interlocutors deliberately forged separate Zulu and Xhosa languages in the nineteenth century, tracing the consequences of this imposed linguistic division through the twentieth century"--
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781629639178 , 1629639176
    Language: English
    Pages: 281 Seiten , illustrations, maps , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Spectre
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 330.12/2
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    Keywords: Capitalists and financiers History 20th century ; Capitalists and financiers History 21st century ; Island life History 20th century ; Island life History 21st century ; Rich people Social life and customs ; Free enterprise ; Utopias ; Technocracy ; Capitalism Social aspects ; Libertarianism Social aspects ; Capitalism ; Social aspects ; Capitalists and financiers ; Free enterprise ; Island life ; Rich people ; Social life and customs ; Technocracy ; Utopias ; History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index
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  • 12
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674275898 , 0674275896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 274 pages) , illustrations
    Uniform Title: Une brève histoire de l'égalité
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Piketty, Thomas, 1971 - A brief history of equality
    DDC: 305.5
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    Keywords: Einkommensverteilung ; Kapitaleinkommen ; Gerechtigkeitstheorie ; Geldmenge ; Geldschöpfung ; Geldtheorie ; Geldpolitik ; Equality History ; Social classes History ; Income distribution History ; Gleichheit ; Interesse ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Eigentum ; Besitz ; Kolonialismus ; Demokratisierung ; Equality ; Income distribution ; Social classes ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Note: First published in French as Une brève histoire de l'égalité, Éditions du Seuil, 2021 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781509540228 , 9781509540235
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Vermögensverteilung ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Entwicklung ; Industrialisierung ; Ideengeschichte ; Welt ; Economic development History ; Economic development ; History ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Vermögensverteilung ; Industrialisierung ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [226]-249
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  • 14
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    New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780197519646
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 406 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gerstle, Gary, 1954- Rise and fall of the neoliberal order
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gerstle, Gary, 1954 - The rise and fall of the neoliberal order
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gerstle, Gary, 1954 - The rise and fall of the neoliberal order
    DDC: 320.510973
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    Keywords: 1930-2020 ; Wirtschaftsliberalismus ; Weltwirtschaftsordnung ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; USA ; Neoliberalism History ; Conservatism History ; Capitalism Political aspects ; History ; Free enterprise ; United States Foreign economic relations ; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 ; United States Foreign relations 1989- ; USA ; Neoliberalismus ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2022
    Abstract: The epochal shift toward neoliberalism – a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces – that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world. To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world, Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the neoliberal order's fall, originating in the failed reconstruction of Iraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American left in the 2010s. An indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as America enters an uncertain future.
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  • 15
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    London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Publishing
    ISBN: 9781526605009 , 9781526646385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 444 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Arbeit ; Umwelt ; Freizeit ; Gleichheit ; Organisationsprinzip ; Produktivität ; Automation ; Work / History ; History ; Arbeit ; Automation ; Organisationsprinzip ; Produktivität ; Umwelt ; Gleichheit ; Freizeit
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  • 16
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    London : Routledge | London : Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 9781003141969
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 187 Seiten)
    DDC: 320.0973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 2000-2021 ; American dream ; Political science Philosophy 21st century ; History ; Economic development History 21st century ; American Dream History 21st century ; Income distribution History 21st century ; Coronavirus infections Economic aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and how to make it a reality for workers and their families in the 21st Century. Integrating political philosophy and the history of political thought with recent work in economics, political science, and sociology, this work calls for renewed political and policy commitment to Just Work. Such a commitment is essential to combat the negative moral externalities of an economy where the fruits of growth are increasingly claimed by a relatively small portion of the population: slower growth, rising inequality, declining absolute mobility, dying communities, the erosion of social solidarity, lack of faith in political leaders and institutions, exploding debt, ethnic and nationalist backlash, widespread hopelessness, and the rapid rise in what economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case call deaths of despair. As COVID-19 threatens to pour gasoline on these winner-take-all fires, further concentrating economic and political power in the hands of those best suited to withstand (and even profit from) the pandemic-driven economic crisis. In this book, the author provides a model for understanding the American Dream and making it a reality in a post COVID-19 economy. A tour de force, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of political philosophy, political economy, political theory, and economics, as well as for the layperson trying to make sense of the post-pandemic world"--...
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press
    ISBN: 9781526156099 , 9781526123299
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 259 Seiten , 22 cm
    Series Statement: Social histories of medicine
    DDC: 306.461
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    Keywords: Stress (Psychology) Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Stress management History 20th century ; Great Britain Social conditions 20th century
    Note: Originally published: 2019 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9780191873904 , 9780192573964 , 9780192573957
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 228 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als New developments in evolutionary innovation
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Innovation ; Innovationsmanagement ; Strategisches Management ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Theorie ; Technology History ; Technology Philosophy ; Economic development Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Evolutionary economics ; Economic development ; Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Evolutionary economics ; Technology ; Technology ; Philosophy ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Innovation
    Abstract: The growth of evolutionary thinking has had a profound impact on economic theory and related fields such as strategy and technological innovation. An important paradigm that underlies the evolutionary theory of innovation is neo-Darwinian evolution. According to this paradigm, evolution is gradualist and based on the mechanisms of variation, selection, and retention. Since the 1970s, theoretical advancements in evolutionary biology have recognised the central role of punctuated equilibrium, speciation, and exaptation. However, despite their significant influence in evolutionary biology, these advancements have been reflected only partially in evolutionary approaches to economics, strategy, and innovation. This book reviews these advancements and explores their implications, with a particular emphasis on the role of serendipity and unprestateability in innovation and novelty.
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  • 19
    ISBN: 978-1-003-00319-9 , 1-003-00319-2 , 978-1-000-36146-9 , 1-000-36146-2 , 9781-000-36152-0 , 1-000-36152-7 , 978-1-000-36149-0 , 1-000-36149-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 265 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.
    Series Statement: Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.309
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    Keywords: 2000-2099 ; Feminism / History / 21st century ; Sex role / History / 21st century ; Neoliberalism / History / 21st century ; Race / Political aspects ; Postcolonialism / Social aspects ; Post-communism / Social aspects ; Feminism ; Neoliberalism ; Sex role ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Postkolonialismus. ; Postkommunismus. ; Feminismus. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Postkolonialismus ; Postkommunismus ; Feminismus
    Abstract: "Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition - historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars"--
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    Woodbridge : James Currey, imprint of Boydell&Brewer
    ISBN: 9781847012807 , 1847012809
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 446 Seiten , Karte , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Eastern Africa series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kitunda, Jeremiah M. Kamba proverbs from Eastern Kenya
    DDC: 398.9963953
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    Keywords: Proverbs, Kamba ; Proverbs, Kamba History ; Proverbs, Kamba ; History
    Abstract: Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, characteristics, and worldviews of societies. While only a few hundred Kamba proverbs have ever appeared in print, thousands have circulated over time, from the monsoon exchange era of the Roman Empire through the advent of Islam, European imperialism and colonialism to independence. Today, a resurgence of interest in the form has been generated via social media, songs and vernacular radio programmes.0This book provides the first, comprehensive collection of Kamba proverbs from Eastern Kenya in their original K?kamba language and in translation. Analysing 2,000 proverbs drawn from oral interviews, archival collections, museum artefacts and published sources, the author traces the origins of each and explores their meaning, interpretation and use. Covering a diverse range of subjects that ranges from plants, animals, birds and insects, to weather, land, the roles of men and women, cosmology, ritual and belief, healing, trade, politics and peacemaking, the book offers new insights into Kenya's rural world and the expansion of Kamba society, East African history, language and culture of vital significance for the social sciences. A valuable comparative work for societal change elsewhere in Africa and beyond, the book also suggests an innovative, alternative approach to the study of the African past
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  • 21
    ISBN: 9780473567729 , 0473567725 , 9780473567736 , 0473567733
    Language: English
    DDC: 411.70954
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    Keywords: Karashima, Noboru ; Inscriptions Congress ; Art Congresses History ; Art ; Inscriptions ; Conference papers and proceedings ; History ; South India ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien Süd ; Inschrift ; Kunst ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "In October 2017, an international symposium was held in Paris as a tribute to Noboru Karashima who gave a new impetus to the study of South Indian and Tamil epigraphy. The contributions to this volume illustrate the wide range of related topics in the fields of archeology, epigraphy and history of art that were presented at the symposium. These domains, an integral part of classical studies, have generally been considered as distinct areas of research, however nobody can deny their mutual interdependence. The title of this volume 'Whispering of Inscriptions' is borrowed from one of Karashima's publications. Karashima, who himself was convinced of 'the importance of epigraphy in the task of historical reconstruction,' had 'noticed a defect in past studies in the field of socio-economic history, due to the arbitrary use of epigraphic evidence.' Karashima was of the view that historians should avoid arbitrary judgements and concluded his essay by saying: 'In sum, scholars of ancient and medieval South Indian history should be acquainted with inscriptions and listen honestly to their whisperings"
    Note: Titelblatt: Whispering of inscriptions, South Indian epigraphy and art history, papers from an international symposium in memory of Professor Noboru Karasima (Paris, 12-13 october 2017)
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    [Wallingford] : CAB International in association with team
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (5 Seiten) , Illustration
    Series Statement: Tourism Cases
    DDC: 306.36209667
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    Keywords: Kulturerbe ; Fallstudie ; Tourismus ; Sklaverei ; Ghana ; Slave trade / Ghana ; Slavery / Ghana ; African Americans ; Case studies ; Cultural heritage ; Heritage tourism ; Investment ; Capital outlay ; Slave trade heritage ; History ; Diaspora ; African-American ; Cultural roots ; Identity ; Campaign ; Events ; Festivals ; Blue Ridge music trails ; Cultural discovery ; Exploring the world ; Heritage, culture ; Communities and social ecosystems ; Destination strategy, planning ; Marketing ; Subsaharan Africa ; United States of America ; Ghana ; USA ; ACP Countries ; Anglophone Africa ; Africa ; Commonwealth of Nations ; Developing Countries ; West Africa ; Africa South of Sahara ; APEC countries ; Developed Countries ; North America ; America ; OECD Countries ; Ghana ; Tourismus ; Fallstudie ; Tourismus ; Ghana ; Tourismus ; Kulturerbe ; Sklaverei
    Abstract: The recent movements in the United States in favour of African-American rights have highlighted many issues, including a tragic aspect of the slave trade: that millions were robbed not only of their freedom in being transported to another continent but also of their heritage, including their language, their memories and their cultural traditions. Among West African countries involved in the transatlantic slave trade, Ghana was one of the most important and the Ghana Tourism Authority has recognized that a return to the continent of their roots may offer some consolation. In 2019, to mark the 400 years since enslaved black people first arrived in America, the GTA launched the 'Year of Return' campaign, honouring the resilience of black people around the world and encouraging them to return to Ghana to explore their roots and ancestry. The campaign was promoted and supported by many influencers and celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic. African Americans were invited to Ghana not only to honour their ancestors' memory, visit heritage sites, and enjoy the attractions such as the music, beaches and nightlife, but also to network and build connections longer term. A 'Beyond the Return' campaign has positioned Ghana as a land of opportunity for the global African family - whether in agriculture, real estate, creative arts or other fields - and it invites black people from around the world to invest socially and financially in the country. The authorities are committed to foster those international connections with simplified visa application process and offering the chance to obtain citizenship through special programmes
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9781787331280 , 9781787331297
    Language: English
    Pages: 354 Seiten , 24 cm
    DDC: 305.420922
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    Keywords: Feminism History ; Women Political activity ; History ; Großbritannien ; Feminismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [335]-338
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    Edinburgh : Canongate
    ISBN: 1786897261 , 9781786897268
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 578 Seiten , 20 cm
    DDC: 305.435
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    Keywords: Women in science History ; Women and the arts History ; Women and the arts ; Women in science ; History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 25
    ISBN: 978-1-138-31709-3
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 134 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 23 cm.
