Search Results - "Competition"

Advertising Progress : American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / by Laird, Pamela Walker, 1947-

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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…Exogenous Shocks on the Eve of the Millennium -- Abdullah Öcalan: The Role of the PKK Leader in Shaping Kurdish Politics -- The EU Factor: Turkey's Membership Process and De-Securitization -- Changing International Political Environment -- The Rise of the AKP: Radical Shifts in Turkish Politics -- 4. Civic Competition and Conflict Transformation -- Emerging Arenas of Competition in the Kurdish Civic Sphere -- Arenas of Competition and Strategy-Making -- 5. …”
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Novel Professions : Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel / by Ruth, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Between labor and capital : Charlotte Brontë's The professor -- Becoming professional : time in David Copperfield -- The professional paradox : competitive examinations and Anthony Trollope's The three clerks -- Deprofessionalized critics in the twenty-first century.…”
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Spatial Revolution : Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union / by Crawford, Christina E.

Table of Contents: “…Socialism means housing -- From garden cites to urban superblocks -- A plan for the proletariat -- The great debate -- Competition and visions -- Frankfurt on the steppe -- From tractors to territory -- Socialist urbanization through standardization.…”
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The Currency of Empire : Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America / by Barth, Jonathan, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in English America, 1675- -- Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680- -- Revolutions of 1685- -- Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s -- The grand settlement.…”
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Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard : Illinoi, 1870-1917 / by Hannah, Eleanor L.

Table of Contents: “…Illinois militia revival in the 1870s -- Manhood and citizenship on display -- Confused missions: the first twenty years of strike duty, 1870-90 -- New training practices, drill competitions, and the rise of sharpshooting -- Death, manhood, and service in the Spanish American war -- Lessons learned: the ING and strike duty, 1894-1916 -- The pursuit of state and federal support.…”
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Migraine : A History / by Foxhall, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…-- The "beating of hammers" : classical and medieval approaches to hemicrania -- "Take housleeke, and garden wormes" : migraine medicine in the early modern household -- A "deadly tormenting megrym" : expanding markets and changing meanings -- "The pain was very much relieved and she slept" : gender and patienthood in the nineteenth-century -- "As sharp as if drawn with compasses" : Victorian vision, men of science and the making of modern migraine -- "A shower of phosphenes" : twentieth-century stories and the medical uses of history -- "Happy hunting ground" : conceptual fragmentation and medication in the -- Twentieth century -- "If I could harness pain" : the migraine art competitions, 1980-7.…”
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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Heaton -- 7 Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda: Shane Doyle -- 8 Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika: Michael Jennings -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3) -- 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49) -- 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69) -- 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91) -- 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118) -- 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151) -- Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190) -- Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201) -- Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217) -- Notes (starting p. 233) -- Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273) -- Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277) -- Index (starting p. 285)…”
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While Waiting for Rain : Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change / by Schlegel, John Henry

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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 /

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The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / by Bivona, Daniel, Henkle, Roger B.

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Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World : Case Studies 1950-2010 /

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Transforming Markets : A Development Bank for the 21st Century. A History of the EBRD, Volume 2 / by Kilpatrick, Andrew

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Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies : Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business / by Heinrich, Thomas R., 1963-

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