1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458054303321

Autore

Dadush Uri B

Titolo

Juggernaut [[electronic resource] ] : how emerging markets are reshaping globalization / / Uri Dadush and William Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2011

ISBN

1-283-84711-6

0-87003-343-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 257 p. ; ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

ShawWilliam <1953->

Disciplina

337.091724

Soggetti

International economic relations

Globalization - Economic aspects

Globalization - Political aspects

International trade - History - 21st century

International finance - History - 21st century

Economic history - 21st century

Economic forecasting

Electronic books.

Developing countries Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Juggernaut, Uri Dadush and William Shaw explore the major trends associated with the rise of developing countries, including increased manufacturing, expansion in world trade, and, ultimately, improved living and working conditions, as well as the broad challenges those trends pose.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457570703321

Autore

Darnell Regna

Titolo

And along came Boas [[electronic resource] ] : continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology / / Regna Darnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1998

ISBN

1-283-31224-7

9786613312242

90-272-7560-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 86

Disciplina

301/.0973

Soggetti

Anthropology - United States - History - 20th century

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

AND ALONG CAME BOAS: CONTINUITY AND REVOLUTION IN AMERICANIST ANTHROPOLOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Frontispiece; Preface; Introduction: Continuities Across Scientific Revolutions; I. The Bureau of American Ethnology; Chapter 1. The Development of Professional Anthropology in America; Chapter 2. Government-Sponsored Science; Chapter 3. Constraints of Government Anthropology; Chapter 4. 'The Mapping of North America'; Chapter 5. ""Organizing Anthropological Research in America""; II. The Development of Institutional Alternatives

Chapter 6. Early Attempts at University AnthropologyChapter 7. The Tradition of Museum Research; Chapter 8. Uneasy Institutional Cooperation; Chapter 9. Boasian University Programs; III. Continued Mapping of North America; Chapter 10. Boas and the Bureau of American Ethnology; Chapter 11. Mapping the Languages of California; Chapter 12. Revising the Linguistic Classification; IV. Boasian Hegemony Consolidated; Chapter 13. Formalizations in the Face of Opposition; Chapter 14. Articulating the Boasian Paradigm; List of Illustrations; Illustration Credits; List of Figures; References

Index of Biographical NamesIndex of Subjects and Terms



Sommario/riassunto

The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward Sapir was among the most distinguished. Virtually all of the classic Boasians were at least part-time linguists alongside their ethnological work. During the crucial transitional period beginning with the founding of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879, there were as many continuities as discont