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UNINA9910814448503321 |
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Oestmann Günther <1959-> |
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The astronomical clock of Strasbourg cathedral : function and significance / / by Günther Oestmann ; English translation by Bruce W. Irwin |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Scientific instruments and collections, , 1877-7066 ; ; Volume 8 |
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Astronomical clocks - France - Strasbourg |
Astronomical clocks |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Strasbourg Cathedral’s astronomical clock is one of the most famous and well-known astronomical clock monuments in the world. No other clock has been described and appreciated so often and in such a myriad of ways. This book gives a detailed delineation of the artistic and technical components of the 1571–74 clock and it presents the astronomical indications and the underlying conceptional framework. According to an hitherto unknown original source Günther Oestmann discovered a contemporary programmatic statement and that the clock displays four ways of determining the ascendant as described by Ptolemy. Oestmann ascertained that the Strasbourg clock is the result of a highly original reception of the architectural theory of Vitruvius and other mathematical and mechanical texts of Late Antiquity. Revised and updated translation from the German edition Die Straßburger Münsteruhr: Funktion und Bedeutung eines Kosmos-Modells des 16. Jahrhunderts. Published by GNT-Verlag in 1993. |
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UNINA9910956117703321 |
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Autore |
Onoma Ato Kwamena <1975-> |
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Anti-refugee violence and African politics / / Ato Kwamena Onoma |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-89171-5 |
1-107-27274-2 |
1-107-27207-6 |
1-107-27540-7 |
1-107-27416-8 |
1-107-27865-1 |
1-139-56813-2 |
1-107-27742-6 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Refugees - Violence against |
Refugees - Public opinion |
Refugees - Government policy |
Refugees - Guinea |
Refugees - Uganda |
Refugees - Congo (Democratic Republic) |
Guinea Politics and government 1984- |
Uganda Politics and government 20th century |
Democratic Republic of the Congo Politics and government 20th century |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: generalized anti-refugee violence -- Explaining generalized anti-refugee violence -- An outburst of anti-refugee violence in Conakry, Guinea -- A different approach to counterinsurgency in the forest region of Guinea -- On two competing explanations: co-ethnicity and population numbers -- Not chasing Banyarwanda in southwestern Uganda -- The eviction of 59ers in Kivu, |
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Using comparative cases from Guinea, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, this study explains why some refugee-hosting communities launch large-scale attacks on civilian refugees whereas others refrain from such attacks even when encouraged to do so by state officials. Ato Kwamena Onoma argues that such outbreaks only happen when states instigate them because of links between a few refugees and opposition groups. Locals embrace these attacks when refugees are settled in areas that privilege residence over indigeneity in the distribution of rights, ensuring that they live autonomously of local elites. The resulting opacity of their lives leads locals to buy into their demonization by the state. Locals do not buy into state denunciation of refugees in areas that privilege indigeneity over residence in the distribution of rights because refugees in such areas are subjugated to locals who come to know them very well. Onoma reorients the study of refugees back to a focus on the disempowered civilian refugees that constitute the majority of refugees even in cases of severe refugee militarization. |
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