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UNINA9910453784003321 |
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Bersselaar Dmitri van den |
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The king of drinks [[electronic resource] ] : schnapps gin from modernity to tradition / / by Dmitri van den Bersselaar |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
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1-281-93618-9 |
9786611936181 |
90-474-3059-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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African social studies series, , 1568-1203 ; ; v. 18 |
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Gin - Social aspects - Africa, West |
Gin - Africa, West - History |
Gin - Netherlands - History |
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Africa, West Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index. |
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Preliminary material / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter One. Introduction: Foreign imports, local meanings / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter Two. The rise of Gin / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter Three. Becoming the king of drinks / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter Four. ‘Bird Gin’ ANd ‘Money Gin’: Brands and marketing / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter Five. Poison or medicine? Changing perceptions of dutch gin / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter Six. ‘Your very good health!’ Gin for an independent west Africa / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Chapter Seven. Schnapps gin from modernity to tradition / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Bibliography / D. Van Den Bersselaar -- Index / D. Van Den Bersselaar. |
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Imported schnapps gin has a remarkable history in West Africa. Gin was imported in great quantities between 1880 and World War I, when its consumption showed access to the modern, international world. Subsequently schnapps was transformed into a good that signified traditional, local culture. Today, imported schnapps has high status because of its importance for African ritual and as symbol of the status |
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of chiefs and elders, but actual consumption is limited. This book explores this unexpected trajectory of commoditisation to investigate how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. This analysis of consumption and marketing of gin contributes to our understanding of patterns of consumption, rejection and appropriation within processes of identity formation, elite formation, and the redefinition of community in colonial and postcolonial West Africa. |
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UNINA9910451704203321 |
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Autore |
Rodríguez-Hernández Raúl |
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Mexico's ruins [[electronic resource] ] : Juan García Ponce and the writing of modernity / / Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
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0-7914-8082-8 |
1-4294-7123-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture |
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Literature and society - Mexico |
Politics and society - Mexico |
Electronic books. |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index. |
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Traces of theory, tropes of modernity -- The storyteller's ruins -- Monuments and relics, I -- Monuments and relics, II -- De ánima, de corpore : the ruins of the bourgeois world -- Modernity, contingency, compensation -- A brief return to the ruin. |
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UNINA9910454089003321 |
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Autore |
Mileham Rebecca |
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Titolo |
Powering up [[electronic resource] ] : are computer games changing our lives? / / Rebecca Mileham |
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Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley/Dana Centre, c2008 |
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1-282-34266-5 |
9786612342660 |
0-470-71207-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Science Museum TechKnow Series ; ; v.1 |
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Disciplina |
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Computer games - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Powering Up Are Computer Games Changing Our Lives?; Contents; Introduction; 1: Can Computer Games Affect Your Health?; 2: Can Computer Games Change the Way You Think?; 3: Can Computer Games Change Who You Are?; 4: Can Computer Games Turn You into an Addict?; 5: Can Computer Games Make You Violent?; 6: Can Computer Games Change the Way You Learn?; 7: Can Computer Games Change Your Beliefs?; 8: Can Computer Games Change Your Future?; Index |
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When it comes to computer games, the numbers are astounding: the world's top professional gamer has won over half a million dollars shooting virtual monsters on-screen; online games claim literally millions of subscribers; while worldwide spending on computer gaming will top £24 billion by 2011. From techno-toddlers to silver surfers, everyone's playing games on their PCs, Wiis, Xboxes and phones. How are we responding to this onslaught of brain-training, entertaining, potentially addicting, time-consuming, myth-spawning games? In Powering Up, Rebecca Mileham looks at the facts behind the he |
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