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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781139939546
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 323.44830968
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1850-2014 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Citizenship / South Africa / History ; Biometric identification / Government policy / South Africa / History ; Biometric identification / Political aspects / South Africa / History ; Politische Kontrolle ; Biometrie ; Südafrika (Staat) ; South Africa / Politics and government / 19th century ; South Africa / Politics and government / 20th century ; Südafrika ; Südafrika ; Biometrie ; Politische Kontrolle ; Geschichte 1850-2014
    Abstract: Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralized fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biometric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the global biometric arena -- Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics -- Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand -- Gandhi's biometric entanglement: fingerprints, Satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj -- No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state -- Verwoerd's bureau of proof: the apartheid bewysburo and the end of documentary government -- Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship -- Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511996443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages)
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    DDC: 305.80097309/04
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    Keywords: Boas, Franz ; Century of Progress International Exposition / (1933-1934 / Chicago, Ill.) / Exhibitions ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Physical anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Race / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century ; Somatotypes / United States / History / 20th century ; Race awareness / United States / History / 20th century ; Racism in anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog ; USA ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Boas, Franz 1858-1942 ; Rasse ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race, anthropology, and the American public : an introductory essay -- 2. Franz Boas and race : history, environment, heredity -- 3. Order for a disordered world : The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? : Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- 7. Alternatives to race? : ethnicity, genetics, biology -- 8. Conclusion
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781139108614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 344 Seiten)
    Series Statement: African studies 122
    Series Statement: African studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.6/7676082
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1935-1972 ; Christentum ; Geschichte ; Kirchengeschichte ; Christianity and politics / Africa, East / History / 20th century ; East Africa Revival / History ; Conversion / Christianity ; Christianity and culture / Africa, East ; Unabhängigkeitsbewegung ; Nationalismus ; Religion ; Africa, East / Church history / 20th century ; Ostafrika ; Ostafrika ; Nationalismus ; Unabhängigkeitsbewegung ; Religion ; Geschichte 1935-1972
    Abstract: Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of East Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: the pilgrims' politics -- 2. The infrastructure of cosmopolitanism -- 3. Religious movements in southern Uganda -- 4. Civil society in Buganda -- 5. Taking stock: conversion and accountancy in Bugufi -- 6. Patriotism and dissent in western Kenya -- 7. The culiral work of moral reform in northwestern Tanganyika -- 8. Conversion and court procedure -- 9. The politics of autobiography in central Kenya -- 10. Confession, slander, and civic virtue in Mau Mau detention camps -- 11. Contests of time in western Uganda -- 12. Conclusion: pilgrims and patriots in contemporary east Africa
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511997075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 45
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    DDC: 306.7094/0904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2010 ; Geschichte ; Sex / Europe / History / 20th century ; Sexualverhalten ; Europa ; Deutschland ; Europa ; Deutschland ; Sexualverhalten ; Geschichte 1900-2010 ; Europa ; Sexualverhalten ; Geschichte 1900-2010
    Abstract: This original book brings a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual desires and behaviours, the ambivalences surrounding sexual freedom, and the difficulties encountered in securing sexual rights. Incorporating the most recent scholarship on a broad range of conceptual problems and national contexts, the book investigates the shifting fortunes of marriage and prostitution, contraception and abortion, queer and straight existence. It analyzes sexual violence in war and peace, the promotion of sexual satisfaction in fascist and democratic societies, the role of eugenics and disability, the politicization and commercialization of sex, and processes of secularization and religious renewal
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Reconceiving sexuality, 1900-1914 : Prostitution, venereal disease, and the double standard -- Theorizing desire -- Separating sex from reproduction : contraception and abortion -- Eugenics -- Rethinking sexual orientation -- 2. State interventions, 1914-1945 : World War I and its aftermath : violence and opportunity -- Facism : masculinism and reproduction -- Nazism : human engineering and the promise of pleasure -- Democratic welfare states : liberality and ambivalence -- Holocaust and World War II -- 3. Cold War cultures, 1945-1965 : Mass violence and the return to domesticity -- Conservatism, east and west -- The rise of romance -- Ambivalence about contraception -- The persecution of homosexuals -- The rise of reform -- 4. Pleasure and rebellion, 1965-1980 : The market of desire -- Revolutionary theories -- Changing the law -- Heterosexual disillusionment -- Homosexual liberation -- The turn inward -- 5. Partnerships and practices, 1980-2010 : HIV/AIDS -- The fall of communism -- Postfacist lessons in human rights -- Islam and the sexual borders of Europe -- Romantic liberality versus new conservatisms
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521817929 , 9780521521048
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 335 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The contemporary Middle East 5
    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausgabe Chatty, Dawn, 1947 - Displacement and dispossession in the modern Middle East
    DDC: 362.870956
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    Keywords: Refugees History ; Forced migration History ; Naher und Mittlerer Osten und Nordafrika Zwangsumsiedlung/Deportation ; Vertreibung ; Displaced Persons ; Einwanderung/Einwanderer ; Auswanderung/Auswanderer ; Osmanisches Reich Kaukasus ; Palästinenser ; Balkan ; Armenier ; Kurden ; Flüchtlinge ; Geschichtlicher Überblick ; Middle East Emigration and immigration ; History ; Forced migration ; Middle East ; History ; Refugees ; Middle East ; History ; Middle East ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; Naher Osten ; Vertreibung ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: Traces the history of refugees and migrants within a reconstructed twentieth-century Middle East
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Charts and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East: Community Cohesion in Impermanent Landscapes; 1 Dispossession and Displacement within the Contemporary Middle East: An Overview of Theories and Concepts; 2 Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire: Distinct Cultures and Separated Communities; 3 Circassian, Chechnyan, and Other Muslim Communities Expelled from the Caucasus and the Balkans
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 The Armenians and Other Christians: Expulsions and Massacres5 Palestinian Dispossession and Exodus; 6 Kurds: Dispossessed and Made Stateless; 7 Liminality and Belonging: Social Cohesion in Impermanent Landscapes; Bibliography; Index
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