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  • 1
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903238 , 0472903233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 191 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2244
    Keywords: Writing History ; Political aspects ; Writing History ; Social aspects ; Alphabet Political aspects ; Alphabet Social aspects ; Écriture - Histoire - Aspect politique ; Écriture - Histoire - Aspect social ; Alphabet - Aspect politique ; Alphabet - Aspect social ; Writing - Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books. ; History
    Abstract: The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther's challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organized domination and unprecedented levels of violence. The Violence of the Letter considers how a twenty-six letter code changed the face of the world, and not always for the better
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Prelude -- Introduction -- 1. A Brief Technical Detour -- 2. The Trauma of Literacy -- 3. The Alphabet and Reproduction -- 4. Plato and the Forms of Alphabetic Writing -- 5. The Alphabet and Money -- Interlude -- 6. Letters of Blood and Fire -- 7. The Subject Is Always Alphabetized -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index
    URL: JSTOR
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  • 2
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903887 , 0472903888
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: African perspectives
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sacks, Ruth, 1977- Congo style
    DDC: 111/.8509675112
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Modernism (Aesthetics) ; Art and state ; Architecture and state ; Art and society ; Architecture and society ; Architecture ; Architecture, Colonial ; Art, Colonial ; Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) ; History ; Kinshasa (Congo) Buildings, structures, etc ; Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Abstract: Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press
    ISBN: 9781943208333 , 1943208336
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: Law, Literature & Culture 1
    Keywords: Race discrimination Law and legislation ; History ; African Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; History ; Law Social aspects ; History
    Abstract: This first title in the “Law, Literature & Culture” series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery through Jim Crow. The first two cases—one criminal, one civil—both illuminate the extreme oppressiveness of slavery. The third explores labor relations between newly emancipated Black agricultural workers and white landowners during Reconstruction. The remaining cases investigate three prominent features of the Jim Crow system: segregated schools, racially biased juries, and lynching, respectively. Throughout the century under consideration, South Carolina’s legal system obsessively drew racial lines, always to the detriment of non-white people, but it occasionally provided a public forum within which racial oppression could be challenged. The book emphasizes how dramatically the degree of legal oppressiveness experienced by Black South Carolinians varied during the century under study, based largely on the degree of Black access to political and legal power
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903474 , 0472903470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages) , illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
    Series Statement: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies number 99
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Suzuki, Seijun Criticism and interpretation ; Suzuki, Seijun - 1923-2017 ; Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha History 20th century ; Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha ; 1900-1999 ; Exploitation films History 20th century ; Horror films History 20th century ; Experimental films History 20th century ; Experimental films ; Exploitation films ; Horror films ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Japan
    Abstract: In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan's most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter A. Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s. Working from within the studio system, Suzuki almost single-handedly rejected the restrictive filmmaking norms of the postwar period and expanded the form and language of popular cinema. This artistic rebellion proved costly when Suzuki was fired in 1967 and virtually blacklisted by the studios, but Suzuki returned triumphantly to the scene of world cinema in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of critically celebrated, avant-garde tales of the supernatural and the uncanny. This book provides a well-informed, philosophically oriented analysis of Suzuki's 49 feature films
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-396) and index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780472903153 , 0472903152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages) , illustrations, map
    Keywords: 2000-2099 ; Energy policy Case studies History 21st century ; Renewable energy sources Case studies States 21st century ; Law and legislation ; Public utilities Case studies Political aspects ; States' rights (American politics) Philosophy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Energy policy ; Case studies ; History ; United States
    Abstract: In recent years, the federal government's increasing inability to address major societal challenges has arguably hampered America's commitment to renewable energy initiatives. Individual U.S. states have stepped into this void and adopted their own policies, leading some to believe that the states can propel America's renewable energy industry forward. However, we know little about how legislative and regulatory dynamics within America's states might accelerate or hinder renewable energy policy creation. In Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?, Srinivas Parinandi explores how states have devised their own novel policies, and how the political workings of legislatures and public utilities commissions have impacted state renewable energy policy design. Through the meticulous study of nearly three decades of state-level renewable energy policy-making, he finds that their creation is primarily driven by legislatures, and that ideologically liberal legislatures largely push the envelope. The book suggests that having a predominantly state-driven renewable energy effort can lead to uneven and patchwork-based policy development outcomes, and a possible solution is to try to more successfully federalize these issues. Parinandi urges readers, scholars, and policy practitioners to consider whether a state-led effort is adequate enough to handle the task of building momentum for renewable energy in one of the world's largest electricity markets
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index
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  • 6
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903894 , 0472903896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brannigan, Erin Persistence of dance
    Keywords: 1900-2099 ; Art and dance ; Choreography History 20th century ; Choreography History 21st century ; Modern dance History 20th century ; Modern dance History 21st century ; Art et danse ; Chorégraphie - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Chorégraphie - Histoire - 21e siècle ; Art and dance ; Choreography ; Modern dance ; PERFORMING ARTS / General ; History
    Abstract: There is a category of choreographic practice with a lineage stretching back to mid-20th century North America that has re-emerged since the early 1990s: dance as a contemporary art medium. Such work belongs as much to the gallery as does video art or sculpture and is distinct from both performance art and its history as well as from theater-based dance. The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art explores this history by looking at the continuities and differences between the second-wave dance avant-garde in the 1950s-1970s and the third-wave starting in the 1990s. Through close readings of key artists such as Maria Hassabi, Sarah Michelson, Boris Charmatz, Meg Stuart, Philip Gehmacher, Adam Linder, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Shelley Lasica and Latai Taumoepeau, The Persistence of Dance traces the relationship between the third-wave and gallery-based work. Looking at these artists highlights how the discussions and practices associated with 'conceptual dance' resonate with the categories of conceptual and post-conceptual art as well as with the critical work on the function of visual art categories. Brannigan concludes that within the current post-disciplinary context, there is a persistence of dance and that a model of post-dance exists that encompasses dance as a contemporary art medium
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-339) and index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9780472903702 , 0472903705
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 198 pages) , illustrations
    DDC: 809.2032
    Keywords: Experimental theater History 21st century ; Race in the theater History 21st century ; Gender identity in the theater History 21st century ; Theater Religious aspects 21st century ; History ; Theater Political aspects 21st century ; History
    Abstract: Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the wake of the Los Angeles riots, rebellious spectators in American and British theaters broke with theater decorum and voiced their radical interpretations of shows that were not meant to be radical. In doing so, audiences tried to understand the complex racial, gender, and religious politics of their times, while insisting that liberal societies fulfill their promise of dignity for all. Stefka Mihaylova argues that such non-conforming viewing amounts to an avant-garde of its own: a bold reimagining of how we live together and tell stories of our lives together, aimed to achieve liberalism's promise. In telling this story, she analyzes the production and reception politics of works by Susan-Lori Parks, Sarah Kane, Forced Entertainment, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, and Young Jean Lee, as well as non-theatrical controversies such as the conflict over Halloween costumes at Yale in 2015. At the core of spectators' discontent, this book suggests, is an effort to figure out how to get along with people different from ourselves in the diverse U.S. and British societies in which we live
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: "Can We All Along?" Get -- Chapter 1: The Radical Formalism of Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah Kane -- Chapter 2: A Spectator Prepares: Forced Entertainment's Theater of Critical Feeling -- Chapter 3: The Behzti Riot as a Contemporary Avant-Garde -- Chapter 4: Feeling Bad about Being White: Young Jean Lee's Theater and the Progressive Avant-Garde -- Coda: The Liberal Individual's Postmodern Return -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index
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  • 8
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903924 , 0472903926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 196 pages) , illustrations (some color)
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 378.1981
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Chinese students 20th century ; Authors, Chinese 20th century ; Art, Chinese 20th century ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 20th century ; Écrivains chinois - France - Paris - 20e siècle ; Art chinois - France - Paris - 20e siècle ; Influence littéraire, artistique, etc - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Art, Chinese ; Authors, Chinese ; Chinese students ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Intellectual life ; History ; Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century ; Paris (France) - Vie intellectuelle - 20e siècle ; France - Paris
    Abstract: A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese students who went abroad specifically to study Western art and literature, these trips meant something else entirely. Set against the backdrop of interwar Paris, Paris and the Art of Transposition uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played such a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art. While previous studies of Chinese modernism have focused on how Western modernist aesthetics were adapted or translated to the Chinese context, Angie Chau does the opposite by turning to Paris in the Chinese imaginary and discussing the literary and visual artwork of five artists who moved between France and China: the painter Chang Yu, the poet Li Jinfa, art critic Fu Lei, the painter Pan Yuliang, and the writer Xu Xu. Chau draws the idea of transposition from music theory where it refers to shifting music from one key or clef to another, or to adapting a song originally composed for one instrument to be played by another. Transposing transposition to the study of art and literature, Chau uses the term to describe a fluid and strategic art practice that depends on the tension between foreign and familiar, new and old, celebrating both novelty and recognition--a process that occurs when a text gets placed into a fresh context
