Motherhood Confined : Maternal Health in English Prisons, 1853-1955
Rachel E. Bennett;Rachel E. Bennett
When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were buil...
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Motherhood Confined : Maternal Health in English Prisons, 1853-1955
2024
When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something of a paradox is that of mothers and their babies living in this carceral environment. This book looks behind the cell doors of these institutions to illuminate the experiences of this group of prisoners . The management of their health alongside the management of penal discipline posed complex conundrums to the prison system. Although rarely fully considered at policy level, this balancing act was negotiated by those who lived and worked in prisons on a daily basis.
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Pregnancy - Women prisoners--Health and hygieneContent provider:
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Presidential Accountability in Wartime : President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War
Stuart Streichler;Stuart Streichler
The American presidency has long tested the capacity of the system of checks and balan...
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Presidential Accountability in Wartime : President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War
2023
The American presidency has long tested the capacity of the system of checks and balances to constrain executive power, especially in times of war. While scholars have examined presidents starting military conflicts without congressional authorization or infringing on civil liberties in the name of national security, Stuart Streichler focuses on the conduct of hostilities. Using the treatment of war-on-terror detainees under President George W. Bush as a case study, he integrates international humanitarian law into a constitutional analysis of the repercussions of presidential war powers for human rights around the world. Putting President Bush's actions in a wider context, Presidential Accountability in Wartime begins with a historical survey of the laws of war, with particular emphasis on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Tribunal. Streichler then reconstructs the decision-making process that led to the president's approval of interrogation methods that violated Geneva's mandate to treat wartime captives humanely. While taking note of various accountability options—from within the executive branch to the International Criminal Court—the book illustrates the challenge in holding presidents personally responsible for violating the laws of war through an in-depth analysis of the actions taken by Congress, the Supreme Court, and the public in response. In doing so, this book not only raises questions about whether international humanitarian law can moderate wartime presidential behavior but also about the character of the presidency and the American constitutional system of government.
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Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation--United States--History - Legislative power--United States--History - Political questions and judicial power--United States--History - War and emergency powers--United States--History - Executive power--United States--History - Prisoners of war--Abuse of--United States - Torture--Law and legislation--United States - Torture (International law) - Humanitarian lawContent provider:
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Humanismo poliédrico. Nuevas apuestas de estética, arte género y ciencias sociales.
Casares Landauro, Elena;Vadillo Rodríguez, María Luisa;Bermúdez Vázquez, Ma...
El presente libro es una de las culminaciones del proyecto Logos. Como venimos sosteni...
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Humanismo poliédrico. Nuevas apuestas de estética, arte género y ciencias sociales.
2022
El presente libro es una de las culminaciones del proyecto Logos. Como venimos sosteniendo en los últimos años, el mundo académico tiene una obligación particular: la de ser un espectador crítico de la sociedad de la que forma parte. Es justo en este nudo donde se enclava el núcleo del proyecto Logos, en la necesidad de transferir el conocimiento generado en las universidades y centros de investigación para resolver problemas, analizar realidades, estudiar situaciones y ofrecer alternativas.
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Social sciences - Design--Philosophy - AestheticsContent provider:
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Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950
Joanna Simonow;Joanna Simonow
The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twenti...
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Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950
2023
The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in India had been believed to be a necessary evil. Now it was the reason for the increasing activities of doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine. The involvement of this panoply of historical actors places Indian famines in the centre of the converging histories of humanitarianism, development, nutrition and (anti-) colonialism. Tracing their activities renders such convergences visible and pushes the boundaries of the history of famines in South Asia beyond its common spatial and temporal frames. Ending Famine in India examines the tripartite relationship of India, Britain and the United States, linking the late-Victorian holocausts with the struggle for food security in the 1950s.
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Famines--India--History--20th century - Agriculture--India--History--19th century - Food supply--India--History--20th century - Food supply--India--History--19th century - Agriculture--India--History--20th century - Famines--India--History--19th century - Food security--India--History--20th century - Food security--India--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Mucho más que cine: historia, literatura y arte en el cine en español y en portugués.
Marcos Ramos, María;Marcos Ramos, María
Este libro recoge las contribuciones de los asistentes al VI Congreso Internacional de...
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Mucho más que cine: historia, literatura y arte en el cine en español y en portugués.
2021
Este libro recoge las contribuciones de los asistentes al VI Congreso Internacional de Historia, Arte y Literatura en el Cine en Español y en Portugués – CIHALCEP celebrado los días 21-25 de junio de 2021 en la Universidad de Salamanca con la colaboración del Centro de Estudios Brasileños.
