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  • 2000-2004  (16)
  • 1930-1934
  • Berkeley : University of California Press
  • English Studies  (11)
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  • 1
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    Minding the Machine : Languages of Class in Early Industrial America (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520926578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5
    RVK:
    HF 655
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1860 ; Industrialisierung ; Klassengesellschaft ; Sprache ; USA
    Abstract: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
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  • 2
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    More Damned Lies and Statistics : How Numbers Confuse Public Issues (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520930025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.38
    RVK:
    QH 244
    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused by falling coconuts. More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand respect they don't deserve; magical numbers promise unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious numbers become the focus of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions get made, and which figures are brought to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and...
    Abstract: very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count-in more ways than one.
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  • 3
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    Venice, the tourist maze : a cultural critique of the world's most touristed city (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520937805 , 1417545062 , 9780520937802 , 9781417545063
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 360 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 945/.31
    RVK:
    LB 61255
    RVK:
    LB 72255
    RVK:
    QQ 955
    Keywords: Geschichte ; HISTORY. ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban ; Tourism ; Travel ; Travelers ; Toerisme ; Geschichte ; Travelers ; Tourism History ; Tourismus ; Italien ; Venedig ; Venedig ; Tourismus ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index , 'Venice, the Tourist Maze' charts the history of tourism in the most tourist-visited place on the planet, & at the same time offers a critique of the city-as-tourist-destination. The 'maze' is the paradox created when a city becomes a theme park entertaining visitors on an industrial scale , Introduction: The City Built on the Sea -- Timescape -- Landscape -- Seascape -- Worldscape -- Afterword: Chi ciapa schei xe contento
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  • 4
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    Gender and U.S. Immigration : Contemporary Trends (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520929869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (404 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.873
    RVK:
    CR 6000
    RVK:
    HD 370
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.
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  • 5
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    Where are you from? : Middle-class migrants in the modern world (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 1417525568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 267 Seiten) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi, 1969- Where are you from?
    DDC: 305.69450421
    RVK:
    HD 400
    RVK:
    MS 1390
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    LB 48375
    RVK:
    LB 56190
    Keywords: Asia del Sur - Inglaterra ; Clase media - Inglaterra ; Hindus - England ; Immigrants - England ; Inmigrantes - Inglaterra ; London ; Londres ; Middle class - England ; Panjabis (Pueblo de Asia del Sur) - Inglaterra ; Panjabis (South Asian people) - England ; South Asians - England ; Einwanderer ; Migration ; Asia del Sur ; Clase media ; Hindus ; Immigrants ; Inmigrantes ; Middle class ; Panjabis (Pueblo de Asia del Sur) ; Panjabis (South Asian people) ; South Asians ; Mittelstand ; Hindu ; Pandschabi ; Migration ; Asiaten ; Nationale Minderheit ; Ethnische Identität ; Südasiaten ; Einwanderung ; London (England) - Ethnic relations ; South Asia - Emigration and immigration ; Südasien ; London (England) Ethnic relations ; South Asia Emigration and immigration ; London ; Westliche Welt ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic book ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic book ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; London ; Pandschabi ; Mittelstand ; Ethnische Identität ; Westliche Welt ; Südasiaten ; Migration ; London ; Mittelstand ; Einwanderung ; London ; Asiaten ; Einwanderung ; Großbritannien ; Hindu ; Einwanderung ; London ; Nationale Minderheit ; Einwanderung ; Großbritannien ; Asiaten ; Einwanderung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index
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    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • 6
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    Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800 (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520936478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40973
    RVK:
    HD 370
    Keywords: Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Wert ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question, highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law, and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions of female moral authority. She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that has dominated American culture for two hundred years.
