Odysseys Home : Mapping African-Canadian Literature
George Elliott Clarke;George Elliott Clarke
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Ca...
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Odysseys Home : Mapping African-Canadian Literature
2017
Odysseys Home : Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada . This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.
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Africans--Canada--Intellectual life - Canadian literature--Black authors--Bibliography - French-Canadian literature--Black authors--History and criticism - Canadian literature--Black authors--History and criticismContent provider:
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
Hilary Howes;Tristen Jones;Matthew Spriggs;Hilary Howes;Tristen Jones;Matth...
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories...
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
2022
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.
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Archaeology--Oceania--HistoryContent provider:
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Communities and Museums in the 21st Century : Shared Histories and Climate Action
Karen Brown;Alissandra Cummins;Ana S. González Rueda;Karen Brown;Alissandra...
Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplin...
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Communities and Museums in the 21st Century : Shared Histories and Climate Action
2024
Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability. Set within the context of globalisation and decolonisation, this book draws upon bi-regional research that will enrich our understanding of the complex relationships between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean through museum studies and practice. Chapters reflect upon the role of museums in defining community identities; the importance of young people's participation and intergenerational work for sustainability; the role of museums in local development; and community-based museums and climate change. Contributors examine these issues through the lens of museum partnerships and practices, as well as testing the continued relevance of the notion of ‘integral museum'and its relatives in the form of ecomuseums. With its focus on regional museums in Latin America and Caribbean, this book highlights how the case studies promote greater intercultural dialogue, global understanding and social cohesion. It also demonstrates how the methodology can be adapted to other communities who are facing the perils of climate change and unsustainable forms of development. Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, this book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development.
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Museums and community--Caribbean Area - Museums and community--Latin America - Latin Americans--Ethnic identityContent provider:
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
Philip A. Greasley;Philip A. Greasley
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the ...
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
2016; Vol. Volume two
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
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American literature--Middle West--Dictionaries - Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West--Dictionaries - American literature--Middle West--Bio-bibliography--DictionariesContent provider:
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Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
Matthew Reynolds;Andrés Claro;Annmarie Drury;Mary Frank;Paola Gaudio;Rebecc...
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translate...
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Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
2023
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë's novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel's feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion'and ‘plain'across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë's novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.
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PR4167.J5Content provider:
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Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
Cobos-Sanchiz, David;López-Meneses, Eloy;Jaén-Martínez, Alicia;Martín-Padil...
Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
2023
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Social change - Educational sociologyContent provider:
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Conexiones Culturales y Patrimonio Prehistórico
Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita;Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita
José C. Martín de la Cruz es uno de los investigadores más relevantes durante los últi...
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Conexiones Culturales y Patrimonio Prehistórico
2023
José C. Martín de la Cruz es uno de los investigadores más relevantes durante los últimos años del siglo XX y primeros del siglo XXI tanto en la investigación en Prehistoria como de la difusión del patrimonio a nivel internacional. Este volumen aspira a servir de homenaje a una trayectoria profesional, al reunir alrededor de medio centenar de investigadores para tratar diferentes ejes temáticos y cronológicos relacionados con la investigación prehistórica y su difusión. Por lo tanto, se trata de un volumen multidisciplinar cuyos especialistas interpretan la prehistoria desde sus orígenes más remotos hasta el paso previo a las colonizaciones históricas, así como exploran las diferentes vías en las que pervive el patrimonio prehistórico. El volumen se estructura en cuatro partes, organizadas de manera cronológica desde lo más reciente hasta lo más antiguo. La primera parte trata sobre las economías locales desde la Edad del Hierro hasta los contactos interculturales que se producen durante la Edad del Bronce en el ámbito mediterráneo. En un segundo bloque retrocedemos en el tiempo para explorar las últimas investigaciones realizadas sobre historiografía, secuenciación cronológica, ideología y religiosidad de las sociedades calcolíticas y sobre la economía de las primeras sociedades productoras neolíticas. La tercera parte indaga sobre los primeros pobladores de la península ibérica, las representaciones artísticas y su entorno natural. Por último, cierra el volumen un apartado multidisciplinar que aborda la prehistoria desde diversas áreas científicas. Al final, esta obra se convierte en punto de encuentro donde se reúnen desde investigadores consolidados hasta jóvenes investigadores, que ofrecen sus investigaciones científicas al mismo tiempo que rinden homenaje al profesor Martín de la Cruz.
