Regional / International studies Books
Yale University Press Sports in South America
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesTrade Review“This book offers deep and nuanced insight into the sporting world in South America and is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the intricate dance between sports, globalization, urbanization, culture, and identity. It will guide scholars and aficionados through the early years of South American sports, and will become a classic.”—Christopher Gaffney, New York University“Matthew Brown’s excellent book on the development of sport in South America before 1930 is not just for sports historians. His pathbreaking study provides significant insights on several sociocultural themes that are central to modern Latin American history—race, gender, neocolonialism, violence, and social discipline.”—Rory M. Miller, author of Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries“There is no such thing as a definitive history, but this first history of sports in South America is simply brilliant and unmatched. Matthew Brown has written a reference work for scholars and amateurs.”— Pablo Alabarces, University of Buenos Aires“This book shows how South America’s preexisting sporting cultures intertwined and shaped global sporting history from 1862 until 1930. Brown’s insightful attention to local and touring sporting practices, experiences, and debates suggest new paths toward the decolonization of sports history.”—Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramirez, University of the Andes (Bogotá)
£38.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Montreal
Book SynopsisPart of the World Cities series, Montreal provides a guide to the birth, growth and contemporary life of this unique North American metropolis. The authors address some of the fundamental paradoxes at the core of the city''s dilemma: How does the city reconcile its identity as a French window on North America and a bilingual, increasingly multicultural metropolis? How can its economy, currently undergoing a successful transformation into a high-tech hotbed, still suffer from high unemployment? How can a city that is seemingly allergic to urban planning, that has such a long and cold winter and that remains divided between two cultural and linguistic majorities be so frequently ranked one of the world''s most livable cities? The portrait that the authors strive to paint of this intriguing city, caught in the maelstrom of political debate that permeates most of its urban issues, is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. At the heart of this debate lies the National Question, addressing Trade Review"a thorough book written in very clear language" (Urban Geography, 2001) "..an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn about a major city (Urban Studies, Vol.38, No.13, 2001) "...informative and thought-provoking book (Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol.10 No.1, 2001) "..I strongly recommend this volume to scholars, planners, politicians and concerned citizens interested in the future of the great city.." (Quebec Studies, No.24.)Table of ContentsA Metropolis in Transition. Montréal's Built Form: French Heritage, Victorian Legacy and Modernist Ambitions. The Shifting Boundaries of the Metropolis: The Struggle to Govern a Moving Target. Montréal's Economy: Decline, Conversion - Polarization? Repopulating the Inner City. Language, Ethnic Groups and the Shaping of Social Space. Epilogue. Bibliography. List of Figures. List of Tables. Index.
£92.66
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Taiwan Voter
Book SynopsisExamines the critical role ethnic and national identities play in politics, utilizing the case of Taiwan. Critiquing the conventional interpretation of politics as an ideological battle between liberals and conservatives, The Taiwan Voter demonstrates in Taiwan the party system and voters' responses are shaped by one powerful determinant of national identity - the China factor.Trade ReviewThe Taiwan Voter makes a tremendous contribution to the Taiwan literature as a culmination of nearly three decades of scholarly research of public opinion on Taiwan. It appeals to those interested in Taiwan, party identification, voting behavior, and electoral reform. Each chapter provides useful data and solid analysis with findings conveniently synthesized in the conclusion."" - Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas""This book demonstrates forcefully how identity politics dominate the political structure of Taiwan. With the current global rise of identity politics, I am confident that this volume will occupy a prominent spot in the standard voting behavior canon for at least the next generation."" - Nathan F. Batto, Academia Sinica
£52.95
University of California Press Reflections on Reality Reflections on Reality
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. It conveys the intellectual vibrancy of the different cultural interpretations of Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence, and expands the key philosophical issues it addresses.Trade Review"This is without question the finest and most complete discussion of the renowned Mind-Only school and its Tibetan context." -Anne C. Klein, author of Knowledge and Liberation, Path to the Middle "An important new contribution to our understanding of the development of Buddhist philosophical thought in Tibet." - Matthew T. Kapstein, author of The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and MemoryTable of ContentsPreface Technical Notes Part One: Background Part Two: Religous Significance of the Three Natures of Phenomena Part Three: Examining the Sutra Unraveling the Thought Part Four: Thoroughly Established Nature Endowed with Buddha Qualities Part Five: Views on the Two Emptinesses Part Six: Undermining Error Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Backnotes Bibliography Index
£52.70
University of California Press Virtually Jewish
Book SynopsisMore than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But how can there be a growing Jewish presence in Europe, without the significant presence of Jews? The author explores this phenomenon.Trade Review"A richly documented and insightful deliberation on the dilemma of what to do in places where Jewish culture once flourished, but Jews are no longer to be found or are very few in number....Even where there seems to be a resurgence of Jewish life, it is fragile and fraught. At the same time, Jews from the United States and Israel have their own problematic relationship to the killing fields of Europe and to efforts to 'preserve' the last traces of a Jewish past. This is an altogether fascinating subject and no one is better prepared to write about it than Gruber." -Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination CultureTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Part One: Afterlife 1. Cities without Jews 2. A Virtual Jewish World Part Two: Jewish Archaeology 3. "There Is No Future without Memory" 4. Touching the Past 5. What to Do? Part Three: Museum Judaism? Representing Jewish Culture 6. Seeing Is Believing 7. The Tourist Track 8. Structuring Memory Part Four: Klezmer in the Wilderness 9. Making (and Remaking) Jewish Music 10. Klezmer in Germany 11. Whose Music? Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£38.25
University of California Press The Victorian Translation of China
Book SynopsisThis study focuses on James Legge (1815-1897), one of the most important 19th-century figures in the cultural exchange between China and the West. The narrative illuminates the era in which Legge lived as well as the surroundings in which he worked.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note to the Reader on Transcription and Romanization Introduction: The Strange Saga of Missionary Tradition, Sinological Orientalism, and the Comparative Science of Religions in the Nineteenth Century Prologue: Missionary Hyphenations West and East, 1815--1869 1. Pilgrim Legge and the Journey to the West, 1870--1874 2. Professor Legge at Oxford University, 1875--1876 Appendix to Chapter 2: Caricatures of Max Muller and James Legge at Oxford 3. Heretic Legge: Relating Confucianism and Christianity, 1877--1878 4. Decipherer Legge: Finding the Sacred in the Chinese Classics, 1879--1880 5. Comparativist Legge: Describing and Comparing the Religions of China, 1880--1882 6. Translator Legge: Closing the Confucian Canon, 1882--1885 7. Ancestor Legge: Translating Buddhism and Daoism, 1886--1892 8. Teacher Legge: Upholding the Whole Duty of Man, 1893--1897 Conclusion: Darker Labyrinths: Transforming Missionary Tradition, Sinological Orientalism, and the Comparative Science of Religions after the Turn of the Century Appendix A. Max Muller's Motto for The Sacred Books of the East Appendix B. James Legge's Oxford Lectures and Courses, 1876--1897 Appendix C. Principal Publications of James Legge and Max Muller Appendix D. Genealogy of the Legge Family Notes Bibliographical Note Index
£68.00
University of California Press The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisIlluminates the diverse elements that constitute opera by focusing the investigation around three main categories: composition and production; words, music, and drama; and the interaction of society, genre, and aesthetics.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the English Edition Introduction Part 1 Genesis, Performance, and Reception 1 The Genesis of an Opera 2 Performance 3 Reception Part 2 Drama, Poetry, and Music 4 The Construction of a Drama 5 Space and Time 6 Poetic Expression and Musical Expression Part 3 French Opera: Society, Genre, and Aesthetics 7 The Parisian Operatic World 8 Genre 9 The Aesthetic Foundations of Nineteenth-Century French Opera Conclusion Appendix 1 The Sources of Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles Appendix 2 The Versions of Les Pêcheurs de perles Appendix 3 Several States of the Beginning of the Act 2 Finale Appendix 4 Passages Cut in the Course of Performance Appendix 5 Performances and Daily Box-Office Receipts of the Théâtre-Lyrique,September 27–November 28, 1863 Appendix 6 The Staging of Les Pêcheurs de perles Appendix 7 Symmetrical Versification and Reformulation of the Text Biographical Notes on Composers Notes Index
£45.05
University of California Press Opium Regimes
Book SynopsisOpium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. This title shows that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well.Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS Introduction: Opium's History in China Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi PART ONE • THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT 1. Opium for China: The British Connection Gregory Blue 2. From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi PART TWO • DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION 3· Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia Carl A. Trocki 4· The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885 Christopher Munn 5· Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond David Bello 6. Drug Operations by Resident japanese in Tianjin Motohiro Kobayashi 7· Opium/Leisure/Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption Alexander Des Forges PART THREE • CONTROL AND RESISTANCE 8. Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making R. Bin Wong 9· Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan judith Wyman 10. Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916 Joyce A. Madanry 1 1. The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924-1937 Edward R. Slack Jr. 12. Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs Alan Baumler 13. The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949 Lucien Bianco PART FOUR • CRISIS AND RESOLUTION 14. Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940 Timothy Brook 15. An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime Motohiro Kobayashi 16. Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China Mark S. Eykholt 17. Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building:The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952 Zhou Yongming BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
£27.00
University of California Press Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of
Book SynopsisVictor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower of the great utopian thinker Charles Fourier, played an important role in the creation of a Fourierist movement and the development of socialist journalism. This study offers a life story of one of the engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s.
£52.70
University of California Press The Life of Buddhism
Book SynopsisFocuses on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. This work provides a historical overview and briefly characterizes the three major variants of Buddhist tradition. It also takes note of a distinctive form of Buddhism that is emerging among non-Asian practitioners in the West.Table of ContentsNOTE TO THE READER GENERAL INTRODUCTION PART 1: TEMPLES, SACRED OBJECTS, AND ASSOCIATED RITUALS Chapter 1 Temples and Monastic Complexes (Japan) “A View of Temple Life and Practice,” James Bissett Pratt Chapter 2 Image Consecrations (Thailand) “Creating and Disseminating the Sacred,” Donald K. Swearer Chapter 3 State Rituals and Ceremonies (Myanma) “A Tooth Relic and the Legitimation of Power,” Juliane Schober Chapter 4 Village Rituals and Ceremonies (Thailand) “Bun Phraawes,” S. J. Tambiah PART II: MONASTIC PRACTICES Chapter 5 The Ordination of Monks and Novices (Korea) “Ordination in the Chogye Order,” Robert E. Buswell Chapter 6 Female Renunciants (Myanma[r]/Burma) “Theravadin Religious Women,” Hiroko Kawanami Chapter 7 Meditation (Japan) “A Morning Star Meditation,” Taiko Yamasaki Chapter 8 The Monastic Quest: A Biographical Example (Tibet) “The Biography of a Nun,” Hanna Havnevik Chapter 9 Monastic Funerals (Thailand) “The Cremation of a Senior Monk,” Charles F. Keyes PART III: LAY PRACTICE Chapter 10 Lay Identity and Participation (China) “Lay Praxis in a Mahayana Context,” Holmes Welch Chapter 11 Cosmology and Law (Tibet) “Buddhist Secular Law: Doctrines in Context,” Rebecca Redwood French Chapter 12 Cosmology and Healing (Sri Lanka) “Yaktovil: The Role of the Buddha and Dhamma,” Jason A. Carbine Chapter 13 Devotional Rituals: Recent Innovations (Sri Lanka) “A New Theravadin Liturgy,” Richard Gombrich Chapter 14 Death and Beyond (Japan) “Memorializing One’s Mizuko,” William R. LaFleur PART IV: BUDDHISM IN THE WEST Chapter 15 An American Example “Transmitting the Dharma,” Philip Kapleau BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
£22.50
University of California Press On Her Own Terms
Book SynopsisAt a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of California, Berkeley. This title presents a luminous portrait of this woman.Trade Review"A thorough and insightful account of a remarkable individual who, as an important patron and an amateur contributor, influenced the course of early twentieth-century science. Alexander's life is also important simply as a human story of how an intelligent, active, and strong-minded woman coped with the problems of identity and work in the post-Victorian era. It's a great story of a complex and admirable woman, and a significant contribution to California history and the history of field science." - Robert E. Kohler, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Samuel Alexander and Henry Baldwin 2. Life in Oakland 3. A Passion for Paleontology 4. Africa, 1904 5. Meeting C. Hart Merriam 6. Alaska, 1906 7. Meeting Joseph Grinnell 8. Founding a Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 9. An Unusual Collaboration 10. Louise and Prince William Sound 11. Support for Paleontology 12. Hearst, Sather, Flood 13. Innisfail Ranch 14. Vancouver Island and the Trinity Alps 15. The Team of Alexander and Kellogg 16. From "A Friend of the University" 17. Founding a Museum of Paleontology 18. A Restless Decade 19. Europe, 1923 20. The Temple Tour 21. The "Amoeba Treatment" 22. Fieldwork--The Later Years 23. Saline Valley 24. The End of an Era 25. Hawaii--"My Only Real Home" 26. The Switch to Botany 27. Baja California--Tres mujeres sin miedo 28. Investing in the Future 29. An Enduring Legacy Epilogue Appendix Notes Index
£45.05
University of California Press Republican Beijing
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, this text examines how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. The author argues that nostalgia directed towards the living Republic city is an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction PART I. THE CITY OF PLANNERS Chapter 1. From Imperial Capital to Republican City Chapter 2. Power: The City and Its People Chapter 3. Tradition: The City and the Nation PART II. THE CITY OF EXPERIENCE Chapter 4. Production: Beijing in a New Economic System Chapter 5. Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies Chapter 6. Recycling: The Tianqiao District PART III. THE LETTERED CITY Chapter 7. Sociology: Examining Urban Ills Chapter 8. History: Recording Old Beijing Chapter 9. Literature: Writing New Beijing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press West of Emerson
Book SynopsisWhere did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Natural Causes: The Journals of Lewis and Clark 2. Zebulon Pike, Federalist Gloom, and Western Lands 3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory 4. Emerson's 1830s 5. Emerson's Nature: West of Ecstasy 6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Revolution at the Table The Transformation of
Book SynopsisIn this study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930. It devotes special attention to the deliberate attempts of various groups, notably nutritionists and large food processors, to change popular eating habits.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The British-American Culinary Heritage 1. The American Table in 1880: The Tastes of the Upper Crust 2. How the Other Half Ate 3. The Rise of the Giant Food Processors 4. The New England Kitchen and the Failure to Reform Working-Class Eating Habits 44 5. The "Servant Problem" and Middle-Class Cookery 60 6. The New Nutritionists Assault the Middle Classes 72 7. Scientists, Pseudoscientists, and Faddists 86 8. New Reformers and New Immigrants 98 9. The Great Malnutrition Scare, 1907-1921 109 10. "Best for Babies" or "Preventable Infanticide"?: The Controversy Over Artificial Feeding of Infants, 1880-1930 11. "Food Will Win the War" 12. The Newer Nutrition, 1915-1930 13. A Revolution of Declining Expectations 14. Workers and Farmers During the "Prosperity Decade" 15. The Old (Restaurant) Order Changeth 16. Too Rich and Too Thin? Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Home Bound
Book SynopsisFilipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Home Making 2. Leaving Home: Filipino Migration/Return to the United States 3. "Positively No Filipinos Allowed": Differential Inclusion and Homelessness 4. Mobile Homes: Lives across Borders 5. Making Home: Building Communities in a Navy Town 6. Home, Sweet Home: Work and Changing Family Relations 7. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": The Politics of Home and Location 8. "What of the Children?": Emerging Homes and Identities 9. Homes, Borders, and Possibilities Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Secular Revolution Power Interests and
Book SynopsisAn examination of power struggles and ideological shifts in various social sectors where the public authority of religion has diminished, in particular, education, science, law and journalism. Together the essays depict a cultural and institutional revolution.
