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City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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A Nation on the Line : Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines / by Padios, Jan M., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Listening between the lines: relational labor, productive intimacy, and the affective contradictions of call center work -- Contesting skill and value: race, gender, and Filipino/American relatability in the neoliberal nation-state -- Inside Vox Elite: call center training and the limits of Filipino/American relatability -- Service with a style: aesthetic pleasures, productive youth, and the politics of consumption -- Queering the call center: sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, and the crisis of (re)production.…”
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Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets / by Schoenman, Roger

Table of Contents: “…When uncertainty increases cooperation; 5. Tracing elite career networks -- Part IV. Bringing It Together: 6. …”
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City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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A Nation on the Line : Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines / by Padios, Jan M., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Listening between the lines: relational labor, productive intimacy, and the affective contradictions of call center work -- Contesting skill and value: race, gender, and Filipino/American relatability in the neoliberal nation-state -- Inside Vox Elite: call center training and the limits of Filipino/American relatability -- Service with a style: aesthetic pleasures, productive youth, and the politics of consumption -- Queering the call center: sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, and the crisis of (re)production.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Social Theory of Fear Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World / by Skoll, Geoffrey R.

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A Journey to Inner Africa / by Kovalevskīĭ, E. P. (Egor Petrovich), 1811-1868

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Social Theory of Fear Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World / by Skoll, Geoffrey R.

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A Journey to Inner Africa / by Kovalevskīĭ, E. P. (Egor Petrovich), 1811-1868

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Civil-military relations in today's China swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…Social trends in China : implications for the Pople's Liberation Army / Tony Saich -- The impact of social changes on the PLA : a Chinese military perspective / Xiaobing Li -- The new military elite : generational profile and contradictory trends / Cheng Li -- The fourth-generation leaders and the new military elite / Yu bin -- The PLA and the provinces : military district and local issues / Zhiyue Bo -- The political implications of PLA professionalism / Lyman Miller -- Unravelling the myths about political commissars / You Ji -- Searching for a twenty-first-century officer corps / Thomas J. …”
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Civil-military relations in today's China swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…Social trends in China : implications for the Pople's Liberation Army / Tony Saich -- The impact of social changes on the PLA : a Chinese military perspective / Xiaobing Li -- The new military elite : generational profile and contradictory trends / Cheng Li -- The fourth-generation leaders and the new military elite / Yu bin -- The PLA and the provinces : military district and local issues / Zhiyue Bo -- The political implications of PLA professionalism / Lyman Miller -- Unravelling the myths about political commissars / You Ji -- Searching for a twenty-first-century officer corps / Thomas J. …”
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Archie Mafeje scholar, activist and thinker / by Nabudere, D. Wadada

Table of Contents: “…-- Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations -- The critique of anthropology and alterity -- The study of rural African society -- Culture as the 'missing link' in African development -- The issue of 'social formations' of African society -- Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production -- The African post-colonial states and the African political elite -- Mafeje and African philosophy -- The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations' -- Mafeje - the South African radical -- Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines -- Conclusion.…”
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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.…”
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Archie Mafeje scholar, activist and thinker / by Nabudere, D. Wadada

Table of Contents: “…-- Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations -- The critique of anthropology and alterity -- The study of rural African society -- Culture as the 'missing link' in African development -- The issue of 'social formations' of African society -- Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production -- The African post-colonial states and the African political elite -- Mafeje and African philosophy -- The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations' -- Mafeje - the South African radical -- Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines -- Conclusion.…”
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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.…”
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Fractured rebellion the Beijing Red Guard movement / by Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Beijing Red Guards : an introduction -- The assault on power structures : work teams in the universities -- The genesis of division : sources of opposition and conflict -- Divided at birth : the university Red Guards -- Class and violence : the high-school Red Guards -- Radicals with patrons : the rise of the rebels -- Dissent and its suppression : challenging the Maoist elite -- Factions reborn : networks at cross-purposes -- Endgame : fighting not to lose -- Hierarchy and rebellion : reflections on the Red Guards -- Glossary of names -- Beijing Red Guard chronology -- Work-team case histories.…”
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Fractured rebellion the Beijing Red Guard movement / by Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Beijing Red Guards : an introduction -- The assault on power structures : work teams in the universities -- The genesis of division : sources of opposition and conflict -- Divided at birth : the university Red Guards -- Class and violence : the high-school Red Guards -- Radicals with patrons : the rise of the rebels -- Dissent and its suppression : challenging the Maoist elite -- Factions reborn : networks at cross-purposes -- Endgame : fighting not to lose -- Hierarchy and rebellion : reflections on the Red Guards -- Glossary of names -- Beijing Red Guard chronology -- Work-team case histories.…”
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Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Parkinson -- Spirit of place: Minoan houses as major actors / Jan Driessen -- Making elites: political economy and elite culture(s) in middle Minoan Crete / Ilse Schoep -- From the kinship economy to the palatial economy: the Argolid in the second millennium BC / Sofia Voutsaki -- Political economies in ritual: a comparative study of the rise of the state in pre- and protopalatial Knossos and Phaistos / Joanne M.A. …”
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