    Series Statement: Built environment city studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Glasgow (Scotland) / Corporation ; Great Britain ; 1900-1999 ; High-rise apartment buildings / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Housing / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; High-rise apartment buildings ; Housing ; History
    Abstract: "In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of World War II, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the hundreds of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the peoples' experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector. Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom"--
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    Book
    Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226670836 , 9780226559360
    Language: English
    Pages: 428 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.14
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1945 ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Wohltätigkeitsorganisation ; Solidarität ; Wohltätigkeit ; USA ; Voluntarism / United States / History ; Charity organization / United States / History ; Social service / United States ; Charity organization ; Social service ; Voluntarism ; United States ; History ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; USA ; Wohltätigkeit ; Solidarität ; Wohltätigkeitsorganisation ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte 1780-1945
    Abstract: "Civic Gifts traces how practices of reciprocity and organized mass benevolence-that is, philanthropy-have contributed to the development of novel forms of national solidarity and impressive governing capacities in the United States, contributing even to a famously anti-statist political culture. Sociologist Elisabeth Clemens paints a picture of the US, whether as nation or as state, as a puzzle. How, she asks, did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among the settlers? How did a global power emerge from an often anti-statist political culture? How did some version of this collective identity come to be articulated with organized governance? With Civic Gifts, Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of philanthropy and the power of gifts to mobilize communities and to create solidarity among strangers"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Principles of Association and Combination -- Civil War, Civic Expansion: The "Divine Method" of Patriotism -- Municipal Benevolence -- The Expansible Nation-State -- "Everything but Government Submarines": Limits of a Semi-governmental System -- In the Shadow of the New Deal -- The People's Partnership -- Good Citizens of a World Power -- Combinatorial Politics and Constitutive Contradictions
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Book
    New York :Oxford University Press,
    ISBN: 978-0-19-754519-5 , 978-0-19-753027-6
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 191 Seiten.
    Series Statement: Oxford studies in gender and international relations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.740941
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    Keywords: Great Britain ; Geschichte ; Prostitution / Great Britain / History ; Sex / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History ; Capitalism / Social aspects / Great Britain ; Queer theory ; Feminist theory ; Capitalism / Social aspects ; Prostitution ; Sex / Economic aspects ; Prostitution. ; Kapitalismus. ; Globalisierung. ; Großbritannien. ; History ; Prostitution ; Kapitalismus ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The book interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields that have often overlooked each other, international political economy and queer theory. It develops a queer political economy lens to understand how the history of capitalism has been intimately entangled with the history of sexuality. Yet central to this story has been the construction of sexuality as something that needs to be protected from capitalism's adulterating influence at all costs. As the author examines, this is no accident since capitalism profits greatly from the illusion that economic and sexual relations exist in distinct realms that can and must be kept apart. Focusing on the specific site of sex work in Britain, the volume draws on wide-ranging archival research to chart a genealogy of capitalist development from the Middle Ages to the present day. It shows that capitalism has long been organized around the extraction of unpaid sexual labor that, in turn, has been made possible by the creation and maintenance of a dualism between sex and work. By exposing the historical mechanisms through which the economy/sexuality dichotomy has been constituted, the book opens up new space for critical enquiry into the intersections between sex, work, and economic and sexual injustice"--
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    Online Resource
    Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226670973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (428 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 302.14
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1945 ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Solidarität ; Wohltätigkeitsorganisation ; Wohltätigkeit ; USA ; Voluntarism / United States / History ; Charity organization / United States / History ; Social service / United States ; Charity organization ; Social service ; Voluntarism ; United States ; History ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; USA ; Wohltätigkeit ; Solidarität ; Wohltätigkeitsorganisation ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte 1780-1945
    Abstract: "Civic Gifts traces how practices of reciprocity and organized mass benevolence-that is, philanthropy-have contributed to the development of novel forms of national solidarity and impressive governing capacities in the United States, contributing even to a famously anti-statist political culture. Sociologist Elisabeth Clemens paints a picture of the US, whether as nation or as state, as a puzzle. How, she asks, did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among the settlers? How did a global power emerge from an often anti-statist political culture? How did some version of this collective identity come to be articulated with organized governance? With Civic Gifts, Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of philanthropy and the power of gifts to mobilize communities and to create solidarity among strangers"--
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    Book
    Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity
    ISBN: 9781509511792 , 9781509511785
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 317 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Portraits , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Online version Reay, Barry Trans America
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2020 ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Transgender ; LGBT ; USA ; Transgender people / United States / History ; Gender identity / United States / History ; Gender identity ; Transgender people ; United States ; History ; USA ; LGBT ; Transgender ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Geschichte 1800-2020
    Abstract: "A history of trans before the "trans moment"--
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    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 9781978802261 , 9781978802247 , 9781978802254
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 207 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General ; Home offices Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Massenmedien ; Büroarbeit ; Heimarbeit ; Telearbeit ; Arbeitsplatz ; USA ; USA ; Arbeitsplatz ; Büroarbeit ; Heimarbeit ; Massenmedien ; Telearbeit ; Geschichte
    Abstract: How did Americans come to believe that working at home is feasible, productive, and desirable? Easy Living examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and mass media during the twentieth century. Through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries, Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times. Elizabeth A. Patton reveals that the notion of the home as a space that exists solely in the private sphere is a myth, as the social meaning of the home and its market value in relation to the public sphere are intricately linked
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    Washington, D.C : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
    ISBN: 9780884024651 , 0884024652
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: xxxix, 750 Seiten , Illustrationen , 27 cm
    Series Statement: Ex horto
    Series Statement: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies
    DDC: 635.0951
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    Keywords: Horticultural literature Translations into English ; Chinese literature Translations into English ; Gardens, Chinese In literature ; Gardens in literature ; Landscapes in literature ; Plants in literature ; Gardens, Chinese History ; Gardens History ; Landscape gardening History ; Chinese literature ; Gardens ; Gardens, Chinese ; Gardens in literature ; Horticultural literature ; Landscape gardening ; Landscapes in literature ; Plants in literature ; China ; History ; Translations ; Anthologie Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2020 ; Quelle ; China ; Chinesisch ; Garten ; Literatur ; China ; Gartenkunst ; Literatur ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Its contents range from early poems using plant imagery to represent virtue and vice, through works from many dynasties on both private and imperial gardens, to twentieth-century prose descriptions of the reconstruction of a historic Suzhou garden. Most passages have been translated for this publication, but a number of previously published translations, some of which are now hard to find, are also included. The anthology is divided into nine chapters: five chronological, covering the pre-Qin period to the Qing dynasty; and four thematic, on rocks and flora, the evolution of a single site (Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou), gardens of the mind, and the interplay between garden and landscape as seen through Mount Tai and West Lake. An introductory essay positions Chinese gardens and garden literature in their cultural context. Care has been taken to translate plant names as accurately as possible (given the limitations of the sources), and the anthology includes a glossary showing translated names, Chinese names, and binomials"
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 32
    ISBN: 9780241956274
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxii, 1050 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten, Tafeln , Illustrationen, Karten , 20 cm
    Series Statement: An Allen Lane book
    Series Statement: Penguin history
    DDC: 910.45
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    Keywords: Seafaring life History ; Ocean and civilization History ; Trade routes History ; Navigation History ; Ocean Civilization ; History ; Trade routes History ; Navigation History ; Seafaring life History ; Ocean History ; Discoveries in geography ; Geography Ocean ; History ; Ocean and civilization History ; Meer ; Seeschifffahrt ; Geschichte
    Abstract: WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade. In the Atlantic, centuries before the little kingdom of Portugal carved out its powerful, seaborne empire, many peoples sought new lands across the sea - the Bretons, the Frisians and, most notably, the Vikings, now known to be the first Europeans to reach North America. As Portuguese supremacy dwindled in the late sixteenth century, the Spanish, the Dutch and then the British each successively ruled the waves.Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. From the earliest forays of peoples in hand-hewn canoes through uncharted waters to the routes now taken daily by supertankers in their thousands, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks came to form a continuum of interaction and interconnection across the globe: 90 per cent of global trade is still conducted by sea. This is history of the grandest scale and scope, and from a bracingly different perspective - not, as in most global histories, from the land, but from the boundless seas.
    Note: "First published in Penguin Books 2020" (Seite [iv]) , Frühere Ausgabe: "First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2019" (Seite [iv]) , Gesamttitel der Rückseite des hinteren Banddeckels entnommen , Auf der Vorderseite des vorderen Einbanddeckels: David Abulafia, winner of the Wolfson History Prize , Literaturangaben in Endnoten , Literaturverzeichnis "Further reading" Seite [913]-918 , Mit Verzeichnis "Museums with maritime collections" und Register
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    Book
    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 9781978802230 , 9781978802223
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 207 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Patton, Elizabeth, 1975 - Easy living
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Telearbeit ; Industriesoziologie ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Mediale Berichterstattung ; USA ; Home offices Social aspects 20th century ; History ; USA ; Arbeitsplatz ; Büroarbeit ; Heimarbeit ; Massenmedien ; Telearbeit ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "How did Americans come to believe that working at home is feasible, productive, and desirable? Easy Living examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and mass media during the twentieth century. Through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries, Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times. Elizabeth A. Patton reveals that the notion of the home as a space that exists solely in the private sphere is a myth, as the social meaning of the home and its market value in relation to the public sphere are intricately linked."
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 193-198
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    Book
    New York : Blue Rider Press
    ISBN: 9780735213159 , 9781524746834
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 583 Seiten , 24 cm
    Uniform Title: Facebook
    Parallel Title: Übersetzt als Levy, Steven, 1951 - Facebook - Weltmacht am Abgrund
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    DDC: 338.761/004678
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    Keywords: Facebook, Inc. ; Facebook (Firm) History ; Facebook (Firm) ; Facebook (Electronic resource) Social aspects ; Unternehmen ; Social Web ; Unternehmensgeschichte ; USA ; Facebook (Electronic resource) ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Entrepreneurship ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Social Aspects ; Social aspects ; History ; Facebook, Inc. ; Geschichte 2004-2019 ; Facebook, Inc. ; Kritik ; Technologieunternehmen ; Daten ; Macht
    Abstract: ZuckNet -- Ad-boarded -- Thefacebook -- Casa Facebook -- Moral dilemma -- The book of change -- Platform -- Pandemic -- Sheryl world -- Growth! -- Move fast and break things -- Paradigm shift -- Buying the future -- Election -- P for propaganda -- Clown show -- The ugly -- Integrity -- The next Facebook -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: "In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing 'fake news' accounts, the handling of its users' personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. Based on years of exclusive reporting and interviews with Facebook's key executives and employees, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Levy's sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences"--
    Note: Auf Seite [iv]: International Edition ISBN: 9781524746834 , Literaturangaben in Endnoten: Seite [533]-563 , Mit Register
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 9780367593889 , 0367593882
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 303 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    DDC: 333.3/23/094315509034
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    Keywords: Real property History ; Real property History ; Urbanization History ; Urbanization History ; Real property Sweden ; Stockholm ; History ; Real property Germany ; Berlin ; History ; Urbanization Sweden ; Stockholm ; History ; Urbanization Germany ; Berlin ; History ; Geschichte 1860-1920 ; Berlin ; Verstädterung ; Grundeigentum ; Immobilienwirtschaft ; Wohnungsmarkt ; Geschichte 1860-1920 ; Stockholm ; Verstädterung ; Grundeigentum ; Immobilienwirtschaft ; Wohnungsmarkt ; Geschichte 1860-1920 ; Berlin ; Stockholm ; Verstädterung ; Grundeigentum ; Immobilienwirtschaft ; Wohnungsmarkt ; Miete ; Geschichte 1860-1920
    Abstract: From the middle of the nineteenth century, most European cities experienced a period of unrivalled growth and development that forever changed not only their physical characteristics, but also their social foundations. As the great industrial cites were forced to face the new and unprecedented challenges of rapid urbanisation and increased population, they had to rethink many of the concepts on which previous city institutions had been based. One of the most fundamental of these was the role of house ownership, and the rights and responsibilities it offered. Exploring the social and political meanings attributed to property - specifically home ownership - this study looks at how these changed during the course of the modern city building process between 1860 and 1920. Focussing on two northern European capital cities, Berlin and Stockholm, it provides a symmetrical investigation that helps illuminate the competing factors that shaped the shifting nature of cityscapes and urban social structures.