£27.90
University of California Press Imagining Japan
Book SynopsisA collection of the writings of sociologist Robert N. Bellah, including essays that consider the entire sweep of Japanese history and the character of Japanese society and religion. The book features an introduction that brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japanese history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Japanese Difference 1. The Contemporary Meaning of Kamakura Buddhism 2. Ienaga Saburo and the Search for meaning in Modern Japan 3. Japan's cultural Identity: Some Reflections on the Work of Watsuji Tetsuro 4. Notes on Maruyama Masao 5. Intellectual and Society in Japan 6. The Japanese Emperor as a Mother Figure: Some Preliminary Notes 7. Continuity and Change in Japanese Society Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Politics of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields' distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Origin, Nature, and Challenges of Area Studies in the United States, David L. Szanton Latin American Studies: Theory and Practice, Paul W. Drake and Lisa Hilbink The Middle East in the Past and Future of Social Science, Timothy Mitchell Area Studies in Search of Africa, Pearl T. Robinson Japanese Studies: The Intangible Act of Translation, Alan Tansman Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies, Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer Eastern Europe or Central Europe? Exploring a Distinct Regional Identity, Ellen Comisso and Brad Gutierrez The Transformation of Contemporary China Studies, 1977--2002, Andrew G. Walder South Asian Studies: Futures Past, Nicholas B. Dirks The Development of Southeast Asian Studies in the UnitedStates, John Bowen
£28.05
University of California Press The Scripture on Great Peace
Book SynopsisA translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or Scripture on Great Peace, that documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism's origins. It includes notes that contextualize the scripture's political and religious significance.Table of ContentsPreface Conventions Introduction Translation Section 41. How to Distinguish between Poor and Rich Section 42. One Man and Two Women Section 43. How to Promote the Good and Halt the Wicked Section 44. How to Preserve the Three Essentials Section 45. The Three Needs and the Method of [Dealing with] Auspicious and Ominous Events Section 46. You Must Not Serve the Dead More Than the Living Section 47. How to Verify the Trustworthiness of Texts and Writings Section 48. An Explanation of the Reception and Transmission [of Evil] in Five Situations Section 50. An Explanation of the Master's Declaration Section 51. The True Contract Section 52. How to Word Hard to Do Good Section 53. How to Distinguish between Root and Branches Section 54. How to Enjoy Giving Life Wins Favor with Heaven Section 55. How to Classify Old Texts and Give a Title to the Book Section 56. How the Nine Groups of Men Disperse Calamities Inherited from Former Kings Section 57. How to Examine What is True and What is False Dao Section 58. On the Four Ways of Conduct and on [the Relationship between] Root and Branches Section 59. Big and Small Reproaches Section 60. How Books Illustrate [Rule by] Punishment and [by] Virtue Section 61. On Digging Up Soil and Publishing Books Section 62. Dao is Priceless and Overcomes Yi and Di Barbarians Section 63. Officials, Sons, and Disciples of Outstanding Goodness Find Ways for Their Lord, Father, and Master to Become Transcendent Section 64. How to Subdue Others by Means of Dao and Not by Means of Severity Section 65. Threefold Cooperation and Interaction Section 66. On the Need to Study What Is True Appendix: The Composition of the TPJ Bibliography Index
£28.90
University of California Press Networked Refugees
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by states and aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas, like raising funds for funeral services, or securing other critical goods and services? In Networked Refugees, Nadya Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize Information Communication Technology platforms to motivate reciprocitya cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and servicesand informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community. Using surveys conducted with Palestinians throughout the diaspora, interviews with those inside the Nahr al Bared Refugee camp in Lebanon, and data pulled from online community spaces, these findings push back against thTrade Review"Thoroughly researched and conveniently enriched by interview snippets that strengthen Hajj’s main arguments. . . . A deeply valuable contribution to both the field of Palestinian studies and the thriving body of research on the intersection of new technologies and political and social developments." * Mondoweiss *"Networked Refugees is a valuable contribution to both the field of Palestinian studies and the thriving body of research on the intersection of new technologies and political and social developments." * The Middle East Journal *
£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Population of Europe
Book SynopsisThis text describes the historical interrelationships in Europe between population, land, resources, and disease. By integrating the key component of culture the author provides a social and narrative history, from the first peopling of Europe to the end of the 20th century.Trade Review"I would most heartily recommend this book to any historian interested in a general overview of the subject" Reviews in History "This book is an excellent summation of knowledge and a thoughtful attempt to interpret a thousand years of European history. It will provide useful reading material for students of European population, for experts in the field and for readers everywhere interested in understanding just how Europe came to be the way it is." Journal of Population Research "In this book, Livi-Bacci manages to link factors which direct the demographic system of a population, and thereby its development, with cultural as well as environmental conditions in a lively and narrative fashion. It is in this way that Livi-Bacci succeeds in giving a complex picture of culture in Europe, customs, behaviours, values and norms. Thus the book is of interest not only for population geographers but for all readers with an interest in Europe." International Journal of Population Geography "Good Synthetic treatments of European historical demography are scarce, and the publication of Massimo Livi-Bacci's Population History of Europe is much to be welcomed ... the book can be highly recommended as an introductory/intermediate level student text on European population history, and to non-specialists as a point of entry to the discipline of historical demography." English Historical Review "A stimulating book, which offers an effective introduction to demographic history for the non-specialist." History "He has provided an accessible and eminently readable introduction to the population history of Europe ... with a level of insight and penetration that few introductory texts can match ... the work will also attract many historians to the otherwise dauntingly quantitative world of demography." Population Studies "The Population of Europe provides a masterly volume for the 'Making of modern Europe' series... a work of great scholarship, drawing extensively from the bulk of demographic research published over half a century or more..." Progress in Human GeographyTable of ContentsPreface: Jacques Le Goff. Part I: Numbers:. 1. Factors of constraint and factors of choice. 2. A millenium of demographic development. 3. Slow change in old regime societies. 4. Interpretive choices. Part II: Space:. 5. Geography and environment. 6. The conquest of space before the Black Death. 7. Again eastward and southward. 8. Settlement intensification and land reclamation. 9. Consolidation. Part III: Food:. 10. Population and nutrition. 11. Nutrition, infection, and mortality. 12. Bread and its accompaniments. 13. Famine and hunger. 14. Long-term nutrition and mortality. 15. Paradoxes and reality. Part IV: Microbes and Disease:. 16. Lives on the brink. 17. A world in motion. 18. The plague: a four-handed game. 19. The final match. 20. Demographic losses. 21. Other factors and the road to normalcy. Part V: Systems: . 22. Demographic systems. 23. England, France, and Germany. 24. Marriage. 25. Fertility. 26. More on infant mortality. 27. Migration. 28. Equilibrium and transformations. Part VI: The Great Transformation (1800-1914):. 29. A frame of reference. 30. Demographic expansion: numbers and interpretations. 31. Two months per year: increasing life expectancy. 32. Infant mortality. 33. The advent of birth control. 34. Outside of Europe. Part VII: The End of a Cycle:. 35. Demography in the twentieth century: mortality and fertility. 36. Demography in the twentieth century: migration, structures, models. 37. Politics. 38. Economics. 39. Values. Index.
