The victors and the vanquished : Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300 / / Brian A. Catlos

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248113503316
• Autore: Catlos Brian A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 0-511-20924-X; 1-107-14593-7; 1-280-54075-3; 0-511-21461-8; 0-511-21640-8; 0-511-21103-1; 0-511-32722-6; 0-511-49642-7; 0-511-21280-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiv, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; ; 4th ser., 59
• Disciplina: 946/.502/0882971
• Soggetti: Christians - Spain - Aragon - History; Muslims - Spain - Aragon - History; Christians - Spain - Catalonia - History; Muslims - Spain - Catalonia - History; Mudéjares; Aragon (Spain) History; Aragon (Spain) Ethnic relations; Catalonia (Spain) History; Catalonia (Spain) Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-438) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pt. I. Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700-1200 -- ; 1. Thaghr and Taifa -- ; 2. Christians and Muslims : contact and conquest -- ; Pt. II. Muslims under Christian rule -- ; 3. financial and judicial administration of Mudejar society -- ; 4. Muslims in the economy of the Christian Ebro -- ; 5. Mudejar ethnicity and Christian society -- ; 6. ; Muslims and Christian society -- Mudejarismo as a social system -- ; Pt. III. Individual and community in the Christian Ebro -- ; Case Study 1. Fiscal and confessional identity : the galips, templar vassals in Zaragoza (1179-1390) -- ; Case Study 2. Franquitas and factionalism in Daroca : the Lucera family vs. the Aljama (1267-1302) -- ; Case Study 3. Litigation and competition within the Muslim community : the Abdellas of Daroca (1280-1310) -- ; Case Study 4. Administrative corruption and royal complicity : Abrahim Abengentor, Caualquem of Huesca (1260-1304) -- ; Case Study 5. Overlapping agendas : the career of Mahomet, Alaminus of Borja (1276-1302) -- ; Case Study 6. good, the bad, and the indifferent : Christian officials in the Ebro region -- Personal histories : the individual, within the community and beyond -- Conclusions : Mudejar ethnogenesis -- ; App. 1. Currency of the thirteenth-century Ebro region -- ; App. 2. Toponymical variants in archival documents -- ; App. 3. Rulers of the "Crown of Aragon," 1050-1300.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the transformation of Islamic society into mudéjar society under Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation, took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and minority-majority relations in general.

How East New York became a ghetto [[electronic resource] /] / Walter Thabit ; with a foreword by Frances Fox Piven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783260003321
• Autore: Thabit Walter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-8147-8436-4; 0-8147-8341-4; 1-4175-8839-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/009747/23
• Soggetti: Minorities - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions - 20th century; African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions - 20th century; Ethnic neighborhoods - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Inner cities - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Urban policy - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Ethnic relations; New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century; New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations
• 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: Welcome to East New York -- The population wave -- The ghettoization of East New York -- Destruction of the "target area" -- The uniformed (and other) services -- The youth of East New York -- Vest pocket planning -- Vest pocket implementation -- The model cities fiasco -- School planning -- East New York under siege -- The FHA scandals -- The community school board disaster -- Rebuilding in East New York -- The hard road to recovery -- Policing the ghetto.
• Sommario/riassunto: In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he ; experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration o