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Cambridge University Press Countervailing Forces in AfricanAmerican Civic Activism 19731994
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Cambridge University Press Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Book SynopsisIn a fascinating and innovative study, first published in 2005, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a domestic world of seclusion and sexual exploitation, the author reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and public-political affairs in the 'inner' chambers as well as the 'outer' courts. Using Ottoman and Safavid histories as a counterpoint, she demonstrates the richness, ambiguity and particularity of the Mughal haram, which was pivotal in the transition to institutionalisation and imperial excellence.Trade Review'Arguably this is the most important book to appear on Mughal history for a generation … Lal has rescued the engagement of women with the world from a patriarchal and orientalist historiography which hid it from view.' Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London'Dr Lal's monograph is a highly imaginative study of family life under the first Mughal rulers of India based on a very sophisticated use of source material. It questions the received wisdom on life in the haram and opens up a very original line of enquiry into the role of women in the society and politics of the early Mughals. I feel sure that it will be received as a pathbreaking work.' Tapan Raychaudhuri, Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford'This book is an original and signal contribution to the study of women, family, court cultures, and the politics of empires. By examining the shifting political contexts of the first three Mughal generations - of women and men - Ruby Lal demonstrates the evolution of a 'domestic' politics that lay at the heart of imperial self-fashioning.' Leslie Peirce, Professor of Ottoman Studies, University of California, Berkeley'… we could not expect the book to be more inclusive. Jan-Peter Hartung's scholarly introduction to the book binds these diverse articles into a complete unit and his empathetic approach in comparing and analysing the Islamic education in various countries, leaves a positive imprint on the heart of the reader. … a sincere attempt to understand the history, working and objectives of madrasas in India.' Economic and Political Weekly'… medieval Indian court … has emerged as an important field of study … The book under review is a valuable addition to this stream … comprehensive analysis of how contemporary European travelers viewed the Mughal haram … Ruby Lal studies the early Mughal haram in a meticulous and creative way … Discussing medieval culture, a historian should adopt a somewhat anthropological technique … The author manages this technique successfully … The author's main contribution and success in her study is in showing the institution of the Mughal haram as being fluid and responsive to the changing socio-political and cultural environment … equally skilful in delineating the social and emotional links within this haram world. Especially impressive is the research into the various roles of women, especially elder ones, in family and clan relations, and the political and religious life of the nascent empire … Pre-modern India is but rarely discussed by scholars as an integral part of a greater medieval world … comparative study of Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman harams … commendable indeed … this study will serve to inspire further questions and criticisms from readers, as a good piece of research should … well-written and thought-provoking work, a welcome addition to medieval Indian studies and useful reading for those interested in Mughal history and culture.' Journal of International Asian Studies'One of the most significant contributions of this book is its attempt to place this history of the early Mughal household within the comparative context of Muslim imperial polities in early modern Asia.' The Medieval History JournalTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. A genealogy of the Mughal haram; 3. The question of the archive: the challenge of a princess's memoir; 4. The making of Mughal court society; 5. Where was the haram in a peripatetic world?; 6. Settled, sacred, and all-powerful: the new regime under Akbar; 7. Settled, sacred, and 'incarcerated': the imperial haram; 8. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Regularity in Semantic Change 97 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 97
Book SynopsisThis important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.Trade Review'How does it come about that linguistic expressions change their meanings over time, or, to be more precise, that speakers start using established linguistic expressions with novel meanings? What is the nature of semantic change, and - more importantly - can we generalize about different instantiations of semantic change not only within individual languages but also cross-linguistically? The book under review, by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard B. Dasher, provides bold answers to such big questions.' Journal of LinguisticsTable of ContentsList of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Conventions; List of abbreviations; 1. The framework; 2. Prior and current work on semantic change; 3. The development of modal verbs; 4. The development of adverbials with discourse marker function; 5. The development of performative verbs and constructions; 6. The development of social deictics; 7. Conclusion; Primary references; Secondary references; Index of languages; Index of names; Index of subjects.
