1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456985603321

Autore

Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice <1930->

Titolo

The modern world-system . III The second era of great xxpansion of the capitalist world-economy, 1730's-1840's [[electronic resource] /] / Immanuel Wallerstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-27773-5

9786613277732

0-520-94859-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

Studies in social discontinuity

Disciplina

303.4

330.940253

Soggetti

Capitalism - Europe - History

Economic history - 1600-1750

Economic history - 1750-1918

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE TO THE 2011 EDITION -- 1. INDUSTRY AND BOURGEOISIE -- 2. STRUGGLE IN THE CORE -PHASE III: 1763-1815 -- 3. THE INCORPORATION OF VAST NEW ZONES INTO THE WORLD-ECONOMY: 1750-1850 -- 4. THE SETTLER DECOLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS: 1763-1833 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451709203321

Autore

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Titolo

Lying on the postcolonial couch [[electronic resource] ] : the idea of difference / / Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2002

ISBN

0-8166-9035-9

0-8166-5289-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

302/.17

Soggetti

Apathy - India

Postcolonialism - India

Electronic books.

India Politics and government 1947-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: INTERLOCUTION: THE ARRANGEMENT OF COUCHES; 1. Reading Texts, Resurrecting Cultures: Colonial Poetry in India (1757-1857); 2. The Pedigree of the White Stallion: Postcoloniality and Literary History; 3. Translation as a Speech Act: Twelve Versions of One Subversive Verse; PART II: CIRUMLOCUTION: THE INSTITUTION OF INDIFFERENCE; 4. Glossolalia: The Dissimilar Twins of Language and Literature; 5. Multiculturalism: Other Worlds in Edgar Allan Poe and Satyajit Ray; 6. Colonization: Omeros Sails between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean

PART III: DELOCUTION: THE SACRALIZATION OF SUBJECTS7. Acts of Agency and Acts of God: Postcolonial Narratives of Disaster; 8. The Testament of the Tenth Muse: Toward a Feminist Sensibility; 9. A Fatwa against Indifference?: Of Shamianas, Death, and the Platonic Censors; Postscript; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

"Nair's book gives postcolonialism a decent burial and looks forward to 'a new language of community.' It exposes the 'numbing rituals of colonial and postcolonial indifference' with a light touch, pausing on postmodern theories on the way." -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697535703321

Autore

Aichele Steve S (Stephen Scranton)

Titolo

Effects of urban land-use change on streamflow and water quality in Oakland County, Michigan, 1970-2003, as inferred from urban gradient and temporal analysis [[electronic resource] /] / by Stephen S. Aichele ; in cooperation with Oakland County, Michigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2005

Descrizione fisica

iv, 22 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Scientific investigations report ; ; 2005-5016

Soggetti

Urbanization - Environmental aspects - Michigan - Oakland County

Streamflow - Michigan - Oakland County

Water quality - Michigan - Oakland County

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on Sept. 6, 2005).

At head of title on HTML title screen: USGS Michigan Water Science Center.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-22).