Rural capitalists in Asia : a comparative analysis on India, Indonesia, and Malaysia / / Mario Rutten

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450691103321
• Autore: Rutten Mario
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 9786610138555; 1-135-78941-X; 1-283-88373-2; 1-280-13855-6; 0-203-98711-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies ; ; no. 88
• Disciplina: 338/.04/095
• Soggetti: Entrepreneurship - India; Entrepreneurship - Indonesia; Entrepreneurship - Malaysia; Electronic books.; India Rural conditions; Indonesia Rural conditions; Malaysia Rural conditions
• 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. 247-262) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; RURAL CAPITALISTS IN ASIA; NORDIC INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Background and aim of study; Data collection; Notes; Chapter 1 THE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA; Indian entrepreneurs; Muslim industrialists; Overseas Chinese businessmen; The need for a comparative perspective; Notes; Chapter 2 RURAL INDUSTRIALISTS IN CENTRAL GUJARAT; Diversification of the rural economy; Business strategy and pattern of investment; Joint-family enterprises and business partnerships; Upward mobility and social distanceClass and caste; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 OWNERS OF COMBINE-HARVESTERS IN THE MUDA AREA; Development of mechanized harvesting; Business expansion and ; economic diversification; Family enterprises and business networks; Regional mobility and local basis; Class and ethnicity; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 IRON FOUNDERS IN CENTRAL JAVA; Iron casting in a rural environment; Industrial development and technological changes; Individual firms and economic co-operation; Social mobility and differentiation; Class and religion; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5 A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVESouth and Southeast Asian entrepreneurs compared; 'Asian' assumptions about the early European industrialists; The early European industrialists; In search of a comparative framework; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a comparative study of small capitalists and rural industrialists in three Asian countries. Studies on the entrepreneurial class in South Asia tend to focus on the structural aspects of entrepreneurial behaviour, while studies on this class in Southeast Asia tend to focus on cultural aspects of their behaviour. In fact, this book points to striking similarities between Indian, overseas Chinese and Muslim businessmen in Asia, similarities usually hidden under variations in analytical approaches. Although this study emphasizes similarities within Asia, it does not support the view of a s

Lo scioglimento del matrimonio religiosamente caratterizzato fra tecniche di accomodamento e giurisdizione statale esclusiva / Adelaide Madera

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910593600403321
• Autore: Madera, Adelaide
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano, : Giuffrè, c2016
• ISBN: 978-88-14-21572-8
• Descrizione fisica: 214 p. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di giurisprudenza della Università di Messina ; 267
• Disciplina: 342.0852
• Locazione: FGBC
• Collocazione: UNIV. 27 (267)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era / / Linda Joyce Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966070203321
• Autore: Brown Linda Joyce <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-93241-7; 1-135-93242-5; 1-280-17845-0; 0-203-32772-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Collana: Studies in American popular history and culture
• Disciplina: 810.9/3522/09041
• Soggetti: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century; American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Immigrants' writings, American - History and criticism; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Immigrants in literature; Ethnicity in literature; White people in literature; Race in literature
• 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. 123-129) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three ""Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?"" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four ""This Hideous Little Pickaninny"" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia; ; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.