1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459839203321

Autore

Abbas Tahir <1970-, >

Titolo

Islamic radicalism and multicultural politics : the British experience / / Tahir Abbas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-10588-8

9786613105882

1-136-95960-2

0-203-85004-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

320.5/570941

Soggetti

Muslims - Great Britain - Politics and government

Muslims - Great Britain - Ethnic identity

Muslims - Great Britain - Social conditions

Islamic renewal - Great Britain

Islamic fundamentalism - Great Britain

Radicalism - Great Britain

Islam - Great Britain - Public opinion

Public opinion - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain Politics and government 2007-

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

From the historical to the contemporary -- Islamic political radicalism: origins and destinations -- Post-war immigration: ethnicity, identity and spatiality -- The formation of Muslim capital: education, employment and entrepreneurialism -- Neo-orientalism and Islamophobia: the media and print news -- The political philosophy of multiculturalism and the "modern Muslim" -- Islamist identity politics in the context of globalisation -- Muslims, crime, terror and the law -- British Islam tomorrow and the battle ahead.

Sommario/riassunto

The expression of an Islamic political radicalism in Britain has been one of the most dramatic developments in recent decades. Islamic



Radicalism and Multicultural Politics explores the nature of this phenomenon by analysing the origins of Islam and its historical contact with Western Europe and Britain, and the emergence of Islamic political radicalism in the Muslim world and in the West. Tahir Abbas draws on historical analysis and contemporary case studies to explore the post-war immigration and integration of Muslim groups, the complex relations that exist between

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789967503321

Autore

Jones Richard <1969->

Titolo

Manure matters [[electronic resource] ] : historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives / / edited by Richard Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2012

ISBN

1-317-10111-1

1-315-59374-2

1-317-10110-3

1-280-57079-2

9786613600394

1-4094-4556-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesRichard <1969->

Disciplina

630.9

Soggetti

Agriculture, Prehistoric

Manures - History

Archaeology

Ethnoarchaeology

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric

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

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Why Manure Matters; 2 Science and Practice: The Ecology of Manure in Historical Retrospect; 3 Middening and Manuring in Neolithic Europe; 4 (Re)cycles of Life in Late Bronze Age Southern Britain; 5 Organic Geochemical Signatures of Ancient Manure Use; 7 Manure and Middens



in English Place-Names; 8 The Formation of Anthropogenic Soils Across Three Marginal Landscapes; 9 Zibl and Zira'a: Coming to Terms with Manure in Arab Agriculture; 10 Understanding Medieval Manure

11 Lost Souls: Ethnographic Observations on Manuring Practices in a Mediterranean Community12 Manure, Soil and the Vedic Literature; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In pre-industrial societies in which the majority of the population lived directly off the land, few issues were more important than the maintenance of soil fertility. Manure really mattered, as without access to biodegradable wastes from production processes or to synthetic agrochemicals, early farmers continuously developed strategies aimed at adding nutritional value to their fields using locally available natural materials. In this book, international scholars working on social, cultural, and economic issues relating to past manure and manuring, use textual, linguistic, archaeological, sci