    Note: First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing
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    ISBN: 9783631818695 , 9783631818701 , 9783631818718
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Literatur – Kultur – Ökonomie volume 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Futures past
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    Keywords: 1920-2017 ; Wirtschaftsprognose ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Zukunft ; History ; Macroeconomics ; Economic statistics ; Economic forecasting ; Economic history ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftsforschung ; Prognoseverfahren ; Wirtschaftsforschung ; Prognoseverfahren
    Abstract: Few areas in economics are as controversial as economic forecasting. While the field has sparked great hopes for the prediction of economic trends and events throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, economic forecasts have often proved inaccurate or unreliable, thus provoking severe criticism in times of unpredicted crisis. Despite these failures, economic forecasting has not lost its importance. Futures Past considers the history and present state of economic forecasting, giving a fascinating account of the changing practices involved, their origins, records, and their implications. By bringing together economists, historians, and sociologists, this volume offers fresh perspectives on the place of forecasting in modern industrial societies, thereby making a broader claim for greater interdisciplinary cooperation in the history of economics.
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    ISBN: 9781501738333 , 150173833X , 9781501739767 , 150173976X
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 281 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.
    Parallel Title: Online version Bradford, James Tharin, 1982- author Poppies, politics, and power
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    Keywords: Afghanistan ; Opium trade / Afghanistan / History ; Drug traffic / Afghanistan / History ; Drug control / Afghanistan / History ; Drug control ; Drug traffic ; Opium trade ; History
    Abstract: "This book is about the history of both the legal and illicit drug trade in Afghanistan, and the policies launched by the Afghan government to control the drug trade"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Colonial and global engagements : Afghan opium on the periphery of the global drug market -- The politics of prohibition : how diplomacy with the United States shifted the drug control paradigm in Afghanistan -- The consequences of coercion in Badakhshan : the 1958 prohibition of opium and the issue of culture in drug control policy -- East meets west : hippies, hash, and the globalization of the Afghan drug trade -- The Afghan connection : smuggling, heroin, and Nixon's war on drugs in Afghanistan -- All goods are dangerous goods : development, the global market, and opium in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan -- Epilogue
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    London ; Brooklyn, NY :Verso,
    ISBN: 9781788730266 , 1788730267
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 299 Seiten, : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.
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    Keywords: Israel ; Middle East / Palestine ; Construction industry / Palestine ; Stonemasonry / Palestine ; Stonemasons / Palestine ; Palestinian Arabs / Employment / Israel ; Arab-Israeli conflict / Economic aspects ; Labor supply / Palestine / History ; Construction industry ; Labor supply ; Palestinian Arabs / Employment ; Stonemasonry ; Stonemasons ; History
    Abstract: "They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine's largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle East countries and even more overseas. Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel, Ross's engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating, ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build out the state of Israel-in the process, constructing "facts on the ground"-even while the industry is central to Palestinians' own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For decades, the hands that built Israel's houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine-Israel conflict in a new light, this book asks how this record of achievement and labor can be recognized
    Description / Table of Contents: Conquest and manpower (historic Palestine) -- From kurkar to concrete and back (Jaffa/Tel aviv) -- Old and new facts -- Renovating the West Bank (Ramallah) -- City on a hilltop (Rawabi) -- Stones of Bethlehem (Jerusalem/Bethlehem) -- Extract, export, and extort (Beit Fajjar) -- Human gold (green line)
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108731720 , 9781107029316
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 422 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge classical studies
    DDC: 306.44/609378
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sprache ; Bilingualism History ; Sociolinguistics History ; Greek language, Medieval and late Dialects ; History ; Latin language Dialects ; History ; Greek language, Medieval and late Dialects ; Foreign elements ; Latin ; Latin language Dialects ; Foreign elements ; Greek ; Latin language Influence on Greek ; Greek language Influence on Latin ; Historical linguistics ; Antike ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachkontakt ; Italien ; Italy Languages ; Pre-Italic ; Sizilien ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Sizilien ; Antike ; Sprachkontakt ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Soziolinguistik
    Note: "Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic (Phoenician) interacted with the languages of the natives (the elusive Sicel, Sicanian and Elymian). The result of this ancient melting-pot was a culture characterised by 'postcolonial' features such as ethnic hybridity, multilingualism and artistic and literary experimentation. While Greek soon emerged as the leading language, dominating official communication and literature, epigraphic sources and indirect evidence show that the minority languages held their ground down to the fifth century BCE, and in some cases beyond. The first two parts of the volume discuss these languages and their interaction with Greek, while the third part focuses on the sociolinguistic revolution brought about by the arrival of the Romans"-- Provided by publisher. , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    [London] :Penguin Books,
    ISBN: 978-0-14-103221-4 , 0-14-103221-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 706 Seiten : , Diagramme ; , 20 cm.
    Series Statement: Penguin history economics
    DDC: 332.042
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    Keywords: Geschichte 2008-2018 ; Geschichte 2008-2017 ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Financial crises / Social aspects / History / 21st century ; Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) ; Financial crises ; Social aspects ; History ; Finanzkrise. ; Auswirkung. ; Eurozone. ; Finanzkrise ; Geschichte 2008-2018 ; Finanzkrise ; Auswirkung ; Geschichte 2008-2017
    Abstract: 'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees. Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674241176
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 361 Seiten , Diagramme , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Harvard East Asian monographs 425
    Series Statement: Harvard East Asian monographs
    DDC: 306.8740951/0903
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1644-1911 ; Kind ; Eltern ; Literatur ; Liebe ; China ; China / History / Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 / Sources ; Filial piety / China / History ; Filial piety in literature ; Chinese literature / Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; Chinese literature ; Filial piety ; Filial piety in literature ; Qing Dynasty (China) ; China ; 1644-1912 ; History ; Sources ; China ; Literatur ; Eltern ; Kind ; Liebe ; Geschichte 1644-1911
    Abstract: "Analyzes filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts from late Imperial China, including local gazetteers, biographical records, and fiction, to identify filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing texts and show the diversity of acts that constituted exemplary filial piety"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Taking filial love seriously -- Toward a new paradigm of emotions -- Changing constructions of filial virtue in local gazetteers -- Filial piety and the empowering of daughters during the Qing -- Rereading the sentimental world of Story of the Stone -- Rethinking interiority: mourning rites and the construction of the affective and ethical self in auto/biographical writings
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    ISBN: 9788193829127 , 8193829123
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 72 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 25 cm
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 954.87
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    Keywords: Rashtrakutas History ; Coinage History ; Coinage ; India ; History ; India History 324 B.C.-1000 A.D
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 71 - 72
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    ISBN: 9789004396289
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 280 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Porträt
    Series Statement: Afrika-Studiecentrum series volume 37
    Series Statement: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405882
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Crime, law and society in Nigeria
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    Keywords: Crime History ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; Nigeria Kriminalität ; Organisierte Kriminalität ; Geschichte ; Zeitgeschichte ; Kolonialzeit ; Strafrecht ; Nigeria Criminality/delinquency ; Organized crime ; History ; Contemporary history ; Colonial age ; Criminal law ; Illegaler internationaler Handel Menschenhandel ; Edo (State) ; Niger Delta ; University of Lagos ; Lagos (City) ; Hafen ; Rechtsordnung ; Illegal international trade Trafficking in human beings ; Ports ; Legal order ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Nigeria ; Kriminalität ; Strafjustiz
    Abstract: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction /Rufus Akinyele and Ton Dietz -- Stephen Ellis: His Life and Work /Gerrie Haar -- Theft in Early Colonial Lagos, 1861–1906 /Paul Osifodunrin -- Smuggling across the Nigeria: Benin Border and Its Impact on Nigeria’s Economic Development /Jackson A. Aluede -- Changing Patterns of Crime and Malfeasance in Nigerian Port Environments since the 1990s /Edmund Chilaka -- Nature and Management of Human Trafficking: The Nigerian Edo People’s Experience /Leo Enahoro Otoide -- Militancy and Criminality in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria /Abiodun Oluwadare -- Crime at the University of Lagos: Insights from Akoka Campus /Franca Attoh -- Reporting Crime in Contemporary Lagos /Samson Folarin -- Currency Counterfeiting and “Substantial Justice” in Colonial Nigeria: Rex vs Tijani Ali, 1931–33 /Ayodeji Olukoju -- Class Based Criminal Justice Regime, Supermarket Courts, and Illicit Interests: The Nigerian Criminal Justice Administration System in Critical Perspective /A.E. Akintayo -- Stephen Ellis, (2016) This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime. London: Hurst and Company /Ayodele Atsenuwa -- Back Matter -- Short CV Stephen Ellis -- Books -- Index.
    Abstract: This volume in honour of Stephen Ellis is a follow-up to the public presentation of his book on the history of organised crime in Nigeria This Present Darkness (Hurst, 2016) at the University of Lagos, Nigeria on 28 October 2016. In addition to four papers, and a book review presented at this colloquium, other contributions about crime in Nigeria have been added, written by Nigerian authors. In July 2015 Stephen died, and he has worked on This Present Darkness almost to his last moments, as a senior researcher of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. This book also contains a tribute to his life and work written by his wife and scholar Gerrie ter Haar. Contributors include: A.E Akintayo, Jackson Aluede, Franca Attoh, Ayodele Atsenuwa, Edmund Chilaka, Samson Folarin, Gerrie ter Haar, Ayodeji Olukoju, Abiodun Oluwadare, Paul Osifodunrin and Leo Enahoro Otoide
    Note: Stephen-Ellis-Bibliographie: Seite 28-30 , Literaturangaben, Register , Introduction , Stephen Ellis : his life and work , Theft in early colonial Lagos, 1861-1906 , Smuggling across the Nigeria-Benin border and its impact on Nigeria's economic development , Changing patterns of crime and malfeasance in Nigerian port environments since the 1990s , Nature and management of human trafficking : the Nigerian Edo people's experience , Militancy and criminality in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria , Crime at the University of Lagos : insights from Akoka campus , Reporting crime in contemporary Lagos , Currency counterfeiting and "substantial justice" in colonial Nigeria : Rex vs Tijani Ali, 1931-33 , Class based criminal justice regime, supermarket courts, and illicit interests : the Nigerian criminal justice administration system in critical perspective , Book review.: Stephen Ellis, (2016) This present darkness: a history of Nigerian organised crime , London: Hurst and Co
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    ISBN: 9780385542197
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 431 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Boas, Franz Influence ; Ethnology Study and teaching 20th century ; History ; Culture Study and teaching 20th century ; History ; Anthropologists Biography ; USA ; Anthropologe ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: Away -- Baffin Island -- "All is individuality" -- Science and circuses -- Headhunters -- American empire -- "A girl as frail as Margaret" -- Coming of age -- Masses and mountaintops -- Indian country -- Living theory -- Spirit realms -- War and nonsense -- Home.
