1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451769503321

Autore

Taylor Jean Gelman <1944->

Titolo

Indonesia [[electronic resource] ] : peoples and histories / / Jean Gelman Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003

ISBN

9786611729981

1-281-72998-1

0-300-12808-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Disciplina

959.8

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia

Electronic books.

Indonesia History

Indonesia Ethnic relations History

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. 391-411) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Early beginnings -- Communities and kingdoms -- Sultans and states -- Monarchs, mentors, and mobile men -- Newcomers in the Muslim circle -- Inside Indonesian sultanates -- New and old states -- Maps and mentality -- Many kingdoms, one colony -- Breaking dependence on foreign powers -- Rearranging map and mind -- Majapahit visions.

Sommario/riassunto

Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world. It comprises more than 17,000 islands inhabited by 230 million people who speak over 300 different languages. Now the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia remains extraordinarily heterogeneous due to the waves of immigration-Buddhist, Hindu, Arab, and European-that have defined the region's history.Fifty years after the collapse of Dutch colonial rule, Indonesia is a nation in the midst of dramatic upheaval. In this broad survey, Jean Gelman Taylor explores the connections between the nation's many communities, and the differences that propel contemporary breakaway movements.Drawing on a broad range of sources, including art, archaeology, and literature, Taylor provides a historical overview from the prehistoric period to the present day. The text is enlivened by brief "capsule" histories on topics ranging from



pepper to Maharajas to smallpox.This ambitious book-the first new history of Indonesia written in over twenty years-will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Southeast Asia and the future stability of the region.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456086803321

Titolo

Uninhabited air vehicles [[electronic resource] ] : enabling science for military systems / / Committee on Materials, Structures, and Aeronautics for Advanced Uninhabited Air Vehicles, National Materials Advisory Board, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2000

ISBN

0-309-51593-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (124 p.)

Collana

Publication NMAB ; ; 495

Compass series

Disciplina

623.7/469

Soggetti

Drone aircraft

Reconnaissance aircraft

Electronic books.

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 (p. 97-100).

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Uninhabited Air Vehicle as a System""; ""3 Aerodynamics""; ""4 Airframe Materials and Structures""; ""5 Propulsion Technologies""; ""6 Power and Related Technologies""; ""7 Control Technologies""; ""8 Research on Vehicle Subsystems""; ""Acronyms""



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910896408703321

Autore

Massino Jill

Titolo

Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe : History Doesn't Travel in One Direction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, IN : , : Purdue University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

1-61249-971-6

1-61249-972-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages)

Collana

Central European Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

WienMarkus

Disciplina

947.0009/049

Soggetti

Socialism

Europe, Eastern History 1989-

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- EVERYDAY POSTSOCIALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Mapping Heres and Theres -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: Continuities, Ruptures, and Alternative Temporalities -- PART I: SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS -- 1. "People Knew They Wouldn't Have to Scrape Dry Chocolate if They Called Me In": Industry, Subjectivity, and the Long Transformation -- 2. How Foreigners Destroyed our Factory: Repressed Memories of a Czech Flagship Sugar Plant -- 3. From Risk to Risky: Hungary's Second Economy and Its Transition to the Market after 1989 -- PART II: THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION -- 4. "There's a Lot of Talk About Tolerance, but That's Just Words": Being Gay in Postsocialist Poland -- 5. Reinventing Postsocialism as Heteronationalism: (Dis)continuities and Frictive Biopolitics in Orbán's Hungary -- 6. Eradicating Socialist Internationalism: The Expulsion of Foreign Students in Postsocialist Bulgaria -- PART III: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW -- 7. The Specter of Sex: Continuities and Changes in Sex Education in Postsocialist Romania -- 8. No Country for (Poor) Women: Reproductive Rights, Conservatism, and Neoliberalism in Postsocialist Romania --



PART IV: ORIGIN STORIES -- 9. The "Turncoat" as a Social Form: Tracing Everyday Moral Grammars of Justice in Post-1989 East Germany and Czechia -- 10. From Steppe to State: Alternative Histories, Amateur Knowledge, and the Search for Origin in Post-1989 Bulgaria -- 11. "I'm An Outsider, I'm An Insider, And Oh, How Happy I Am": Narratives of Former Communist Party Members in Hungary -- PART V: HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS -- 12. Children of the Wende: Everyday Experiences of the Postsocialist Transformation in (East) Germany -- 13. Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: The Romanian Diaspora and Politics at Home -- Contributors.

Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people's varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.