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Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal...
by Diana Alarcon, Professor Rob Vos
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Available technology and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and ecological destruction. Business as usual is not an option. There is an urgent need to find a new development...
by Professor Peter N. Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. In Debating the Industrial Revolution, Peter N. Stearns, a leading expert in world history, presents the major contours of the ongoing debates over industrialization...
Contingent Citizens
Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa's public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an ethnography of the professional ethic of nurses in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, shaped by a deep history of mission...
World Anthropologies in Practice
Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well as differences of perspective to help...
The Industrial Revolution
The State, Knowledge and Global Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to understand the foundation of this process.
In...
The Netflix Effect
Technology and Entertainment in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a successful business model, and in the process it changed how consumers access film and television. It is now one of the leading providers of digitally delivered media content...
Eurafrica
The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to understand how the global has been conceived historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intellectual endeavor and political project that from the 1920s saw Europe's future survival - its continued role in history - as completely bound up...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
How might we reinvent the humanities? This is the question at the heart of this provocative volume. It is a difficult mission and definitely one which needs to be addressed with increasing urgency. There is no better cast to confront and problematize this question than the contributors to Conflicting...
by Gurminder K. Bhambra
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series.
Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and...
Successful School Leadership
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Successful School Leadership identifies the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school organizations. Edited by Petros Pashiardis and Olof Johansson, chapters explore the similarities and differences...
New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education
Developing Character through a Virtue Ethics Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education explores how to approach young children's moral education in a world of uncertainty and change.
What is moral education? How do young children learn to act and interact appropriately? How do we enable children to recognise that how they act...
Disposable Passions
Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s "porno chic,†? adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the...
Remaking Cities
An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented...