Search Results - Imperialism.

Faulkner and whiteness

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: situating whiteness in Faulkner studies, situating Faulkner in whiteness studies / Jay Watson -- Negotiating the marble bonds of whiteness: hybridity and imperial impulse in Faulkner / Taylor Hagood -- Genealogies of white deviance: the eugenic family studies, Buck v. …”
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Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 /

Table of Contents: “…Literacy and orality -- Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor -- Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II -- Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo -- The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet -- Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers -- Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.…”
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Across the margins cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago /

Table of Contents: “…Theorising identities across the Atlantic Archipelago: Ireland, verses, Scotland : crossing the (English) language barrier / Willy Maley ; 'A warmer memory' : speaking of Ireland / Colin Graham ; 'Where do you belong?' : De-scribing imperial identity from alien to migrant / Peter Childs ; Gender and nation : debatable lands and passable boundaries / Aileen Christianson ; The union and jack : British masculinities, pomophobia, and the post-nation / Berthold Schoene -- pt. …”
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Practicing materiality /

Table of Contents: “…Quotidian agency and imperial agendas : a study of Andean middle horizon Huamanga ceramics / Brittany Fullen -- Chapter 6. …”
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Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers /

Table of Contents: “…The history of ethnic identity -- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung -- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan -- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud -- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers /

Table of Contents: “…The history of ethnic identity -- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung -- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan -- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud -- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Contested commonwealths essays in American history / by Pencak, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The Knowles Riot and the crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts (with John Lax) -- Metropolitan Boston before the American Revolution : an urban interpretation of the imperial crisis (with Ralph J. Crandall) -- The social structure of revolutionary Boston : evidence from the Great Fire of 1760 -- Play as prelude to revolution : Boston, 1765-1776 -- "The fine theoretic government of Massachusetts is prostrated to the earth" : the response to Shays's Rebellion reconsidered -- Politics and ideology in eighteenth-century almanacs : Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard and Nathanael Ames, Sr.'…”
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Wine, terroir and utopia / by Dutton, Jacqueline, Howland, Peter, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Making new worlds : the utopian potentials of wine and terroir -- The four pillars of utopian wine : terroir, viticulture, degustation, and cellars -- To wash away a British stain : class, trans-imperialism and Australian wine imaginary -- Liberty and order : wine and the South Australian project -- Burgundy's climats and the utopian wine heritage landscape -- Inventing tradition and terroir : the case of Champagne in the late nineteenth century -- Terroir wines in Champagne : between ideology and utopia -- Ecotopian mobilities : terroir driven tourism and migration in British Columbia, Canada -- Certified utopia : ethical branding and the wine industry of South Africa -- The commercial basis of terroir utopias in Calabria -- Ideals for sustainability in the Australian wine industry : authenticity and identity -- Utopia regained : nature and the taste of terroir -- Utopia is just up the road and toward the past : young Australian winemakers return to ancient methods -- Deep terroir as utopia : explorations of place and country in Southeastern Australia -- Plain-sight utopia : boutique winemakers, urbane vineyards and terroir-torial moorings.…”
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Edges of transatlantic commerce in the long eighteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Religion, sexuality, and antislavery resistance : the Hart sisters and Mary Prince in the Atlantic world / Jamie Rosenthal -- A cure, both for soul and body : transculturation in Robinson Crusoe's tobacco application / Corey Goergen -- One man's trash is another man's treasure : counterfeit coins and imperial commerce in 1770s Jamaica / David Mazella -- Currency, credit, and trust : naval victualing at the Cape Colony, 1795-1815 / Elizabeth C. …”
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Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…International University Rankings as Cultural Imperialism: Implications for the Global South / Marion Lloyd and Imanol Ordorika -- Unfolding National Approaches to University Rankings in Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America / Creso M. …”
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Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…From Greek into Arabic -- The Rhetoric in the Commentary Tradition of Averroes -- Ch. 3. Imperial Grammars: The Rhetoric of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Discourse -- Sir William Jones's A Grammar of the Persian Language -- Nathaniel Halhed's A Grammar of the Bengal Language -- Duncan Forbes's A Grammar of the Hindustani Language -- Ch. 4. …”
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Slavery & South Asian history

Table of Contents: “…Renewed and connected histories : slavery and the historiography of South Asia / Indrani Chatterjee -- War, servitude, and the Imperial household : a study of palace women in the Chola Empire / Daud Ali -- Turkish slaves on Islam's Indian frontier / Peter Jackson -- Service, status, and military slavery in the Delhi Sultanate : thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The rise and fall of military slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650 / Richard M. …”
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Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…International University Rankings as Cultural Imperialism: Implications for the Global South / Marion Lloyd and Imanol Ordorika -- Unfolding National Approaches to University Rankings in Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America / Creso M. …”
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A predictable tragedy Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe / by Compagnon, Daniel

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Isaiah Shembe's prophetic uhlanga : the worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in colonial South Africa / by Tishken, Joel E., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization and missionization in eastern South Africa, 1820s-1930s -- A brief history of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- African responses to imperialism: historiography and theory of colonial Africa -- Shembe's prophetic response to colonialism. …”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Power, politics and exclusion in organisation and management /

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Happiness in world history / by Stearns, Peter N.

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Outcasts of Empire : Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945 / by Barclay, Paul D., 1964-

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Negotiating the Christian Past in China : Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen / by Liu, Jifeng

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