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index
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  • 9
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    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 9781760465018 , 1760465011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Honouring a nation : a history of Australia's honours system
    DDC: 929.799994
    Keywords: Awards History ; Medals History ; Decorations of honor History ; Titles of honor and nobility History ; Awards ; Decorations of honor ; Medals ; Titles of honor and nobility ; History ; Australia
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Spirit of democracy, 1788-1900 -- 2. Nation and state, 1901-1914 -- 3. New empire order, 1914-1918 -- 4. Repugnant to the people? 1919-1939 -- 5. In war and peace, 1939-1967 -- 6. It's time, 1967-1975 -- 7. A system divided, 1975-1990 -- 8. Barbeque stopper, 1990-2015.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282)
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  • 10
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903610 , 0472903616
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
    Series Statement: China Understandings Today
    DDC: 335.4345
    Keywords: Hu, Shi Criticism and interpretation ; Hu, Shi - 1891-1962 ; 1900-1999 ; Communism and international relations History 20th century ; Communism History 20th century ; Democracy History 20th century ; Communism ; Communism and international relations ; Democracy ; International relations ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; China Relations 20th century ; History ; China ; United States
    Abstract: Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a view that later became the foundation of the Cold War narrative. In the 1950s, after Mao's authoritarian regime was established, Hu Shih started to analyze the development and nature of Communism, delivering a series of lectures and addresses to reveal what he called Stalin's "grand strategy" for facilitating the International Communist Movement. For decades--and today to a certain extent--Hu Shih's political writings were considered sensitive and even dangerous. As a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party's oligarchical practices, he was targeted by the CCP in a concerted national campaign to smear his reputation, cast aspersions on his writings, and generally destroy any possible influence he might have in China. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih's most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics, China-U.S. relations, and the International Communist Movement. Taken together, these works provide an insider's perspective on Sino-American relations and the development of the International Communist Movement over the course of the 20th century
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 11
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902620 , 0472902628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Landmark video games
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Church, David, 1982- Mortal kombat
    Keywords: Mortal Kombat (Game) ; Video games Social aspects ; Video games History ; Jeux vidéo - Aspect social - États-Unis ; Jeux vidéo - États-Unis - Histoire ; Mortal Kombat (Game) ; Video games ; Video games - Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; United States
    Abstract: Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistically rendered characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world's most iconic fighting games, and a transmedia franchise that continues to this day. This book traces Mortal Kombat's history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 12
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902958 , 0472902954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages) , illustrations
    DDC: 791.43023092
    Keywords: Méliès, Georges ; Melies, Georges ; Méliès, Georges - 1861-1938 ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography ; Footwear History 19th century ; Material culture History 19th century ; Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma - France - Biographies ; Chaussures - France - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Culture matérielle - France - Paris - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Footwear ; Material culture ; Motion picture producers and directors ; Biographies ; History ; France ; France - Paris
    Abstract: Before he became the father of cinematic special effects, George Méliès (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, Méliès Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges Méliès' career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which Méliès operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines Méliès' unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what Méliès called "the new profession of the cinéaste." The book also reveals Méliès' connections to the Incohérents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group's relevance for Méliès, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning Méliès in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that Méliès' work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781643150482 , 1643150480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages) , color illustrations, portraits
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Jazz History 20th century ; Music Societies, etc 20th century ; History ; Jazz musicians Homes and haunts ; African Americans Economic conditions 20th century ; History ; African Americans Social conditions 20th century ; History ; Musique - Massachusetts - Boston - Associations - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Musiciens de jazz - Résidences et lieux familiers - Massachusetts - Boston ; Noirs américains - Massachusetts - Boston - Conditions économiques - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Noirs américains - Massachusetts - Boston - Conditions sociales - Histoire - 20e siècle ; African Americans - Economic conditions ; African Americans - Social conditions ; Jazz ; Music - Societies, etc ; MUSIC / General ; History ; Massachusetts - Boston
    Abstract: South End Shout: Boston's Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age details the power of music in the city's African American community. The focus is from the era of ragtime in the 1900s to the rise of big band swing in the 1930s. The story of jazz is embedded in the larger social condition of Black Bostonians. It covers the activities of jazz musicians, jazz bands, the places they played, the relationships between Black and white musicians, the segregated branches of the musicians' union, and the economics of the South End music industry. The account is brought to life by the addition of 20 line drawings of musicians, theaters, hotels, dance halls, and devices used to listen to music. South End Shout is part of an emerging field of studies that examine jazz culture outside of the major centers of music production. As such, the account helps to better understand how jazz emerged as a national art form in the first quarter of the 20th century
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245)
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  • 14
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    Canberra, ACT : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 9781760465070
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 524 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: Pacific series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Honiara
    Keywords: History ; Honiara (Solomon Islands) History ; Solomon Islands - Honiara
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Nahona`ara before 1942 -- 2. Taem blong faet: Camp Guadal -- 3. The new capital -- 4. The other Honiara -- 5. Municipal authority and housing -- 6. Building infrastructure -- 7. Building society and the nation -- 8. Stepping-stones to national consciousness -- 9. Since independence -- 10. The village-city -- Bibliography.
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    ISBN: 9780472220458 , 0472220454 , 9780472903597 , 0472903594
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 pages) , illustrations, maps, charts
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    DDC: 333.730951
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Political socialization History 20th century ; Land reform History 20th century ; Moral education History ; Intergroup relations History 20th century ; Dominant-party systems Psychological aspects ; Socialisation politique - Chine - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Réforme agraire - Chine - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Éducation morale - Chine - Histoire ; Relations intergroupes - Chine - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Systèmes de parti dominant - Aspect psychologique ; Intergroup relations ; Land reform ; Moral education ; Political socialization ; History ; China
    Abstract: Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence during its land reform campaign in the early 1950s, one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history. Using an array of novel archival, documentary, and quantitative historical data, this book illustrates that China's land reform campaign was not just about economic redistribution but rather part of a larger, brutally violent state-building effort to delegitimize the new party-state's internal rivals and establish its moral authority. Righteous Revolutionaries argues that the Chinese Party-state simultaneously removed perceived threats to its authority at the grassroots and bolstered its legitimacy through a process called moral mobilization. This mobilization process created a moral boundary that designated a virtuous ingroup of "the masses" and a demonized outgroup of "class enemies," mobilized the masses to participate in violence against this broadly defined outgroup, and strengthened this symbolic boundary by making the masses complicit in state violence. Righteous Revolutionaries shows how we can find traces of moral mobilization in China today under Xi Jinping's rule. In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of violent mobilization and state authority are more relevant than ever before
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472902865 , 9780472902866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McManus, Ian P Repoliticization of the welfare state
    Keywords: 2000-2099 ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Political aspects ; Welfare state History 21st century ; Recessions History 21st century ; Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 - Aspect politique - Europe ; État providence - Pays de l'Union européenne - Histoire - 21e siècle ; Récessions - Europe - Histoire - 21e siècle ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Recessions ; Welfare state ; History ; Europe ; European Union countries
    Abstract: "The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis encouraged strong social spending responses to protect millions of individuals, governments have faced growing pressure to reduce budgets and make deep cuts to the welfare state. Whereas conservative parties have embraced fiscal discipline and welfare state cuts, left-wing parties have turned away from austerity in favor of higher social spending. These political differences represent a return of traditional left-right beliefs over social spending and economic governance. This book is one of the first to systematically compare welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession, arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political parties once again matter for social spending. At the heart of this repoliticization are intense ideological debates over market regulation, social inequality, redistribution, and the role of the state. The book analyzes social spending dynamics for 28 countries before and after the crisis. It also includes in-depth country case studies representing five distinct welfare state types: Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, and the Czech Republic"
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-219) and index , The Realignment of Welfare State Politics , Crisis and the Politics of Social Spending , The European Union , Germany: Continental European Welfare State , United Kingdom: Liberal Welfare State , Sweden: Nordic Welfare State , Spain: Southern European Welfare State , -Czech Republic: Eastern European Welfare State , Conclusion.
