1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457524503321

Autore

Atzili Boaz

Titolo

Good fences, bad neighbors [[electronic resource] ] : border fixity and international conflict / / Boaz Atzili

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-34476-9

9786613344762

0-226-03137-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Boundaries - Political aspects

Nation-building

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

The theory and practice of borders -- Which wars make the state and which states make war -- Preconditions to state building: making the case for comparison -- State building and state weakness before border fixity: Brandenburg-Prussia, Argentina, and Poland-Lithuania -- State building and state weakness in a fixed-borders world: Lebanon, Congo and Israel -- State weakness and international conflict in a fixed-borders world.

Sommario/riassunto

Border fixity-the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory-has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relations. Yet, in a world in which it is unacceptable to challenge international borders by force, sociopolitically weak states remain a significant source of widespread conflict, war, and instability. In this book, Boaz Atzili argues that the process of state building has long been influenced by external territorial pressures and competition, with the absence of border fixity contributing to the evolution of strong states-and its presence to the survival of weak ones. What results from this norm, he argues, are conditions that make internal conflict and the spillover of interstate war



more likely. Using a comparison of historical and contemporary case studies, Atzili sheds light on the relationship between state weakness and conflict. His argument that under some circumstances an international norm that was established to preserve the peace may actually create conditions that are ripe for war is sure to generate debate and shed light on the dynamics of continuing conflict in the twenty-first century.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459985803321

Autore

Bernkopfová Michala

Titolo

La identidad cultural de los Nahuas de la Sierra Nororiental de Puebla y la influencia de la Union de Cooperativas Tosepan / / Michala Bernkopfova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Praga : , : Universidad Carolina de Praga, Editorial Karolinum, , 2014

ISBN

80-246-2492-3

Edizione

[First edición.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Ibero-Americana Pragensia. Supplementum ; ; 34

Disciplina

305.800972

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Mexico Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461775403321

Autore

Pendle Karin <1939-, >

Titolo

Women in music : a research and information guide / / Karin Pendle and Melinda Boyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-53300-6

9786613845450

0-203-89120-1

1-135-84814-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (869 p.)

Collana

Routledge music bibliographies

Altri autori (Persone)

BoydMelinda

Disciplina

016.78082

780.82

Soggetti

Women musicians

Feminism and music

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

WOMEN IN MUSIC: A RESEARCH AND INFORMATION GUIDE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Authors of Annotations; List of Abbreviations; 1 Reference Works; 2 Music Histories of Women; 3 Collections of Essays; 4 Feminist Methods and Viewpoints in Music; 5 Issues of Sexuality; 6 Music Education and Training; 7 Careers in Music; 8 Women's Financial Support of Music and Musicians; 9 Historical Periods; Ancient Times; The Middle Ages; The Early Modern Period; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth Century; 10 Ethnomusicology; 11 Countries and Geographical Areas; Afghanistan; Africa; Albania; Algeria

ArgentinaAustralia/New Zealand; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bali; The Balkans; Brazil; Canada; The Caribbean; Chile; China; Colombia; Corsica; Cuba; Ecuador; Egypt; England; Estonia; Ethiopia; Europe; Fiji; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Guatemala; Gulf States; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Java; Kenya; Korea; Latin America; Liberia; Malawi; Malaysia; Mali; Malta; Mexico; The Middle East; Morocco; Nepal; The Netherlands; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Romania; Russia; Scandinavia; Scotland;



Solomon Islands; South Africa; Spain

Sri LankaSudan; Sweden; Taiwan; Thailand; Tonga; Trinidad; Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; The United States: General; The United States: African American; The United States/Canada: Native Americans/First Nations; Venezuela; Vietnam; Zanzibar; Zimbabwe; 12 Music for Stage and Film; 13 Women in Rock and Pop; 14 Women in Blues and Jazz; 15 Women in Country, Folk, and Gospel; 16 Individuals; 17 Two or More Individuals; Index of Names; Index of Authors, Editors, and Translators; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455256503321

Autore

Halbertal Moshe

Titolo

Concealment and revelation [[electronic resource] ] : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / / Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N. J., : Princeton University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-15918-6

9786612159183

1-4008-2796-5

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FeldmanJackie

Disciplina

296.7/12

Soggetti

Mysticism - Judaism

Cabala - History

Judaism - History - Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789

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

The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a coded fashion that has come to be regarded by many as the very essence of esotericism. Concealment and Revelation takes us on a fascinating journey to the depths of the esoteric imagination. Carefully tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, Moshe Halbertal's richly detailed historical and cultural analysis gradually builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a masterful phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. Among the questions addressed: What are the internal justifications that esoteric traditions provide for their own existence, especially in the Jewish world, in which the spread of knowledge was of great importance? How do esoteric teachings coexist with the revealed tradition, and what is the relationship between the various esoteric teachings that compete with that revealed tradition? Halbertal concludes that, through the medium of the concealed, Jewish thinkers integrated into the heart of the Jewish tradition diverse cultural influences such as Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, and Hermeticisims. And the creation of an added concealed layer, unregulated and open-ended, became the source of the most daring and radical interpretations of the tradition.