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Cambridge University Press No Other Way Out
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Cambridge University Press No Other Way Out
Book SynopsisNo Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements during the Cold War era. By comparing more than a dozen countries in Southeast Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe, Goodwin shows how revolutionaries were able to create opportunities for seizing state power.Trade Review'Jeff Goodwin's No Other Way Out is an outstanding contribution to the sociology of revolutions. It goes beyond the work of his mentor, Theda Skocpol, and will have a profound impact on the literature for years to come.' Misagh Parsa, Dartmouth College (Electronic newsletter of the ECPR-SG on Extremism and Democracy)Table of ContentsFigures, tables and maps; Abbreviations and acronyms; Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: 1. Comparing revolutionary movements; 2. The state-centered perspective on revolutions: strengths and limitations; Part II. Southeast Asia: Chronology for Southeast Asia; 3. The formation of revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia; 4. The only domino: the Vietnamese revolution in comparative perspective; Part III. Central America: Chronology for Central America; 5. The formation of revolutionary movements in Central America; 6. Not-so-inevitable revolutions: the political trajectory of revolutionary movements in Central America; Part IV. Further Comparisons and Theoretical Elaborations: 7. Between success and failure: persistent insurgencies; Chronology for Eastern Europe; 8. 'Refolution' and rebellion in Eastern Europe, 1989; 9. Conclusion: generalizations and prognostication; Annotated bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Southern Africa
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Cambridge University Press Novalis Fichte Studies Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Two Koreas and the Great Powers
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Cambridge University Press China in the World Market Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the PostMao Era Cambridge Modern China Series
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Cambridge University Press China in the World Market Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the PostMao Era
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Cambridge University Press The Two Koreas and the Great Powers
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain
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Cambridge University Press Issue Politics in Congress
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Cambridge University Press Think Tanks Public Policy and the Politics of Expertise
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Cambridge University Press AfroCaribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation Ethnicity Exception or Exit
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Cambridge University Press Religion in an Expanding Europe
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Cambridge University Press Culture Crisis and Americas War on Terror
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of European Security Cooperation
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Cambridge University Press Order Statistics in Wireless Communications Diversity Adaptation and Scheduling in MIMO and OFDM Systems
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Cambridge University Press The Book of Memory A Study Of Memory In Medieval Culture Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 70
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).
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Cambridge University Press Resistance and Rebellion
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Cambridge University Press The Dravidian Languages
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Cambridge University Press A Reference Grammar of Russian
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Cambridge University Press The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa Cte dIvoire 18801995 101 African Studies Series Number 101
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Cambridge University Press The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited
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Cambridge University Press The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited
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Cambridge University Press Politics after Neoliberalism
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Cambridge University Press The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Europe From Antiquity to the European Union Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Book SynopsisThe creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the Danes? Will a unified Europe remain an economic and political possibility with no greater cultural or affective foundations? If there is something that distinguishes all Europeans, what is it, and how is it being changed by recent events? This book addresses these questions in essays ranging from ancient Greece to the end of the twentieth century. Their authors come from different intellectual backgrounds and represent differing intellectual traditions. They discuss questions of politics, religion, commerce, law, language, literature and affectivity. Taken together, they provide a powerful insight into the historical origins of the idea of Europe and into the future of the European Union.Trade Review'Implicit in Pagden's fascinating, erudite and penetrating collection is a consoling message about the ongoing fertility and plurality of the - predominantly Western - European heritage. The very richness, diversity and historical depth of the sources underpinning the European project provide the last best hope of both Europhiles and Eurosceptics.' Colin Kidd, History of European Ideas'… important and useful … What is immediately striking is the range of perspectives on offer. … Highly recommended to both general and specific audiences.' The Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction Anthony Pagden; 1. Europe: conceptualising a continent Anthony Pagden; 2. Some Europes in their History J. G. A. Pocock; 3. 'Europe' in the Middle Ages William Chester Jordan; 4. The Republican mirror: the Dutch idea of Europe Hans Blom; 5. The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of nations Biancamaria Fontana; 6. Homo politicus and homo oeconomicus: the European citizen according to Max Weber Wilfried Nippel; Part II: 7. The European self rethinking an attitude Michael Herzfeld; 8. European Nationalism and European Union Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia; 9. From the ironies of identity to the identity of ironies Luisa Passerini; 10. Muslims and European identity: can Europe represent Islam? Talal Asad; 11. The long road to unity: the contribution of law to the process of European integration, 1945–1995 Philip Ruttley; 12. The Euro, economic federalism and the question of national sovereignty Elie Cohen; 13. Identity politics and European integration: the case of Germany Thomas Risse and Daniela Engelmann-Martin; 14. Nationalism in Spain: the organization of Convivencia Andrés de Blas Guerrero; 15. The Kantian idea of Europe: critical and cosmopolitan perspectives James Tully.
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Cambridge University Press Clientelism Interests and Democratic Representation
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Cambridge University Press Russian Politics
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Cambridge University Press Hedge Funds in Emerging Markets
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Cambridge University Press Unemployment in the New Europe
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Cambridge University Press African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis 1979 1999
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Cambridge University Press United States Tax Reform in the 21st Century
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Cambridge University Press Clientel Interest Democrat Represnt
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Cambridge University Press Russian Politics
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Cambridge University Press The European Commission and the Integration of Europe Images of Governance Themes in European Governance
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Cambridge University Press Redeeming the Communist Past
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Cambridge University Press Elbridge Gerrys Salamander
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Cambridge University Press Race Citizenship and Law in American Literature 128 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 128
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Cambridge University Press AsiaPacific Strategic Relations Seeking Convergent Security Cambridge AsiaPacific Studies
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Cambridge University Press How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China Cambridge Modern China Series
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Cambridge University Press The United States in the AsiaPacific Since 1945
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights in Chinese Thought A CrossCultural Inquiry Cambridge Modern China Series
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Cambridge University Press Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid
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