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Excavations (Archaeology)--Mediterranean Region - Bronze age--Mediterranean RegionContent provider:
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Transforming Vòdún : Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
Sarah Politz;Sarah Politz
Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin tran...
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Transforming Vòdún : Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
2023
Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians'professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.
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Brass band music--Social aspects--Benin - Music--Social aspects--Benin - Vodou music--Social aspects--Benin - Jazz--Social aspects--Benin - Vodou--Social aspects--Benin - Postcolonialism and music--BeninContent provider:
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Teorías cognitivas entre el mundo árabe e islámico y Occidente.. Retos de la comunicación y barreras a la interacción
VV.AA;VV.AA
El presente libro científico y cognitivo ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre...
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Teorías cognitivas entre el mundo árabe e islámico y Occidente.. Retos de la comunicación y barreras a la interacción
2023
El presente libro científico y cognitivo ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre las diversas cuestiones y temas que interesan a investigadores y académicos que están involucrados en el estudio de la relación entre Oriente y Occidente, así como en la interacción entre Occidente y el mundo árabe e islámico. Esta obra permite a los lectores la provechosa oportunidad de identificar y explorar los diversos enfoques que permiten contemplar las diferentes regiones del mundo, tanto en el ámbito del este como en el del oeste.Con la aportación de investigadores académicos de universidades vinculadas a los cinco continentes, el libro ofrece una perspectiva amplia y diversa, enriqueciendo aún más la comprensión de estos temas. Además, es capaz de dar una visión precisa de cómo se concibe al otro'y las epistemologías que se utilizan para entenderlo. Al establecer su interpretación, el libro nos invita a plantear cuestiones fundamentales sobre la capacidad de estas epistemologías y enfoques para fomentar un conocimiento cercano y equitativo del otro.'
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Intercultural communication - East and WestContent provider:
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Pueblos y culturas de la prehistoria a la actualidad.
Olivero Guidobono, Sandra (Coordinador);Paz Reverol, Carmen Laura (Coordina...
A partir de los capítulos recopilados en este monográfico se pretende crear un espacio...
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Pueblos y culturas de la prehistoria a la actualidad.
2023
A partir de los capítulos recopilados en este monográfico se pretende crear un espacio de diálogo y encuentro crítico de debate entre estudiosos, especialistas, como así también jóvenes investigadores. El análisis y comprensión de los comportamientos humanos desde múltiples perspectivas permitirán un conocimiento y una reflexión más profunda sobre la problemática y los retos futuros. Somos conscientes que sólo a través de las acciones pretéritas podremos comprender el desarrollo actual y plantear sociedades inclusivas y potencialmente seguras en un futuro sustentable.El presente libro, separado en dos secciones, constituye una muestra del análisis de contextos históricos, demográficos, antropológicos, urbanísticos y patrimoniales de diversas poblaciones a lo largo de un corte temporal amplio y un escenario geográfico variopinto.
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World historyContent provider:
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Empire Found : Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures
Daniel F. Silva;Daniel F. Silva
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press web...
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Empire Found : Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures
2022
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures examines how the discourses and narratives of Portuguese imperial exceptionalism and Portuguese racial identity, developed during the last centuries of Portuguese settler colonialism continue to inform an array of cultural production and consumption in the four decades since decolonization. By examining a range of contemporary popular cultural production (literature, football, musical production, and celebrity culture) in critical conversation with intellectual production of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Empire Found examines how narratives of Portuguese racial hybridity and indeterminacy operate alongside ongoing structures of coloniality and white supremacy in the realms of cultural production. I argue that these implied or overt historical dialogues carried out through cultural production are integral to the very reproduction of the Portuguese nation-state apparatus, as well as its racial structures and claims to whiteness in the wake of decolonization and marginal integration into the European Union.