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472902491 , 0472902490
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 197 pages)
    DDC: 320.51
    Keywords: Liberalism History ; Violence History ; World politics History ; Liberalism ; Violence ; World politics ; History
    Abstract: Liberalism and Transformation is the first scholarly work that explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deployment of violence, force, and intervention. Using an approach that includes interpretive and contextual analysis of texts from writers, philosophers, and policy-makers across nearly two centuries, as well as historiographical and historical analysis of archival documents (some of which have been recently declassified) and other media, Liberalism and Transformation narrates the messy history of emancipatory liberalism and its engagement with issues of war and peace. The book contributes to both a rethinking of liberal democracy and its relationship to world politics, as well as the effects of liberal internationalism on global processes. Furthermore, Liberalism and Transformation invites readers to reflect on global ethics and transformation in world politics. In the first place, it shows how ethical imaginings of the world have direct effects on actions of transformative importance. In the second place, it suggests that discourses are fluid, changing, and complex
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197)
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    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 9781760464318 , 1760464317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 185 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sound Citizens : Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956
    DDC: 791.440994
    Keywords: Women broadcasters History ; Women in radio broadcasting History ; Radio broadcasters History ; Mass media Political aspects ; History ; Political culture History ; Sex role History ; Women in the mass media industry History ; Mass media ; Political aspects ; Political culture ; Radio broadcasters ; Sex role ; Women broadcasters ; Women in radio broadcasting ; Women in the mass media industry ; History ; Australia
    Abstract: Introduction -- Establishing the platform: the Interwar years -- World citizens: women's broadcasting and internationalism -- Voicing the war effort: women's broadcasts during World War II -- 'An epoch making event': radio and the new female Parliamentarians -- Fighting soap: the postwar years -- We span the distance': women's radio and regional communities -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had 'created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time' as it brought the public sphere into the home and women into the public sphere. Taking this claim as its starting point, Sound Citizens examines how a cohort of professional women broadcasters, activists and politicians used radio to contribute to the public sphere and improve women's status in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1923 until the introduction of television in 1956. This book reveals a much broader and more complex history of women's contributions to Australian broadcasting than has been previously acknowledged
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    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 9781760464738 , 1760464732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 371 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Aboriginal History Monographs
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Power and dysfunction : the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
    DDC: 323.1199159
    Keywords: New South Wales History ; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of History ; Aboriginal Australians Government policy ; History ; Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales ; Child welfare - Child / parent separation ; Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations ; Aboriginal Australians ; Government policy ; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of ; History ; New South Wales
    Abstract: In 1883 the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction - its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today
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    ISBN: 9781943208272 , 1943208271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 336 pages) , illustrations
    Keywords: Genocide History 20th century ; Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937 ; Genocide ; International relations ; HISTORY / General ; History ; Haiti Relations ; Dominican Republic Relations ; Dominican Republic ; Haiti
    Abstract: Border of Lights, a volunteer collective, returns each October to Dominican-Haitian border towns to bear witness to the 1937 Haitian Massacre ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. This crime against humanity has never been acknowledged by the Dominican government and no memorial exists for its victims. A multimodal, multi-vocal space for activists, artists, scholars, and others connected to the BOL movement, The Border of Lights Reader provides an alternative to the dominant narrative that positions Dominicans and Haitians as eternal adversaries and ignores cross-border and collaborative histories. This innovative anthology asks large-scale, universal questions regarding historical memory and revisionism that countries around the world grapple with today
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    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 9781760463915 , 1760463914
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 157 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Aboriginal history monographs
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goodna girls : a history of children in a Queensland mental asylum
    DDC: 362.709943
    Keywords: Wolston Park Hospital (Qld.) History ; Children Institutional care ; Psychiatry History ; Child welfare History ; Child welfare ; Children ; Institutional care ; Psychiatry ; History ; Australia ; Queensland ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Part 1. Historical context. 1. Marginalised voices: the quest for a recognised history -- Part 2. The survivors. 2. The Panther: Jean/Erin ; 3. One of the most persistent bitches: Judy ; 4. Wasted days and wasted nights: Rose ; 5. Don't shoot the wounded: Tammy -- Part 3. The witnesses. 6. Brewing truth: the Priest ; 7. The penny dropped: the Psychiatrist ; 8. I had no way of processing what was going on: the Nurse -- Part 4. Next steps. 9. Conclusion: What followed and what may yet proceed.
    Abstract: Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility in Queensland, Australia. It contains the personal testimonies of women who relate--in their own no-holds-barred style and often with irreverent humour--how they, as children, ended up in Wolston Park and how this affected their adult lives. The accounts of hospital staff who witnessed the effects of this heinous policy and spoke out are also included. The book examines the consequences of the Queensland Government's manipulation of a medical model to respond to 'juvenile delinquents', many of whom were simply vulnerable children absconding from abusive conditions. As Australia faces the repercussions of the institutionalisation of its children in the twentieth century, brought about through a series of government inquiries, Goodna Girls makes a vital contribution to the public history of the Stolen Generations, Former Child Migrants and Forgotten Australians. Goodna Girls presents the research that informed a successful, collective campaign to lobby the Queensland Government to make long overdue and much-needed reparations to a group of courageous survivors. It holds contemporary resonance for scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of public history, welfare, child protection, education, nursing, sociology, medicine and criminology
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    ISBN: 9781760463502 , 1760463507
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 464 pages : illustrations)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Porter, Robert, 1932- Consolidated gold fields in Australia :the rise and decline of a British mining house, 1926-1998
    Keywords: Gold mines and mining History ; Gold mines and mining ; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand ; History ; Australia Gold discoveries ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: pt. 1. Context--consolidated gold fields. 1. The consolidated gold fields of South Africa ; 2. New horizons for a British mining house -- pt. 2. Early investments in Australia. 3. Western Australian gold ; 4. Broader associations ; 5. Lake George and New Guinea -- pt. 3. A new force in Australian mining 1960-1966. 6. A new approach to Australia ; 7. New men and a new model ; 8. A range of investments -- pt. 4. Expansion, consolidation and restructuring 1966-1981. 9. Move to an Australian shareholding ; 10. Expansion and consolidation 1966-1976 ; 11. Acquisition and diversification ; 12. Portfolio challenges ; 13. Portfolio review 1975-1981 -- pt. 5. A majority Australian owned mining company 1981-1989. 14. Formation of a diversified mining company ; 15. The initial years ; 16. New interests and diversification ; 17. The challenges of the parent -- pt. 6. The final decade 1990-1998. 18. Hanson on the Register ; 19. Tumultuous years 1990-1994 ; 20. Final years ; 21. The end of an era.
    Abstract: Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversifying from its South African gold interests, the company invested widely during the following century. This included investments in the Western Australian gold sector from the 1920s and exploration and mining activities elsewhere in Australia and the Territory of New Guinea. In the 1960s, Consolidated Gold Fields Australia (CGFA) was formed. CGFA had ambitious plans and the financial backing from London to establish itself as one of the main diversified mining companies in Australia. Investments were held in the historic Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, in Renison, and it was one of the first groups to develop iron ore deposits in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It also acquired a major interest in mineral sands. While the London-based Consolidated Gold Fields ceased to exist in 1989, taken over and dismembered by renowned corporate raider Hanson Plc, its Australian subsidiary, renamed Renison Goldfields Consolidated (RGC), continued for another nine years as a diversified mining group before it suffered its own corporate demise, facilitated by Hanson. CGFA and RGC were important participants in Australia's post-World War II mining sector. This book is a history of a once great British mining-finance house and its investments in Australia. Consolidated Gold Fields had a rich and broad history in Australia; its ultimate fate did not demonstrate its potential as an Australian mining company
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    ISBN: 9781760464035 , 1760464031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 377 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Niche Wars : Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2014
    DDC: 356.10994
    Keywords: Australia History ; Afghan War, 2001- Participation, Australian ; Iraq War, 2003-2011 Participation, Australian ; Peacekeeping forces, Australian History ; Peace-building, Australian History ; Diplomatic relations ; Military participation ; Australian ; Military relations ; Peace-building, Australian ; Peacekeeping forces, Australian ; History ; Military history ; Australia Foreign relations 20th century ; Australia Foreign relations 21st century ; Australia Military relations 20th century ; Australia Military relations 21st century ; United States Military relations 20th century ; United States Military relations 21st century ; Australia History, Military 20th century ; Australia History, Military 21st century ; Australia ; Iraq ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction / John Blaxland -- Part 1: Policy and strategy. 1. A minister's perspective / Robert Hill ; 2. A departmental Secretary's perspective / Ric Smith ; 3. A Chief of Defence Force's perspective / Chris Barrie -- Part 2: On operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. 4. Australia's intervention in Afghanistan, 2001-02 / Dan McDaniel ; 5. Air Operations Control and Reporting Centre / Chris Westwood ; 6. Conventional stability operations at the battle group level in Iraq / Anthony Rawlins ; 7. Maritime operations / Peter Jones ; 8. Embeds / Jim Molan -- Part 3: Joint forces, enablers and partners. 9. Command and control / Michael Crane ; 10. Intelligence in Afghanistan / Mick Lehmann ; 11. Civil and humanitarian assistance / Alan Ryan ; 12. The military and the media / Karen Middleton ; 13. The Australian Federal Police in Afghanistan, 2007-14 / Col Speedie and Steve Mullins ; 14. AusAID stabilisation / David Savage ; 15. The gender dimension / Elizabeth Boulton -- Part 4: Lessons and legacies. 16. Lessons and legacies of the war in Afghanistan / William Maley ; 17. American and British experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001-04 / Dan Marston ; 18. Lessons and legacies of the use of force / Peter Leahy ; 19. The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor / Craig Stockings ; 20. Final reflections / John Blaxland.
