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  • 1
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    Sinologism : an alternative to orientalism and postcolonialism (2013)
    London : Routledge
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    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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    Land between waters : environmental histories of modern Mexico (2012)
    Tucson : University of Arizona Press
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    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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    American immigration : a very short introduction (2011)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9786613097774 , 128309777X , 9780199715817 , 9781283097772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 146 S.) , Ill
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    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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    Migrants and migration in modern North America : cross-border lives, labor markets, and politics (2011)
    Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
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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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    Chinese and Chinese mestizos of Manila : family, identity, and culture, 1860s-1930s (2010)
    Leiden : Brill
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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
    RVK:
    LB 48425
    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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    DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004173392.i-452
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    The political worlds of slavery and freedom (2009)
    Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
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    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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    NW 8295
    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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    DOI: 10.4159/9780674053939
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    Domicile and diaspora : Anglo-Indian women and the spatial politics of home (2005)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    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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    DOI: 10.1002/9780470712740
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    Migration in European history (2003)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    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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    DOI: 10.1002/9780470754658
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    The complexion of race : categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture (2000)
    Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 081223541X , 0812217225 , 9780812217223
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (371 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: New cultural studies
    DDC: 305.8/00941/09033
    RVK:
    MS 3530
    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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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812200140
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    New raiments of self : African American clothing in the antebellum South (1997)
    Oxford : Berg
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    ISBN: 1859731848 , 1859731899 , 1847888801 , 9781847888808
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 359 p) , ill., ports , 24 cm
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    Series Statement: Dress, body, culture
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    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
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