    Abstract: "At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school of thought at Columbia University called cultural anthropology. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems -- from childrearing to how to live well -- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students were some of the century's intellectual stars: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now-classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic to the South Pacific and overturned the relationship between biology and behavior. Their work reshaped how we think of women and men, normalcy and deviance, and re-created our place in a world of many cultures and value systems. Gods of the Upper Air is a page-turning narrative of radical ideas and adventurous lives, a history rich in scandal, romance, and rivalry, and a genesis story of the fluid conceptions of identity that define our present moment"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    London : Reaktion Books
    ISBN: 9781789140798 , 178914079X
    Language: English
    Pages: 200 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 398.24/54
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    Keywords: Shapeshifting ; Animals, Mythical ; Monsters Social aspects ; History ; Animals, Mythical ; Shapeshifting ; History ; Literatur ; Lykanthropie
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    ISBN: 9789462988798
    Language: English
    Pages: 172 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    DDC: 398.22
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    Keywords: Arabian nights ; Orientalism History 18th century ; Arabian nights ; Orientalism ; Netherlands ; History ; Niederlande ; Alf laila wa-laila ; Orientalismus ; Orientalisierende Literatur ; Künste ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: Antoine Galland's French translation of the '1001 Nights' started appearing in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). Dutch orientalists privately owned editions of the 'Nights' and discreetly collected manuscripts of Arabic fairytales. In 1719 the 'Nights' were first retranslated into Dutch by the wealthy Amsterdam silk merchant and financier Gilbert de Flines (Amsterdam 1690 - London 1739). This book explores not only the trail of the French and Dutch editions from the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic and the role of the printers and illustrators, but also the mixed sentiments of embarrassment and appreciation, and the overall literary impact of the 'Nights' on a Protestant nation in a century when French cultural influence ruled supreme
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 159-166
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    ISBN: 9789381574898 , 9381574898
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 256 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 25 cm
    DDC: 954.1
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    Keywords: Diplomatic relations ; Economic history ; Northeastern India ; Southeast Asia ; Conference papers and proceedings ; History ; India, Northeastern Congresses Foreign relations ; Southeast Asia Congresses Foreign relations ; India, Northeastern Congresses Economic conditions ; India, Northeastern Congresses History ; Konferenzschrift ; Indien Nordost ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Note: Im Vorwort (Seite vi): "The present volume is the result of a National Workshop held in the Asiatic Society at Kolkata on 17-18 February, 2017."
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    Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, Central European University Press
    ISBN: 978-615-5053-29-0 , 9786155053146
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 213 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 302.23/0943
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    Keywords: Cross currents ; Geschichte 1980-1990 ; Periodicals Social aspects ; History ; Periodicals Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Mass media Social aspects ; History ; Mass media Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Transnationalism Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Social networks History 20th century ; Political culture History 20th century ; Kulturpolitik ; Communist countries Relations ; Europe, Central Relations ; Mitteleuropa ; Mitteleuropa ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1980-1990
    Abstract: "The proposed book takes one phenomenon, the reinvention of the idea of Central Europe in the mid-1980s, and demonstrates how its proponents developed a transnational set of practices connecting political-cultural journals with other media, disseminating this idea simultaneously in East and West. I use a range of new approaches and methodologies, including visualization of text corpora and mapping techniques, in order to reposition the political-cultural journal as one central node of a much larger cultural system. There is more at stake here than simply documenting the intellectual history of dissidents from this region in the late 1970s and 1980s, or the cultural politics that developed in their wake. By unearthing the legacy of Cold War-era border-crossing networks in the post-89 period, I show how the use of transnational, web-based media alongside of radio and print media follows the logic and practice of an earlier, 'dissident' generation of writers. Anyone who has followed the chain of electoral and economic challenges that the former satellite countries have faced over the last twenty years might ask what has happened to the liberal humanist philosophy that the term 'Central Europe' once evoked? This book follows its trajectories forward into the present day, reading both its material and intellectual traces in the post-socialist landscape"...Provided by publisher
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    ISBN: 9789462988798
    Language: English
    Pages: 172 Seiten , Illustrationen, Portraits
    DDC: 398.22
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    Keywords: Cuper, Gisbert ; Galland, Antoine ; Alf laila wa-laila ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Buchdruck ; Orientalisierende Literatur ; Kultur ; Niederlande ; Arabian nights ; Orientalism / Netherlands / History / 18th century ; Arabian nights ; Orientalism ; Netherlands ; History ; Galland, Antoine 1646-1715 ; Cuper, Gisbert 1644-1716 ; Alf laila wa-laila ; Niederlande ; Orientalisierende Literatur ; Buchdruck ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: Antoine Galland's French translation of the '1001 Nights' started appearing in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). Dutch orientalists privately owned editions of the 'Nights' and discreetly collected manuscripts of Arabic fairytales. In 1719 the 'Nights' were first retranslated into Dutch by the wealthy Amsterdam silk merchant and financier Gilbert de Flines (Amsterdam 1690 - London 1739). This book explores not only the trail of the French and Dutch editions from the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic and the role of the printers and illustrators, but also the mixed sentiments of embarrassment and appreciation, and the overall literary impact of the 'Nights' on a Protestant nation in a century when French cultural influence ruled supreme
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index
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    ISBN: 9783647364261 , 9783666364266
    Language: English , German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 26
    Series Statement: Sonderheft
    Series Statement: Geschichte und Gesellschaft / Sonderheft
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moral economies
    DDC: 174.4
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    Keywords: Kapitalismus ; Ethik ; Werturteil ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Geschichte ; Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects ; Case studies ; Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects ; History ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Economics ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie ; Moral ; Kapitalismus ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Économie politique ; Aspect moral ; Fallstudie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Wirtschaft ; Moral ; Kapitalismus ; Gefühl ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: Is there a moral economy of capitalism? The term "moral economy" was coined in pre-capitalist times and does not refer to economy as we know it today. It was only in the nineteenth century that economy came to mean the production and circulation of goods and services. At the same time, the term started to be used in an explicitly critical tone: references to moral economy were normally critical of modern forms of economy, which were purportedly lacking in morals. In our times, too, the morality of capitalism is often the topic of debate and controversy. "Moral Economies" engages in these debates. Using historical case studies from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries the book discusses the degree to which economic actions and decisions were permeated with moral, good-vs-bad classifications. Moreover it shows how strongly antiquity's concept of "embedded" economy is still powerful in modernity. The model for this was often the private household, in which moral, social, and economic behavior patterns were intertwined. The do-it-yourself movement of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was still oriented towards this model, thereby criticizing capitalism on moral grounds
    Note: Beiträger auf der letzten Seite genannt , Beiträge teilweise deutsch, teilweise englisch , Contributions in English or German, abstracts in English
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    Chicago, [Illinois] ; : The University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226493138
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (288 pages).
    Series Statement: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Parallel Title: Dodman, Thomas What nostalgia was
    Parallel Title: Print version Dodman, Thomas What Nostalgia Was : War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
    DDC: 302/.1
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    Keywords: Nostalgia-History ; Nostalgia-France-History-19th century ; Nostalgia-France-History-18th century ; France-History-1789-1900 ; Nostalgia History ; Nostalgia France ; History ; 19th century ; Nostalgia France ; History ; 18th century ; France History ; 1789-1900 ; Electronic books ; Frankreich ; Nostalgie ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Medizin ; Geschichte 1688-1914
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Nostalgia as a Historical Problem -- 1. Nostalgia in 1688 -- 2. The Reasons of a Passion -- 3. The Lost Pays of the Patrie -- 4. Mothers and Sons in the Time of Napoleonic War -- 5. Golden Age -- 6. Nostalgia in the Tropics -- 7. Ubi bene, ibi patria: Nostalgia Fin de Siècle -- Afterword: Nostalgia in History -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archival Sources -- Index.
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    New York : New York University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9781479800643
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white).
    Series Statement: Social transformations in American anthropology
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    Keywords: Imperial Airways History ; British Airways History ; British Airways ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Imperialismus ; Airlines History 20th century ; African diaspora History 20th century ; Westindien ; Great Britain Colonies 20th century ; Race relations ; History
    Abstract: 'Empire in the Air' is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along the transatlantic corridor of the African diaspora. Focusing on Britain and its Caribbean colonies, Chandra Bhimull reveals how the black West Indies shaped the development of British Airways. Bhimull offers a unique analysis of early airline travel, illuminating the links among empire, aviation and diaspora, and in doing so provides insights into how racially oppressed people experienced air travel.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2017 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    New York : Fordham University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780823277148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white)
    Edition: First edition.
    DDC: 305.892/4043
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Literatur ; Antisemitismus ; Antisemitismus ; Metapher ; Jews Identity 19th century ; History ; Jews Identity 20th century ; History ; Antisemitism ; Metaphor in literature ; Animals Symbolic aspects ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals disseminated for millennia to debase and bestialize Jews (the Bestiarium Judaicum), this work asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers employ such figures in their narratives and poems? Bringing together Jewish cultural studies, examining how Jews have negotiated Jew-Gentile difference, and critical animal studies, analyzing the functions served by asserting human-animal difference, this monograph focuses on the writings of primarily Germanophone authors, including Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Gertrud Kolmar, H. Leivick, Felix Salten, and Curt Siodmak. It ferrets out of their nonhuman-animal constructions their responses to the bestial answers upon which the Jewish and animal questions converged and by which varieties of the species 'Jew' were depicted.
