1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996204166803316

Autore

Winkelmann Mareike Jule

Titolo

'From behind the curtain' : a study of girls' madrasa in India / / Mareike Jule Winkelmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-97908-2

9786611979089

90-485-0441-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

ISIM dissertations

Disciplina

297

Soggetti

Madrasahs - India - History

Women - Education - India - History

Islamic education - India - History

Electronic books.

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. 159-172).

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Ch.1: Introduction; Ch.2: Discussing girls' madrasas: absences and appearances; Ch.3: The 'men behind the curtain' and the tablighi link; Ch.4: Curriculum and learning; Ch.5: Female authority and the public; Ch.6: Girls' madrasas revisited

Sommario/riassunto

This study investigates how madrasas for girls emerged in India, how they differ from madrasas for boys, and how female students come to interpret Islam through the teachings they receive in these schools.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298470503321

Autore

Grinin Leonid

Titolo

Great Divergence and Great Convergence : A Global Perspective / / by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-17780-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice, , 2625-6983

Disciplina

304.6

330

337

339.5

Soggetti

International economic relations

Demography

Population

Population - Economic aspects

International Economics

Population and Demography

Population Economics

International Political Economy’

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. And yet the Twain Meet: Great Convergence brings the East closer to the West -- Great Divergence and the Rise of the West -- Great Convergence and the Rise of the Rest -- The Great Convergence and Globalization: How the Former Colo-nies Became the World Economic Locomotives -- Afterword. The Great Convergence and Possible Increase in Global Instability, or the World without an Absolute Leader.

Sommario/riassunto

This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace



the early dominance of Asia--in historical context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the recent economic and technological expansion taking place in Third World nations and characterized by narrowing inequity among nations. They are seen here as two phases of an inevitable global process, centuries in the making, with the potential for both positive and negative results.   This sophisticated presentation examines:   Why the developing world is growing more rapidly than the developed world. How this development began occurring under the Western world's radar. How former colonies of major powers grew to drive the world's economy. Why so many Western economists have been slow to recognize the Great Convergence. The increasing risk of geopolitical instability. Why the world is likely to find itself without an absolute leader after the end of the American hegemony   A work of rare scope, Great Divergence and Great Convergence gives sociologists, global economists, demographers, and global historians a deeper understanding of the broader movement of social and economic history, combined with a long view of history as it is currently being made; it also offers some thrilling forecasts for global development in the forthcoming decades.