1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450333003321

Autore

Mitchell Timothy

Titolo

Rule of Experts [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002

ISBN

0-520-92825-3

1-59734-880-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Disciplina

330.1220962

338.962

Soggetti

Egypt-- Economic policy

Peasantry

Peasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; I. PARA-SITES OF CAPITALISM; 1. Can the Mosquito Speak?; 2. Principles True in Every Country; 3. The Character of Calculability; II. PEASANT STUDIES; 4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant; 5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man; 6. Heritage and Violence; III. FIXING THE ECONOMY; 7. The Object of Development; 8. The Market's Place; 9. Dreamland; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807183303321

Autore

Magocsi Paul R.

Titolo

The roots of Ukrainian nationalism : Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont / / Paul Robert Magocsi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-8225-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

947.79

Soggetti

Nationalism - Ukraine, Western - History

History

Electronic books.

Galicia, Eastern (Ukraine) History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Text in English and Ukrainian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, APPENDICES, AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- MAPS -- 1 Galicia: A Brief Historical Survey -- 2 The Ukrainian National Revival: A New Analytical Framework -- 3 A Subordinate or Submerged People: The Ukrainians of Galicia under Hapsburg and Soviet Rule -- 4 The Tyroleans of the East: Galicia's Ukrainians and the Revolution of 1848 -- 5 Ukrainians and the Habsburgs -- 6 The Language Question as a Factor in the National Movement in Eastern Galicia

7 Old Ruthenianism and Russophilism: A New Conceptual Framework for Analyzing National Ideologies in Late-Nineteenth-Century Eastern Galicia8 The Kachkovs'kyi Society and the National Revival in Nineteenth-Century East Galicia -- 9 Nationalism and National Bibliography: Ivan E. Levyts'kyi and Nineteenth-Century Galicia -- 10 Vienna as a Resource for Ukrainian Studies: With Special Reference to Galicia

Sommario/riassunto

This study provides a solid background for understanding nineteenth-century Galicia as the historic Piedmont of the Ukrainian national revival.