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UNINA9910779183503321 |
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Titolo |
Two Mediterranean worlds : diverging paths of globalization and autonomy / / edited by Yassine Essid and William D. Coleman ; translated by Käthe Roth |
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Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 419 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Globalization and autonomy series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EssidYassine |
ColemanWilliam D |
RothKäthe |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Globalization - Mediterranean Region |
Autonomy - Mediterranean Region |
Mediterranean Region Economic conditions 1945- |
Mediterranean Region Intellectual life |
Mediterranean Region Politics and government 1945- |
Mediterranean Region Social conditions 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: Deux Méditerranées : les voies de la mondialisation et de l'autonomie. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Adapting and integrating : governing in globalization -- pt. 2. Globalization in the great texts -- pt. 3. Religions and globalization -- pt. 4. Cultural autonomy : music and food -- pt. 5. Cultural autonomy : languages and education -- pt. 6. Globalization and autonomy : the economic question. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Globalization includes complex processes, easy to identify but difficult to explain. Why, for instance, are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who struggle daily to atain the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized |
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