    Note: This edition previously issued in print: 2017 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    London : Picador
    ISBN: 9781529003567 , 1529003563
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 263 Seiten
    DDC: 394.2663
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    Keywords: Christmas History ; Noël Histoire ; Christmas ; History
    Abstract: Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent phenomenon, or has the emphasis always been on spending? Just who is, or was, Santa Claus? And for how long have we been exchanging presents of underwear and socks? Food, drink and nostalgia for Christmases past seem to be almost as old as the holiday itself, far more central to the story of Christmas than religious worship. Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, in the fourth century, the Archbishop of Constantinople was already warning that too many people were spending the day not in worship, but dancing and eating to excess. By 1616, the playwright Ben Jonson was nostalgically recalling the Christmases of yesteryear, confident that they had been better then. In Christmas: a history, acclaimed social historian Judith Flanders casts a sharp and revealing eye on the myths, legends and history of the season, from the origins of the holiday in the Roman empire to the emergence of Christmas trees in central Europe, to what might just possibly be the first appearance of Santa Claus - in Switzerland! - to draw a picture of the season as it has never been seen before
    Note: Originally published as Christmas: a biography, 2017 , Literaturangaben
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137369161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 367 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: European astroculture volume 2
    Series Statement: Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
    Series Statement: European astroculture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 509
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-1985 ; History ; Civilization / History ; Observations, Astronomical ; Astronomy / Observations ; Technology / History ; History ; History of Science ; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques ; Cultural History ; History of Technology ; Außerirdisches Leben ; Raumfahrt ; Weltraumforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Raumfahrt ; Weltraumforschung ; Geschichte 1970-1985 ; Außerirdisches Leben
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press
    ISBN: 9780262039239 , 0262039230
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 315 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 303.4830973
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    Keywords: Technological innovations Economic aspects ; History ; United States ; Families History ; United States ; Families ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; USA ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Haushalt ; Frauenarbeit ; Geschichte 1800-2000
    Abstract: More working mothers -- The baby boom and baby bust -- The decline in marriage -- Social change -- Increased longevity and longer retirement -- Conclusion -- Mathematical appendix -- Bibliography
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index , More working mothers , The baby boom and baby bust , The decline in marriage , Social change , Increased longevity and longer retirement , Conclusion , Mathematical appendix , Bibliography
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  • 57
    ISBN: 9781608468393
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 174 Seiten
    Edition: First published in paperback 2018
    Series Statement: Studies in critical social sciences
    DDC: 306.0951
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    Keywords: China Social conditions ; China Cultural policy ; History ; China Social life and customs ; China Religion ; China Foreign relations
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [155]-159
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  • 58
    ISBN: 9781580469180
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 217 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora v. 77
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
    DDC: 331.042234220966709034
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    Keywords: 1879-1909 ; Goldbergbau ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Personalbeschaffung ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Kolonialismus ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Ghana ; Gold miners Recruiting ; History ; Gold miners Effect of technological innovations on ; History ; Labor supply History ; Industrial relations History ; Gold miners ; Industrial relations ; Labor supply ; Ghana ; Great Britain ; Great Britain Colonies ; Administration ; History ; Ghana History To 1957 ; Goldküste ; Goldbergbau ; Bergmann ; Geschichte 1879-1909 ; Ghana ; Kolonialismus ; Goldbergbau ; Geschichte 1879-1909 ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa -- Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality -- Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents -- Government strategies for assisting the mines -- Labor agents, chiefs and officials, 1905-1909: the incorporation of the northern territories' labor reserve
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    London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney :Bloomsbury Academic,
    ISBN: 978-1-350-02624-7 , 978-1-350-02625-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 149 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
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    Keywords: United States / Intellectual life / 20th century ; Europe / Intellectual life / 20th century ; Europe ; United States ; 1900-1999 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1880-1945 ; Women and the arts / United States / History / 20th century ; Women and the arts / Europe / History / 20th century ; Arts, Modern / 20th century ; Arts, Modern / Philosophy ; Sex role / History / 20th century ; Social movements / History / 20th century ; Arts and society / History / 20th century ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century ; HISTORY / Social History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies ; Arts and society ; Arts, Modern ; Intellectual life ; Sex role ; Social movements ; Women and the arts ; Geschichte ; Philosophie ; Frau. ; Künste. ; Moderne. ; Geschlechterrolle. ; Frau ; Kunst. ; Europa ; USA ; History ; Frau ; Künste ; Moderne ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte 1880-1945 ; Frau ; Kunst ; Geschichte 1880-1945
    Abstract: "A critical narrative of how gender norms and the modernist movement shaped one another in the early 20th century, using vivid case studies"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: "Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism. Focusing primarily on the connections between North American and European modernists, Maria Bucur explains why it is imperative that we consider the gender angles of modernism as a way to understand the legacies of the movement. She provides an overview of the scholarship on modernism and an analysis of how definitions of modernism have evolved with that scholarship. Interweaving vivid case studies from before the Great War to the interwar period--looking at individual modernists from Ibsen to Picasso, Hannah Höch to Josephine Baker--she covers various fields such as art, literature, theatre and film, whilst also demonstrating how modernism manifested itself in the major social-political and cultural shifts of the 20th century, including suffragist feminism, psychology, sexology, eugenics, nudism, anarchism, communism and fascism. This is a fresh and wide-ranging investigation of modernism which expands our definition of the movement, integrating gender analysis and thereby opening up new lines of enquiry. Written in a lively and accessible style, Gendering Modernism is a crucial intervention into the literature which should be read by all students and scholars of the modernist movement as well 20th-century history and gender studies more broadly"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue -- Introduction: What Sort of Rebellion? -- 1. Modernism before the Great War -- 2. Modernism Flourishes -- 3. The Modernist Canon : How Did it Come About? -- 4. A New Set of Criteria : Rebellion, Rejection, and Reimagining Modernism
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    ISBN: 0691175896 , 9780691175898
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 369 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 22 cm
    Edition: First paperback printing
    Series Statement: The University Center for Human Values series
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social evolution History ; Social values History ; Social change History ; Power resources Social aspects ; History ; Hunting and gathering societies History ; Agriculture Social aspects ; History ; Fossil fuels Social aspects ; History ; Civilization History ; Civilization Forecasting ; 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other ; Agriculture ; Social aspects ; Civilization ; Civilization ; Forecasting ; Hunting and gathering societies ; Power resources ; Social aspects ; Social change ; Social evolution ; Social values ; Social evolution ; History ; Social values ; History ; Social change ; History ; Power resources ; Social aspects ; History ; Hunting and gathering societies ; History ; Agriculture ; Social aspects ; History ; Fossil fuels ; Social aspects ; History ; Civilization ; History ; Civilization ; Forecasting ; History
    Abstract: Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs -- Foragers -- Farmers -- Fossil Fuels -- The Evolution of Values : Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come -- On the Ideology of Imagining That "Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs" / Richard Seaford -- But What Was It Really Like? : The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values / Jonathan D. Spence -- Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self / Christine M. Korsgaard -- When the Lights Go Out : Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization / Margaret Atwood -- My Correct Views on Everything / Ian Morris.
    Abstract: "Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules--for Now, explains why. The result is a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past--and for what might happen next. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need--from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. In tiny forager bands, people who value equality but are ready to settle problems violently do better than those who aren't; in large farming societies, people who value hierarchy and are less willing to use violence do best; and in huge fossil-fuel societies, the pendulum has swung back toward equality but even further away from violence. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out--at some point fairly soon--not to be useful any more. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by novelist Margaret Atwood, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, classicist Richard Seaford, and historian of China Jonathan Spence"--
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780520957688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white).
    Series Statement: American crossroads 43
    DDC: 303.4840973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1967-2005 ; Rassenunruhen ; Freiheitsstrafe ; Neoliberalismus ; Protest movements History ; Race riots History ; Imprisonment History ; African Americans Social conditions ; Neoliberalism Social aspects ; History ; Social problems in mass media ; Race relations in mass media ; USA ; United States Race relations ; History
    Abstract: The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urban poverty, and mass homelessness have also become permanent features of the political economy. These developments are without historical precedent, but not without historical explanation. In this searing critique, Jordan T. Camp traces the rise of the neoliberal carceral state through a series of turning points in U.S. history including the Watts insurrection in 1965, the Detroit rebellion in 1967, the Attica uprising in 1971, the Los Angeles revolt in 1992, and events in post-Katrina New Orleans in 2005.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2016 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9783319406053
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 202 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 21 cm
    Series Statement: Language and globalization
    DDC: 306.4460943155
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    Keywords: Multilingualism Social aspects ; History ; Germany ; Berlin ; Berlin (Germany) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Languages in contact History ; Germany ; Berlin ; Immigrants Languages ; Germany ; Berlin
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 9781503601635 , 1503601633
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Studies in social inequality
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chen, Shuang, 1977 - State-sponsored inequality
    Parallel Title: Print version Chen, Shuang, 1977- State-sponsored inequality
    DDC: 305.51209518
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    Keywords: Social stratification History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Landowners History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Land grants History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Wealth History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Wealth History 19th century ; Social stratification History 19th century ; Land grants History 19th century ; Landowners History 19th century ; Wealth History 19th century ; Social stratification History 19th century ; Land grants History 19th century ; Landowners History 19th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes ; Land grants ; Landowners ; Qing Dynasty (China) ; Social conditions ; Social stratification ; Wealth ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Land grants ; Landowners ; Qing Dynasty (China) ; Social conditions ; Social stratification ; Wealth ; China ; Manchuria (China) ; History ; 1644-1912 ; Manchuria (China) Social conditions ; 19th century ; China History ; Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; China ; China ; Manchuria ; Manchuria (China) Social conditions 19th century ; China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; Manchuria (China) Social conditions 19th century ; China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; China ; China ; Manchuria ; Electronic books History ; Mandschurei ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Grundeigentum ; Wohlstand ; Geschichte 1810-1920
    Abstract: This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese county of Shuangcheng into distinct categories, each associated with different land entitlements. The resulting patterns of wealth stratification and social hierarchy were then simultaneously challenged and reinforced by local people. The tensions built into the unequal land entitlements shaped the identities of immigrant groups, and this social hierarchy persisted even after the institution of unequal state entitlements was removed. State-Sponsored Inequality offers an in-depth understanding of the key factors that contribute to social stratification in agrarian societies. Moreover, it sheds light on the many parallels between the stratification system in nineteenth-century Shuangcheng and structural inequality in contemporary China
    Abstract: Social formation under state domination in modern China : an introduction -- Clearing boundaries : the founding of Shuangcheng society -- Building boundaries : land allocation and population registration -- Consolidating power : banner government and local control -- Community and hierarchy : banner villages -- Reinventing hierarchy : metropolitan bannermen family strategies -- Sustaining hierarchy : wealth stratification -- Social formation in the early Republic
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    ISBN: 9780804799034 , 0804799032
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 342 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Studies in social inequality
    Parallel Title: Online version Chen, Shuang, 1977- author State-sponsored inequality
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als State-sponsored inequality
    DDC: 305.5/1209518
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    Keywords: Social stratification History 19th century ; Landowners History 19th century ; Land grants History 19th century ; Wealth History 19th century ; Social stratification History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Landowners History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Land grants History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Wealth History ; 19th century ; China ; Manchuria ; Land grants ; Landowners ; Qing Dynasty (China) ; Social conditions ; Social stratification ; Wealth ; Stratificazione sociale Sec. 19 ; Manciuria ; Land grants ; Landowners ; Qing Dynasty (China) ; Social conditions ; Social stratification ; Wealth ; China ; Manchuria (China) ; History ; 1644-1912 ; Manchuria (China) Social conditions 19th century ; China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; Manchuria (China) Social conditions ; 19th century ; China History ; Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; China ; China ; Manchuria ; Mandschurei ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Grundeigentum ; Wohlstand ; Geschichte 1810-1920
    Abstract: This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese county of Shuangcheng into distinct categories, each associated with different land entitlements. The resulting patterns of wealth stratification and social hierarchy were then simultaneously challenged and reinforced by local people. The tensions built into the unequal land entitlements shaped the identities of immigrant groups, and this social hierarchy persisted even after the institution of unequal state entitlements was removed. State-Sponsored Inequality offers an in-depth understanding of the key factors that contribute to social stratification in agrarian societies. Moreover, it sheds light on the many parallels between the stratification system in nineteenth-century Shuangcheng and structural inequality in contemporary China
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Social formation under state domination in modern China : an introduction , Clearing boundaries : the founding of Shuangcheng society , Building boundaries : land allocation and population registration , Consolidating power : banner government and local control , Community and hierarchy : banner villages , Reinventing hierarchy : metropolitan bannermen family strategies , Sustaining hierarchy : wealth stratification , Social formation in the early Republic
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108327572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
    Series Statement: Asian Connections
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bishara, Fahad Ahmad A sea of debt
    DDC: 909.0982408
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    Keywords: Commerce ; Economic history ; Politics and government ; Indian Ocean Region ; History ; Hochschulschrift ; Indischer Ozean Region, West ; Handel ; Geschichte 1780-1950
    Abstract: An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780195324907 , 9780190673482
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 783 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    Edition: First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    DDC: 304.209
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Human ecology History ; Environmental sciences History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Humanökologie ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umwelt ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umwelt ; Geschichte ; Umwelt ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Humanökologie ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Geschichte ; Umwelt ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Geschichte
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    [Oxford] : [Berg]
    ISBN: 9781350050754
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Leisure, consumption and culture
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Koshar, Rudy German travel cultures
    DDC: 910.01
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Tourism - History - Germany ; Travel - Guidebooks ; Travel writing ; Turism - historia - Tyskland - 1900-talet ; Geschichte ; Tourism History ; Travel writing History ; Travel Guidebooks ; Publishing ; History ; Kultur ; Reise ; Reiseführer ; Germany - Guidebooks - History ; Deutschland ; Germany Guidebooks Description and travel ; History ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Reise ; Kultur ; Geschichte ; Deutschland ; Reiseführer ; Geschichte
    Note: Bevorzugte Informationsquelle: Landingpage (Bloomsbury Cultural History), da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden
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    ISBN: 9789004298200
    Language: English
    Pages: XV,174 Seiten , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Studies in critical social sciences volume 96
    Series Statement: Studies in critical social sciences
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Helle, Horst Jürgen, author China
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Helle, Horst Jürgen, 1934 - China: promise or threat?