    Abstract: Australia invoked the ANZUS Alliance following the Al Qaeda attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001. But unlike the calls to arms at the onset of the world wars, Australia decided to make only carefully calibrated force contributions in support of the US-led coalition campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why is this so? Niche Wars examines Australia's experience on military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to 2014. These operations saw over 40 Australian soldiers killed and hundreds wounded. But the toll since has been greater. For Afghanistan and Iraq the costs are hard to measure. Why were these forces deployed? What role did Australia play in shaping the strategy and determining the outcome? How effective were they? Why is so little known about Australia's involvement in these campaigns? What lessons can be learned from this experience? Niche Wars commences with a scene-setting overview of Australia's military involvement in the Middle East over more than a century. It then draws on unique insights from many angles, across a spectrum of men and women, ranging from key Australian decision makers, practitioners and observers. The book includes a wide range of perspectives in chapters written by federal government ministers, departmental secretaries, service commanders, task force commanders, sailors, soldiers, airmen and women, international aid workers, diplomats, police, journalists, coalition observers and academics. Niche Wars makes for compelling reading but also stands as a reference work on how and why Australia became entangled in these conflicts that had devastating consequences. If lessons can be learned from history about how Australia uses its military forces, this book is where to find them. -- From publisher's website
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    ISBN: 9781760463892 , 1760463892
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 290 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Terra Australis 53
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Forts and fortification in Wallacea Archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations
    DDC: 959.801
    Keywords: Fortification History ; Fortification History ; Fortification History ; Fortification History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Antiquities ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Fortification ; History ; Indo-Australian Region Antiquities ; History ; Timor-Leste Antiquities ; History ; Indonesia Antiquities ; History ; Indo-Australian Region ; Indonesia ; Indonesia ; Sulawesi ; Timor-Leste ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Forts and fortifications in Wallacea / Sue O'Connor, Andrew McWilliam and Sally Brockwell -- Archaeology of forts. 2. The fortified settlement of Macapainara, Lautem District, Timor-Leste / Sue O'Connor, David Bulbeck, Noel Amano Jr, Philip J. Piper, Sally Brockwell, Andrew McWilliam, Jack N. Fenner, Jack O'Connor-Veth, Rose Whitau, Tim Maloney, Michelle C. Langley, Mirani Litster, James Lankton, Bernard Gratuze, William R. Dickinson, Anthony Barham and Richard C. Willan ; 3. The Ira Ara site: A fortified settlement and burial complex in Timor-Leste / Peter V. Lape, John Krigbaum, Jana Futch, Amy Jordan and Emily Peterson ; 4. Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste / Sally Brockwell, Sue O'Connor, Jack N. Fenner, Andrew McWilliam, Noel Amano Jr, Philip J. Piper, David Bulbeck, Mirani Litster, Rose Whitau, Jack O'Connor-Veth, Tim Maloney, Judith Cameron, Richard C. Willan and William R. Dickinson ; 5. The site of Leki Wakik, Manatuto District, Timor-Leste / Jack N. Fenner, Mirani Litster, Tim Maloney, Tse Siang Lim, Stuart Hawkins, Prue Gaffey, Sally Brockwell, Andrew McWilliam, Sandra Pannell, Richard C. Willan and Sue O'Connor -- Social history of forts. 6. Social drivers of fortified settlements in Timor-Leste / Andrew McWilliam ; 7. The indigenous fortifications of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and their sociopolitical foundations / David Bulbeck and Ian Caldwell ; 8. Forts on Buton Island: Centres of settlement, government and security in Southeast Sulawesi / Hasanuddin 9. Forts of the Wakatobi Islands in Southeast Sulawesi / Nani Somba ; 10. Historical and linguistic perspectives on fortified settlements in Southeastern Wallacea: Far eastern Timor in the context of southern Maluku / Antoinette Schapper -- Conclusion and future directions. 11. Surveys of fortified sites in Southern Wallacea / Sue O'Connor, Shimona Kealy, Andrew McWilliam, Sally Brockwell, Lucas Wattimena, Marlon Ririmasse, Mahirta, Alifah, Sandra Pannell, Stuart Hawkins, Mohammad Husni and Daud Tanudirjo ; 12. Conclusion / Andrew McWilliam, Sue O'Connor and Sally Brockwell.
    Abstract: Archaeology of forts -- Social history of forts -- Conclusion and future directions.
    Abstract: This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate the origin of forts in Wallacea. Socio-political instability from climate events, the materialisation of indigenous belief systems, and the substantial impact of imperial expansion and European colonialism are examined and comprise a significant addition to our knowledge of conflict and warfare in an under-studied part of the Indo-Pacific. The archaeological record for past conflict is frequently ambiguous and the contribution of warfare to social development is mired in debate and paradox. Authors demonstrate that forts and other defensive constructions are costly and complicated structures that, while designed and built to protect a community from a threat of imminent violence, had (and have) complicated life histories as a result of their architectural permanence, strategic locations and traditional cultural and political significance. Understanding why conflict outbreaks - like human colonisation - often appear in the past as a punctuated event can best be approached through long-term records of conflict and violence involving archaeology and allied historical disciplines, as has been successfully done here. The volume is essential reading for archaeologists, cultural heritage managers and those with an interest in conflict studies
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    Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press
    ISBN: 9780943184210 , 0943184215
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 357 pages) , illustrations, portraits
    Keywords: Amherst College History ; Amherst College ; Education, Higher History ; Education, Higher ; EDUCATION / General ; History ; Massachusetts ; Amherst
    Abstract: In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school's substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst's engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education
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    Amherst, Massachusetts : Lever Press
    ISBN: 9781643150147 , 1643150146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 281 pages) , illustrations (some color)
    DDC: 620.11
    Keywords: Materials History ; Social aspects ; Manufacturing processes History ; Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 200 years. Whether given utility as building parts, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, or foodstuffs, whether seen by their proponents as human-made or "found in nature," materials result from the designation of some matter as both knowable and worth knowing about. In following these determinations we learn that the production of physical novelty under industrial, imperial and other cultural conditions has historically accomplished a huge range of social effects, from accruals of status and wealth to demarcations of bodies and geographies. Among other cases, New Materials traces the beneficent self-identity of Quaker asylum planners who devised soundless metal cell locks in the early 19th century, and the inculcation of national pride attending Taiwanese carbon-fiber bicycle parts in the 21st; the racialized labor organizations promoted by California orange breeders in the 1910s, and bureaucratized distributions of blame for deadly high-rise fires a century later. Across eras and global regions New Materials reflects circumstances not made clear when technological innovation is explained solely as a by-product of modernizing impulses or critiqued simply as a craving for profit. Whether establishing the efficacy of nano-scale pharmaceuticals or the tastiness of farmed catfish, proponents of new materials enact complex political ideologies. In highlighting their actors' conceptions of efficiency, certainty, safety, pleasure, pain, faith and identity, the authors reveal that to produce a "new material" is invariably to preserve other things, to sustain existing values and social structures
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    ISBN: 9781760462857 , 1760462853
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 306 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Carman-Brown, Kylie Following the Water : Environmental History and the Hydrological Cycle in Colonial Gippsland, Australia, 1838 -1900
    DDC: 551.480994
    Keywords: Hydrology ; Hydrology ; Victoria ; Gippsland Lakes Region ; History ; Gippsland Lakes Region (Vic.) History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Making the circle round: Perceptions of hydrology through time -- 3. The earth's thoughtful lords? Nineteenth-century views of water and nature -- 4. 'Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather': The role of precipitation in the catchment -- 5. 'Fair streams were palsied in their onward course': The desirability of flowing waters -- 6. 'A useless weight of water': Responding to stagnancy, mud and morasses -- 7. Between 'the water famine and the fire demon': Drying up the catchment -- 8. Mirror, mirror? The reflective catchment.
    Abstract: Water reflects culture. This book is a detailed analysis of hydrological change in Australia's largest inland waterway in Australia, the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, in the first 70 years of white settlement. Following air, water is our primal need. Unlike many histories, this book looks at the entire hydrological cycle in one place, rather than focusing on one bit. Deftly weaving threads from history, hydrology and psychology into one, Following the Water explores not just what settlers did to the waterscape, but probes their motivation for doing so. By combining unlikely elements together such as swamp drainage, water proofing techniques and temperance lobbying, the book reveals a web of perceptions about how water 'should be'. With this laid clear, we can ask how different we are from our colonial forebears
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    Acton, ACT : ANU Press
    ISBN: 1760463086 , 9781760463083 , 9781760463090
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 448 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Pacific series
    DDC: 995.93
    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 ; Pacific Ocean ; Islands of the Pacific ; Solomon Islands ; British colonies ; History ; World War (1939-1945) ; Colonial influence ; Great Britain Colonies ; Islands of the Pacific Colonial influence ; Solomon Islands History 20th century
    Abstract: Protecting Solomon Islanders -- A 'very arduous task': Charles, Arthur and Frank -- Administration: Pop, Spearline and the poodle -- Chinatown, the club, hotels and the 'black hole' -- Mildewed elegance, houses and servants -- '... a pity you didn't wing him': Gender, sexuality and race -- Silk, white helmets and Malacca canes -- Evacuation, invasion and destruction.
