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Everyday life in Southeast Asia

Table of Contents: “…Fluid personhood : conceptualizing -- pt. 2. Family, households, and livelihoods -- pt. 3. Crafting the nation-state -- pt. 4. …”
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The big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / by Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.…”
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The Jeffersons at Shadwell by Kern, Susan (Susan A.)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The house: the material world of the Jeffersons at Shadwell -- The household: making women's work apparent -- The home quarter : material culture and status -- The field quarters: slave life and field work -- Plantation business: Peter Jefferson at home -- The colony's business: Peter Jefferson's vantage -- The intangible legacies: creating and keeping family history -- Thomas Jefferson's Shadwell stories: family and slavery.…”
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Women at work in the Deuteronomistic history / by Garcia Bachmann, Mercedes L.

Table of Contents: “…An overview of female labor in the Hebrew Bible --The challenge of studying working women -- Standing on the shoulders of our predecessors -- Society's conditions affecting women's lives in ancient Israel -- Female slaves and dependents, literal and ideological, in Israel -- Hide and seek: miscellaneous women -- Female workers related to the royal household -- Prostitutes or "sex workers" -- Reassessing the social location of female in DtrH.…”
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Nurturing the nation the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / by Pollard, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…My house and yours -- Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationhood -- Inside Egypt -- The harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian landscape -- Domesticating Egypt -- The gendered politics of the British occupation -- The home, the schoolroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism -- Table talk, or the home economics of nationhood -- The household on display -- The family politics of the 1919 revolution -- Gender and the birth of the modern Egyptian nation-state.…”
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The birth of modern Europe culture and economy, 1400-1800 : essays in honor of Jan de Vries /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jan de Vries and his contributions / Joel Mokyr -- The birth of modern Europe : determining the margins of the work of Jan de Vries / Laura Cruz -- The tobacco nation : English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650 / Wim Klooster -- The market for architecture in Holland, 1500-1815 / Maarten Prak -- From shelf to maps : reconstructing bookselling networks in the seventeenth century Netherlands / Laura Cruz -- Hoare's Bank in the eighteenth century / Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth -- Modest households and globally traded textiles : evidence from Amsterdam household inventories / Anne E. …”
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The birth of modern Europe culture and economy, 1400-1800 : essays in honor of Jan de Vries /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jan de Vries and his contributions / Joel Mokyr -- The birth of modern Europe : determining the margins of the work of Jan de Vries / Laura Cruz -- The tobacco nation : English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650 / Wim Klooster -- The market for architecture in Holland, 1500-1815 / Maarten Prak -- From shelf to maps : reconstructing bookselling networks in the seventeenth century Netherlands / Laura Cruz -- Hoare's Bank in the eighteenth century / Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth -- Modest households and globally traded textiles : evidence from Amsterdam household inventories / Anne E. …”
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State of the world's cities. 2008/2009 : harmonious cities.

Table of Contents: “…The spatial distribution of the world's cities -- Urban growth patterns -- Which cities are growing and why -- Shrinking cities -- Why urban inequality matters -- Urban inequalities: regional trends -- Education, employment and city size -- Slums: the good, the bad and the ugly -- Slum cities and cities with slums -- Urban environmental risks and burdens -- Cities and climate change -- Cities at risk from rising sea levels -- Energy consumption in cities -- Urban energy consumption at the household level -- Urban mobility -- Inclusive urban planning for harmonious urban development -- Building bridges: social capital and urban harmony -- Unifying the divided city -- Addressing rural-urban disparities for harmonious regional development -- Metropolitan governance: governing in a city of cities.…”

Managing human resources in China the view from inside multinationals / by Zheng, Yu

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: economic transition, multinational corporations (MNCs) and employment practices at workplace level in China -- MNCs and management space: a framework to study subsidiary HRM -- Doing case studies with mixed research methods -- Multinationals in China: an overview -- Household white goods manufacturing plants: targeting an emerging consumer market -- Synthetic fibre manufacturing plants: developing a regional production base -- Management learning, strategic repositioning and power struggles: dynamics in developing subsidiary HRM -- Conclusion.…”
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State of the world's cities. 2008/2009 : harmonious cities.