    DDC: 306.0951
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    Keywords: China Social conditions ; China Cultural policy ; History ; China Social life and customs ; China Religion ; China Foreign relations ; China Social conditions ; China Cultural policy ; History ; China Social life and customs ; China Religion ; China Foreign relations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index
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    ISBN: 9789004335073
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 309 pages , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Studies in environmental humanities volume 4
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contesting environmental imaginaries
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Nature Sources Effect of human beings ; History ; Human ecology Sources History ; Science and the humanities ; Nature in literature ; Human ecology in literature ; Nature in art ; Human ecology in art ; Nature (Aesthetics) ; Environment (Aesthetics) ; Discourse analysis ; Umweltbewusstsein
    Abstract: "Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Introduction: Naturalizing culture and countering nature in discourses of the environment / Steven Hartman -- Part 1. Re-contextualizing nature -- Day and night : topography and renewal in Thoreau's Walden and Douglass's Narrative / Klaus Benesch -- James Schuyler's flower poems and the urban pastoral aesthetic / Tatiani G. Rapatzikou -- Palimpsest of subjugation : inscriptions of domination on the land and the human body in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres / Oyunn Hestetun -- Reframing American naturism? : space, history and the rise of environmental discourse / Mark Luccarelli -- Part 2. Challenging nature and envisioning counternatures -- Uses and abuses of environmental memory / Lawrence Buell -- Environment, technology, and modernity in contemporary Japanese animation / Ursula K. Heise -- A harmony of murder : transatlantic visions of wilderness in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Torben Huus Larsen -- Literary appreciation : a biocultural view / Marcus Nordlund -- Part 3. Applying counternatures -- Dark Darwin : (d)evolutionary theory and the logic of vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Henrik Otterberg -- Why should we respect nature? : an appropriation of Nietzsche / Torsten Pettersson -- Histories and ideologies of nature in Argyll / Karen Lykke Syse -- "Picturing Eden" : contesting Fredrika Bremer's tropics / Adriana Mendez Rodenas -- Life under water : narratives of deep sea counternatures / Hakan Sandgren -- Superfund sites as anti-landscapes / David E. Nye
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    ISBN: 9781474425223
    Language: English , Arabic
    Pages: viii, 230 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als England, Samuel Medieval empires and the culture of competition
    DDC: 909.07
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    Keywords: Courts and courtiers History To 1500 ; Authors, Medieval Language ; Language and languages Political aspects To 1500 ; History ; Politics and literature History To 1500 ; Literature, Medieval History and criticism ; Schriftsteller ; Wettbewerb
    Abstract: "A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover
    Abstract: Introduction: courtly gifts, imperial rewards -- 'Baghdad is to cities what the master is to mankind': the rise of vizier culture -- The sovereign and the foreign: creating Saladin in Arabic literature of the Counter-Crusade -- Alfonso X: poetry of miracles and domination -- Saladino Rinato: Spanish and Italian courtly fictions of Crusade -- Conclusion: the Ministry of Culture
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [188]-224 , Text englisch und arabisch
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    Montreal & Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
    ISBN: 9780773550964 , 9780773550971
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 406 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Weltbürgertum ; Globalisierung ; Literatur ; Cosmopolitanism / History / Congresses ; Globalization / History / Congresses ; Capitalism / History / Congresses ; Cosmopolitanism in literature / Congresses ; Globalization in literature / Congresses ; Capitalism in literature / Congresses ; Capitalism ; Capitalism in literature ; Cosmopolitanism ; Cosmopolitanism in literature ; Globalization ; Globalization in literature ; History ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Weltbürgertum ; Globalisierung ; Literatur
    Abstract: "From climate change, debt, and refugee crises, to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective. In the twentieth century the world sought solutions through formal institutions of international governance such as like the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the World Bank, but present-day our responses to global realities are often more provisional, improvisational, and contingent. Tracing this uneven history in order to identify principal actors, contesting ideologies, and competing rhetoric, Negative Cosmopolitanism challenges the Kantian ideal of cosmopolitanism as the precondition for a perpetual global peace. Uniting researchers working on contemporary problems with those studying related issues of the past--including slavery, industrial capitalism, and corporate imperialism--essays in this volume scrutinize the entanglement of cosmopolitanism within expanding networks of trade and global capital from the eighteenth-century to the present. By doing so, the contributors pinpoint the ways in which whole populations have been unwillingly caught up in a capitalist reality that has little in common with the earlier ideals of cosmopolitanism. A model for provoking new and necessary questions about neoliberalism, biopolitics, colonialism, citizenship, and xenophobia, Negative Cosmopolitanism establishes a fresh take on the representation of globalization and modern life in history and literature."--
    Description / Table of Contents: American good life, the Bandung spirit, and a human rights record / Crystal Parikh -- Sui generous : examining the object of organized philanthropy through the MacArthur Foundation / Geordie Miller -- Underwriting cosmopolitanism : insurance, slavery, and confidence games in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man / Dennis Mischke -- Fractured mediations : Eur/Asian vernacular cosmopolitanisms / Sneja Gunew -- Disaster cosmopolitanism : imaginations of comparison in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt shadows / Liam O'Loughlin -- Cosmopolitanism from below : oil capitalism, informality, and citizenship in Nigeria / Paul Ugor -- Representing migrant labour in contemporary Britain : Hsaio- ung Pai's Chinese whispers and Marina Lewycka's Strawberry fields/Two caravans / Pamela McCallum -- Cosmopolitan Creoles and neoliberal mobility in Annalee Davis's On the map / Melissa Stephens -- Reproductive politics, the negative present, and cosmopolitan futurity / Heather Latimer -- Standing outside the law : prostitution-free zones and the power of property / Juliane Collard -- "Internal racisms" of the Yakuza-eiga / Mike Dillon -- Embedded cosmopolitanism : Tolstoyan and Goethean ideas of world Literature during the two world wars / Dina Gusejnova -- At home in the world of the wound : feral cosmopolitics in the Red Riding Quartet / Mark Simpson -- Homiletic realism / Timothy Brennan
    Note: Aus dem Vorwort: "The essays in this collection emerge from papers presented at a conference on the topic of negative cosmopolitanism, held in October 2012."
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    Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters
    ISBN: 9781783096510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 385 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Multilingual matters 165
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Language planning ; Linguistic ideologies ; Linguistic ideology ; Linguistic prescriptivism ; Linguistic standardisation ; Prescriptivism ; Sociolinguistics ; Standardisation ; Traditional language ; English language Grammar ; History ; Space and time in language History ; Standard language History ; Normative Grammatik ; Standardisierung ; Sprache ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sprache ; Normative Grammatik ; Standardisierung
    Abstract: This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9781474425247 , 9781474425254
    Language: English , Arabic
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 230 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als England, Samuel Medieval empires and the culture of competition
    DDC: 909.07
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    Keywords: Courts and courtiers History To 1500 ; Authors, Medieval Language ; Language and languages Political aspects To 1500 ; History ; Politics and literature History To 1500 ; Literature, Medieval History and criticism ; History ; History / Europe / Spain & Portugal ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Schriftsteller ; Wettbewerb
    Abstract: "A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover
    Abstract: Introduction: courtly gifts, imperial rewards -- 'Baghdad is to cities what the master is to mankind': the rise of vizier culture -- The sovereign and the foreign: creating Saladin in Arabic literature of the Counter-Crusade -- Alfonso X: poetry of miracles and domination -- Saladino Rinato: Spanish and Italian courtly fictions of Crusade -- Conclusion: the Ministry of Culture
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [188]-224 , Text englisch und arabisch
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    ISBN: 9781785369735
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 214 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Elgaronline
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar books
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chen, Chunlai Foreign direct investment and the Chinese economy
    DDC: 332.67/30951
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    Keywords: Auslandsinvestition ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Stadt-Land-Beziehungen ; Einkommensverteilung ; China ; China Economic conditions ; History ; Electronic books ; China ; Direktinvestition
    Abstract: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Impacts on regional economic growth -- 2. Regional characteristics and the impacts of foreign direct investment on China's regional economic growth -- 3. The interregional impacts of foreign direct investment on China's inland economic growth -- Part II Impacts on income inequality -- 4. The impacts of foreign direct investment on urban-rural income inequality in China -- 5. The interregional impacts of foreign direct investment on China's inland urban-rural income inequality -- Part III Impacts on urbanization development -- 6. The impacts of foreign direct investment on urbanization development in China -- 7. Conclusion and policy implications -- Index.
