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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-73533-0
EAN 9780674735330
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire recovers the stories of five Indian Muslim scholars who, in the aftermath of the uprising of 1857, were hunted by British authorities, fled their homes in India for such destinations as Cairo, Mecca, and Istanbul, and became active participants in a flourishing pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96767-0
EAN 9780674967670
When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo's aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph.Parks Coble recaptures the experiences of China's war correspondents during the Sino-Japanese War ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50423-3
EAN 9780674504233
Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women's intellectual equality to men.The era of the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74397-7
EAN 9780674743977
Abraham Drassinower presents a new way to balance the needs of creators and users of authored works. Disentangling copyright theory from its focus on the economic value of a work as a commodity, he views a work instead as a communicative act. Infringement, according to this perspective, is an unauthorized appropriation of another's speech.Copyright law, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-02515-8
EAN 9780674025158
For more than a decade the Mexico City-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes has been turning existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through collective imagination. By breaking open failed models and retooling them with space to project alternatives, Reyes's art enables productive diversions of otherwise destructive forces. Ad Usum, To ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50429-5
EAN 9780674504295
Joseph R. Dennis demonstrates the significance of imperial Chinese local gazetteers in both local societies and national discourses. Whereas previous studies argued that publishing, and thus cultural and intellectual power, were concentrated in the southeast, Dennis shows that publishing and book ownership were widely dispersed throughout China.This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73691-7
EAN 9780674736917
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-42506-4
EAN 9780674425064
World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe's lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50385-4
EAN 9780674503854
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for "Oriental goods" took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
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ISBN 978-0-674-50386-1
EAN 9780674503861
The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50387-8
EAN 9780674503878
Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.
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Gerard, Emmanuel; Kuklick, Bruce
Death in the Congo
Murdering Patrice Lumumba
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 35,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72527-0
EAN 9780674725270
More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people-black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American-bear responsibility for this crime.Death in the Congo is a gripping ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-43457-8
EAN 9780674434578
What is utopia if not a perfect world, impossible to achieve? Anahid Nersessian reveals a basic misunderstanding lurking behind that ideal. In Utopia, Limited she enlists William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to redefine utopianism as a positive investment in limitations. Linking the ecological imperative to live within our means to the aesthetic ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96759-5
EAN 9780674967595
Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wünschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96764-9
EAN 9780674967649
Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative-a prism for understanding the modern world.Napoleon's campaigns ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-18746-7
EAN 9780674187467
A widely-accepted explanation for India's national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement-poet-saints singing bhakti from India's southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.India celebrates itself as a nation of unity ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74396-0
EAN 9780674743960
Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today. In a lucid and wide-ranging analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered the stakes and the contours of the politics of difference: the return of inequality ...
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Conrad, Clifton / Gasman, Marybeth
Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions
- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-73680-1
EAN 9780674736801
In an increasingly diverse United States, minority and low-income students of all ages struggle to fit into mainstream colleges and universities that cater predominantly to middle-income and affluent white students fresh out of high school. Anchored in a study conducted at twelve minority-serving institutions (MSIs), Educating a Diverse Nation turns a spotlight on the challenges ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74388-5
EAN 9780674743885
Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor compare banking systems in the U.S. and UK to those of Canada and Australia and explain why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Canadian and Australian banks were able to make profits through traditional lending practices, unlike their competition-driven, risk-taking U.S. and UK counterparts.This account of ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-36812-5
EAN 9780674368125
Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 during the American Civil ...
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