1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452295103321

Autore

Amsden Alice H (Alice Hoffenberg)

Titolo

Escape from empire [[electronic resource] ] : the developing world's journey through heaven and hell / / Alice H. Amsden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-09899-3

0-262-26711-X

9786612098994

1-4294-7707-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

337.730172/4

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Developing countries Foreign economic relations United States

United States Foreign economic relations Developing countries

Developing countries Economic conditions

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 (p. [177]-186) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Escape from Empire, Alice Amsden argues that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow. America's recent inflexibility - as it has single-mindedly imposed the same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing economies under its influence - has been the backdrop to the rise of two new giants, China and India, who have built economic power in their own way.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790878803321

Autore

Burns Lorna

Titolo

Contemporary Caribbean writing and Deleuze : literature between postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy / Lorna Burns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, 2012

ISBN

1-4725-4235-5

1-4411-1746-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies

Disciplina

809/.89729

Soggetti

Caribbean literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Postcolonialism in literature

Continental philosophy

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

Introduction: How newness enters the world -- Surrealism and the Caribbean: a curious line of resemblance -- Writing back to the colonial event: Derek Walcott and Wilson Harris -- Edouard Glissant's poetics of the chaosmos -- Postcolonial literature as health: Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson

Introduction: How Newness Enters the World -- 1. Surrealism and the Caribbean: a Curious Line of Resemblance -- 2. Writing Back to the Colonial Event: Derek Walcott and Wilson Harris -- 3. Édouard Glissant's Poetics of the Chaosmos -- 4. Postcolonial Literature as Health: Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. Uniting for the first time two



major schools of contemporary thought - postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized. Drawing from Deleuze's writings on Bergson, Nietzsche and Spinoza, this study interrogates the postcolonial tropes of newness, becoming, relationality and a philosophical concept of immanence that lie at the heart of a little-observed dialogue between contemporary Caribbean writers and Deleuze

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910723700503321

Autore

Yannakakis Yanna

Titolo

Since Time Immemorial : Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico / / Yanna Yannakakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2023

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2023]

ISBN

1-4780-9357-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Classificazione

HIS025000SOC002010SOC062000

Disciplina

347.72/0108997

Soggetti

Customary law courts - Mexico - History

Indians of Mexico - Legal status, laws, etc - History

Indians of Mexico - Politics and government

Justice, Administration of - Mexico - History

HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries -- 1 Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World -- 2 Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca -- Part II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present Sixteenth through Seventeenth Centuries -- 3 Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom -- 4 The Old



Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors -- Part III. Custom in Oaxaca's Courts of First Instance Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries -- 5 Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands -- 6 Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor -- 7 Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Native and Spanish Jurisdictions -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines how, in the hands of Native litigants, the European category of custom-social practice that through time takes on the normative power of law-acquired local meaning and changed over time. Yannakakis analyzes sources ranging from missionary and Inquisition records to Native pictorial histories, royal surveys, and Spanish and Native-language court and notarial documents. By encompassing historical actors who have been traditionally marginalized from legal histories and highlighting spaces outside the courts like Native communities, parishes, and missionary schools, she shows how imperial legal orders were not just imposed from above but also built on the ground through translation and implementation of legal concepts and procedures. Yannakakis argues that, ultimately, Indigenous claims to custom, which on the surface aimed to conserve the past, provided a means to contend with historical change and produce new rights for the future.