    Abstract: Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island's facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners--one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese--and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners. The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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    Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press | New York : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9781760462130 , 1760462136
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 162 Seiten) , Illustrations, portraits
    DDC: 306.4/8423
    Keywords: Popular music ; Rock music ; Popular music Political aspects ; Popular music Social aspects ; Popular music History and criticism ; Fame Political aspects ; Minstrel music History ; Women musicians ; Music ; Popular culture ; Media, information & communication industries ; Minstrel music ; Popular music ; Popular music Political aspects ; Popular music Social aspects ; Rock music ; Women musicians ; Popular music ; Rock music ; stardom ; popular culture ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History
    Abstract: "A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of intersections between broader considerations of stardom and the discourses of popular music studies is the genesis for this volume. The chapters collected here demonstrate the variety of work currently being undertaken in stardom studies by scholars in Australia. The contributions range from biographical considerations of the stars of popular music, contributions to critical discourses of stardom in the industry more broadly, and the various ways in which the use of astronomical metaphors, in both cultural commentary and academic discourse, demonstrate notions of stardom firmly embedded in popular music thought. Not only do these chapters represent a range of perspectives on popular music, stars and stardom, they provide eloquent and innovative contributions to the developing discourse on stardom in popular music."...
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    Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 1760461660 , 1760461652 , 9781760461652 , 9781760461669
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 135 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kwai, Anna Annie Solomon Islanders in World War II : An Indigenous Perspective
    DDC: 940.54/26
    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 ; Indigenous peoples ; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns ; Electronic books ; History: specific events and topics ; Humanities ; Military history ; Regional and national history ; Second World War ; Indigenous peoples ; Military campaigns ; Australasian and Pacific history ; Solomon Islands ; World War (1939-1945) ; Colonialism and imperialism ; History
    Abstract: The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an ђ́بoutsiderђ́ة perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as ђ́بloyalђ́ة helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiderѕђ́ة perspectives. Islander encounters with white American troops enabled self-awareness of racial relationships and inequality under the colonial administration, which sparked struggles towards recognition and political autonomy that emerged in parts of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in the postwar period. Exploitation of postwar military infrastructure by the colonial administration laid the foundation for later sociopolitical upheaval experienced by the country. In the aftermath of the 1998 crisis, the supposed unity and pride that prevailed among islanders during the war has been seen as an avenue whereby different ethnic identities can be unified. This national unification process entailed the construction of the ђ́بPride of our Nationђ́ة monument that aims to restore the pride and identity of Solomon Islanders
    Abstract: The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an 'outsider' perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as 'loyal' helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiders' perspectives. Islander encounters with white American troops enabled self-awareness of racial relationships and inequality under the colonial administration, which sparked struggles towards recognition and political autonomy that emerged in parts of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in the postwar period. Exploitation of postwar military infrastructure by the colonial administration laid the foundation for later sociopolitical upheaval experienced by the country. In the aftermath of the 1998 crisis, the supposed unity and pride that prevailed among islanders during the war has been seen as an avenue whereby different ethnic identities can be unified. This national unification process entailed the construction of the 'Pride of our Nation' monument that aims to restore the pride and identity of Solomon Islanders
    Abstract: Introduction -- Islanders at War -- Why Support the Allies-- Impacts of the War -- Monument-building and Nationђ́ѵbuilding -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Prime Minister Derek Sikuађ́ةs letter of endorsement of the Solomon Scouts and Coastwatchers Trust -- Appendix 2: Letter of recognition from President Barack Obama.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Islanders at War -- Why Support the Allies? -- Impacts of the War -- Monument-building and Nation-building -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Prime Minister Derek Sikua's letter of endorsement of the Solomon Scouts and Coastwatchers Trust -- Appendix 2: Letter of recognition from President Barack Obama.
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 9780415626545
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxii, 269 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Routledge contemporary China series 90
    DDC: 303.48/21821051
    Keywords: China Study and teaching ; Psychological aspects ; China Foreign public opinion ; History ; China Study and teaching ; History
    Abstract: Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and demonization of all things Western? And why have some of the world's wisest thinkers expressed opinions on Chinese culture, which are simply wrong? In order to answer these questions, this book explores the process of knowledge production about China and the Chinese civilization and in turn
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : Orientalism and beyond -- Knowledge and cultural unconscious -- Sinology, Sinologism, and postcolonialism -- Sinologism : a historical critique -- The ideology of epistemology -- The ideology of methodology -- The ethnic unconscious -- The political unconscious -- Linguistic Sinologism -- Conclusion : a theory of self-conscious reflection.
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    Tucson : University of Arizona Press
    ISBN: 9780816599509
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 307 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Latin American landscapes
    DDC: 304.20972
    Keywords: Environmental policy History ; Environmental degradation History ; Landscape changes History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Political ecology History ; Mexico Environmental conditions ; Mexico History 1810- ; Mexico Politics and government 1810-
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , The Cycles of Mexican Environmental History , The Cycles of Mexican Environmental History , Mexico's Breadbasket : Agriculture and the Environment in the Bajío , Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 , Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 , Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 , King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 , Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 , Parables of Chapultepec : Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico , The Illusion of National Power : Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 , Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls , Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity , Downslope and North : How Soil Degradation and Synthetic Pesticides Drove the Trajectory of Mexican Agriculture through the Twentieth Century , Mexico's Breadbasket : Agriculture and the Environment in the Bajío , Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 , Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 , Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 , King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 , Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 , Parables of Chapultepec : Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico , The Illusion of National Power : Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 , Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls , Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 0822350513 , 1283292270 , 0822350343 , 9780822350514 , 9780822350347
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxi, 432 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Migrants and migration in modern North America
    DDC: 304.8/7
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism ; Immigrants ; North America Emigration and immigration ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America-within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States-during the past two centuries
    Description / Table of Contents: Mirando atrás : Mexican immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian GrattonThrough the northern Borderlands : Canada-U.S. migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bruno Ramirez -- The making and unmaking of the circum-Caribbean migratory sphere : mobility, sex across boundaries, and collective destinies, 1840-1940 / Lara Putnam -- Population movements and the making of Canada-U.S. not-so-foreign relations / Nora Faires -- Greater southwest North America : a region of historical integration, disjunction, and imposition / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez with Dirk Hoerder -- Independence and interdependence : Caribbean-North American migration in the modern era / Melanie Shell-Weiss -- Migration to Mexico, migration in Mexico : a special case on the North American continent / Delia González de Reufels and Dirk Hoerder -- The construction of borders : building North American nations, building a continental perimeter, 1890s-1920s / Angelika E. Sauer -- The United States-Mexican border as material and cultural barrier / Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez -- Migration and the seasonal round : an Odawa family's story / Susan E. Gray -- Market interactions in a borderland setting : a case study of the Gila River Pima of Arizona, 1846-1862 / Dan Killoren -- Paying attention to moving Americans : migration knowledge in the age of internal migration, 1930s-1970s / James N. Gregory -- The Black experience in Canada revisited / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu -- Circumnavigating controls : transborder migration of Asian-origin migrants during the period of exclusion / Yukari Takai -- Migration and capitalism : the rise of the U.S.-Mexican border / John Mason Hart -- Central American migration and the shaping of refugee policy / María Cristina Garcia -- Central American transmigrants : migratory movement of special interest to different sectors within and outside Mexico / Rodolfo Casillas-R. -- Interrogating managed migration's model : a counternarrative of Canada's seasonal agricultural workers program / Kerry Preibisch -- 1867 and all that -- : teaching the American survey as continental North American history / Angelika Sauer and Catherine O'Donnell.
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    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9786613097774 , 128309777X , 9780199715817 , 9781283097772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 146 S.) , Ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Very short introductions
    Parallel Title: Print version American Immigration
    DDC: 304.8/73
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    Keywords: Cultural pluralism ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; History
    Abstract: Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and the motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one of America's persistent hot-button issues. Historian David Gerber begins by examining the many legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is not an American, ranging from the Naturali
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note:Introduction -- Section One The Law of Immigration and the Legal Construction of Citizenship -- Chapter One Unregulated Immigration and Its Opponents: from Colonial America to the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two Regulation and Exclusion -- Chapter Three Reform in the Mid- Twentieth Century: Removing Barriers, Debating Consequences -- Section Two Emigration and Immigration: From the International Migrants' Perspective -- Introduction -- Chapter Four Mass Population Movements and Resettlement, 1820-1924 -- Chapter Five Mass Population Movements and Resettlement, 1970 to the Present: Continuity and Change -- Section Three The Dialogue of Ethnicity and Assimilation -- Chapter Six The Widening Mainstream -- Chapter Seven The Future of Assimilation -- Conclusion -- Further Reading.
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    ISBN: 9004173390 , 9789004173392
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 451 p) , ill. (some col.), maps , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Chinese overseas v. 1
    Series Statement: Brill ebook titles
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chu, Richard T. Chinese and Chinese mestizos of Manila
    DDC: 305.895/105991609034
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    Keywords: Chinese History ; Chinese Social conditions ; Chinese Ethnic identity ; Merchants History ; Chinese Social conditions ; Merchants History ; Chinese History ; Chinese Ethnic identity ; Manila (Philippines) Ethnic relations ; Manila (Philippines) Commerce ; History ; Manila (Philippines) Ethnic relations ; Manila (Philippines) Commerce ; History ; Chinesen ; Mestizen ; Manila ; Ethnische Identität ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschichte 1860-1939
    Abstract: Taking a micro-historical approach to the study of ethnic identities in the Philippines, this book offers a fascinating portrait of how Chinese merchant families in Manila negotiated the meanings of "Chinese," "Chinese mestizo," "Catholic," and "Filipino" from 1860s to 1930s
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction To be a "Filipino" and "Chinese" in the Philippines; Chapter 1 The Minnan Region of Fujian: History and Society; Chapter 2 The Chinese in Late Spanish Colonial Manila: An Overview; Chapter 3 The Chinese Merchants in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Manila: Precursors of Modern Chinese Transnationalism in the Philippines; Chapter 4 Catholic Conversion and Marriage Practices among Chinese Merchants; Chapter 5 Family Life and Culture in Chinese Merchant Families
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 Rethinking the Chinese Mestizos and Mestizas of ManilaChapter 7 Early American Colonial Rule in the Philippines and the Construction of "Filipino" and "Chinese" Identities; Chapter 8 Chinese Merchant Families: Family, Identity, and Culture in the Early Twentieth Century; Chapter 9 Negotiating Identities within Chinese Merchant Families: To be "Filipino" or to be "Chinese"; Conclusion; Glossary of Chinese Characters; References; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : to be a "Filipino" and "Chinese" in the Philippines -- The Minnan region of Fujian : history and society -- The Chinese in late Spanish colonial Manila : an overview -- The Chinese merchants in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Manila : precursors of modern Chinese transnationalism in the Philippines -- Catholic conversion and marriage practices among Chinese merchants -- Family life and culture in Chinese merchant families -- Rethinking the Chinese mestizos and mestizas of Manila -- Early American colonial rule in the Philippines and the construction of "Filipino" and "Chinese" identities -- Chinese merchant families : family, identity, and culture in the early twentieth century -- Negotiating identities within Chinese merchant families : to be "Filipino" or to be Chinese".
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    Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674032965 , 9780674053939
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 246 p) , ill , 18 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Nathan I. Huggins lectures
    Parallel Title: Print version Political worlds of slavery and freedom
    DDC: 306.3/620973
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    Keywords: Garvey, Marcus ; Universal Negro Improvement Association ; Political participation History 20th century ; Political participation History 19th century ; Slavery Political aspects ; History ; Slaves Emancipation ; Black nationalism History 20th century ; Slave insurrections History 19th century ; African Americans Politics and government 19th century ; African Americans Politics and government 20th century ; Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
    Abstract: "Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms."--Jacket
    Description / Table of Contents: "Slaves at large" : the emancipation process and the terrain of African American politicsDid we miss the greatest slave rebellion in modern history? -- Marcus Garvey, the UNIA, and the hidden political history of African Americans.
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    ISBN: 9789047432821
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Resource (xxxi, 294 p.) , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif. ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction v. 9
    Series Statement: Brill eBook titles 2008
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dewasiri, Nirmal Ranjith, 1965 - The adaptable peasant
    Dissertation note: Zugl.: Leiden, Univ., Diss.
    DDC: 306.3/49095493
    Keywords: Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History 18th century ; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History 18th century ; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History ; 18th century ; Land tenure History 18th century ; Land tenure History 18th century ; Land tenure Sri Lanka ; History ; 18th century ; Sri Lanka Rural conditions 18th century ; Sri Lanka Rural conditions 18th century ; Sri Lanka Rural conditions ; 18th century ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Sri Lanka ; Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie ; Landwirtschaft ; Geschichte 1740-1800
    Abstract: This study investigates the structural changes in western Sri Lanka's agrarian society under the administration of the Dutch United East India Company (VOC). In the areas where peasant agriculture was the predominant form of production, changes in the land tenure system paved the way for a modern system of private property relations. A new class differentiation emerged and the indigenous chiefs turned into powerful landowners. In addition to this, new light is shed on the dynamics of caste formation as a result of the early colonial encounter
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 1405100540 , 1405100559 , 0470712740 , 1405141301 , 9781405100540 , 9781405100557 , 9780470712740 , 9781405141307
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 288 p) , ill., map , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 305.48/891411
    Keywords: Anglo-Indians Migrations 20th century ; History ; Anglo-Indians Ethnic identity ; Women, Anglo-Indian History 20th century ; Anglo-Indians Race identity ; Women, Anglo-Indian Social conditions 20th century
    Abstract: Domicile and diaspora: an introduction -- At home in British India: Imperial domesticity and national identity -- Home, community and nation: domesticating identity and embodying modernity -- Colonization and settlement: Anglo-Indian homelands -- Independence and decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain -- Mixed descent, migration and multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947 -- At home in independent India: post-Imperial domesticity and national identity -- Domicile and diaspora: conclusions
    Description / Table of Contents: Domicile and diaspora: an introductionAt home in British India: Imperial domesticity and national identity -- Home, community and nation: domesticating identity and embodying modernity -- Colonization and settlement: Anglo-Indian homelands -- Independence and decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain -- Mixed descent, migration and multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947 -- At home in independent India: post-Imperial domesticity and national identity -- Domicile and diaspora: conclusions.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230554436
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 202 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Diplomacy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Middle East History ; Europe History ; International relations ; Diplomacy
    Abstract: This book provides a general understanding of Ottoman diplomacy in relation to the modern international system. The origins of Ottoman diplomacy have been traced back to the Islamic tradition and Byzantine Inner Asian heritage. The Ottomans regarded diplomacy as an institution of the modern international system. They established resident ambassadors and the basic institutions and structure of diplomacy. The book concludes with a review of the legacy of Ottoman diplomacy
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 0631189394 , 0470754656 , 9780470754658
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 402 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The making of Europe
    Uniform Title: Europa in Bewegung. 〈engl.〉
    Parallel Title: Print version Migration in European history
    DDC: 304.8/4
    Keywords: Immigrants History ; Europeans History ; Migration, Internal History ; Europe Emigration and immigration ; History
    Abstract: Since the opening of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries. However, migrations to, from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus J. Bade reminds us in this timely book. Bade presents a history of European migration over a range of eras, countries and migration types, examining the driving forces and currents of migration as well as their effects on the cultures of both migrants and host countries. He focuses mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, paying particular attention to the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and includes public perceptions of migration as well as migration policies. This emphasis on recent history enables the author to illuminate the problems that Europe is presently experiencing. The book touches on one of the most controversial areas of current European politics, demonstrating that the reactions of today's host populations are often alarmist, and reminding us that many Europeans are themselves descendants of earlier migrants
    Abstract: Since the opening of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries. However, migrations to, from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus J. Bade reminds us in this timely book. Bade presents a history of European migration over a range of eras, countries and migration types, examining the driving forces and currents of migration as well as their effects on the cultures of both migrants and host countries. He focuses mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, paying particular attention to the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and includes public perceptions of migration as well as migration policies. This emphasis on recent history enables the author to illuminate the problems that Europe is presently experiencing. The book touches on one of the most controversial areas of current European politics, demonstrating that the reactions of today's host populations are often alarmist, and reminding us that many Europeans are themselves descendants of earlier migrants
    Description / Table of Contents: Migration during the shift from agrarian to industrial societies.Migration in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. -- The period of the world wars: escape, expulsion, forced labour. -- Migration and migratory policies in the Cold War. -- Europe : a continent of immigration at the end of the twentieth century.
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    New York, N.Y : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780230628083
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 197 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Military and Strategic History
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Military history ; Imperialism ; International relations
    Abstract: The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and personalities of British peacemaking in 1919. Many of the intractable problems faced by negotiators are studied in this volume. Neglected issues, including nascent British commercial interests in Central Europe and attitudes towards Russia are covered, along with important reassessments of the viability of the Versailles treaty, reparations, appeasement, and the long-term effects of the settlement. This collection is a compelling and resonant addition to revisionist studies of the 'Peace to End Peace' and essential reading for those interested in international history
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : St. Martin's Press
    ISBN: 9780333977651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New Perspectives in German Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; European Union ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Social history ; Political science ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: This book examines the role of the masses in the collapse of the East German regime and state in 1989 in the northern district of Schwerin. It shows the extent to which citizens of the GDR dictatorship were instrumental in their state's demise. The 'bottom-up' approach employed, in contrast to the study of power wielding elites and 'opposition', explores the shift in mood and behaviour of citizens which brought about the internal collapse of the state
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    Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 081223541X , 0812217225 , 9780812217223
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (371 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New cultural studies
    DDC: 305.8/00941/09033
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    Keywords: English fiction History and criticism 18th century ; Race awareness History 18th century ; Race in literature ; Difference (Psychology) History 18th century ; Great Britain Race relations 18th century ; History ; Great Britain Social conditions 18th century ; Great Britain Civilization 18th century
    Abstract: Biographical note: Roxann Wheeler teaches English at Ohio State University.
    Abstract: Main description: In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed: "here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men." The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted by the imposition of nineteenth and twentieth century notions of race on an earlier period. Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment's scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety. As a consequence of a burgeoning empire in the second half of the eighteenth century, English writers were increasingly preoccupied with differentiating the British nation from its imperial outposts by naming traits that set off the rulers from the ruled; although race was one of these traits, it was by no means the distinguishing one. In the fiction of the time, non-European characters could still be "redeemed" by baptism or conversion and the British nation could embrace its mixed-race progeny. In Wheeler's eighteenth century we see the coexistence of two systems of racialization and to detect a moment when an older order, based on the division between Christian and heathen, gives way to a new one based on the assertion of difference between black and white.
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    ISBN: 9789401140065
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 1110 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Humanities ; Architecture ; History ; Anthropology ; Arts. ; History. ; Cultural property. ; Architecture. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology
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    Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press | New York : St. Martin's Press
    ISBN: 9781349276455
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 151 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: British History in Perspective
    DDC: 941
    Keywords: History ; Great Britain History ; World politics
    Abstract: This study looks afresh at the assumption that those in the Scottish parliament who voted for the union of 1707 sold their country. The world of Scottish politics after the union is then explored from the perspective of the people at the top of the ruling elite. It is the world of the squadrone, Argyll, Ilay, Bute and Dundas, where there was little civic virtue. Much is learned by looking at the century as a whole in describing their struggles, their motives and ideas, their place within the politics of Great Britain and the challenges to their complacency
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    Basingstoke : Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781349275212
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 287 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Problems in Focus Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: History, Modern ; Great Britain History ; Military history ; Politics and war ; History ; Europe History
    Abstract: War played a fundamental role in European history during the early modern period. This up-to-date collection covers this crucial period in military history and analyses the nature and impact of warfare on the political and social development of Europe
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    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401155168
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 22
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; History. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The Law of Causality and its Limits (1931) a principal work from the classical period of the Vienna Circle, was written by Philipp Frank, a physicist and philosopher, to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the notion of causal explanation. The book contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of science: meaning of general statements, determinism, vitalism, lawfulness in biology and physical science, irreversibility, cause and chance, among others
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    Basingstoke : Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781349269983
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii,135p)
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    Series Statement: British History in Perspective
    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Great Britain History ; Military history ; Literature ; Political science ; Political theory
    Abstract: One of the most charismatic and controversial of British politicians, David Lloyd George had a profound impact on the country; as a Welsh radical, as an Edwardian social reformer and as 'the man who won the war'. Lloyd George was centrally involved in all the major national issues of the early twentieth century, and in the aftermath of World War I he played a crucial role at the Versailles peace conference and on the world scene of the early 1920s. His life is fascinating in itself and highly valuable as a means to understanding a crucial era in British history. Students hoping to understand the politics of the period that decisively ushered in the British experience of the welfare state, and, through the emergencies provoked by the Great War, a new and highly obtrusive role for government, will find Dr. Packer's book an invaluable aid
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    ISBN: 1859731848 , 1859731899 , 1847888801 , 9781847888808
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 359 p) , ill., ports , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Dress, body, culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 391.008996073075
    Keywords: Slaves Clothing ; African Americans Clothing ; African Americans Clothing 19th century ; History ; African Americans Social life and customs
    Abstract: Introduction: Warping a Folk History 1 Beginning in Africa1 2 Constructing Cloth and Clothing in the Antebellum South 3 Wearing Antebellum Clothing 4 Having Footwear 5 Embellishing the Head2 6 Crowning the Person 7 Clothing as the Weft of a Folk History Epilogue Appendix I: Glossary of Selected Trade-Cloth Terms Used by Europeans Appendix II: Annotated Glossary of Terms Related to Textile Manufacture and Clothing taken from the Narratives Appendix III: Cloth Dyes Reported in the Narratives
    Abstract: This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during the thirty years before the American Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably oral narratives recorded in the 1930s, this rich account shows that African Americans demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the role clothing played in demarcating age, sex, status, work, recreation, as well as special secular and sacred events. Testimonies offer proof of African Americans' vast technical skills in producing cloth and clothing, which served both as a fundamental reflection of the peoples' Afrocentric craftsmanship and aesthetic sensibilities, and as a reaction to their particular place in American society. Previous work on clothing in this period has tended to focus on white viewpoints, and as a consequence the dress worn by the enslaved has generally been seen as a static standard imposed by white overlords. This excellent study departs from conventional interpretations to show that the clothing of the enslaved changed over time, served multiple functions and represented customs and attitudes which evolved distinctly from within African American communities. In short, it represents a vital contribution to African American studies, as well as to dress and textile history, and cultural and folklore studies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-353) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9789401155304
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 312 p)
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; History ; Ethics ; Medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics -- 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées 147
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy, modern ; Medicine ; Artificial intelligence ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. Molyneux's question has intrigued a wide variety of intellectuals for three centuries. Those who have attempted to solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz, Voltaire, La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot, Müller, Helmholtz, William James and Gareth Evans. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux's problem. It will be of interest to historians of both philosophy and psychology
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    Keywords: History ; Great Britain History
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    ISBN: 9780585274447
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 49
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; History ; Ethics. ; History. ; Medicine—History. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century America and the development of a different, but parallel, tradition of medical jurisprudence in nineteenth century Britain. These original papers are supplemented by reprints of: the first American Code of medical ethics, the Boston Medical Police of 1808; and an unabridged version of the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics; and the second (1886) edition of Jukes Styrap's Code of Ethics - a Code which, although officially rejected by the British Medical Association, nonetheless defined the `done thing' for British practitioners in the last decades of the nineteenth century
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 137
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Astronomy—Observations.
    Abstract: Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrote his Experimenta Nova in the seventeenth century in Latin, a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporary scientists. Thus isolated by the remoteness of his time and his means of communication, von Guericke has for many years been denied the recognition he deserves in the English speaking world. Indeed, the century in which he lived witnessed the invention of six important and valuable scientific instruments -- the microscope, the telescope, the pendulum clock, the barometer, the thermometer, and the air pump. Von Guericke was associated with the development of the last three of these; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine. Thus his Experimenta Nova was an important work, heralding the emerging empiricism of seventeenth century science, and merits this first English translation of von Guericke's magnus opus
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 158
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy, medieval ; Medicine ; History ; Regional planning ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore, infers that its methodological implications are also problematic. Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the doctrinal context of the Stones and expounds its central theme. He then presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial selection of the text of the Stones, based on all available manuscripts. This critical edition has been translated in its entirety and is provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual notes -- another pioneering feature of this book: for this is the first English translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print after a whole century. An outstanding contribution is that it announces and presents an exciting textual discovery: the author has found in the Stones a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of part of Aristotle's Categories. Given that we have so far known of only one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of the Greek text, Haq's discovery gives this book an historical importance
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 41
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Comparative Literature ; History ; Phenomenology . ; Language and languages—Style. ; History. ; Comparative literature. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Focusing mainly upon language, communication, textuality, etc., as is overwhelmingly today's fashion, we miss the very raison d'être of literature and language itself. Moving a step further in our investigation of the anthropologico-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling the function of imaginatio creatrix in man's self interpretation-in-existence, this collection seeks to bring forth the royal role of allegory in the fostering of culture. A conjoint work of human elemental passions and of the human spirit, allegory mediates between lofty ideals of the highest human strivings and the pedestrian realm of facts. Interpretative or theoretical studies encompass allegory -- mediaeval, modern and post-modern -- in various literatures. Among the authors are: Tymieniecka, Kronegger, Jorge Garcia Gomez, V. Osadnik, H. Hellerstein, H. Rudnick, R. Kiefer, V. Fichera, K. Haney, Ch. Raffini, J. Williamson, B. Ross and Sitansu Ray
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    ISBN: 9789401116626
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 786 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History.
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive survey of the way in which Hegel reacted to the pervasive Newtonianism of his day. Various eighteenth century developments in metaphysics, the foundations of mathematics, mechanics, optics and chemistry are considered, together with Hegel's assessment of them. It becomes apparent that the criticism he levels at several of the prevailing attitudes of his day assumes a new significance once a proper distinction is drawn between Newton's own views and those of his professed followers. One of the most remarkable results of the survey is the way in which it brings out the basic convergence of many of Hegel's views with those of the historical Newton. The work is rounded off with a fully annotated bibliography of the relevant sections of Hegel's private library
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 17
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Religion. ; History. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: There is a consensus among Christian theologians that the symbol of the `kingdom of God', inherited from the Judaic tradition, is the key to understanding Christianity. But theologians have for millenia differed among themselves as to the interpretation of this symbol. Political ramifications of, or reactions to, this Judaeo-Christian idea have included the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the `Third Rome', American Manifest Destiny, Zionism, the Third Reich, and Liberation Theology. This book focuses on the question of whether the kingdom of God is necessarily related to certain political implications, and its possible implications for democracy and democratic theory. It examines the development of the symbol in the Old and New Testaments, the diversity of related theological interpretations and political concomitants, and the significance of the `kingdom of God' in the development of present and future political formations and political theory
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Klaits, Joseph [Rezension von: Harline, Craig E., The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen] 1994
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 132
    Keywords: Humanities ; History ; Social sciences ; History. ; Social sciences. ; Political science.
    Abstract: This volume brings together the best essays and reviews of Herbert H. Rowen, professor emeritus of Rutgers University, foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and one of the first important English-speaking historians of the Dutch Republic since John Lothrop Motley. Many of the essays, though published previously, have not been readily available, while several appear here for the first time. They include close analysis of the Dutch Republic, French absolutism, the eighteenth-century Republic and the Atlantic Revolutions, and direct and indirect commentary on the task of the historian more generally. Also included are three essays and several reviews about the work of Herbert Rowen, which assess his particular contribution to historical studies. The leading characteristics of that work are reflected in the title of this collection: clarity and ease of expression, rigor of thought, and a focus on the intersection of political thought and practice in the early modern period
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    ISBN: 9789401125949
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 411 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; Science—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: Sciences et Empires: un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux -- Welcome Address -- For a New Historiographical Approach of the So-called “Traditional Knowledge” -- Science classique et science moderne à l’époque de l’expansion de la science européenne -- Integration Problems: Introductory Report -- Ottomans and European Science -- The “Oriental-Occidental Controversy” of 1839 and its Impact on Indian Science -- The Colonial “Model” and the Emergence of National Science in India: 1876–1920 -- Integration Problems: Discussion -- Western Mathematics in China, Seventeenth Century and Nineteenth Century -- The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan -- Du “zira” au “mètre”: une transformation métrologique dans l’Empire Ottoman -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: a Comparative Description of “Classical” Medical Science at the Time of Introduction of European Medical Science to Sri Lanka, and Subsequent Development to Present -- Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910) -- The First Chair of Chemistry in Mexico (1796–1810) -- Trade and the Natural Sciences in the United States of Columbia -- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle: la France et le Mexique en perspective -- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil -- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et 1’influence de la tradition française -- Brazilian Museums of Natural History and International Exchanges in the Transition to the 20th Century -- The Pan American Experiment in Eugenics -- Typologie des stratégies d’expansion en sciences exactes -- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure -- World-Science: How Is the History of World-Science to Be Written? -- Science and the Japanese Empire 1868–1945: An Overview -- Science and Nationalism in New Granada on the Eve of the Revolution of Independence -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: the Ottoman Empire as a Source of Evidence -- Problems in Science Administration: a Study of the Scientific Surveys in British India 1757–1900 -- Natural History in Colonial Context: Profit or Pursuit? British Botanical Enterprise in India 1778–1820 -- The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the New French Empire: Science and Political Economy -- Patriarchal Science: the Network of the Overseas Pasteur Institutes -- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870–1940) -- La France et l’émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900–1940) -- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l’Université de São Paulo (1934) -- Yvon Chatelin -- José Leite Lopes -- Abdur Rahman -- Nakayama Shigeru -- Juan-José Saldaña -- Jean-Jacques Salomon -- José Israël Vargas -- Unpublished Communications.
    Abstract: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De­ velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien­ tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 37
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; History.
    Abstract: One time, Historicity, Culture -- Husserl and Historicism: Fifty Years Later -- The Teleology of the Historical Being in Hartmann and Husserl -- Historical Time, Mind, and Critical Philosophy of History -- Does Man Co-Create Time? -- The Reactivation of the Past as an Ethical Demand on the Phenomenologist -- Hartmann: The Historicity of Cultural Data -- Hombre y Civilizatión: 1492, La Educatión Imposible -- Phenomenology as a Theory of Culture -- Two Husserlian and Posthusserlian Approaches to Aesthetics -- The Methodological Foundations of Phe-nomenological Aesthetics -- Bild und Kunst im Husserls Nachlass -- Aesthetic Concepts of a Phenomeno-logical Origin -- A Poet’s Life and Work in the Perspective of Phenomenology -- On the Quasi-Intentional Nature of Represented Objects in a Film Work of Art -- Three The Life-Significance of Literature and its Interpretation -- Tymieniecka’s Vindication of the Life Significance of Literature. Homo Ludens and Homo Creator: Scapino -- The Enigma of Avant-Gardes -- Phenomenology and the Pragmatics of Literary Realism -- The Reader and the Reality of the Literary Text: Towards the Construction of Aesthetic Meaning -- Art as Communication -- Phenomenology and the Reception of Literary Texts: The Implied Reader as an Element of a Genre -- L’Oeuvre Litteraire, La Construction Interieure et la Reconstruction -- The Hundredlettered Name: Thunder in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake -- Refiguring Nature: Tropes of Estrangement in Contemporary American Poetry -- Four Metaphysical Issues in Aesthetics -- Anti-Metaphysical Thinking on Art (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) -- The Sense of Possibility: On the Ontologico-Eidetic Relevance of the Character (The Experimental Ego) in Literary Experience -- Truth and Untruth in the Museum Exhibition -- Nihilism and Noesis: The Contribution of Phenomenology to the Sartrean Analysis of Flaubert -- Goethe and Schopenhauer: A Phenomenology of the Final Vision in Faust II -- The Tagorean Interpretation of “Ami”: Man’s Self-Esteem -- The Magic of Art in the Magic-Less World -- El Problema Einailogico -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R. Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M. Kronegger. These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn­ ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno­ logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death. IX A -T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXVII, ix.
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    Series Statement: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies no. 20
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Genther, Phyllis A A History of Japan's Government-Business Relationship : The Passenger Car Industry
    Dissertation note: Thesis (doctoral)--George Washington University
    Keywords: Automobile industry and trade Government policy ; History ; Automobile industry and trade ; Government policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; Japan ; Hochschulschrift
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    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 51
    Keywords: Governors History ; Governors Biography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Governors ; Politics and government ; Biographies ; History ; China Politics and government 1644-1912 ; China
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    ISBN: 9780472127993 , 0472127993 , 9780472901951 , 0472901958
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    Series Statement: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia no. 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hall, Kenneth R Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History : The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft
    Keywords: Politics and government ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; Southeast Asia Politics and government ; Southeast Asia History ; Southeast Asia
    Abstract: Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps and Charts -- The Authors -- Foreword -- Symbols Used in the Notes -- An introductory Essay on Southeast Asian Statecraft in the Classical Period -- Madagascar in the Ancient Malayo-Polynesian Myths -- State and Statecraft in Early Srivijaya -- Devarāja Cult and Khmer Kingship at Angkor -- The Rise of Đại Việt and the Establishment of Thang-Lŏng -- Note: The Vietnamese Confucian Scholar's View of His Country's Early History -- Kingship, the Saṅgha, and Society in Pagan
    Abstract: The Devolution of Kingship in Twelfth Century Ceylon -- Southeast Asian Trade and the Isthmian Struggle, 1000-1200 A.D. -- Appendix -- Southeast asia to 1300: A Course Outline and List of Suggested Readings
    Abstract: While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on the existing information. The product of this effort, as it is encompassed in this volume, is not an attempt at the definitive study of any of the topics. It is rather a series of speculations on the directions feasible for the further study of the Southeast Asian past. As such, the answers proposed in these essays are really questions. Are the ideas presented here true within the specific historical contexts for which they have been developed? If so, can we use these ideas, or variations of them, to interpret the history of other parts of Southeast Asia? If not, what other ideas may be brought to bear on these situations in order to understand them? The ultimate aim of this volume is thus a challenge to the profession at large not only to criticize what we have done, but also to go beyond our postulations and create new ones. [xi]
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    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 26
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; China History Xi'an Incident, 1936 ; China
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    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 14
    Keywords: Bibliography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; China Bibliography ; Quzhou Xian (Hebei Sheng, China) History ; Bibliography ; China ; China ; Quzhou Xian (Hebei Sheng)
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    Series Statement: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies no. 12
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 ; China
    Abstract: Hu Tsung-hsien's campaign against Hsü Hai, 1556. -- Su-chou and the agents of Wei Chung-hsien, 1626.
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