1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780924203321

Autore

Duara Prasenjit

Titolo

Rescuing history from the nation [[electronic resource] ] : questioning narratives of modern China / / Prasenjit Duara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1996, c1995

ISBN

1-282-42631-1

9786612426315

0-226-16723-2

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

951.0072

951/.072

Soggetti

Civilization, Oriental

China History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One -- Part Two -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts. The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels. In a series of closely linked case studies, he considers such examples as the very different histories produced by Chinese nationalist reformers and partisans of popular religions, the conflicting narratives of statist nationalists and of advocates of federalism in early twentieth-century China. He demonstrates the necessity of incorporating contestation,



appropriation, repression, and the return of the repressed subject into any account of the past that will be meaningful to the present. Duara demonstrates how to write histories that resist being pressed into the service of the national subject in its progress-or stalled progress-toward modernity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254581003321

Autore

Prodan Emil

Titolo

A computational non-commutative geometry program for disordered topological insulators / / by Emil Prodan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-55023-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 118 p. 19 illus. in color.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, , 2197-1757 ; ; 23

Disciplina

512.4

Soggetti

Physics

Mathematical physics

Condensed matter

K-theory

Functional analysis

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Mathematical Physics

Condensed Matter Physics

K-Theory

Functional Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Disordered Topological Insulators: A Brief Introduction -- Homogeneous Materials -- Homogeneous Disordered Crystals -- Classification of Homogenous Disordered Crystals -- Electron Dynamics: Concrete Physical Models -- Notations and Conventions -- Physical Models -- Disorder Regimes -- Topological Invariants -- The Non-Commutative Brillouin Torus -- Disorder Configurations and



Associated Dynamical Systems -- The Algebra of Covariant Physical Observables -- Fourier Calculus -- Differential Calculus -- Smooth Sub-Algebra -- Sobolev Spaces -- Magnetic Derivations -- Physics Formulas -- The Auxiliary C*-Algebras -- Periodic Disorder Configurations -- The Periodic Approximating Algebra -- Finite-Volume Disorder Configurations -- The Finite-Volume Approximating Algebra -- Approximate Differential Calculus -- Bloch Algebras -- Canonical Finite-Volume Algorithm -- General Picture -- Explicit Computer Implementation -- Error Bounds for Smooth Correlations -- Assumptions -- First Round of Approximations -- Second Round of Approximations -- Overall Error Bounds -- Applications: Transport Coefficients at Finite Temperature -- The Non-Commutative Kubo Formula -- The Integer Quantum Hall Effect -- Chern Insulators -- Error Bounds for Non-Smooth Correlations -- The Aizenman-Molchanov Bound -- Assumptions -- Derivation of Error Bounds -- Applications II: Topological Invariants -- Class AIII in d = 1 -- Class A in d = 2 -- Class AIII in d = 3 -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This work presents a computational program based on the principles of non-commutative geometry and showcases several applications to topological insulators. Noncommutative geometry has been originally proposed by Jean Bellissard as a theoretical framework for the investigation of homogeneous condensed matter systems. Recently, this approach has been successfully applied to topological insulators, where it facilitated many rigorous results concerning the stability of the topological invariants against disorder. In the first part of the book the notion of a homogeneous material is introduced and the class of disordered crystals defined together with the classification table, which conjectures all topological phases from this class. The manuscript continues with a discussion of electrons’ dynamics in disordered crystals and the theory of topological invariants in the presence of strong disorder is briefly reviewed. It is shown how all this can be captured in the language of noncommutative geometry using the concept of non-commutative Brillouin torus, and a list of known formulas for various physical response functions is presented. In the second part, auxiliary algebras are introduced and a canonical finite-volume approximation of the non-commutative Brillouin torus is developed. Explicit numerical algorithms for computing generic correlation functions are discussed. In the third part upper bounds on the numerical errors are derived and it is proved that the canonical-finite volume approximation converges extremely fast to the thermodynamic limit. Convergence tests and various applications concludes the presentation. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in numerical and mathematical physics.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910892220903321

Titolo

Art east/central : art, architecture and design in east central Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brno, : Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, 2021-

ISSN

2695-1428

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

KUNST

Disciplina

700

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

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