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UNINA9910454477603321 |
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Mosse David |
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Cultivating development [[electronic resource] ] : an ethnography of aid policy and practice / / David Mosse |
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London ; ; Ann Arbor, MI, : Pluto Press, 2005 |
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1-78371-364-X |
1-84964-123-4 |
1-281-72513-7 |
9786611725136 |
1-4356-6100-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Disciplina |
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Economic assistance - Political aspects |
Economic assistance - Social aspects |
Economic assistance, British - India |
Economic development - Sociological aspects |
Rural development projects - India |
Rural development - Sociological aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-305) and index. |
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Introduction : the ethnography of policy and practice -- Framing a participatory development project -- Tribal livelihoods and the development frontier -- The goddess and the PRA : local knowledge and planning -- Implementation : regime and relationships -- Consultant knowledge -- The social production of development success -- Aid policy and project failure -- Aspirations for development -- Conclusions and implications. |
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UNINA9910449977003321 |
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Holloway Steven W (Steven Winford), <1955-> |
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Aššur is king! Aššur is king! [[electronic resource] ] : religion in the exercise of power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / / by Steven W. Holloway |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2002 |
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1-280-46647-2 |
9786610466474 |
1-4175-9092-0 |
90-474-0122-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (628 pages) |
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East, , 1566-2055 ; ; v. 10 |
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Religion and state - Assyria |
Assyro-Babylonian religion |
Electronic books. |
Assyria Foreign relations |
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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. [445]-501) and indexes. |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Textual Abbreviations; Other Abbreviations and Symbols; Excavation, Collection, and Museum Sigla; Chapter One: Historical Perspectives, History of Scholarship and the Scholars' Histories Assyrian Religious Imperialism in Greek and Biblical Sources; Chapter Two: Terror in the Exercise of Empire: Coercion and Conformity; Chapter Three: Diplomacy in the Exercise of Empire: High Finance Patronage and High Profile Manipulation |
Chapter Four: Analysis of the Exercise of Empire: The Organs of Assyrian Imperialism and Regional StrategiesAppendix One: Prelude to the Intellectual and Social Background of the First British School of Assyriology; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Divine Names; Index of Personal Names; Index of Place Names; Index of General Subjects; Index of Temple Names; Index of Text and Object Citations; Maps and Illustrations |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism was expressed by punitive |
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measures such as "godnapping", and by the geographical focus and extent of the material support the Assyrians lavished on favored polities. This work is devoted to Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism. |
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