Table of Contents: “…The spatial distribution of the world's cities -- Urban growth patterns -- Which cities are growing and why -- Shrinking cities -- Why urban inequality matters -- Urban inequalities: regional trends -- Education, employment and city size -- Slums: the good, the bad and the ugly -- Slum cities and cities with slums -- Urban environmental risks and burdens -- Cities and climate change -- Cities at risk from rising sea levels -- Energy consumption in cities -- Urban energy consumption at the household level -- Urban mobility -- Inclusive urban planning for harmonious urban development -- Building bridges: social capital and urban harmony -- Unifying the divided city -- Addressing rural-urban disparities for harmonious regional development -- Metropolitan governance: governing in a city of cities.…”

Managing human resources in China the view from inside multinationals / by Zheng, Yu

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: economic transition, multinational corporations (MNCs) and employment practices at workplace level in China -- MNCs and management space: a framework to study subsidiary HRM -- Doing case studies with mixed research methods -- Multinationals in China: an overview -- Household white goods manufacturing plants: targeting an emerging consumer market -- Synthetic fibre manufacturing plants: developing a regional production base -- Management learning, strategic repositioning and power struggles: dynamics in developing subsidiary HRM -- Conclusion.…”
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Quest for harmony the Moso traditions of sexual union and family life / by Shih, Chuan-kang

Table of Contents: “…The people and their history -- Political structure and cultural environment of traditional Moso society -- Tisese: the primary pattern of institutionalized sexual union -- Marriage: the secondary pattern of institutionalized sexual union -- Matrilineal descent and matrilineal ideology -- The Moso social organization: the domestic group and the descent group -- Navigating through the web of social relations -- Household life among the Moso -- The unusual Moso gender system -- Religions and rituals among the Moso.…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Widows and the literary imagination -- Subjects of counsel -- Objects of desire -- Sex in the city -- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete) -- Master and mistress of the household -- Father and mother of their children -- A widow's work is never done -- Worthy recipients and pious donors -- Widowhood, poverty, and charity -- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space -- Coda. …”
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The nature and culture of rattan : reflections on vanishing life in the forests of Southeast Asia / by Siebert, Stephen F. (Stephen Frederic), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Rattan and a changing world -- The ecology, diversity, and climbing prowess of rattan -- Historical and current uses of rattan -- Forest communities and rattan management -- From forest to furniture boutique -- Rattan and household livelihood -- The history of a Sulawesi rattan village -- Cane gathering : nuisances, risks, and pain -- Sustainable harvesting : a local view -- Rattan cultivation : rich history, uncertain future -- Rattan, religion, and family planning.…”
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Refrigeration nation : a history of ice, appliances, and enterprise in America / by Rees, Jonathan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Early Days of Electric Household Refrigeration -- The Completion of the Modern Cold Chain, 1930-Present -- Conclusion: Refrigeration, Capitalism and the Environment.…”
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Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden / by Ochsenschlager, Edward L.

Table of Contents: “…In the Garden of Eden -- The people of Al-Hiba -- Ways and means -- Mud household utensils and storage containers -- Mud musical instruments, toys, jewelry, and ammunition -- Mud architecture and ancillary structures -- Baked pottery -- Mats, baskets, and other objects made of reeds and rushes -- Reed architecture -- Wood, boats, and bitumen -- Bovine husbandry -- Sheep -- Village weavers -- The photographs of John Henry Haynes -- Death under glass.…”
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Quest for harmony the Moso traditions of sexual union and family life / by Shih, Chuan-kang

Table of Contents: “…The people and their history -- Political structure and cultural environment of traditional Moso society -- Tisese: the primary pattern of institutionalized sexual union -- Marriage: the secondary pattern of institutionalized sexual union -- Matrilineal descent and matrilineal ideology -- The Moso social organization: the domestic group and the descent group -- Navigating through the web of social relations -- Household life among the Moso -- The unusual Moso gender system -- Religions and rituals among the Moso.…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Widows and the literary imagination -- Subjects of counsel -- Objects of desire -- Sex in the city -- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete) -- Master and mistress of the household -- Father and mother of their children -- A widow's work is never done -- Worthy recipients and pious donors -- Widowhood, poverty, and charity -- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space -- Coda. …”
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The nature and culture of rattan : reflections on vanishing life in the forests of Southeast Asia / by Siebert, Stephen F. (Stephen Frederic), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Rattan and a changing world -- The ecology, diversity, and climbing prowess of rattan -- Historical and current uses of rattan -- Forest communities and rattan management -- From forest to furniture boutique -- Rattan and household livelihood -- The history of a Sulawesi rattan village -- Cane gathering : nuisances, risks, and pain -- Sustainable harvesting : a local view -- Rattan cultivation : rich history, uncertain future -- Rattan, religion, and family planning.…”
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Refrigeration nation : a history of ice, appliances, and enterprise in America / by Rees, Jonathan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Early Days of Electric Household Refrigeration -- The Completion of the Modern Cold Chain, 1930-Present -- Conclusion: Refrigeration, Capitalism and the Environment.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view