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Popular culture--Portugal - Nationalism--Portugal - Imperialism in popular culture--PortugalContent provider:
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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Computer-aided design - Architecture--Data processing - Computer architectureContent provider:
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Big and Little Histories : Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography
Marnie Hughes-Warrington;Anne Martin;Marnie Hughes-Warrington;Anne Martin
This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of ho...
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Big and Little Histories : Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography
2022
This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking to histories made across the world and from ancient times until today, readers are introduced to a wide variety of approaches to the ethics of history, including well-known ethical approaches, such as the virtue ethics of universal historians, and utilitarian approaches to collective biography writing while also discovering new and emerging ideas in the ethics of history. Through these approaches, readers are encouraged to challenge their ideas about whether humans are separate from other living and non-living things and whether machines and animals can write histories. The book looks to the fundamental questions posed about the nature of history making by Indigenous history makers and asks whether the ethics at play in the global variety of histories might be better appreciated in professional codes of conduct and approaches to research ethics management. Opening up the topic of ethics to show how historians might have viewed ethics differently in the past, the book requires no background in ethics or history theory and is open to all of those with an interest in how we think about good histories.
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Historians--Professional ethics - Historiography--Moral and ethical aspectsContent provider:
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Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral
Max Ryynänen;Heidi S. Kosonen;Susanne C. Ylönen;Max Ryynänen;Heidi S. Koson...
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied ...
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Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral
2022
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology.
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Aesthetics--Physiological aspects - Aversion--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Heike Paul;Sarah Marak;Katharina Gerund;Marius Henderson;Heike Paul;Sarah M...
This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts ...
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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
2022; Vol. 00001
This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.
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Social sciencesContent provider:
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Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
Korinna Schönhärl;Gisela Hürlimann;Dorothea Rohde;Korinna Schönhärl;Gisela ...
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, e...
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Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
2022
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance shows how different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash, on their properties or on their crops. It analyses how, throughout history, wealthy and poor taxpayers have tried to avoid or reduce their tax burden by negotiating with tax authorities, through practices of legal or illegal tax evasion, by filing lawsuits, seeking armed resistance or by migration, and how state authorities have dealt with such acts of claim making, defiance, open resistance or elusion. It fills an important research gap in tax history, addressing questions of tax morale and fairness, and how social and political inequality was negotiated through taxation. It gives rich insights into the development of citizen-state relationships throughout the course of history. The book comprises case studies from Ancient Athens, Roman Egypt, Medieval Europe, Early Modern Mexico, the Ottoman Empire, Nigeria under British colonial rule, the United Kingdom of the early 20th century, Greece during the Second World War, as well as West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States in the 20th century, including transnational entanglements in the world of late-modern offshore finance and taxation. The authors are experts in fiscal, economic, financial, legal, social and/or cultural history. The book is intended for students, researchers and scholars of economic and financial history, social and world history and political economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license.
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Tax evasionContent provider:
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Dying of Whiteness : How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Jonathan M. Metzl;Jonathan M. Metzl
A physician's'provocative'(Boston Globe) and'timely'(Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Bo...
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Dying of Whiteness : How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
2019
A physician's'provocative'(Boston Globe) and'timely'(Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help . In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as physician Jonathan M. Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, Metzl examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. He shows these policies'costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. Now updated with a new afterword, Dying of Whiteness demonstrates how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation rather than chasing false promises of supremacy.Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
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Politics, Practical - White supremacy (Social structure)--Health aspects--United States - White people--Health and hygiene--United States - Health services accessibilityContent provider:
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Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts
Jörg B. Quenzer;Jörg B. Quenzer
The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective vo...
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Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts
2021; Vol. 00025
The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the study of written artefacts. This field of study embraces disciplines such as art history, codicology, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography and philology. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without regional, linguistic, temporal or other limitations on the objects studied; it contributes to a larger historical and systematic survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures, and in so doing provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in cultural studies.
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CodicologyContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
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Power and Dysfunction : The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940
Richard Egan;Richard Egan
In 1883, the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with as...
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Power and Dysfunction : The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940
2021
In 1883, the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction – its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state.Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors.When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today.