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  • 7
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    Families of the forest : the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520232429 , 0520232410
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 258 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Families of the Forest : The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
    DDC: 305.898/39
    RVK:
    LB 41650
    RVK:
    LB 57650
    RVK:
    WI 5200
    Keywords: Machiguenga cosmology ; Machiguenga Indians Social life and customs ; Machiguenga Indians Kinship ; Historical fiction ; History and criticism ; Jews ; History ; 586 B.C.-70 A.D ; Jews ; Identity ; History ; To 1500 ; Third Book of Maccabees ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Electronic books ; Amazon River Region Social life and customs
    Abstract: The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Under ordinary circumstances, the largest social units are individual households or small extended-family hamlets. In the absence of such "tribal" features as villages, territorial defense and warfare
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Among the Matsigenka; 1. Setting and History; 2. Making a Living; 3. Family Life; 4. Society and Politics; 5. Cosmos; Conclusion: A Family Level Society; Glossary; References Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 8
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    Colonizing sex : sexology and social control in modern Japan (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520235479 , 0520235487
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 267 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Colonialisms 4
    DDC: 306.7/0952
    RVK:
    DG 5000
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    YH 3200
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    RVK:
    LB 44450
    RVK:
    WU 3700
    RVK:
    NQ 5755
    RVK:
    NQ 6600-NQ 6850
    RVK:
    MS 3100
    Keywords: Sexualwissenschaft ; Sexualerziehung ; Sexualität ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Japan
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 217-257
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  • 9
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    Rethinking American history in a global age (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 1417508116 , 0520230582 , 0520936035 , 9780520936034 , 9781417508112 , 1597348635 , 9781597348638 , 9780520230576 , 0520230574 , 9780520230583
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 427 pages , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rethinking American history in a global age
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rethinking American history in a global age
    RVK:
    HD 370
    RVK:
    NK 2850
    RVK:
    NB 5550
    Keywords: Globalization. ; Mondialisation. ; Mondialisation ; Globalization ; Globalization. ; Mondialisation. ; Globalization ; Historiography ; Geschiedschrijving ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States - General ; HISTORY ; State & Local ; General ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; History ; Geschiedenis (vorm) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung ; United States Historiography. ; United States History ; Philosophy. ; États-Unis Historiographie. ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie. ; United States Historiography ; United States History ; Philosophy ; États-Unis Historiographie ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie ; United States History ; Philosophy ; United States Historiography ; United States Historiography. ; United States History ; Philosophy. ; États-Unis Historiographie. ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie. ; United States History ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie USA ; United States ; Philosophy ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung ; USA ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye -- Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- International at the creation : early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- How the West was one : the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Time and revolution in African America : temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- Beyond the view from Euro-America : environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell -- From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system : a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder -- Framing U.S. history : democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe -- An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young -- American empire and cultural imperialism : a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes -- Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil -- The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck -- The exhaustion of enclosures : a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger
    Abstract: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history
    Description / Table of Contents: Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye -- Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- International at the creation : early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- How the West was one : the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Time and revolution in African America : temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- Beyond the view from Euro-America : environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell -- From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system : a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder -- Framing U.S. history : democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe -- An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young -- American empire and cultural imperialism : a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes -- Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil -- The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck -- The exhaustion of enclosures : a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity : England, 1550-1850 (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520921399
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on the History of Society and Culture v.47
    DDC: 391.10942
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Männlichkeit ; Anzug ; England
    Abstract: In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustrated account. Between 1550 and 1850, Kuchta says, English upper- and middle-class men understood their authority to be based in part upon the display of masculine character: how they presented themselves in public and demonstrated their masculinity helped define their political legitimacy, moral authority, and economic utility. Much has been written about the ways political culture, religion, and economic theory helped shape ideals and practices of masculinity. Kuchta allows us to see the process working in reverse, in that masculine manners and habits of consumption in a patriarchal society contributed actively to people's understanding of what held England together. Kuchta shows not only how the ideology of modern English masculinity was a self-consciously political and public creation but also how such explicitly political decisions and values became internalized, personalized, and naturalized into everyday manners and habits.
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    Jazz cultures (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9780520926967 , 052092696X , 0585465886 , 9780585465883 , 0520228871 , 9780520228870 , 0520228898 , 9780520228894 , 159734690X , 9781597346900 , 1282758934 , 9781282758933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 781.65
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    Keywords: Jazz ; USA
    Abstract: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Writing as a professional pianist and composer, the author looks at evolving meanings, values, and ideals--as well as the sounds--that musicians, audiences, and critics carry to and from the various activities they call jazz. Among the compelling topics he discusses is the "visuality" of music: the relationship between performance demeanor and musical meaning. Focusing on pianists Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Ake investigates the ways in which musicians' postures and attitudes influence perceptions of them as profound and serious artists. In another essay, Ake examines the musical values and ideals promulgated by college jazz education programs through a consideration of saxophonist John Coltrane. He also discusses the concept of the jazz "standard" in the 1990s and the differing sense of tradition implied in recent recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Bill Frisell. Jazz cultures shows how jazz history has not consisted simply of a smoothly evolving series of musical styles, but rather an array of individuals and communities engaging with disparate--and oftentimes conflicting--actions, ideals, and attitudes.
