1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005923890203316

Titolo

Wunderkammer : arte, natura, meraviglia ieri e oggi / a cura di Lavinia Galli Michero, Martina Mazzotta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Skira : Mazzotta, 2013

ISBN

978-88-5722-121-2

Descrizione fisica

232 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

Disciplina

707

Soggetti

Collezionismo - Europa - Atti di congressi - Sec. 16.-21

Collocazione

XII.3.D. 213

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Milano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli e Gallerie d'Italia-Piazza Scala, dal 15 novembre 2013 al 2 marzo 2014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812073903321

Autore

Chaichian Mohammed

Titolo

Empires and walls : globalization, migration, and colonial domination / / by Mohammad A. Chaichian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26066-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Collana

Studies in critical social sciences, , 1573-4234 ; ; Volume 62

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Walls - Political aspects - History

Boundaries - Political aspects - History

Borderlands - History

Imperialism - History

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

Preliminary Material / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 1 Walls, Borders, and Imperial Formations: In Search of an Explanation / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 2 Hadrian’s Wall: An Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman Britain / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 3 Red Snake: The Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 4 Clash of Empires: Prelude to the Berlin Wall / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 5 Build the Wall: The Two German Economies are Now United! / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 6 Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: Banning the Islamic Veil (Hijab) in French Schools / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 7 An Empire in the Making: American Colonial Interests South of the Border / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 8 The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico: Border Blues / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 9 Israel and Palestine: a Settler Colony is Born / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 10 Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli Style / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 11 Epilogue: Conceptualizing Walls and borders—“Globalization from within” / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- References / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- Index / Mohammad A. Chaichian.

Sommario/riassunto

Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive



purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselves from colonial onslaughts? In Empires and Walls Mohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around; as well as impending fate of ‘neo-liberal’ barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four years of extensive historical and field-based research Chaichian provides compelling evidence that regardless of their rationale and functions, walls always signal the fading power of an empire.