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Aboriginal Australians--Government policy--Australia--New South Wales--History - Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--Australia--New South Wales--HistoryContent provider:
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Luces en el camino: filosofía y ciencias sociales en tiempos de desconcierto.
Bermúdez Vázquez, Manuel;Bermúdez Vázquez, Manuel
La sociedad contemporánea se enfrenta, parca en ropajes, al vendaval provocado por div...
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Luces en el camino: filosofía y ciencias sociales en tiempos de desconcierto.
2021
La sociedad contemporánea se enfrenta, parca en ropajes, al vendaval provocado por diversas crisis simultáneas: crisis sanitaria, crisis económica, crisis política, crisis educativa, crisis climática, etc. En esta situación, corresponde al mundo de la academia, al ámbito erudito e intelectual el tratar de hacerse valer y demostrar la importancia que tiene para afrontar el desafío del futuro. En la biografía de cualquier persona suele haber alguien que ejerce una influencia benéfica especial.Esos individuos actúan como luces en el camino que orientan en las, a menudo, procelosas situaciones vitales que nos toca vivir. Precisamente eso es lo que nos proponemos en este volumen que, a falta de un término más adecuado, podemos calificar como monumental. Pretendemos ser una luz en el camino del lector que se aproxime a los diversos estudios que se acogen en estas páginas. Aquí se encuentran los resultados de investigaciones muy variopintas que tratan, en la medida de sus posibilidades, de dar respuestas a interrogantes diversos que atañen al quehacer cotidiano, a la forma de entender la vida y la realidad, en definitiva, a la construcción del mundo.
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Nuevos retos y perspectivas de la investigación en literatura, lingüística y traducción.
Flores Borjabad, Salud Adelaida;Pérez Cabana, Rosario;Flores Borjabad, Salu...
En este libro se reúnen reflexiones sobre la lengua en torno a las disciplinas de la l...
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Nuevos retos y perspectivas de la investigación en literatura, lingüística y traducción.
2021; Vol. 00001
En este libro se reúnen reflexiones sobre la lengua en torno a las disciplinas de la literatura, la lingüística y la traducción, espacios interconectados que plantean nuevos retos para su investigación, su cultura y su evolución, encuadradas dentro del pensamiento del ser humano. Para ello, se ha dividido el volumen en cuatro secciones con el fin de analizar los diferentes enfoques de análisis desde un punto de vista científico y metodológico.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
Melanie Nolan;Melanie Nolan
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies...
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
2021; Vol. 00019
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians.The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects.The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender,'the first Australian celebrity to go public'about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991.The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953.Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage.Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology : Established and Emerging
Agnes Boutet;Bernd Schierwater;Agnes Boutet;Bernd Schierwater
The importance of molecular approaches for comparative biology and the rapid developme...
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Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology : Established and Emerging
2021
The importance of molecular approaches for comparative biology and the rapid development of new molecular tools is unprecedented. The extraordinary molecular progress belies the need for understanding the development and basic biology of whole organisms. Vigorous international efforts to train the next-generation of experimental biologists must combine both levels – next generation molecular approaches and traditional organismal biology. This book provides cutting-edge chapters regarding the growing list of marine model organisms. Access to and practical advice on these model organisms have become a conditio sine qua non for a modern education of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs working on marine model systems. Model organisms are not only tools they are also bridges between fields – from behavior, development and physiology to functional genomics. Key Features Offers deep insights into cutting-edge model system science Provides in-depth overviews of all prominent marine model organisms Illustrates challenging experimental approaches to model system research Serves as a reference book also for next-generation functional genomics applications Fills an urgent need for students Related Titles Jarret, R. L. & K. McCluskey, eds. The Biological Resources of Model Organisms (ISBN 978-1-1382-9461-5) Kim, S.-K. Healthcare Using Marine Organisms (ISBN 978-1-1382-9538-4) Mudher, A. & T. Newman, eds. Drosophila: A Toolbox for the Study of Neurodegenerative Disease (ISBN 978-0-4154-1185-1) Green, S. L. The Laboratory Xenopus sp. (ISBN 978-1-4200-9109-0)
