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UNINA9910781259403321 |
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Autore |
Courbage Youssef |
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A convergence of civilizations [[electronic resource] ] : the transformation of Muslim societies around the world / / Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd ; translated by George Holoch |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2011 |
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1-281-60547-6 |
9786613786166 |
0-231-52746-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ToddEmmanuel <1951-> |
HolochGeorge |
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Demography |
Islamic countries Population |
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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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Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Clash of Civilizations or Universal History?; 1. The Muslim Countries in the Movement of History; The Growth of Literacy and the Decline in Fertility; A "Disenchantment" 5 of the Muslim World; 2. Crises of Transition; Literacy, Contraception, Revolution; Muslim Crises of Transition; Islamism and Forecasting the Future; The Question of Ideological Content; 3. The Arab Family and the Transition Crisis; Patrilinealism and Patrilocalism; The Shiite Law of Inheritance; Endogamy; Psychological and Ideological Implications of Endogamy |
The Shock of Modernization4. Other Muslim Women: East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; Malaysian and Indonesian Matrilocalism; The Mass Polygamy of Sub-Saharan Africa; Unprecedented Transition Crises?; 5. At the Heart of Islam: The Arab World; A Belated and Unexpected Transition: Literacy and Oil Wealth; France and the Acceleration of the Transition in the Maghreb; Backwardness and Division in Syria: Sunnis and Alawites; The Heterogeneity of the Arabian Peninsula; A European Lebanon?; The Palestinians: Occupation, War, and Fertility; 6. The Non-Arab Greater Middle East; Iran Ahead of Turkey |
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The Uncertain Role of the StateDemographic Transition and Nation-state; Religion, Demography, Democracy; The Pakistani Demographic Time Bomb; Demographic Normality and Political Threat; Afghan Parenthesis; Bangladesh: Overpopulation and Decline of the fertility rate; 7. After Communism; Accelerated Increase in Literacy; Un-Islamic Birth Control: Through Abortion . . .; . . . And Through Infant Mortality; Muslim Divergences in the Balkans; 8. Matrilocal Asia; A Normal Transition That Has Stopped; In Malaysia, Nationalism Rather Than Islam; 9. Sub-Saharan Africa |
Regional Differences in Fertility:Ethnic Groups and ReligionsMuslim Girls Spared by Mortality; Conclusion; Appendix: Total Fertility Rates of Muslim Countries; Notes |
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We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from a universal movement guiding humanity since the Enlightenment.This book's historical and geographical sweep discredits the notion of a s |
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UNINA9911008478903321 |
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Queen Isabel I of Castile : power, patronage, persona / / edited by Barbara F. Weissberger |
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Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2008 |
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1-282-62122-X |
9786612621222 |
1-84615-668-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Coleccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias ; ; 253 |
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Queens - Spain |
Spain History Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516 |
Spain Civilization 711-1516 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index. |
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; Introduction : Questioning the Queen, now and then / Barbara F. Weissberger -- ; Part 1. Influence : Aragon, Portugal, and Northern Europe. Two bodies, one spirit : Isabel and Fernando's construction on monarchical partnership / Theresa Earenfight -- Isabel of Castile's Portuguese connections and the opening of the Atlantic / William D. Phillips, Jr. -- Isabel of Castile and her music books : Franco-Flemish song in fifteenth-century Spain / Tess Knighton -- ; Part 2. Patronage : reciprocal relationships. The reciprocal construction of Isabelline book patronage / Ronald E. Surtz -- Hernando de Talavera and Isabelline imagery / Chiyo Ishikawa -- Melodies for private devotion at the court of Queen Isabel / Emilio Ros-Fabregas -- The queen at war : shared sovereignty and gender in representations of the Granada Campaign / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- ; Part 3. Period : from medieval to modern. The artistic patronage of Isabel the Catholic : medieval or modern? / Rafael Dominguez Casas -- Conflictive subjectivity and the politics of truth and justice in Carcel de Amor / E. Michael Gerli -- Juan de Anchieta and the rest of the world / Kenneth Kreitner -- Inventing the Catholic Queen : images of Isabel I in history and fiction / Nancy F. Marino. |
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This multidisciplinary volume was inspired by the quincentenary of the |
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death of Queen Isabel I of Castile, early modern Europe's first powerful queen regnant. Comprising work by distinguished art historians, musicologists, historians, and literary scholars from England, Spain, and the United States, it begins with a theoretical examination of medieval queenship itself that argues - against the grain of the volume - for its inseparability from kingship. Several essays examine the complex ways in which the Queen and her advisers shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of fifteenth-century Spain and how these in turn shaped the sovereign's power and persona. Others analyze influences on Isabel's reign from AragoĢn, Portugal, and northern Europe. A third group deals with issues of periodization, arguing from a variety of perspectives for the modernity of Isabelline culture. The evolving construction of Isabel's image from the mid-fifteenth to the late-twentieth century is also studied. BARBARA WEISSBERGER is Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. |
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