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Motion pictures, Spanish--Criticism and interpretation - Motion pictures, Portuguese--Criticism and interpretationContent provider:
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 : A Critical Anthology
Mary Ellis Gibson;Mary Ellis Gibson
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible ...
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 : A Critical Anthology
2011
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary Ellis Gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early nineteenth-century poet Kasiprasad Ghosh. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, beginning with the famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous “Anna Maria ” and ending with Indian poets publishing in fin-de-siècle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore's Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversation back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences.With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabulary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection significantly reshapes the understanding of English language literary culture in India. It allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.
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Indic poetry (English)--History and criticism - Indic poetry (English)--18th century - Indic poetry (English) - Indic poetry (English)--19th centuryContent provider:
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Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces
Rani-Henrik Andersson;Janne Lahti;Rani-Henrik Andersson;Janne Lahti
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North...
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Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces
2022
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond. The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involvement in settler colonialism. In their chapters, authors seek to understand the experiences and representations of Finns in North American spatial projects, in territorial expansion and integration, and visions of power. They do so by analyzing how Finns reinvented their identities and acted as settlers, participated in the production of settler colonial narratives, as well as benefitted and took advantage of settler colonial structures. Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America aims to challenge traditional histories of Finnish migration, in which Finns have typically been viewed almost in isolation from the broader American context, not to mention colonialism. The book examines the diversity of roles, experiences, and narrations of and by Finns in the histories of North America by employing the settler colonial analytical framework.
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Colonists--North America - Finns--North America--HistoryContent provider:
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Breaking Conventions : Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Patricia Auspos;Patricia Auspos
This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two...
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Breaking Conventions : Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
2023
This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two British, three American – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry . Patricia Auspos examines what we can learn from the relationships of the Palmers, the Youngs, the Parsons, the Webbs, and the Mitchells, exploring the implications of their experiences for our understanding of the history of gender equality and of professional work. In expert and lucid fashion, Auspos draws out the interconnections between the institutions of marriage and professional life at a time when both were undergoing critical changes, by looking specifically at how a pioneering generation tried to combine the two. Based on extensive archival research and drawing on mostly unpublished letters, journals, pocket diaries, poetry, and autobiographical writings, Breaking Conventions tells the intimate stories of five path-breaking marriages and the social dynamics they confronted and revealed. This book will appeal to scholars, students, and anyone interested in women's studies, gender studies, masculinity studies, histories of women in the professions, and the history of marriage.
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Dual-career families--Great Britain--History--19th century - Dual-career families--United States--History--19th century - Sex role--Great Britain--History--19th century - Sex role--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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From Whispers to Shouts : The Ways We Talk About Cancer
Elaine Schattner;Elaine Schattner
It's hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease...
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From Whispers to Shouts : The Ways We Talk About Cancer
2023
It's hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease about which people rarely spoke in public. In hospitals and doctors'offices, conversations about malignancy were hushed and hope was limited. In this deeply researched book, Elaine Schattner reveals a sea change—from before 1900 to the present day—in how ordinary people talk about cancer.From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories in newspapers and magazines, social media, and popular culture. It probes the evolving relationship between journalists and medical specialists and illuminates the role of women and charities that distributed medical information. Schattner traces the origins of patient advocacy and activism from the 1920s onward, highlighting how, while doctors have lost control of messages about cancer, survivors have gained visibility and voice.The book's final section lays out provocative questions facing the cancer community today—including distrust of oncologists, concerns over financial burdens, and disparities in cancer treatments and care. Schattner considers how patients and their loved ones struggle to make decisions amid conflicting information and opinions. She explores the ramifications of so much openness, good and bad, and asks: Has awareness backfired? Instead, Schattner contends, we need greater understanding of cancer's treatability.
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Health attitudes--United States - Cancer--Social aspects--United States--History - Cancer--United States--Public opinion - Cancer in mass mediaContent provider:
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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
Chris Cunneen;Antje Deckert;Amanda Porter;Juan Tauri;Robert Webb;Chris Cunn...
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing wo...
