1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450509403321

Titolo

China's provinces in reform : class, community, and political culture / / edited by David S.G. Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

0-203-44539-2

1-134-71271-5

0-585-44796-9

1-280-31854-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodmanDavid S. G

Disciplina

306.2/0951

Soggetti

State governments - China

Political culture - China - Provinces

Community life - China - Provinces

Social classes - China - Provinces

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; China in reform: the view from the provinces; Guangxi: towards Southwest China and Southeast Asia; Hainan: communal politics and the struggle for identity; Liaoning: struggling with the burdens of the past; Shandong: the political economy of development and inequality; Shanghai: an alternative centre?; Sichuan: disadvantage and mismanagement in the Heavenly Kingdom; Zhejiang: paradoxes of restoration, reinvigoration and renewal; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the impact of social and political change on China's provinces during the reform era. Offering an in-depth comparative analysis of a number of major provinces, it challenges generalizations over the nature of change in China



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784148803321

Autore

Hanlon Gregory <1953->

Titolo

Human nature in rural Tuscany : an early modern history / / Gregory Hanlon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36164-X

9786611361648

0-230-60303-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 218 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Collana

Italian and Italian American studies

Disciplina

306.09045509032

Soggetti

Sociology, Rural - Italy - Tuscany - History - 17th century

Human beings - Animal nature

Tuscany (Italy) Social conditions 17th century

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

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Measures and Values; Introduction; 1 Governance; 2 Cooperation; 3 Competition; 4 Reproduction; 5 Invention; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.