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Harvard University Press thetransformationofpalestinianpoliticsfromrevoluti
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview and analysis of the Palestinians' move from revolutionary movement to state, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics outlines the difficulties in the transition now underway arising from Palestinian history, society, and diplomatic agreements.Trade ReviewBarry Rubin’s timely Transformation of Palestinian Politics provides a superb and weighty account of the complexities of the Palestinian problem and the significant impediments to state-building… As deputy director of the Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Rubin is well acquainted with Palestinian political life, having written several notable books on the subject. In his most recent effort, he carefully delineates the path of transition or pre-statehood for the current PA—complete will all its bumps and turns… Rubin covers in rich and penetrating detail the deleterious effects of the fledgling Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on the Arafat-led government-in-training, the rising expectations of a long-suffering and dispossessed people and the controversial issues of democratic development and respect for human rights. -- Peter McKenna * Washington Post Book World *In this judicious and thoughtful book, Rubin describes the Palestinian’s slow walk towards statehood, one riddled with contradictions and burdened by deep-seated historical animosities. Analyzing both the Palestinians’ noticeable failures and surprising successes, Rubin offers a prognosis for the future with the measured optimism of someone who has watched the conflict unfold from up-close for some time. -- Kate Cambor * Boston Book Review *In his excellent The Transformation of Palestinian Politics, Rubin wants critics of Yassar Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to temper their disparaging comments with a hefty dose of reality: Specifically, he says, there will be no Palestinian state without a peace agreement with Israel and a solid institutional foundation… Rubin is well qualified to chronicle the path of transition or pre-statehood, with its unpredictable twists and turns. By specifically homing in on the transitional, or embryonic phase, Rubin seeks to situate legitimate criticisms of the 1993–95 Oslo Accords within the context of incredibly complex and difficult growing pains for an essentially interim government. -- Peter McKenna * Globe and Mail *Rubin…manages a balanced presentation of all the many different players in this ongoing Palestinian drama—Yasir Arafat, the PLO, Hamas, the many Israeli political groupings, the Arab states, the United States, and the international community. With nine detailed but succinct chapters, this book is an eminently readable achievement. -- L. Carl Brown * Foreign Affairs *[A]n objective, even sympathetic, account of Palestinian politics since 1993. -- Sol Schindler * Washington Times *Barry Rubin, deputy director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, is a keen observer of the Middle East. The Transformation of Palestinian Politics is a cogent analysis of the challenges facing the Palestinian Authority today. -- Sheldon Kirshner * Canadian Jewish News *Excellent. Rubin has taken up a subject that is seemingly familiar (Palestinians feature almost daily in the news) but is in fact unknown (how the Palestinian Authority actually operates). There is nothing remotely comparable to this book in English. He writes about obscure but vital aspects of the Palestinian Authority with a sure hand. The greatest strength of the book lies in its providing new information in a clear context. Rubin’s sources are excellent, his judgment reliable. The writing style is solid. The study significantly advances knowledge about its subject matter. -- Daniel Pipes * Middle East Quarterly *In this highly readable book, Rubin examines the prospect of Palestinian statehood… Drawing on an impressive array of English, Hebrew, and Arabic sources, the author explores a complicated maze of interaction between Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority and its internal opponents. Crucially, the book also places the Palestinian Authority’s struggle in the context of Israeli and regional politics. -- Nader Entessar * Library Journal *Rubin is the first to take a detailed and systematic look at the issues—not surprising given that the subject did not exist before 1994—and therein lies the main contribution of the book. He provides an interesting overview of what will undoubtedly be a subject of continuing investigation over the years. The book should be of considerable interest to students of Middle Eastern, and especially Palestinian and Israeli–Palestinian politics. Rubin presents a balanced (even sympathetic) account of the challenges facing the Palestinian Authority, shows how relatively stable post-revolutionary institutions have already been built, and concludes with a sanguine view of the prospects for successful state-building in the future. The book is argued in a fairly persuasive fashion, the organization is logical, the scholarship is sound (no polemics or distortion of evidence), and the conclusions are judicious. -- Mark A. Heller, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University[A] fair treatment of the subject, the transformation of the PLO from a military–political organization to the force behind the establishment of a Palestinian state. Rubin is well informed, and the book is based on a wide selection of Arabic language sources, as well as Israeli and English language. -- Walter Laqueur, Center for Strategic and International StudiesTable of ContentsPreface The Rulers, the Ruled, and the Rules The Palestinian Legislative Council Democracy, Stability, and Human Rights The Polity and the People The New Palestinian Political Elite The Palestinian Opposition The Palestinian Authority and the Middle East Thinking about Israel and the United States Recognizing Facts, Creating Facts Appendixes: Palestinian Authority Cabinets, 1994-1998 Membership of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) The Fatah Central Committee The PLO Executive Committee (EC) Middle East States and the Palestinian Authority Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Tears of Longing
Book SynopsisInformed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes Japan.