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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
2023
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law. The collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge, politically engaged work from a diverse group of writers who take as a starting point an analysis founded in a decolonizing, decolonial and/or Indigenous standpoint. Centering the perspectives of Black, First Nations and other racialized and minoritized peoples, the book makes an internationally significant contribution to the literature. The chapters include analyses of specific decolonization policies and interventions instigated by communities to enhance jurisdictional self-determination; theoretical approaches to decolonization; the importance of research and research ethics as a key foundation of the decolonization process; crucial contemporary issues including deaths in custody, state crime, reparations, and transitional justice; and critical analysis of key institutions of control, including police, courts, corrections, child protection systems and other forms of carcerality. The handbook is divided into five sections which reflect the breadth of the decolonizing literature: • Why decolonization? From the personal to the global • State terror and violence • Abolishing the carceral • Transforming and decolonizing justice • Disrupting epistemic violence This book offers a comprehensive and timely resource for activists, students, academics, and those with an interest in Indigenous studies, decolonial and post-colonial studies, criminal legal institutions and criminology. It provides critical commentary and analyses of the major issues for enhancing social justice internationally. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc - Restorative justice - Decolonization - Self-determination, National - Decolonization--Research - Criminal justice, Administration ofContent provider:
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
David Michael Smith;David Michael Smith
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death...
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
2023
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States.In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
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National characteristics, American - World politics - Crimes against humanity--History - Political violence--United States--History - Genocide--History - Imperialism--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities
Dorothy Kim;Adeline Koh;Dorothy Kim;Adeline Koh
In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot wri...
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Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities
2021
In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes that by examining the process of history we can “discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.” Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities examines the process of history in the narrative of the digital humanities and deconstructs its history as a straight line from the beginnings of humanities computing. By discussing alternatives histories of the digital humanities that address queer gaming, feminist game studies praxis, Cold War military-industrial complex computation, the creation of the environmental humanities, monolingual discontent in DH, the hidden history of DH in English studies, radical media praxis, cultural studies and DH, indigenous futurities, Pacific Rim postcolonial DH, the issue of scale and DH, the radical, indigenous, feminist histories of the digital database, and the possibilities for an antifascist DH, this collection hopes to re-set discussions of the straight, white origin myths of DH. Thus, this collection hopes to reexamine the silences in such a straight and white masculinist history and delineates how power comes into play to shape this straight, white DH narrative. A number of the pieces in this volume go back to the origin myth of the digital humanities to reassess the hagiography of Father Busa by reconsidering and recontextualizing his legacy and his work in relation to media archaeology, politics, Cold War maneuvers, mechanized genocide, the Third Reich, and the military-industrial complex as it has organized various fields, including Asian Studies. This reassessment of comparative genealogies — vis-à-vis Foucault — undergirds an alternative history of the Jesuit hagiography we have so far been unwilling to reexamine for its narrative use in embellishing an origin hagiography/historiography for digital humanities. Other pieces intertwine the digital humanities with other fields — area studies, Asian American Studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and environmental studies — in order to reexamine how the intersections and juxtapositions reveal silences in these histories. And finally, a number of pieces considers alternative praxes in rethinking these histories, whether it is an essay that is a game or a reevaluation of feminist media praxis.
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Digital humanitiesContent provider:
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass;Mary Ellen Snodgrass
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of to...
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
2019
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
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Money--History--Encyclopedias - Coins--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation
Ned Randolph;Ned Randolph
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of Califor...
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation
2024
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of'muddy thinking'to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.
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Persons of Interest : An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton
Pamela Burton;Meredith Edwards;Pamela Burton;Meredith Edwards
A world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress …This story is set in the social and...
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Persons of Interest : An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton
2022
A world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress …This story is set in the social and political landscape of pre– and post–World War II. It tells two vastly different tales of Cecily and John's lives in Australia and overseas, as nations clashed, and governments and international organisations tried to remake the world.Cecily Nixon knew that marrying John Burton would be bad for her. But she loved him and, impressed with this handsome, sullen young man and his belief that he could change the world for the better, saw her role in life as to serve the world through John.Cecily's story is a deeply personal and psychological one of love, duty and betrayal that explores the complexities of relationships. In a world that overwhelmed her, Cecily searched for'wholeness'and delved deep into her psyche to find herself and emerge from John's shadow.John has been known as an influential and controversial young head of Australia's Department of External Affairs – and as a would-be politician. It is less known that he was also an innovative farmer, bookseller, entrepreneur, arts patron and writer. He received international acclaim for his later work in conflict analysis and resolution.These combined stories of courage and achievement unfold amid political intrigue and psychological trauma. ASIO surveillance, love triangles, loyalty, infidelity and tragedy all play their part in the Burtons'lives.