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    Rule of experts : Egypt, techno-politics, modernity (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520232615 , 0520232623 , 9780520232624
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 413 Seiten , Diagramme, Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 338.962
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    Keywords: Entwicklung ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Kapitalismus ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Technische Zusammenarbeit ; Ländliche Entwicklung ; Kleinbauern ; Ägypten ; Peasants History 20th century ; Peasants History 20th century ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Moderne ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Interesse ; Geschichte ; Ländlicher Raum ; Modernisierung ; Bauer ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Politische Ökonomie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Staat ; HISTORY / Middle East / General ; Egypt Economic policy ; Egypt Economic conditions 1919-1952 ; Egypt Economic conditions 1952- ; Egypt Politics and government 20th century ; Ägypten ; Bibliographie enthalten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ägypten ; Moderne ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Ägypten ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Moderne ; Geschichte ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: Para-sites of capitalism -- Can the mosquito speak? -- Principles true in every country -- The character of calculability -- Peasant studies -- The invention and reinvention of the peasant -- Nobody listens to a poor man -- Heritage and violence -- Fixing the economy -- The object of development -- The market's place -- Dreamland
    Abstract: In a series of interrelated essays focused on 20th-century Egypt, Timothy Mitchell, a widely-known political theorist provides an examination of the forms of reason, power and expertise that characterize contemporary politics
    Abstract: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions.Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- I. PARA-SITES OF CAPITALISM -- 1. Can the Mosquito Speak? -- 2. Principles True in Every Country -- 3. The Character of Calculability -- II. PEASANT STUDIES -- 4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant -- 5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man -- 6. Heritage and Violence -- III. FIXING THE ECONOMY -- 7. The Object of Development -- 8. The Market’s Place -- 9. Dreamland -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Para-sites of capitalism -- Can the mosquito speak? -- Principles true in every country -- The character of calculability -- Peasant studies -- The invention and reinvention of the peasant -- Nobody listens to a poor man -- Heritage and violence -- Fixing the economy -- The object of development -- The market's place -- Dreamland.
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    On the Postcolony (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520917538
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on the History of Society and Culture v.41
    DDC: 302.3096
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    HD 310
    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Subsaharisches Afrika
    Abstract: Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays-his first book to be published in English-develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
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    On the postcolony (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520204344 , 0520204352 , 0520917537 , 0585389365 , 1597347833 , 9780520204348 , 9780520204355 , 9780520917538 , 9780585389363 , 9781597347839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (274 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 41
    Uniform Title: De la postcolonie
    DDC: 302.3/096
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    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Negotiating ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations ; HISTORY / General ; Postcolonialism ; Power (Social sciences) ; Subjectivity ; Wirtschaft ; Power (Social sciences) ; Postcolonialism ; Subjectivity ; Politische Theorie ; Postkolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Herrschaft ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Politische Theorie ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Postkolonialismus ; Herrschaft ; Afrika ; Postkolonialismus
    Note: Original title: De la postcolonie , Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index
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    On the postcolony (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520204352 , 9780520204355 , 0520204344
    Language: English
    Pages: 274 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 41
    Uniform Title: Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie
    DDC: 302.3096
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    HD 310
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    MI 10000
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    NQ 8850
    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 245-269 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Reclaiming Identity : Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (2000)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520924949
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (367 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305
    RVK:
    CC 7700
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    Keywords: Literatur ; Identität ; Postmoderne
    Abstract: "Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a "postpositivist realist" approach to identity, the essays examine the ways in which theory, politics, and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential postmodernist understandings of identity. Although theoretical in orientation, this dynamic collection deals with specific social groups-Chicanas/os, African Americans, gay men and lesbians, Asian Americans, and others-and concrete social issues directly related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, epistemology, and political resistance. Satya Mohanty's brilliant exegesis of Toni Morrison's Beloved serves as a launching pad for the collection. The essays that follow, written by prominent and up-and-coming scholars, address a range of topics-from the writings of Cherrie Moraga, Franz Fanon, Joy Kogawa, and Michael Nava to the controversy surrounding racial program housing on college campuses-and work toward a truly interdisciplinary approach to identity.
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