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Harvard University, Asia Center China Upside Down
Book SynopsisScholars have noted the role of China's demand for silver in the emergence of the modern world. This book discusses the interaction of this demand and the early-19th-century Latin American independence movements, changes in the world economy, the resulting disruptions in the Qing dynasty, and the transformation from the High Qing to modern China.
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Princeton University Press Beyond the Beat Musicians Building Community in
Book SynopsisAt a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists--those visionaries who createTrade ReviewShortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present "This innovative sociological study of the Nashville music scene explores the business realities of an industry that has been radically changed by technology... His findings are encouraging because they reveal an environment in which many artists support one another in their quest for individualistic attainment."--Choice "Anyone who wishes to read a remarkably grounded analysis of how cultural work--in this case music--is changing, and about the roles of both artist entrepreneurs and trade union activists in pursuing a community-encompassing response, will find this book a wonderful read and an eye-opener for students in multiple fields: the sociology of occupations, the economics and sociology of the arts, arts management studies, industry studies, and labor relations. That Cornfield also offers a conceptual framework for thinking about structures and strategy is an extra plus."--Ann Markusen, ILR ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1. Creating Community in an Individualistic Age 1 Chapter 2. Artist Activism: Building Occupational Communities in Risky Times 17 Chapter 3. Self-contained, Self-expression: The Transformative Generation of Enterprising Artists 34 Chapter 4. Identities in Play: The Contemporary Generation of Enterprising Artists 65 Chapter 5. Creating Social Spaces for Artists: Pathways to Becoming an Artistic Social Entrepreneur 93 Chapter 6. Artist Advocates: The Corporate and Entrepreneurial Generations of Arts Trade Union Activists 121 Chapter 7. Community, Agency, and Artistic Expression 150 Appendix. Interview Schedule 166 Notes 173 Bibliography 191 Index 203
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Princeton University Press The Contentious Public Sphere
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the 2018 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association"
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation French social history Games in the eighteenth century Happiness in Duclos and Rousseau
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Identity and Modernity in Latin America
Book SynopsisIn this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships.Trade Review'I found it an arresting introduction to a rich and vital field of study, novel in its disciplinary perspective, lucidly expressed and delightfully free of the pious neologisms that so often infect cultural studies.' James Dunkerley, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 'Despite its historic New-World status, Latin America's claim to modernity has always been tenuous ... Jorge Larrain's history of Latin American modernity traces the evolution of this concept with that of identity, the collective cultural essence of Latin Americanness.' Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: Modernity and IdentityChapter Two: The Colonial Stage: Modernity Denied (1492 - 1810)Chapter Three: Oligarchic Modernity (1810 - 1900)Chapter Four: The End of Oligarchic Modernity (1900 -1950)Chapter Five: Postwar Expansion (1950 - 1970)Chapter Six: Dictatorships and the Lost decade (1970 - 1990)Chapter Seven: The Neo Liberal Stage (1990 onwards)Chapter Eight: Key Elements of Latin American Modernity and IdentityNotesBiblioIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd China at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisThis concise and timely book, written by one of the worlda s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead. * A concise and timely book about China and its future, which argues that the country it at a crossroads in its development.Trade Review"In this concise work, Peter Nolan provides a compelling and provocative assessment of China’s developmental challenge. As Nolan shows, it is not just China, but indeed the whole world, that stands at the crossroads. New rules, new technologies and a new global distribution of power have all called into question traditional answers to the problem of underdevelopment. China, to a greater degree perhaps than any other nation, has the potential to uncover a new path toward modernity. As Nolan points out, the consequences of its doing so, breathtaking as they are, would easily be dwarfed by the catastrophe of its failing to do so." Edward Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Peter Nolan has produced a bold, readable and fast-paced work which asks large and important questions. He begins with a brilliant sketch of post-Mao China's enormous achievements and extraordinary challenges. After presenting the path of neo-liberalism as no solution for China, Nolan powerfully depicts the lasting lessons of the unique and glorious successes that were China's in the ages before the rise of Europe. He concludes with an innovative and insightful argument that, properly understood, the way ahead for China lies in synthesizing and building on the best in ethical thinking and economic analysis shared by Confucius and Adam Smith. Nolan has produced a mind-expanding tour de force." Edward Friedman, University of Winsconsin "This is an important book written in the tradition of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Rare in the political economy literature, it is simultaneously sweeping and detailed, rigorous and moving." Lin Chun, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics "This is a very readable book, full of interesting historical information on China, extensive literature refrences to works by Confucius, Marco Polo and Adam Smith (to mention but a few) and wise comments on the direction China should take at this critical juncture." Piiter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Prologue. 1. The Challenges to China’s Economic and Political Stability: Can China Build a Sustainable and Civilized Modern Economy?. 2. China at the Crossroads: Which Directions?. 3. China at the Crossroads: 'Use the Past to Serve the Present' (Gu Wei Jin Yong). Conclusion. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd China at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisThis concise and timely book, written by one of the worlda s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead.Trade Review"In this concise work, Peter Nolan provides a compelling and provocative assessment of China’s developmental challenge. As Nolan shows, it is not just China, but indeed the whole world, that stands at the crossroads. New rules, new technologies and a new global distribution of power have all called into question traditional answers to the problem of underdevelopment. China, to a greater degree perhaps than any other nation, has the potential to uncover a new path toward modernity. As Nolan points out, the consequences of its doing so, breathtaking as they are, would easily be dwarfed by the catastrophe of its failing to do so." Edward Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Peter Nolan has produced a bold, readable and fast-paced work which asks large and important questions. He begins with a brilliant sketch of post-Mao China's enormous achievements and extraordinary challenges. After presenting the path of neo-liberalism as no solution for China, Nolan powerfully depicts the lasting lessons of the unique and glorious successes that were China's in the ages before the rise of Europe. He concludes with an innovative and insightful argument that, properly understood, the way ahead for China lies in synthesizing and building on the best in ethical thinking and economic analysis shared by Confucius and Adam Smith. Nolan has produced a mind-expanding tour de force." Edward Friedman, University of Winsconsin "This is an important book written in the tradition of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Rare in the political economy literature, it is simultaneously sweeping and detailed, rigorous and moving." Lin Chun, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics "This is a very readable book, full of interesting historical information on China, extensive literature refrences to works by Confucius, Marco Polo and Adam Smith (to mention but a few) and wise comments on the direction China should take at this critical juncture." Piiter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Prologue. 1. The Challenges to China’s Economic and Political Stability: Can China Build a Sustainable and Civilized Modern Economy?. 2. China at the Crossroads: Which Directions?. 3. China at the Crossroads: 'Use the Past to Serve the Present' (Gu Wei Jin Yong). Conclusion. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Conservative Party From Thatcher to Cameron