    Abstract: Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of foreign direct investment, with extensive empirical evidence, on the Chinese economy over the last three and a half decades. Chunlai Chen presents a compelling and thorough analysis of the leading theoretical explanations of the impact of FDI through a series of rigorous and in-depth empirical investigations on China's regional economic growth, urban-rural income inequality and urbanization development. These case studies show that despite FDI's contribution to economic growth, reduction of income inequality and the rise in urbanization, there is further evidence of uneven regional distribution of FDI inflow. This has negatively affected economic growth, exacerbated income inequality and impeded urbanization of inland China. The book concludes by demonstrating that these findings have important policy implications, not only for China, but also for other developing countries influenced by the implementation of FDI policies. This work of highly focused theoretical analysis is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of economics as well as policy-makers who are interested in the Chinese economy
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  • 75
    ISBN: 9781316609378 , 9781107155657
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 279 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Asian connections
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bishara, Fahad Ahmad A Sea of Debt
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Duke University 2012
    DDC: 909.0982408
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    Keywords: Commerce ; Economic history ; Politics and government ; Indian Ocean Region ; History ; Indian Ocean Region Politics and government ; Indian Ocean Region History ; Indian Ocean Region Commerce ; History ; Indian Ocean Region Economic conditions ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Indischer Ozean Region, West ; Handel ; Geschichte 1780-1950
    Abstract: In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, Swahili and Baloch merchants, planters, jurists, judges, soldiers and seamen forged the frontiers of a shared world. The interlinked worlds of trade and politics that these actors created, the shared commercial grammars and institutions that they developed and the spatial and socio-economic mobilities they engaged in endured until at least the middle of the twentieth century. This study examines the Indian Ocean from Oman to India and East Africa over an extended period of time, drawing together the histories of commerce, law and empire in a sophisticated, original and richly textured history of capitalism in the Islamic world
    Abstract: A geography of obligation -- Life and debt -- Paper routes -- Translating transactions -- Making Africa Indian -- Muslim mortgages -- Capital moves -- Unraveling obligation
    Note: Revision of the author's thesis, Duke University, 2012
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    Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann
    ISBN: 9783826059131 , 3826059131
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 278 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten, Faksimiles , 23.5 cm x 15.5 cm
    DDC: 303.48243
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    Keywords: National characteristics, German History 19th century ; National characteristics, German History 20th century ; Exhibitions Press coverage ; History ; National characteristics, German, in art Exhibitions ; Auswärtige Kulturpolitik ; Public Diplomacy ; Deutschlandbild ; Relation ; Selbstbild ; Vergleich ; Presse ; Berichterstattung ; Wandel ; Germany Foreign public opinion ; Germany In art ; Exhibitions ; Germany Civilization ; Exhibitions ; Deutschland ; Erde ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weltausstellung ; Deutschland ; Selbstbild ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte ; Weltausstellung ; Berichterstattung ; Europa ; Presse ; Deutschlandbild ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 274-278 , Einführung : 150 Jahre Deutschland auf den Weltausstellungen , A nation on display? the all-German industrial exhibitions at Berlin (1844) and Munich (1854) , Das widersprüchliche Gesicht der deutschen Ausstellung auf der letzten Weltausstellung vor der Reichsgründung 1867 in Paris , Why participate in World's fairs? the German presence at the American World's fairs, 1876-1904 , NS-Propaganda durch den deutschen Pavillon auf der Weltausstellung in Paris 1937 , Der NS-Pavillon auf der Pariser Weltausstellung 1937 im Bild , "La dimostrazione della forza di lavoro che anima quel popolo" : die italienische Presse und der deutsche Pavillon auf der Weltausstellung 1937 in Paris , From division to reunification : what were the representations of the Federal Republic Germany? a comparative study of the Brussels and Lisbon World's fairs (1958-1998) , Das Deutschland der Expo 2000 in der europäischen Presse , Beiträge teilweise deutsch, teilweise englisch
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9783447108553 , 344710855X
    Language: English
    Pages: l, 519 Seiten , 25 cm, 1204 g
    Additional Material: 1 Errata
    Series Statement: Tunguso-Sibirica Band 40
    Series Statement: Tunguso-Sibirica
    Uniform Title: The Serbi-Mongolic language family
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shimunek, Andrew Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Indiana University Bloomington 2013
    DDC: 494/.23
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    Keywords: Xianbei (Asian people) Languages ; History ; Mongolian languages History ; Chinese language Phonology ; Tibetan language Phonology ; Historical linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Historical linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Hochschulschrift ; Mongolei Süd ; China Nord ; Mongolische Sprachen ; Historische Sprachwissenschaft ; Xianbi ; Mongolisch ; Historische Sprachwissenschaft
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  • 78
    ISBN: 9789004335073
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 309 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies in environmental humanities Volume 4
    Series Statement: Studies in environmental humanities
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contesting environmental imaginaries
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nature Sources Effect of human beings ; History ; Human ecology Sources History ; Science and the humanities ; Nature in literature ; Human ecology in literature ; Nature in art ; Human ecology in art ; Nature (Aesthetics) ; Environment (Aesthetics) ; Discourse analysis ; Umweltbewusstsein ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Quelle ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Quelle ; Umweltbewusstsein
    Abstract: "Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment"...Provided by publisher
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9781783096503 , 9781783096527 , 9781783096534
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 385 Seiten
    Series Statement: Multilingual matters 165
    Series Statement: Multilingual matters
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Geschichte ; Grammatik ; Space and time in language History ; English language Grammar ; History ; Standard language History ; Standardisierung ; Normative Grammatik ; Sprache ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sprache ; Normative Grammatik ; Standardisierung
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9781472480675
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contesting inter-religious conversion in the medieval world
    DDC: 200.9
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    Keywords: Conversion ; Religions Relations To 1500 ; History ; Religious minorities ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konversion ; Geschichte 1000-1650
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  • 81
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501708244 , 1501708244
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version Miller, Peter N History and its objects
    DDC: 930.1071
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    Keywords: Antiquities Study and teaching ; Material culture History ; Material culture ; Antiquities ; Material culture History ; Antiquities Study and teaching ; HISTORY ; Ancient ; General ; ART ; History ; General ; Antiquities ; Study and teaching ; Historiography ; Material culture ; History ; Europe Historiography ; Europe ; Europe ; Europe Historiography ; Europe ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture--the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary--rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by highlighting the role of antiquarianism--a pursuit ignored and derided by modem academic history--in grasping the significance of material culture. From the efforts of Renaissance antiquarians, who reconstructed life in the ancient world from coins, inscriptions, seals, and other detritus, to amateur historians in the nineteenth century working within burgeoning national traditions, Miller connects collecting--whether by individuals or institutions--to the professionalization of the historical profession, one which came to regard its progenitors with skepticism and disdain. The struggle to articulate the value of objects as historical evidence, then, lies at the heart both of academic history-writing and of the popular engagement with things. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that our current preoccupation with objects is far from novel and reflects a human need to reexperience the past as a physical presence." -- Publisher's description
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    Berlin : De Gruyter
    ISBN: 9783110417845 , 3110417847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Materiale Textkulturen Band 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Understanding material text cultures
    DDC: 302.2/24409
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    Keywords: Writing Social aspects ; History ; Writing Social aspects ; History ; Writing Social aspects ; History ; Material culture History ; Material culture History ; Material culture History ; Manners and customs ; Material culture ; Writing ; Social aspects ; History ; Middle East Social life and customs ; Africa, North Social life and customs ; Africa, Central Social life and customs ; Central Africa ; North Africa ; Middle East ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books. ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A multidisciplinary view on material text cultures / Markus Hilgert -- Defining collectives : materialising and recording the Sumerian workforce in the third dynasty of Ur / Agnès Garcia-Ventura -- A GIŠ on a tree : interactions between images and inscriptions on Neo-Assyrian monuments / Nathan Morello -- From voice to papyrus to wall : Verschriftung and Verschriftlichung in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts / Antonio J. Morales -- Family cult foundations in the Hellenistic age : family and sacred space in a private religious context / Sara Campanelli -- The Didyma inscription : between legislation and palaeography / Flavia Manservigi and Melania Mezzetti -- The symbolic repertoire of the Qur'anic board in Islamic Africa / Anastasia Grib.
    Abstract: "The present volume comprises six highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century Qur'anic boards of northern and central African provenience. The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach to material text cultures complementary to the interdisciplinary, strongly theory-grounded research scheme of the CRC 933"--Provided by publisher
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    New Haven : Yale University Press
    ISBN: 9780300182910 , 9780300240214
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 312 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Yale agrarian studies series
    DDC: 900
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    Keywords: Agriculture Origin ; Agriculture and state History ; Agriculture Social aspects ; History ; Nationenbildung ; Staat ; Gründung ; Staatslehre ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Politisches System ; Herrschaftssystem ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Erde ; Landwirtschaft ; Staat ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples
    Abstract: A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know -- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and... us -- Landscaping the world : the domus complex -- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm -- Agro-ecology of the early state -- Population control : bondage and war -- Fragility of the early state : collapse as disassembly -- The golden age of the barbarians
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 279-300 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 9780295995496 , 0295995491
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 230 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Yang, Binbin Heroines of the Qing
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Yang, Binbin Heroines of the Qing
    DDC: 305.4095
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    Keywords: Women History ; 18th century ; China ; Women History ; 19th century ; China ; Women authors, Chinese History ; Women Intellectual life ; China ; Femininity Social aspects ; History ; China ; Sex role History ; China ; Power (Social sciences) History ; China ; Virtue Social aspects ; History ; China ; Confucianism Social aspects ; History ; China ; China History ; Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; China ; Qingdynastie ; Schriftstellerin
    Abstract: "This book draws from newly available sources of women's writings from late imperial China to present an alternative approach to the lives of 'exemplary women'--a category of women who were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue as defined by core Confucian family values. Despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives often remain clouded by larger moral and cultural agendas or distorted by the male authors who presented them according to their own emotional or commemorative needs. This book introduces an array of women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful and active subjects of their own lives, and closely examines the rhetorical strategies they exploited for self-representation. This study highlights these female authors' skillful negotiation with--and appropriation of--the constrictive values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment. It draws on interdisciplinary sources to show how these authors crossed the boundaries of domains that were traditionally assumed to be closed to them--boundaries not only of gender but also of knowledge, economic power, and political engagement, as well as ritual and cultural authority"--Provided by publisher
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    London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge
    ISBN: 9781135309879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (278 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Meeting the foreign in the Middle Ages
    DDC: 305.800902
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    Keywords: Geschichte 500-1500 ; Geschichte ; Minderheit ; Aliens Public opinion To 1500 ; History ; Aliens in literature ; Civilization, Medieval ; Minorities History To 1500 ; Literature, Medieval History and criticism ; Marvelous, The, in literature ; Literatur ; Fremder ; Mittelenglisch ; Fremdbild ; Kulturkontakt ; Fremder ; Europa ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Fremder ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Fremder ; Literatur ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Mittelenglisch ; Literatur ; Fremder ; Europa ; Fremdbild ; Geschichte 500-1500
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137520838
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 295 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 900
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; History ; Cultural heritage ; Great Britain / History ; History, general ; History of Britain and Ireland ; Cultural Heritage ; Geschichte ; Tourismus ; Kulturerbe ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Kulturerbe ; Tourismus ; Geschichte
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  • 87
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    Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780226238586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white)
    DDC: 305.80097309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-1999 ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Vorurteil ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Race discrimination History 20th century ; Prejudices History 20th century ; USA ; United States Race relations 20th century ; History
    Abstract: Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? Leah N. Gordon jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, she examines American academia, both black and white, in the 1940s and '50s.
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  • 88
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    New York : New York University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9781479840595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressourcece
    DDC: 305.20973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alter ; Heranwachsender ; Altern ; Soziale Norm ; Bürgerrecht ; Kultur ; Age Social aspects ; History ; Age Political aspects ; History ; Age groups History ; Social classes History ; Identity (Psychology) History ; Coming of age Social aspects ; History ; Aging Social aspects ; History ; Citizenship History ; Political culture History ; USA ; United States Social conditions ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, people recognize these numbers as key transitions in their lives - precise moments when rights and opportunities change - when citizens become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of Americans.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2015 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 89
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9781452952437
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white)
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1830-1934 ; Rassismus ; Männlichkeit ; Sexismus ; Soziobiologie ; Racism History ; Masculinity History ; Sexism History ; Individual differences Social aspects ; History ; Individual differences Political aspects ; History ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Sociobiology History ; USA ; United States Race relations ; History ; United States Social conditions 1865-1918 ; United States Social conditions 1918-1932
    Abstract: From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the 21st century. 'Measuring Manhood' shows where they got their start. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in the 19th- and early 20-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural and political resonances. She tells of scientific 'experts' who advised the nation on its most pressing issues and exposes their use of gender and sex differences to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference.
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  • 90
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107148536 , 9781316602607
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 261 Seiten , Karten
    DDC: 306.44/9595
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1870-1970 ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Language policy History 19th century ; Language policy History 20th century ; Multilingualism Political aspects ; History ; Malay language Political aspects ; History ; Chinese language Political aspects ; History ; Postcolonialism History ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Sprache ; Sprachpolitik ; Herrschaft ; Asien ; Südostasien ; Malaysia Politics and government 19th century ; Malaysia Politics and government 20th century ; Malaysia ; Malaysia ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Herrschaft ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: "Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series of key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which British and Asian actors wrought quiet battles in the realm of language: in textbooks and language classrooms; in dictionaries, grammars and orthographies; in propaganda and psychological warfare; and in the very planning of language itself. Every attempt to tame Chinese and Malay languages resulted in failures of translation, competence, and governance, exposing both the deep fragility of a monoglot state in polyglot milieux, and the essential untameable nature of languages in motion"...
