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UNINA9910459839203321 |
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Abbas Tahir <1970-, > |
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Islamic radicalism and multicultural politics : the British experience / / Tahir Abbas |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-283-10588-8 |
9786613105882 |
1-136-95960-2 |
0-203-85004-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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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- |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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The expression of an Islamic political radicalism in Britain has been one of the most dramatic developments in recent decades. Islamic |
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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 |
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UNINA9910789967503321 |
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Jones Richard <1969-> |
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Manure matters [[electronic resource] ] : historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives / / edited by Richard Jones |
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Farnham Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2012 |
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1-317-10111-1 |
1-315-59374-2 |
1-317-10110-3 |
1-280-57079-2 |
9786613600394 |
1-4094-4556-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Agriculture, Prehistoric |
Manures - History |
Archaeology |
Ethnoarchaeology |
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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