Book SynopsisThe Conservatives are back, and back with a bang two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pretty good position to win another. But many questions about their recent past, present, and future still remain.Trade Review 'This fully updated survey is, more than ever, the indispensable study on the recent history of the party, confirming Tim Bale as the best political historian writing today.' Matthew d�Ancona, columnist, The Guardian and the Evening Standard 'Tim Bale�s study of the Conservatives is a closely argued account of the party�s journey from Thatcher to the present day, and will prove essential reading for anyone interested in politics.' John Bercow 'An extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary era. It reads so well and it rings so true.' Gyles Brandreth Table of Contents Contents 1 SOLVING THE PUZZLE: AN INTRODUCTION 2 LOSING THE PLOT: THATCHER TO MAJOR, 1989-1997 3 TACTICS OVER STRATEGY: WILLIAM HAGUE, 1997-2001 4 �SIMPLY NOT UP TO IT� : IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, 2001-2003 5 LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME: MICHAEL HOWARD, 2003-2005 6 �COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE DAVE� THE LONG LEADERSHIP CONTEST, MAY-DECEMBER 20051 7 �THE POLITICS OF AND� : OPPOSITION, 2005-2010 8 �THE NATIONAL INTEREST� COALITION AND MAJORITY GOVERNMENT, 2010-2015 9 GETTING THE MESSAGE: A CONCLUSION
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John Wiley & Sons Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian
Book SynopsisDisputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, this title challenges the epistemology used to support this idea.Trade Review"This book is astonishing. It displays a commodious and yet incisive mind, a generous but critical aptitude, a far-ranging eclectic engagement with North that never slips into generalization or interdisciplinary evasion. In a breath-taking variety of texts from the obvious to the obscure, Hulan gathers an argument about the extent to which their authority is grounded in assumptions of gender and race ... This book will take its place as a significant voice in an ongoing debate." John Moss, author of Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape; "An important addition to previous works, analysing the concept of "northern identity" and how it has evolved over the years." Shelagh Grant, Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University, Traill College
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McGill-Queen's University Press Vasil Bykau
Book SynopsisConsidered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Vasil Bykau' (1924-2003) is referred to as the 'conscience of a nation' for leading an intellectual crusade against Lukasenka's totalitarian regime. This title describes the conditions under which Bykau lived in the former USSR.Trade Review"I hold Vasil Bykau in high regard as an opponent to totalitarian regimes in Belarus. During our encounter he never lost hope for positive changes in his country's future. I feel a certain correlation between our destinies and I regret that he was not lucky enough to experience changes, unlike those of us in Czechoslovakia, Poland, or Hungary." Vaclav Havel "This timely biography is essential reading." Arnold McMillin, professor of Russian Literature, University College London
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John Wiley & Sons Des soci233t233s distinctes Gouverner les
Book SynopsisA political and social history of suburban governance on the island of Montreal.
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John Wiley & Sons Chinas Urban Future and the Quest for Stability
Book SynopsisAssessing Chinese cities and urbanization in a time of slowing economic development, rising inequality, and unprecedented mobility.
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Cornell University Press The Patriotism of Despair
Book SynopsisThe sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia.In Barnaul, a major industrial city in southwestern Siberia that has lost 25 percent of its population since 1991, many Russians are finding that what binds them together is loss and despair. The Patriotism of Despair examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: We have no Motherland. Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people''s minds? Once socialism stopped orienting politics and economics, how did capitalism insinuaTrade ReviewThe Patriotism of Despair brilliantly demonstrates that 'culture matters more than ever' during periods of societal transformation. Serguei Oushakine investigates a range of groups—nationalist activists and intellectuals, war veterans and soldiers' mothers—that form communities of loss around symbolic representations and ritual enactments of shared trauma in Russia. Based on fieldwork from 2001–2003 in the city of Bernaull in Southwestern Siberia, the book provides a rare glimpse of culture in a Russian province (most other ethnographies are based in Moscow or St. Petersburg).... The Patriotism of Despair is one of the most significant works on post-Soviet culture to date, showing how trauma is not simply limiting, but generative—of communities and of understandings of what happened, what it means, and what to do. This ambitious undertaking... engages an impressive array of evidence: analyzing interviews, recounting rituals, excavating archives, and interpreting photographs. -- Jane Zavisca * Contemporary Sociology *Drawing on return visits to Barnaul, his boyhood city, near the Chinese and Kazakh borders, he paints a profound psychological tableau of coping. His groupings are diverse: disgruntled leftists, whom he labels 'neocoms'; Chechen war veterans; and the mothers of dead soldiers. All, however, find meaning and community in narratives of tragedy.... From Oushakine's keen reading, one gets a sense of how, for a still wider circle of Russians, collapse and disorder led to alienation from the Western values that Russian reforms had tried to sell them, which then for some shaded into anti-Semitism and a crude nationalism. * Foreign Affairs *
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University of Toronto Press Urban Housing Markets
Book SynopsisThe Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.This volume is at once a record of the Conference and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related public policy issues. The book captures the flavor of a lively debate between academics and policy analysts, and the commentaries and discussion sections provide, in non-technical language, a statement of some major questions confronting government policy on housing.In addition to its use as a record of an important Canadian conference, the book is a valuable collection of recent housing research. The ten papers cover a wide variety of topics ranging from conceptual and methodological issues on the one hand to critiques of Canadian housing policies on the other. They indicate th
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University of Toronto Press Eastern and Western Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at the University of New Brunswick, and the Western Canadian Studies Conference, meeting annually since 1968 at the University of Calgary, have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the identities and characteristics of these two hinterlands. In 1978 the two conferences met jointly, in a session in Fredericton and one at Calgary with a core of speakers and papers common to both. The purpose was to compare and contrast subjects and experiences of interest and concern in the west and in Atlantic Canada. The ten papers which comprise Eastern and Western Perspectives are selected from twenty-seven presented at the joint conference.The topic chosen not on
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MY - University of Toronto Press The First Voyage Around the World 15191522
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MY - University of Toronto Press Italian Cultural Lineages
Book SynopsisIdeally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.
