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UNINA9910809452003321 |
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Titolo |
Empirical futures : anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz / / edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0455-8 |
0-8078-9534-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BacaGeorge |
KhanAisha |
PalmiéStephan |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Methodology |
Anthropology and history |
Ethnology - America |
Globalization - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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Space, time, and history : the conceptual limits of globalization / Frederick Cooper -- Beyond sugar revolutions : rethinking the Spanish Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Juan Giusti-Cordero -- Microhistory set in motion : a nineteenth-century Atlantic Creole itinerary / Rebecca J. Scott -- Abstinence and power : the place of prohibition in American history / Jane Schneider -- Evidence and power, sweet and sour / Virginia R. Dominguez -- Jealous women in the cane / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington -- Toward an anthropology of excess : wanting more (while getting less) on a Caribbean global periphery / Samuel Martínez. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since the 1950's, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique ""globalization studies."" However, a strong tradition of epistemologically sophisticated and theoretically |
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