Search Results - "local history"

Palestinian village histories geographies of the displaced / by Davis, Rochelle

Table of Contents: “…Geographies of dispossession -- Village books : local histories, national struggles -- Village history and village values -- Writing a history, defining a past -- The authority of memory -- Mapping the past : the village landscape -- Identities and history -- Conclusion : connecting geographies of dispossession.…”
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history authority, diaspora, tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Boustan -- Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe -- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz -- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel -- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. …”
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Landscapes of struggle : politics, society, and community in El Salvador /

Table of Contents: “…Local history, politics, and the state in El Salvador / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford -- Section one: linking the local with the national--prewar Salvadoran history reconsidered. …”
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history authority, diaspora, tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Boustan -- Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe -- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz -- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel -- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. …”
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Landscapes of struggle : politics, society, and community in El Salvador /

Table of Contents: “…Local history, politics, and the state in El Salvador / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford -- Section one: linking the local with the national--prewar Salvadoran history reconsidered. …”
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China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / by Anderson, James, 1963-, Whitmore, John K.

Table of Contents: “…Shaping the southern frontier -- Imperial ideal compromised: northern and southern courts across the new frontier in the early yuan era / Sun Laichen -- Northern relations for dai viet: china policy in the age of Le Thanh Tong (r. 1460-1497) / John Whitmore -- Projecting legitimacy in Ming native domains / Joseph Dennis -- Royal refuge and heterodoxy: the Vietnamese Mac Clan in Great Qing's southern frontier, 1677-1730 / Alexander On -- The rule of ritual: crimes and justice in Qing-Vietnamese relations during the Qianlong Period (1736-1796) / Jaymin Kim -- Volatile allies: two cases of powerbrokers in the nineteenth century Vietnamese-Chinese borderlands / Bradley Davis -- Depicting life in the twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan borderlands: local histories and modernities in the career and photography of Zhuang Xueben (1909-1984) / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa -- From land to water: fixing fluid frontiers and the politics of lines in the South China/Eastern Sea / Kenneth MacLean -- Asymmetric structure and culture in China's relations with its southern neighbors / Brantly Womack.…”
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China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / by Anderson, James, 1963-, Whitmore, John K.

Table of Contents: “…Shaping the southern frontier -- Imperial ideal compromised: northern and southern courts across the new frontier in the early yuan era / Sun Laichen -- Northern relations for dai viet: china policy in the age of Le Thanh Tong (r. 1460-1497) / John Whitmore -- Projecting legitimacy in Ming native domains / Joseph Dennis -- Royal refuge and heterodoxy: the Vietnamese Mac Clan in Great Qing's southern frontier, 1677-1730 / Alexander On -- The rule of ritual: crimes and justice in Qing-Vietnamese relations during the Qianlong Period (1736-1796) / Jaymin Kim -- Volatile allies: two cases of powerbrokers in the nineteenth century Vietnamese-Chinese borderlands / Bradley Davis -- Depicting life in the twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan borderlands: local histories and modernities in the career and photography of Zhuang Xueben (1909-1984) / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa -- From land to water: fixing fluid frontiers and the politics of lines in the South China/Eastern Sea / Kenneth MacLean -- Asymmetric structure and culture in China's relations with its southern neighbors / Brantly Womack.…”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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Urban politics and space in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries regional perspectives /

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Urban politics and space in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries regional perspectives /

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Designing healthy communities by Jackson, Richard, 1945-

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Designing healthy communities by Jackson, Richard, 1945-

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New Horizons in Spanish Colonial Law : Contributions to Transnational Early Modern Legal History /

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New Horizons in Spanish Colonial Law : Contributions to Transnational Early Modern Legal History /

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