£33.30
Louisiana State University Press Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective
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Louisiana State University Press A Louisiana Coastal Atlas
Book SynopsisThrough a wide range of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data, A Louisiana Coastal Atlas shows cartographically how the inherent resilience of coastal communities manifests itself over time.
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Louisiana State University Press Lees Tigers Revisited
Book SynopsisUses letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of the Army of Northern Virginia. Illustrations chart the Tigers' positions on key battlefields in the tumultuous campaigns throughout Virginia.
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LSU Press Bourbon Street
Book SynopsisA fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during the colonial period through three tumultuous centuries, arriving at the world-famous entertainment strip of today.Trade ReviewIn this lively blend of narrative microhistory and data-driven urban geography, Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella takes readers on a guided tour of New Orleans's Bourbon Street, from its eighteenth-century origins on a French colonial planning map through its post–World War II transformation into the popular tourist attraction of today. . . . Campanella's close readings of archival records and painstakingly collected data offer valuable insights into Bourbon Street's origins and persistence as an iconic streetscape rooted in history, geography, and collective memory." - Journal of Southern History
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University of Pennsylvania Press Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.Table of ContentsPreface Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament PT. I. THE POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENT AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY 1. The Foreign Hand: Orientalist Discourse in Sociology and Communalism 2. Orientalism and the Social Sciences 3. Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power Beyond the Raj 4. The Burden of English 5. Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literatures PT. II. THE GENEALOGY OF THE POSTCOLONIAL 6. The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and the Project of a National Language 7. British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government 8. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge 9. Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive 10. Number in the Colonial Imagination List of Contributors Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights the Rule of Law and Development in
Book SynopsisThis volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the connections between the protection of human rights and the pursuit of economic development in Africa.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Death Beauty Struggle
Book SynopsisDeath, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu.Trade Review"This is the work of the most important anthropologist working in South India and Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka in the past fifty years." * Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas at Austin *"This book displays the full range of Trawick's ethnographic artistry: her acute attentiveness to feelings, to linguistic nuances, to fragile bonds, to fierce commitments, to the ways lyrical composition and storytelling articulate otherwise suppressed struggles." * Ann Grodzins Gold, from the Foreword *Table of ContentsForeword, by Ann Grodzins Gold Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Māriamman Chapter 2. Sorrow and Protest Chapter 3. Work and Love Chapter 4. On the Edge of the Wild Chapter 5. The Life of Sevi Chapter 6. The Song of Siṅgammā Conclusion Notes Glossary of Tamil Words and Phrases References Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Shiptown
Book SynopsisJahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. With roots deep in history and legend, Shiptown (a literal translation of landlocked Jahazpur''s name) today is a subdistrict headquarters and thus a regional hub for government services unavailable in villages. Rural and town lives have long intersected in Shiptown''s market streets, which are crammed with shopping opportunities, many designed to allure village customers. Temples, mosques, and shrines attract Hindus and Muslims from nearby areas. In the town''s densely settled center—still partially walled, with arched gateways intact—many neighborhoods remain segregated by hereditary birth group. By contrast, in some newer, more spacious residential areas outside the walls, persons of distinct communities and religions live as neighbors. Throughout Jahazpur municipality a peaceful pluralism normally prevails.Trade Review"Gold provides a rich, textured account of ethnographic practice, deeply situated in the peculiarities of Jahazpur. . . . Shiptown is a book filled with juicy vignettes, captivating narratives, and colourful conversations as Gold documents, analyses, and produces knowledge about life in Jahazpur. . . . Gold has been able to bring Jahazpur to life on the pages through lucid prose and a seamless flow of the text." * Economic & Political Weekly *"Shiptown is closely observed and beautifully written. Gold's lucid, engaging tone glides lightly over impressive scholarship." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"Gold effortlessly describes many facets of rural/urban life of Jahazpur which she aptly calls 'Shiptown.' . . . The book is full of ethnographic and methodological insights from an accomplished ethnographer." * Nidān:International Journal for indian Studies *"Ann Grodzins Gold's prose is beautiful and often poignant, drawing the reader into public and domestic spaces, and oral histories and everyday conversations of Jahazpur. She lays bare the contingencies and daily decisions of fieldwork itself. Very few ethnographies are so honest." * Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University *
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