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Criminal behavior, Prediction of - Criminal investigation--Psychological aspects - Criminal investigationContent provider:
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El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura: un estudio interdisciplinar sobre lengua, literatura y traducción.
Garcés Manzanera, Aitor;Ould García, Omar Salem;Flores Borjabad, Salud Adel...
Todo ser vivo necesita interactuar con el medio que lo rodea, generando un tipo de inf...
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El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura: un estudio interdisciplinar sobre lengua, literatura y traducción.
2022
Todo ser vivo necesita interactuar con el medio que lo rodea, generando un tipo de información que lo lleva a crear un acto de comunicación. Así, se desarrollan una serie de lenguajes que los llevan a comunicarse con la comunidad. Por ejemplo, en el caso de los animales se puede observar cómo emiten diferentes sonidos para realizar cualquier tipo de acción o, incluso, para advertir de cualquier peligro a su alrededor.En el caso de los seres humanos, desde nuestros orígenes, hemos generado gestos y expresiones que varían de un lugar a otro, así como también hemos elaborado sistemas de comunicación basados en señales para poder comunicarnos. No obstante, en el caso de los seres huma-nos, todo esto va más allá, en tanto que hemos sido capaces de desarrollar un sistema de comunicación verbal y escrito, otorgándole convenciones que varían de un lugar a otro. Siguiendo esta línea, nuestra forma de comunicación ha ido más allá de la simbología, hasta tal punto de elaborar un sistema de símbolos sonoros y gráficos que se articulan de diferentes formas con el fin de elaborar un sistema complejo de estructuras que nos llevan a comentar nuestro presente, pasado y futuro, lo que se ha denominado lengua. Además de todo esto, hay que tener en cuenta el factor geográfico, puesto que no se puede hablar en exclusiva de una única lengua. En este contexto, la lengua o las lenguas va-rían en función de los fenómenos socioculturales que la rodean, es decir, existe una relación intrínseca entre lengua, lenguaje y sociedad, teniendo en cuenta sus usos y el contexto en el que se desenvuelven.
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest : Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Susan Sleeper-Smith;Susan Sleeper-Smith
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian...
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest : Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
2018
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest riparian, wetland, and terrestrial resources of every description and breathtaking richness. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion.By the late eighteenth century, Montreal silversmiths were sending their best work to Wabash Indian villages, Ohio Indian women were setting the fashions for Indigenous clothing, and European visitors were marveling at the sturdy homes and generous hospitality of trading entrepots such as Miamitown. Confederacy, agrarian abundance, and nascent urbanity were, however, both too much and not enough. Kentucky settlers and American leaders—like George Washington and Henry Knox—coveted Indian lands and targeted the Indian women who worked them. Americans took women and children hostage to coerce male warriors to come to the treaty table to cede their homelands. Appalachian squatters, aspiring land barons, and ambitious generals invaded this settled agrarian world, burned crops, looted towns, and erased evidence of Ohio Indian achievement. This book restores the Ohio River valley as Native space.
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Indian women--Ohio River Valley--History--17th century - Indian women--Ohio River Valley--History--18th century - Kidnapping--Ohio River Valley--History - Indians, Treatment of--Ohio River Valley--History - Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Government relationsContent provider:
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Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain : A History for the Present
Matt Houlbrook;Katie Jones;Ben Mechen;Matt Houlbrook;Katie Jones;Ben Mechen
Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to...
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Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain : A History for the Present
2023
Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics. The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men's lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men's social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life. In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men's lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.
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Men--Great Britain--History - Masculinity--Great Britain--HistoryContent provider:
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
Jan Hansen;Jochen Hung;Jaroslav Ira;Judit Klement;Sylvain Lesage;Juan Luis ...
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians f...
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
2023
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today's history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European'analyses of the continent's past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
Andreas Neef;Chanrith Ngin;Tsegaye Moreda;Sharlene Mollett;Andreas Neef;Cha...
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resou...
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
2023
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing. Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies and natural resource governance. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Book of the Disappeared : The Quest for Transnational Justice
Jennifer Heath;Ashraf Zahedi;Jennifer Heath;Ashraf Zahedi
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disapp...
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Book of the Disappeared : The Quest for Transnational Justice
2023
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Disappeared persons - Genocide - Human rightsContent provider:
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Dogs, Past and Present : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Ivana Fiore;Francesca Lugli;Ivana Fiore;Francesca Lugli
Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective gathers contributions from sc...
