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A critical political economy of the Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 1503613836 1503614476 1503614484 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Leading scholars, representing several disciplines, contribute both thematic and country-specific analyses. Their writings critically examine major issues in political economy—notably, the mutual constitution of states, markets, and classes; the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other forms of identity; varying modes of capital accumulation and the legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation; relations among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and culture; technopolitics; the role of war in the constitution of states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and resistance. Visit politicaleconomyproject.org for additional media and learning resources.


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Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan
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ISBN: 0271096101 Year: 2023 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press

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"Explores religious identity and change in China, focusing on the activity of non-Chinese Christian missionaries in contemporary Yunnan"--


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Making Ukraine : negotiating, contesting, and drawing the borders in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0228013348 022801333X Year: 2022 Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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This collection considers how, when, and under what conditions the borders that historically defined the country of Ukraine were agreed upon. A diverse set of transnational contexts are explored, focusing mostly on the critical period of 1917-54 and revealing the shared history of territory and state formation in Europe and the wider modern world.


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White chief, Black lords : Shepstone and the colonial state in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878
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ISBN: 1282707043 9786612707049 1580467067 158046341X Year: 2010 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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White Chief, Black Lords explores the tensions and contradictions between the British colonial civilizing mission and the practice of indirect rule. While the colonial imperative was to transform colonized societies and bring them within "civilized" norms, fiscal limitations frequently resulted in ruling through indigenous authorities and customs. In this book, Thomas McClendon analyzes this deep contradiction by looking at several crises and key turning points in the early decades of colonial rule in the British colony of Natal, later part of South Africa. He focuses a keen eye on the tenure of Theophilus Shepstone as that colony's Secretary for Native affairs, examining his interactions with subject African communities.
In a series of case studies, including high drama over rebellions by African "chiefs" and their followers and intense debates over the control of witchcraft, White Chief, Black Lords shows that these colonial imperatives led to a self-defeating conundrum. In the process of attempting to rule through African leaders and norms yet to discipline and transform African subjects, the colonial state inevitably was itself transformed and became, in part, an African state. McClendon concludes by spotlighting the continuing importance of these unresolved contradictions in post-apartheid South Africa.

Thomas McClendon is Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.


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Cultures in motion
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ISBN: 9780691176178 9780691159096 0691159092 1306168236 1400849896 0691176175 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Culture --- Culture diffusion. --- Diffusion culturelle --- History. --- Histoire --- Études transculturelles --- Labor relations. --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Culture populaire --- Politique culturelle --- Études transculturelles. --- Culture populaire. --- Politique culturelle. --- Society. --- Kulturspridning. --- Kultur. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Social change --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Methodology --- African dance. --- African emigrants. --- Ah Jake. --- Alcoa. --- Andreas Cleyer. --- Betty Friedan. --- California. --- Caribbean. --- Chinese medicine. --- Chinese workers. --- Domitila Barrios de Chungara. --- Europe. --- Germany. --- International Women's Year. --- Irish dance. --- Irish emigrants. --- Lanka. --- Latin West. --- Mexico City. --- Michel Boym. --- New York City. --- Niklas Luhmann. --- North American feminism. --- Singer Sewing Machine Company. --- Singer sewing machine. --- Sir John Floyer. --- Third World feminine Leftism. --- William Wotton. --- air power. --- alchemical formula. --- aluminum. --- bauxite mining. --- blood. --- challenge dance competitions. --- challenge dance. --- charity. --- choral festivals. --- choral societies. --- civic charity. --- civilizing mission. --- collective identity. --- consumer market. --- cross-cultural relations. --- cultural exchange. --- cultural motion. --- cultural nationalism. --- cultural practices. --- cultural space. --- culture. --- cultures. --- dance. --- early modern Europe. --- empire. --- gift-giving. --- globalization. --- gold. --- immobility. --- itinerancy. --- justice. --- knowledge transmission. --- labor network. --- labor. --- language. --- lizards. --- market imaginary. --- marketing. --- matter. --- medical knowledge. --- misunderstandings. --- mo. --- mobility. --- modernity. --- murder trial. --- music. --- musical culture. --- musical itinerancy. --- nation building. --- nationalism. --- pastoral power. --- pidgin. --- place. --- poverty. --- power. --- pulse. --- race. --- red pigments. --- science. --- sewing machine. --- social imagination. --- social relations. --- society. --- taverns. --- temporality. --- tourism. --- translation. --- transnational feminism. --- traveling musicians. --- vermillion. --- wealth.


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The invention of international order : remaking Europe after Napoleon
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ISBN: 0691226792 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order, wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy, philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center. Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary crossroads in history.In this panoramic book, Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in the context of social networks often presided over by influential women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In this history, figures such as Madame de Staël and Countess Dorothea Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway, while bankers influence economic developments and their families agitate for Jewish rights.Monumental in scope, this groundbreaking book chronicles the European women and men who embraced the promise of a new kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern diplomacy and international politics still resonate today.

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Diplomatic relations. --- 1815-1871 --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Abolitionism. --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Alexander's. --- Archivist. --- Behalf. --- Catherine the Great. --- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. --- Citizenship. --- Civilization. --- Civilizing mission. --- Commissioner. --- Community Rule. --- Concert of Europe. --- Conflict resolution. --- Confraternity. --- Congress of Vienna. --- Containment. --- Contract A. --- Courland. --- Currency. --- Diplomacy. --- Diplomatic bag. --- Diplomatic immunity. --- Dorothea Lieven. --- Eisenach. --- Engraving. --- Escapism. --- Europe. --- European Coalition. --- Europeanism. --- Expansionism. --- Foreign Policy. --- Foreign policy. --- Foreign relations of the United Kingdom. --- Free trade. --- Gazette. --- Global governance. --- Globalization. --- Governance. --- Government. --- Grand Vizier. --- Grand duchy. --- Grand duke. --- Great power. --- Head of state. --- Hegemony. --- Holy Alliance. --- Holy Roman Empire. --- House of Bonaparte. --- Imperial Government. --- Imperialism. --- Institutional memory. --- International Labour Organization. --- International community. --- International court. --- International law. --- International relations. --- League of Nations. --- Masculinity. --- Meet the World. --- Meeting Point. --- Mercantilism. --- Military aid. --- Modernity. --- Monarchies in Europe. --- Multilateralism. --- Multitude. --- Napoleon. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Nation state. --- Nation-building. --- Opportunism. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Ottoman court. --- Ottoman dynasty. --- Pamphlet. --- Patriotism. --- Peace congress. --- Peace of Westphalia. --- Peacemaking. --- Politics. --- Politique. --- Polity. --- Prussia. --- Public interest. --- Public sphere. --- Realpolitik. --- Social order. --- Sovereignty. --- State-building. --- Stendhal. --- Subsidy. --- Suzerainty. --- Treaty of Amiens. --- Treaty. --- Ukase. --- United Nations Conference on International Organization. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- Wilhelm von Humboldt. --- World Trade Organization.

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