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9789004309302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (380 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Ideas, history, and modern China volume 13
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Qian, Kun, 1973 - Imperial-time-order
    DDC: 306.0951
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    Keywords: Time Political aspects ; History ; Imperialism Social aspects ; History ; Literature and society History ; Time in literature ; Imperialism in literature ; National characteristics, Chinese History ; China Intellectual life ; China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 ; China History Republic, 1912-1949 ; China History 1949- ; China ; Kaiserreich ; Republik ; Zeit ; Geistesgeschichte
    Abstract: "Imperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape the way modern China developed itself conceptually. Weaving together intellectual debates with literary and media representations of imperial history since the late Qing period, ranging from novels, stage plays, films, to television series, Qian traces the different temporalities of each period and takes 'time' as the analytical node by which issues of empire, nation, family, morality, individual and collective subjectivity are constructed and contested"--Provided by publisher
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    London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic
    ISBN: 9781780935966
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 264 Seiten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: War, culture and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.484095209045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-2010 ; Performing arts Political aspects 20th century ; Cold War in popular culture ; Military occupation Social aspects ; Besetzung ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Performance ; Darstellende Kunst ; Körper ; Politisches Theater ; Politischer Wandel ; Butô-Tanz ; Japan Cultural policy 20th century ; History ; Japan ; Japan ; Butô-Tanz ; Politisches Theater ; Performance ; Körper ; Geschichte 1945-2010 ; Japan ; Besetzung ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Politischer Wandel ; Darstellende Kunst ; Geschichte 1945-2010
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts ; : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674088986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (397 pages)
    Parallel Title: Bassett, Ross Knox, 1959 - The technological Indian
    DDC: 338.95406
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    Keywords: India--History ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Foreign students ; Technology transfer India ; History ; India ; History ; India History ; Electronic books ; India ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Indischer Student ; Geschichte ; Indien ; Wissens- und Technologietransfer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Indian Discovery of America -- Poona, the Mahratta, and the World -- Rising America, Declining England -- The Internationalization of the World -- India in the Technological World -- Creating Bourgeois Indians -- The Movement for Industrialization in Poona -- MIT and Technical Education in Two Lands -- Keshav Bhat -- A Memorial to the Queen -- Chapter 2. American-Made Swadeshi -- The Global Indian Entrepreneur: J. N. Tata -- Small-Scale Industrialization in Western India -- Indian Students in America -- Asia's Mixed Welcome from America -- Chapter 3. Gandhi's Industry -- The Divergence of Parallel Lives -- Gandhi as Engineer -- The Charkha and Gandhi's Industrious Indian -- Chapter 4. From Gujarat to Cambridge -- T. M. Shah's Letters Home -- Bhavnagar and MIT -- The Mahatma and the Engineer -- Chapter 5. Engineering a Colonial State -- Pandya's Progress -- The Travails of T. M. Shah -- Chapter 6. Tryst with America, Tryst with MIT -- Big Plans, Small Steps -- A. V. Hill and the Idea of an Indian MIT (Again) -- America's Ambivalence toward India -- Chapter 7. High Priests of Nehru's India -- Private Enterprise and the Developmental State -- Brahm Prakash, Atomic Energy, and Rocketry -- Darshan Bhatia, Government-Sponsored Research, and Coca-Cola -- Chapter 8. Business Families and MIT -- Business Families in India before 1947 -- S. L. Kirloskar -- G. D. Birla and the Birla Institute of Technology and Science -- Aditya Birla -- Other Business Families -- Chapter 9. The Roots of IT India -- The Computer at MIT -- The Computer in India -- The Tata Computer Centre -- Anti-Automation -- TCS 2.0 -- Lalit Kanodia and Datamatics -- Patni Computer and the Road to Infosys -- Chapter 10. From India to Silicon Valley -- A New MIT -- Paths in America.
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9780815634553 , 9780815634379
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 240 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
    DDC: 973.04927567
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    Keywords: Iraqis United States ; Iraqis Migrations ; History ; Refugees United States ; Social networks Case studies ; Belonging (Social psychology) Case studies ; Political aspects ; Sex role Case studies ; Political aspects ; Translators Iraq ; Iraq War, 2003-2011 Refugees ; Young adults Iraq
    Abstract: "During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters--translating the 'human terrain' of Iraq--members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one another. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the experiences of twelve individuals from their young adulthood as members of the Ba'thist generation, to their work as interpreters, through their navigation of the US immigration pipeline, and finally to their resettlement in the United States. Throughout, Campbell considers how these men and women grappled with issues of belonging and betrayal, both on the battlefield in Iraq and in the US-based diaspora. A nuanced and richly detailed ethnography, Interpreters of Occupation gives voice to a generation of US allies through their diverse and vividly rendered life histories. In the face of what some considered a national betrayal in Iraq and their experiences of otherness within the United States, interpreters negotiate what it means to belong to a diasporic community in flux"--From publisher's website
    Abstract: Cast of characters -- Introduction: Global routes : Baghdad to Boston -- The last Ba'thist generation -- Life and work as a military terp -- Honor and terror on loyalty base -- Reconstructing patriarchy on patrol -- From American ally to Iraqi refugee -- Inside the refugee network and across borders -- Conclusion -- Glossary
    Note: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis (Seiten: 217-229) und Index
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  • 95
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    Book
    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107041127 , 9781107692596
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 184 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Approaches to the evolution of language
    DDC: 417/.7
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    Keywords: Language and languages Origin ; History ; Sign language ; Human evolution ; Language and languages Origin ; History ; Sign language ; Human evolution ; Sprachursprung ; Wildbeuter ; Kommunikation ; Sprachursprung ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: "For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past from what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers still inhabit much of the world, and in sufficient number to enable us to study the ways in which they speak, the many languages they use, and what they use them for. Barnard investigates the lives of hunter-gatherers by understanding them in their own terms, to create a book which will be welcomed by all those interested in the evolution of language"--
    Abstract: "For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past from what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers still inhabit much of the world, and in sufficient number to enable us to study the ways in which they speak, the many languages they use, and what they use them for. Barnard investigates the lives of hunter-gatherers by understanding them in their own terms, to create a book which will be welcomed by all those interested in the evolution of language"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Cover
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9780553447231
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 388 Seiten , 25 cm
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 332.0973
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    Keywords: Finanzsektor ; Finanzkrise ; Bankenregulierung ; Finanzkapitalismus ; USA ; Financial crises History 21st century ; Finance Government policy 21st century ; History ; Business enterprises History 21st century ; USA ; Finanzkrise ; Regierung
    Abstract: "Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned--and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. But what few of us realize is how the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate ALL American businesses, putting us on a collision course for another cataclysmic meltdown. Drawing on in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews at the highest rungs of Wall Street and Washington, Time assistant managing editor and economic columnist Rana Foroohar shows how the "financialization of America" - the trend by which finance and its way of thinking have come to reign supreme - is perpetuating Wall Street's reign over Main Street, widening the gap between rich and poor, and threatening the future of the American Dream. Policy makers get caught up in the details of regulating "Too Big To Fail" banks, but the problems in our market system go much broader and deeper than that. Consider that: · Thanks to 40 years of policy changes and bad decisions, only about 15 % of all the money in our market system actually ends up in the real economy - the rest stays within the closed loop of finance itself. · The financial sector takes a quarter of all corporate profits in this country while creating only 4 % of American jobs. · The tax code continues to favor debt over equity, making it easier for companies to hoard cash overseas rather than reinvest it on our shores. · Our biggest and most profitable corporations are investing more money in stock buybacks than in research and innovation. · And, still, the majority of the financial regulations promised after the 2008 meltdown have yet come to pass, thanks to cozy relationship between our lawmakers and the country's wealthiest financiers. Exploring these forces, which have have led American businesses to favor balancing-sheet engineering over the actual kind and the pursuit of short-term corporate profits over job creation, Foroohar shows how financialization has so gravely harmed our society, and why reversing this trend is of grave importance to us all. Through colorful stories of both "Takers" and "Makers," she'll reveal how we change the system for a better and more sustainable shared economic future."
    Abstract: "Award-winning business journalist Rana Foroohar shows how the shortsighted and misguided financial practices that nearly toppled the global economy in 2008 have come to infiltrate all corners of American business--putting us on a dangerous collision course to another economic meltdown that will make 2008 look like a mere blip in the business cycle."
    Note: Mit Register , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-375) and index
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9783319327389
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 310 p. 14 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hallonsten, Olof Big science transformed
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion and culture ; Social Sciences ; History ; Philosophy and science ; Popular works ; Sociology ; Industrial sociology ; Culture. ; Europa ; USA ; Wissenschaft ; Industriesoziologie ; Arbeitssoziologie ; Europa ; USA ; Wissenschaft ; Industriesoziologie ; Arbeitssoziologie
    Abstract: This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse. Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and Framework -- Chapter 2. History and Politics -- Chapter 3. Organization -- Chapter 4. Resilience and Renewal -- Chapter 5. Users and Productivity -- Chapter 6. Socio-Economic Expectations and Impacts -- Chapter 7. The Implications of Transformation
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Cover
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  • 98
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674088986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (386 Seiten)
    Series Statement: De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bassett, Ross Knox, 1959 - The technological Indian
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    Keywords: Technology transfer History ; Technology transfer. ; Technology transfer India ; History ; India ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Indischer Student ; Geschichte ; Indien ; Wissens- und Technologietransfer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In the late 1800s, Indians seemed to be a people left behind by the Industrial Revolution, dismissed as “not a mechanical race.” Today Indians are among the world’s leaders in engineering and technology. In this international history spanning nearly 150 years, Ross Bassett—drawing on a unique database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between its founding and 2000—charts their ascent to the pinnacle of high-tech professions.
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Cover
    URL: Cover
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9789350502662
    Language: English
    Pages: Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 411.709543
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    Keywords: Inscriptions, Sanskrit Catalogs ; India ; Gwalior ; Gwalior (India) Sources ; History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-520) and index
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9782807600997 , 9782807601017 , 9782807601000
    Language: English , French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (326 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Euroclio Vol. 99
    Series Statement: Studies and documents
    Series Statement: Euroclio Studies and documents
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The history of European Monetary Union
    DDC: 332.4/94
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    Keywords: Economic and Monetary Union History ; Währungsunion ; Europäisches Währungssystem ; EU-Staaten ; Eurozone ; Zeitgeschichte ; Monetary unions History ; Monetary policy History ; European Union countries Economic integration ; History ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Geschichte ; Europäische Union ; Währungsunion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Introduction / Daniela Preda -- Opening address / Mario Venturi & Realino Marra -- Lessons from the past : monetary unions in the 19th century Europe / Lara Piccardo -- Robert Triffin et le processus d'integration monetaire europaenne / Ivo Maes -- Le plan werner et la d'couverte d'europe monataire / Andreas Wilkens -- The end of Bretton woods and the setting up of the snake / Maria Eleonora Guasconi -- The european monetary system / Giovanni Battista Pittaluga -- The role of Giulio Andreotti in the birth of the ems and of the monetary union / Daniela Preda -- La presidence Mitterrand, fer de lance de l'union monataire europaenne (1988-1992) / Jean-Marie Palayret -- The action of the European federalist movement for the European currency / Guido Montani -- L'euro entre problemes de naissance et incertitudes identitaires (1991-2016) / Carlo Degli Abbati -- Fiscal discipline and growth within emu / Alberto Majocchi -- Crisis and possible new start of integration process : beyond the Eurozone predicament / Franco Praussello -- From Pringle to Gauweiler : the difficult years of European monetary union and their impact on the EU legal system / Francesco Munari -- On the metamorphosis of the crisis and the prospects of the European economic governance / Adriano Giovannelli
    Note: This book, which presents the proceedings of a convention held in Genoa on May 7-8, 2015. (Seite 11) , Enthält 13 Beiträge , Beiträge überwiegend englisch, teilweise französisch
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