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Dogs, Past and Present : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
2023
Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. Over the last decades, countless studies have examined the lives of dogs and their current place in our societies as well as their crucial part in human life and history. Data and hypotheses have progressively increased, sometimes controversially, in each field of investigation. The domestication of dogs and its success during prehistory is a fascinating theme that scholars of various disciplines are involved with. However, there has not been a real exchange between those approaches and it is extremely complex to reach a complete view of the thousands of texts which are published every year. By contrast, this volume is entirely dedicated to dogs and it is focused on the necessity of an ‘interdisciplinary perspective'to fully understand the fundamental role that dogs have played in our past. When, where, how and why were dogs domesticated? What is their story? What was their role in the history of humankind? What is their role in traditional and non-traditional societies today? The book originated from the conference ‘Dogs, Past and Present – an Interdisciplinary Perspective'held at CNR (National Scientific Council) and at Sapienza University in Rome (14–17 November 2018), promoted by the Italian Association for Ethnoarchaeology and organised by the editors.
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Animal remains (Archaeology) - Human-animal relationships--History - Dogs--HistoryContent provider:
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W kręgu geografii politycznej i dyscyplin „okolicznych”. Studia dedykowane Profesorowi Markowi Sobczyńskiemu
Andrzej Rykała;Andrzej Rykała
Geografia polityczna, pomimo propagowania u swojego zarania dogmatycznych i abstrakcyj...
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W kręgu geografii politycznej i dyscyplin „okolicznych”. Studia dedykowane Profesorowi Markowi Sobczyńskiemu
2023
Geografia polityczna, pomimo propagowania u swojego zarania dogmatycznych i abstrakcyjnych teorii, dźwigania brzemienia grzechów będącej jej praktycznym zastosowaniem geopolityki oraz wtłaczania w ideologiczny gorset przez pozbawione demokratycznego mandatu rządy, to dziś pełnoprawna, uznana i nieustannie poszukująca kolejnych wyzwań naukowych członkini rodziny geograficznej. Na to wabiące, choć nieokreślone, grząskie i nie dość bezpieczne pole badawcze wkroczył kilkadziesiąt lat temu z niepohamowaną skłonnością do jego dalszej penetracji – przy zachowaniu pokory wobec dokonań poprzedników i szacunku dla nie zawsze chwalebnej tradycji – Profesor Marek Sobczyński. Liczne strumyki refleksji poznawczej i badawczej przenoszone przez pokolenia geografów politycznych ujął on w indywidualny nurt naukowej eksploracji. Materialnym wyrazem docenienia ogromnego i niezwykle cennego wkładu Profesora w rozwój tej dyscypliny naukowej jest niniejsza jubileuszowa książka. Jej struktura odzwierciedla spektrum zainteresowań badawczych autorów zamieszczonych w niej tekstów. Różnorodność podjętych tematów jest zarazem ilustracją wszechstronności naukowej Jubilata.
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Cities and towns - Minorities - Religious minorities - Political geography - Boundaries - Ethnic groupsContent provider:
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Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University, Iași, Romania
Marius Alexianu;Roxana-Gabriela Curcă;Olivier Weller;Ashley A. Dumas;Marius...
Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the A...
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Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University, Iași, Romania
2023
Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi (Romania). The impact of salt on the development of human communities, from the Neolithic to the present, has generated a huge number of specialized studies. However, scientific research has become so atomized that the primordial importance of the mineral has been lost, creating a need for a holistic, comprehensive vision of the dimensions generated by salt. This can only be achieved through anthropology. The anthropology of salt encompasses the entirety of human behavior, i.e. cognitive, spiritual, pragmatic, and social reactions to salt, and provides a holistic view of its role in the evolution of human communities. The anthropology of salt thus brings salt studies from an ancillary position to an autonomous discipline. The papers in this volume are organized into six sections: theory, archaeology, history, ethnography/ ethnoarchaeology/ethnohistory, linguistics, and literature. Topics include salt in Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as from Cameroon, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, the USA and Venezuela. The congress was organized within the project The Ethnoarchaeology of the Salt Springs and Salt Mountains from the Extra-Carpathian Areas of Romania, financed by the Government of Romania (CNCS – UEFISCDI) (2011-2016). Its theoretical novelty and geographical range render Mirrors of Salt a unique study of the world's most-used non-metallic mineral.
