1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450100303321

Autore

Cooper Frederick <1947->

Titolo

Colonialism in question [[electronic resource] ] : theory, knowledge, history / / Frederick Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-44575-8

9786612445750

0-520-93861-5

1-59875-524-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

325.6

Soggetti

Decolonization - Africa - Historiography

Imperialism - Historiography

Decolonization - Historiography

Electronic books.

Africa Colonization Historiography

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. 243-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : colonial questions, historical trajectories -- The rise, fall, and rise of colonial studies, 1951/2001 -- Identity / with Rogers Brubaker -- Globalization -- Modernity -- States, empires, and political imagination -- Labor, politics, and the end of empire in French Africa -- Colonialism, history, politics.

Sommario/riassunto

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960's and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently



argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalism-including citizenship and equality-were defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466794003316

Autore

Katsuragi Hiroaki

Titolo

Physics of Soft Impact and Cratering [[electronic resource] /] / by Hiroaki Katsuragi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

4-431-55648-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 307 p. 90 illus., 34 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 910

Disciplina

530.416

Soggetti

Amorphous substances

Complex fluids

Planetology

Geophysics

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics

Geophysics and Environmental Physics

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Scaling and dimensional analysis -- Constitutive laws -- Soft drag force -- Morphology of planetary impact craters -- Soft impact cratering -- Grains and dust dynamics -- Perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the impact dynamics and cratering of soft matter to describe its importance, difficulty, and wide applicability to planetary-related problems. A comprehensive introduction to the dimensional analysis and constitutive laws that are necessary to discuss impact mechanics and cratering is first provided. Then, particular coverage is given to the impact of granular matter, which is one of the most crucial constituents for geophysics. While granular matter shows



both solid-like and fluid-like behaviors, neither solid nor fluid dynamics is sufficient to fully understand the physics of granular matter. In order to reveal its fundamental properties, extensive impact tests have been carried out recently. The author reveals the findings of these recent studies as well as what remains unsolved in terms of impact dynamics. Impact crater morphology with various soft matter impacts also is discussed intensively. Various experimental and observational results up to the recent Itokawa asteroid’s terrain and nanocrater are reviewed and explained mainly by dimensional analysis. The author discusses perspectives of the relation between soft matter physics and planetary science, because it is an important step towards unifying physics  and planetary science, in both of which fields crater morphology has been studied independently.