Hating empire properly [[electronic resource] ] : the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment anticolonialism / / Sunil M. Agnani

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463266703321
• Autore: Agnani Sunil M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8232-5215-9; 0-8232-5216-7; 0-8232-5305-8; 0-8232-5181-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 325/.3
• Soggetti: Imperialism - History; Imperialism - Philosophy; 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: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity -- Introduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics -- 1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot’s Thought -- 2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes -- 3 Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest -- 4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity -- 5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke’s Asia Writings -- Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed to be a largely unacknowledged part of the matrix of Enlightenment thought in which eighteenth-century ; European and American self-conceptions evolved. By focusing on colonial spaces of the Enlightenment, especially India and Haiti, he demonstrates how Burke's fearful view of the French Revolution—the defining event of modernity— as shaped by prior reflection on these other domains. Exploring with sympathy the angry outbursts against injustice in the writings of Diderot, he nonetheless challenges recent understandings of him as a univocal critic of empire by showing the persistence of a fantasy of consensual colonialism in his thought. By looking at the impasses and limits in the thought of both radical and conservative writers, Agnani asks what it means to critique empire “properly.” Drawing his method from Theodor Adorno’s quip that “one must have tradition in oneself, in order to hate it properly,” he proposes a critical inhabiting of dominant forms of reason as a way forward for the critique of both empire and Enlightenment.Thus, this volume makes important contributions to political theory, history, literary studies, American studies, and postcolonial studies.

Recent advances in density functional methods . Part III [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Vincenzo Barone, Alessandro Bencini, Piercarlo Fantucci

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458172603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, 2002
• ISBN: 981-277-816-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Collana: Recent advances in computational chemistry ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): BaroneVincenzo; BenciniAlessandro <1951->; FantucciPiercarlo
• Disciplina: 542.85
• Soggetti: Density functionals; Quantum chemistry; Electronic structure; 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: CONTENTS ; Preface ; Theoretical Study of the Transition-Metal Silonyl Complexes M-SiO and M-(SiO)2: M = Cu Ag or Au ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Results and Discussion ; 3 Concluding Remarks ; References; Local Relaxation for Mn2+ and Fe3+ Impurities in Fluoroperovskites: Density Functional Study 1 Introduction ; 2 Theoretical ; 3 Results and discussion ; 4 Acknowledgement ; 5 References; Theoretical Exploration of Single and Multi State Femtosecond Nuclear Dynamics of Small Metallic Clusters Using the DF Method 1 Introduction ; 2 Computational ; 3 Results and Discussion of Dynamics of Li+9 Cluster ; 4 Multi State Dynamics of Ag4- /Ag4/Ag4+ ; 5 Conclusion ; References; Applications of Density Functional Theory in Solid State Chemistry 1 Introduction ; 2 Spin States in Bimetallic Clusters: Effects on Structure and Energetics ; 3 Electronic Structure Magnetic Ordering in BEDT-TTF Charge Transfer Salts ; 3.1 Isolated Molecules ; 3.2 Periodic Systems; 4 Peroxy Species: Environmental and Electron Correlation Effects 4.1 Crystalline Ionic Peroxide Materials ; 4.2 Peroxy Species in Bulk Zeolites and Related Materials ; 5. Conclusion ; 6 Acknowledgements ; References; A Hybrid Functional for the Exchange-Correlation Kernel in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
• Sommario/riassunto: In the last few years, much attention has been given by theoretical chemists to the development of more accurate model functionals and faster computational techniques including excited electronic states. The 8th International Conference on the Applications of Density Functional Theory to Chemistry and Physics, held in Rome, Italy, on 6-10 September 1999, gathered chemists and physicists to present and discuss state-of-the-art methodological developments and applications of density functional theory (DFT) to increasingly complex systems. The scientists shared their knowledge and experience in

Human Oral Mucosa [[electronic resource] ] : Development, Structure and Function

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139647703321
• Autore: Squier Christopher
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2011
• ISBN: 1-118-71047-9; 1-283-17529-0; 9786613175298; 0-470-95972-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BrogdenKim
• Disciplina: 612.3/1; 612.31
• Soggetti: Mouth Mucosa; Oral mucosa; Mouth; Mucous Membrane; Stomatognathic System; Membranes; Tissues; Anatomy; Human Anatomy & Physiology; Health & Biological Sciences; Physiology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Human Oral Mucosa: Development, Structure, and Function; Contents; Preface; 1: The functions of oral mucosa; 1.1 ORAL MUCOSA: WHAT IS IT AND WHAT DOES IT DO ?; 1.2 FUNCTIONS OF THE ORAL MUCOSA; REFERENCES; 2: The organization of oral mucosa; 2.1 CLINICAL FEATURES; 2.2 COMPONENT TISSUES AND GLANDS; REFERENCES; 3: Oral epithelium; 3.1 HISTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ORAL EPITHELIUM; 3.2 EPITHELIAL PROLIFERATION AND TURNOVER; 3.3 MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ORGANIZATION OF ORAL EPITHELIUM; 3.4 NON-; KERATINOCYTES IN THE ORAL EPITHELIUM; REFERENCES; 4: The interface between epithelium and connective tissue; 4.1 ORGANIZATION OF THE NORMAL INTERFACE4.2 IMMUNE-MEDIATED SUBEPITHELIAL BLISTERING DISEASES (IMSEBDS); REFERENCES; 5: Connective tissue; 5.1 LAMINA PROPRIA; 5.2 BLOOD SUPPLY; 5.3 NERVE SUPPLY; REFERENCES; 6: Regional differences in the oral mucosa; 6.1 STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS IN DIFFERENT REGIONS; 6.2 JUNCTIONS IN THE ORAL MUCOSA; REFERENCES; 7: Development and aging of the oral mucosa; 7.1 DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF ORAL MUCOSA; 7.2 THE CONTROL OF MUCOSAL DEVELOPMENT: EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL INTERACTION; 7.3 AGING; REFERENCES; 8: Barrier functions of oral mucosa; 8.1 THE PERMEABILITY BARRIER; 8.2 IMMUNOLOGIC BARRIER FUNCTION OF ORAL MUCOSAREFERENCES; 9: Homologies in structure and function among mucosae: oral, esophageal, and vaginal mucosa; 9.1 ESOPHAGUS; 9.2 VAGINA; 9.3 ORGANIZATION OF THE TISSUES OF ESOPHAGUS AND VAGINA; 9.4 NON-KERATINOCYTES IN ESOPHAGEAL AND VAGINAL MUCOSA; 9.5 INFLAMMATORY CELLS; REFERENCES; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Human Oral Mucosa: Development, Structure and Function is a new text that reflects the considerable increase in knowledge of oral mucosa that has occurred in recent years. Our understanding of the structure of oral mucosa is now established at a molecular rather than a tissue or cellular level. This in turn has revealed a level of function that was previously not suspected, including a sophisticated barrier to the penetration of exogenous materials, and the synthesis of specific antimicrobial compounds, representing components of the innate immune system. There is also a growing realiza