Domestic violence in postcommunist states [[electronic resource] ] : local activism, national policies, and global forces / / edited by Katalin Fábián

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458103003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-97569-2; 9786612975691; 0-253-00473-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FábiánKatalin
• Disciplina: 362.8292091717
• Soggetti: Family violence - Europe; Family violence - Asia; Post-communism - Europe; Post-communism - Asia; Electronic books.
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the politics of domestic violence in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia / Katalin Fábián -- Transnational advocacy campaigns and domestic violence prevention in Ukraine / Alexandra Hrycak -- Global feminism, foreign funding, and Russian writing about domestic violence / Janet Elise Johnson and Gulnara Zaynullina -- Balancing acts : women's NGOs combating domestic violence in Kazakhstan / Edward Snajdr -- From Soviet liberation to post-Soviet segregation : women and violence in Tajikistan / Muborak Sharipova and Katalin Fábián -- The politics of awareness : making domestic violence visible in Poland / Thomas Chivens -- Domestic violence against women : when practice creates legislation in Slovenia / Sonja Robnik -- Reframing domestic violence : global networks and local activism in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe / Katalin Fábián -- The new wave : how transnational feminist networks promote domestic violence reform in postcommunist Europe / Laura Brunell and Janet Elise Johnson -- The European Union, transnational advocacy, and ; violence against women in postcommunist states / Celeste Montoya -- The promise and perils of international treaties / Olga Avdeyeva.

Trade and empire in Muscat and Zanzibar : roots of British domination / / M. Reda Bhacker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779817103321
• Autore: Bhacker M. Reda (Mohamed Reda), <1955, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• ISBN: 1-134-89554-2; 1-134-89555-0; 1-280-32243-8; 0-203-41033-5; 0-203-32032-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Collana: Exeter Arabic and Islamic series
• Disciplina: 337.4105353; 953.53
• Soggetti: Business enterprises - Oman; Oman Commerce History; Oman Foreign economic relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign economic relations Oman
• 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 (p. [247]-269) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa; Oman's links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives; Migrations and the interaction of commerce and religion in Omani and Swahili cultures; The prominence of the Banyans in Indian Ocean commerce; The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers; The emergence of Muscat as a political-commercial centre; Developments in Omani and Indian Ocean commerce by the turn of the nineteenth centuryThe emergence of British policy towards Oman: 1798 1804; The 1798 Treaty between Oman and Britain: origins and consequences; The Wahhabis and the beginnings of Muscat's reliance ; on Britain; British policy towards Oman under the first Wahhabi threat: 1804 14; The rise and early struggles of Said b Sultan (r. 1806 56); The Albusaidi move to Zanzibar: exercise in empire building or survival?; Commercial, political and strategic attractions of East Africa; Said b Sultan's relationship with merchants from India; The commercial potential and opposition to Said b SultanThe suppression of Omani interests in the Gulf and the Albusaidi move to Zanzibar; Said b Sultan's move to Zanzibar: a new interpretation; The development of Omani commerce and British reaction; The re-emergence of British policy towards Oman: post-1833; The 1833 Omani-American Treaty: catalyst for change of British policy; The British role in the resolution of the Albusaidi-Mazrui conflict; The 'Omani' and the 'Indian' roles in the nineteenth-century commercial expansion; Role of Muscat in the rise of Zanzibar; Muscat and Zanzibar: the resurgence of the Omani economyBeginnings of the integration of Muscat and Zanzibar into the world economy; Expansion of the Omani entrept and agricultural economy; Internal and external factors in the subjugation of Oman; Commercial and political rivalry and British encroachments in East Africa; The consolidation of British authority in the Gulf; British encroachments in East Africa; The subordination of Muscat's rulers and their associates from India; British consul's exploitation of the nationality question and the antislavery crusade; The subjugation of the 'Indians'Post-1856 succession dispute and British intervention; The British role in the dismemberment of Oman; Conclusion; Appendices; Said b Sultan's 1844 letter to Aberdeen; Said b Sultan's will, 1850; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: M. Reda Bhacker looks at the role of Oman in the Indian Ocean prior to British domination of the region. Omani merchant communities played a crucial part in the development of commercial activity throughout the territories they held in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially between Muscat and Zanzibar, using long established trade networks. They were also largely responsible for the integration of the commerce of the Indian Ocean into the nascent global capitalist system.The author, himself a member of an important Omani merchant family, looks in detail at the complex re

Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel Hurewitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786713603321
• Autore: Hurewitz Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-36055-8; 9786612360558; 0-520-94169-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.4/94053
• Soggetti: Cultural pluralism - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century; Artists - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century; Political activists - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century; Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century; Edendale (Los Angeles, Calif.) Politics and government 20th century; Edendale (Los Angeles, Calif.) Intellectual life 20th century; Edendale (Los Angeles, Calif.) Social conditions 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) Intellectual life 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century
• 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 (p. 283-341) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Traversing the Hills of Edendale -- Prologue: A World Left Behind -- 1. "A Most Lascivious Picture of Impatient Desire" -- 2. Together against the World: Self, Community, and Expression among the Artists of Edendale -- 3. 1930's Containment: Identity by State Dictate -- 4. Left of Edendale: The Deep Politics of Communist Community -- 5. The United Nations in a City: Racial Ideas in Edendale, on the Left, and in Wartime Los Angeles -- 6. Getting Some Identity: Mattachine and the Politics of Sexual Identity Construction -- Conclusion: The Struggle of Identity Politics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten ; milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. In this vividly written narrative, he discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations. Bohemian Los Angeles, incorporating fascinating oral histories, personal letters, police records, and rare photographs, shifts our focus from gay and bohemian New York to the west coast with significant implications for twentieth-century U.S. history and politics.