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  • 1
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    City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981466 , 0822981467
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 306.097253
    Keywords: Social medicine History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Social change History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; City and town life History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Fire prevention History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Social change History ; City and town life History ; Fire prevention History ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Social medicine History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Social change History ; City and town life History ; Fire prevention History ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Social medicine History ; HISTORY ; General ; City and town life ; Economic history ; Fire prevention ; Fires ; Social aspects ; Science ; Social aspects ; Social change ; Social conditions ; Social medicine ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Urban ecology (Sociology) ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico ; History ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century"--
    Abstract: "City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents; Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear; Chapter Two. Science of Regulation; Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade; Chapter Four. Engineering Safety; Chapter Five. Inventing Protection; Chapter Six. Insuring Progress; Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218). - Print version record
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 2
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    Civic and uncivic values in Kosovo : history, politics, and value transformation (2014)
    Budapest : Central European University Press
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    ISBN: 9789633860748 , 9633860741 , 9789633860731
    Language: English
    Pages: pages cm
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    DDC: 303.3/72094971
    Keywords: Geschichte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Ethnic relations ; Law / Social aspects ; Liberalism ; Politics and government ; Social change ; Social conditions ; Social values ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Recht ; Law Social aspects ; History ; Liberalism History ; Social change History ; Social values History ; Demokratisierung ; Wertwandel ; Kosovo ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kosovo ; Demokratisierung ; Wertwandel ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Civic and uncivic values in Kosovo : an introduction / Sabrina P. Ramet (NTNU) -- Part One. History -- A short history of Kosovar Albanians' struggle for independence, 1878-1998 / Roberto Morozzo della Rocca (University of Rome) -- Debates about the history of Kosovo / Oliver Schmitt (University of Vienna) -- British policy towards the Kosova Liberation Army, 1996-2000 / James Pettifer (University of Oxford) -- The uprising and NATO's intervention, 1998-1999 / Zachary Irwin (Penn State, Erie) -- The international presence in Kosovo, 1999-2008 / Johanna Deimel (Südosteuropa Gesellschaft, Munich) -- Part Two. Politics -- The development of the political system, since February 2008 / Altug Günal (Ege University) -- The Serbs of Kosovo / Florian Bieber (University of Graz) -- "Our men will not have amnesia" : civic engagement, emancipation, and gendered public in Kosovo / Nita Luci and Linda Gusia (both University of Prishtina) -- Solving the issue of the north of Kosovo and international cooperation / Dusan Janjic (University of Belgrade) -- Part Three. Values and value transformation -- Kosova, 1912-2000, in the history textbooks of Kosova and Serbia / Shkëlzen Gashi (University of Prishtina) -- Civic values in Kosovo within a European perspective / Kristen Ringdal (NTNU) -- Differences in values between and among Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo / Albert Simkus (NTNU) and Shemsi Krasniqi (University of Prishtina) -- Political support in Kosovo / Karin Dyrstad (SINTEF, Trondheim) -- Conclusion -- Kosovo as an international problem / Anton Bebler (University of Ljubljana) -- Can dialogue make a difference? The experience of the Nansen Dialogue Network / Steinar Bryn (Nansen Academy, Lillehammer) -- Understanding the roots and consequences of instability in Kosovo : a conclusion / Sabrina P. Ramet (NTNU) and Albert Simkus (NTNU) -- About the editors and contributors
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  • 3
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    The Shi`ites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
    Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press
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    ISBN: 9780815653011 , 0815653018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: First edition.
    Series Statement: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 303.4095692
    RVK:
    BE 8673
    RVK:
    MH 76086
    RVK:
    NQ 8829
    Keywords: Hizballah (Lebanon) History ; Ḥizb Allāh ; Schiiten ; Sozialer Wandel ; Modernisierung ; Social change History ; Communism History ; Islam and politics History ; Shiites Social conditions ; Shiites Politics and government ; Libanon ; Lebanon Politics and government
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/36106
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  • 4
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    The Shiʾites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
    Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press
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    ISBN: 9780815653011 , 0815653018
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxxvi, 350 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
    DDC: 303.4095692
    Keywords: Hizballah (Lebanon) History ; Hizballah (Lebanon) History ; Social change History ; Lebanon ; Communism History ; Lebanon ; Islam and politics History ; Lebanon ; Shiites Social conditions ; Lebanon ; Shiites Politics and government ; Lebanon ; Shiites Politics and government ; Shiites Social conditions ; Islam and politics History ; Communism History ; Social change History ; Lebanon Politics and government ; Lebanon Politics and government ; Electronic books Electronic books
    Abstract: Prologue -- The Shi`ites and Grand Liban -- Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle -- Communists in the `Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state -- The "Shi`ite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq -- Shi`ite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left -- Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah -- The Islamists and civil society -- The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state -- Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
    URL: Volltext
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  • 5
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The Shi`ites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
    Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: First edition
    Edition: Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
    DDC: 303.4095692
    Keywords: Hizballah (Lebanon) History ; Shiites Social conditions ; Shiites Politics and government ; Communism History ; Social change History ; Islam and politics History ; Lebanon Politics and government
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueThe Shi`ites and Grand Liban -- Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle -- Communists in the `Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state -- The "Shi`ite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq -- Shi`ite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left -- Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah -- The Islamists and civil society -- The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state -- Conclusion.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext
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  • 6
    Online Resource
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    The Shiʼites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
    Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0815633726 , 0815653018 , 0815653018 , 9780815653011 , 9780815653011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 350 S.)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Series Statement: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4095692
    RVK:
    BE 8673
    RVK:
    MH 76086
    RVK:
    MH 76270
    RVK:
    NQ 8829
    Keywords: Hizballah (Lebanon) History ; Ḥizb Allāh ; Geschichte 1900- ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Geschichte ; Kommunismus ; Politik ; Social change History ; Communism History ; Islam and politics History ; Shiites Social conditions ; Shiites Politics and government ; Politik ; Modernisierung ; Schiiten ; Sozialer Wandel ; Libanon ; Ḥizb Allāh ; Libanon ; Schiiten ; Sozialer Wandel ; Modernisierung ; Politik ; Geschichte 1900-
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Prologue -- The Shiʻites and Grand Liban -- Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle -- Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state -- The "Shiʼite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq -- Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left -- Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah -- The Islamists and civil society -- The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state -- Conclusion
    URL: Volltext
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