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Alternative Economies and Spaces
The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprise…
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Architectural History and Globalized Knowledge Gottfried Semper in London
Gottfried Semper’s years in exile in London (1850–1855) were a time of highly inspirational experiences. The London of the first World Expo offered the German architect an immense trove of objects for study and an intellectual surrounding that provided seminal impulses for his innovative cultural-history-based theory of architecture. That revolutionary period found not only politics and soc…
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- 978-3-85676-409-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down = Revolutions and Labour Relations in Glo…
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions; - the long-term impact of revolut…
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- '9789004440395
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- 348 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 41
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Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to th…
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gaine…
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- 9789004362871
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- 408 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Library of the Written Word, Volume: 66 Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 66
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The Tale of a Feud = Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the…
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- 9789004546998
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- 344 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road
What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divi…
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- 978-90-04-46437-7
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- Prognostication in History, Volume: 7
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New Music and Institutional Critique
While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s institutions, their critique, and their transformations. For scholars, leaders, a…
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Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early …
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Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico : Translation, Edition, and Introduction
Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico is a revelatory document of the depths and stakes of French social thought at the end of the 19th century. What brought Sorel to the 18th century Neapolitan theorist of history? Acute awareness of the limitations of Marxist thought in his day, a profound concern with the material underpinnings of language, law, and culture, and the imperative to understand the po…
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- 978-90-04-41633-8
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- viii, 162pp
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- Radboud Studies in Humanities, Volume: 10
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Social Innovations in the Urban Context
Buku ini membahas praktik inovasi sosial, yang saat ini sangat menarik perhatian publik. Ide-ide dan pendekatan baru diperlukan untuk mengatasi masalah-masalah besar yang sedang dihadapi oleh masyarakat kontemporer. Terutama di masa krisis ekonomi, inovasi sosial dianggap sebagai salah satu elemen penting yang diperlukan untuk melangkah maju. Pengetahuan kita tentang dinamikanya telah berkemban…
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- 978-3-319-21550-1
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- online resource ( XIII, 313 Pages)
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- Studi Lembaga Nirlaba dan Masyarakat Sipil
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