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  • - Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1936
    av Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
    265 - 1 079,-

    This analysis of the failure of efforts to achieve liberal reform in Egypt following its independence from Great Britain in 1922 has implications for modern-day nation-building efforts in the Mideast.

  • - Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
    av Julian Go
    317 - 1 353,-

    An assessment of Americans efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines an education in self-government in the early years of U.S. colonial rule.

  • - The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
    av Martin J. Murray
    343 - 1 287,-

    A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.

  • - Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900
    av Vanita Seth
    304 - 1 157,-

    A historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity.

  • - Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
    av Joseph Gerteis
    369 - 1 105,-

    Provides an analysis of organizing across racial lines by two labor movements in the US South during the 1880s and the 1890s.

  • - A Theory of Collective Abdications
    av Ivan Ermakoff
    1 287,-

    Ruling Oneself Out develops a sociological theory to account for collective abdications of power such as those of the German Reichstag in 1933 and the French parliament in 1940.

  • - Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
    av Paul D. McLean
    306 - 1 157,-

    Writing letters to powerful people to win their favour and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence. This title presents the study of political and social patronage in 15th-century Florence.

  • - The Western Education of Colonial India
    av Sanjay Seth
    291 - 1 105,-

    Beginning in 1835, British colonizers sought to promote modern, western knowledge in India, primarily through schools. Delving into a large archive of popular writings, and drawing on history, political science, and philosophy, the author considers western education in India from various perspectives.

  • - India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
    av Srirupa Roy
    294 - 1 105,-

    Explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state, and subjects into citizens. The author considers several ways that identification with the nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s.

  • av Seungsook Moon
    291 - 1 105,-

    A postcolonial feminist study of the formation of contemporary political subjectivities in South Korea, framed by the rise and decline in 20th century militarization

  • - NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
    av Julia Elyachar
    291 - 1 112,-

    A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalization

  • - Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
    av Thomas M. Hawley
    372 - 1 112,-

    An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2,000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era.

  • - Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
     
    382,-

    Collection of new essays on the past, present, and future of positivism in the various social sciences

  • av Lora Wildenthal
    317 - 1 157,-

    Explores the 19th-century assumption that the advancement of a society could be measured by its treatment of women. This book shows how race was an additional - and more concealed - factor embedded in the history, politics, and culture of both German feminism and German colonialism from the late 19th century to the Third Reich.

  • - From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
    av Ron Eyerman
    278 - 1 105,-

    Explores the multiple meanings of the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the different reactions it elicited: among the Amsterdam-based artistic and intellectual subculture, the wider Dutch public, the local and international Muslim communities, the radical Islamic movement, and the broader international community.

  • - Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
    av Kali N. Gross
    291 - 1 105,-

    Offers an analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform.

  • - How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
    av Carolyn L. Hsu
    278 - 1 105,-

    Demonstrates the central role of ordinary people - rather than state or market elites - in creating institutions for determining status in China. This book explores the emerging hierarchy, which is based on the concept of suzhi, or quality.

  • - Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
    av Estelle T. Lau
    280 - 1 105,-

    A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies.

  • - Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
     
    326,-

    Illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative, cross-case perspective. This book emphasizes that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory - its place in social relations and the forms it takes-varies over time.

  • - Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
    av Elizabeth A. Povinelli
    319 - 1 157,-

    Argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.

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    358,-

    Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. This book traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a contextualized perspective.

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    1 339,-

    Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins.

  • - State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
    av Esra Ozyurek
    280 - 1 105,-

    An ethnographic analysis of the ways that, during the 1990s, Turkish citizens began to express nostalgia for the secularist and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic.

  • - Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
    av Cynthia Miller-Idriss
    278 - 1 105,-

    Immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. This book provides an ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations.

  • - Politics, History, and Sociology
     
    384,-

    A sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, transitio

  • - Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885
    av Libby Schweber
    293 - 1 112,-

    Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.

  • - Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
    av Thomas Blom Hansen
    330,-

    Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.

  • - West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
    av Gregory Mann
    317 - 1 157,-

    Focusing on Malian veterans of twentieth-century French wars, argues that France's and Africa's shared military history continues to animate their political relationship, especially regarding debates about African immigration to France

  • - Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan
    av Laura L. Adams
    278 - 1 105,-

    An analysis of how Uzbekistans cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, particularly by staging spectacular mass events, after the fall of the Soviet Union.

  • - Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present
    av Lessie Jo Frazier
    317 - 1 235,-

    A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought.

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