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UNINA9910456639303321 |
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Besnier Niko |
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On the edge of the global [[electronic resource] ] : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation / / Niko Besnier |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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East-West Center Series on Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific |
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Culture and globalization - Tonga |
Electronic books. |
Tonga Social life and customs |
Tonga Civilization |
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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 and index. |
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Contents; Figures, Tables, Charts, and Maps; Note on Tongan Orthography and Transcription Conventions; Preface; 1. Straddling the Edge of the Global; 2. Tonga's Modernity; 3. Consumption and Cosmopolitanism; 4. When Gifts Become Commodities; 5. Modern Bodies on the Runway; 6. Coloring and Straightening; 7. Shaping the Modern Body; 8. Reconfiguring the Modern Christian; Conclusion: Sites of Modernity; Notes; References; Index |
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Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of ""progress"" and ""development""-and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them-have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity me |
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UNINA9910787064903321 |
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Autore |
James D. Clayton |
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America and the Great War, 1914-1920 / / D. Clayton James, Anne Sharp Wells |
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Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 1998 |
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1998 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (140 p.) |
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Collana |
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World War, 1914-1918 - United States |
World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - United States |
United States Politics and government 1913-1921 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-112) and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: The Tangled Paths to Horror in Europe; Bloodbaths But No Decision; A Time of Many Excitements; America Enters the War; CHAPTER TWO: Over There; In Come the Yanks; Emergence of the Citizen-Soldier; CHAPTER THREE: Nineteen Months of Progress on the Home Front; Agencies of War; Life on the Home Front; Progressivism and Politics; CHAPTER FOUR: The Final Wilson Years; Retreat from Global Responsibility; End of an Era; Bibliographical Essay; Index |
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In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis. A forthright examination of America''s unprecedented military commitment and actions abroad, America and the Great War includes insights into the personalities of key Allied officers and civilian leaders as well as the evolution of the new American ""citizen soldier."" Full coverage is given to Presiden |
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