1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782733403321

Autore

Baker Patrick L

Titolo

Centring the periphery [[electronic resource] ] : chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica / / Patrick L. Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-7735-6439-X

Descrizione fisica

xx, 251 p. : ill

Disciplina

972.9841

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General

Dominica History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Maps -- Preface -- Theoretical Questions -- Indigenous Peoples and Their Contact Experience -- European Discovery and Settlement -- Formal Colonization: British Annexation, French Conquest, and Slave Revolts -- Slavery and Emancipation -- A Dominican Peasantry -- The Rise of the Mulatto Élite -- Capitalizing a Subsistence Economy -- Democracy: Bringing Decision Making Home -- Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Years Later: Independence? -- Some Additional Facts on Dominica -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The concept of "centring" is used to mean "ordering the world," and Baker links this to ideas in chaos theory, which views order and disorder as mutually generative phenomena rather than static antinomies. Thus strategies to control disorder and create and maintain order may suddenly precipitate change. Baker's application of these theories to an island nation that has received little detailed attention in the past makes this a highly original work, as does his holistic, post-modern perspective. In addition to presenting a sensitive historical analysis, he confronts the dilemma of meaning in peripheral situations and the experience of dependency in the world system. Centring the Periphery is germane to understanding the majority of the world's people and makes a significant contribution to the study of society in developing nations.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00132322

Autore

Mafrica, Antonella

Titolo

Lattività edilizia libera : guida agli interventi edilizi eseguibili senza titoli abilitativi, aggiornato al glossario dell'attività edilizia libera (d.m. 2 marzo 2018) / Antonella Mafrica, Mario Petrulli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

58 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN

88-916287-4-9

Edizione

[Santarcangelo di Romagna : Maggioli]

Descrizione fisica

Formato Ebook.

Altri autori (Persone)

Petrulli, Mario

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia