A concise history of Bolivia / / Herbert S. Klein [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459226103321
• Autore: Klein Herbert S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-38673-X; 1-107-22136-6; 1-283-01735-0; 9786613017352; 1-139-00973-7; 1-139-01025-5; 1-139-00810-2; 0-511-97696-8; 1-139-00699-1; 1-139-00920-6
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge concise histories
• Disciplina: 984
• Soggetti: Bolivia History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Geography and pre-Columbian civilization -- The creation of a colonial society -- Late colonial society : crisis and growth -- Revolution and the creation of a nation-state, 1809-1841 -- The crisis of the state, 1841-1880 -- The ages of silver and tin, 1880-1932 -- Disintegration of the established order, 1932-1952 -- From the national revolution to the cold war, 1952-1982 -- Creating a multiethnic democracy, 1982-2002 -- The emergence of a mestizo and indigenous elite, 2002-2010 -- Bibliographical essay -- Political chronology.
• Sommario/riassunto: In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the fundamental changes that have occurred ; since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982. These changes have included the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in national history. This second edition brings this story through the first administration of the first self-proclaimed Indian president in national history and the major changes that the government of Evo Morales has introduced in Bolivian society, politics and economics.

How food made history / / B.W. Higman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460632103321
• Autore: Higman B. W. <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Somerset : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-4443-4465-X
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 394.1209
• Soggetti: Food habits - History; Food - Social aspects - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue: Questions of choice? -- Making the ancient world food map -- The origins of domestication, agriculture, and urbanization -- Food worlds at 5000 BP -- Seven claims -- Genetic modification, ancient and modern -- Prohibitions and taboos -- Geographical redistribution -- Three claims -- Forest gardens -- Crop farming landscapes -- Industrialized agriculture --; Five claims -- Hunting -- Herding -- -Fishing -- Two claims -- Ancient preservation -- Ancient processing -- Modern milling -- Packaging -- Freezing and chilling -- Milk, butter, yoghurt, and cheese -- Three claims -- Ancient trades -- Modern trades -- The global supermarket -- Two claims -- Cooks -- Cooking -- Eating places -- Meals and mealtimes --; Cuisine, high and low -- The origins of cuisines -- Megaregions and ; pan-ethnicity -- Global foods -- Three claims and counterclaims -- Nutrition and diet -- Stature -- Obesity -- Dieting -- Denial -- Vegetarianism -- Famine -- Famine foods -- Survival strategies -- Food aid -- Impact -- Two claims -- Conclusion: Cornucopia or Pandora's Box?
• Sommario/riassunto: "Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies. Charts the changing technologies that have increased crop yields, enabled the industrial processing and preservation of food, and made transportation possible over great distances Considers social attitudes towards food, religious prohibitions, health and nutrition, and the politics of distribution Offers a fresh understanding of world history through the discussion of food"--

"Die Landschaft Bukowina" : das Werden einer Region an der Peripherie 1774-1918 / / Kurt Scharr

• Record Nr.: UNISA996210007003316
• Autore: Scharr Kurt
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wien : , : Böhlau Verlag, , c2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 9783205784630 (ebook)
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 307.09
• Soggetti: Regions & Countries - Europe; History & Archaeology; Russia & Former Soviet Republics; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indices.
• Sommario/riassunto: Bucovina was an integral part of Habsburg Empire since 1775. Starting ; from a pure political construction on the European map of power at the end of 18th century this small area developed into a well integrated Austrian crown land. A crown land, which succeeded to form a certain regional identity – conform to the Habsburg state ideology. Till the outbreak of First World War national rivalries played a certain role for regional politics in the county but were moderate in general. Especially this situation was grounded in a direct liaison of this small province situated on the Eastern slopes of Carpathians with Vienna as imperial centre. A development which aimed towards steadily improving inner consolidation and balance in comparison with the other crown lands of the Empire. Only the outcome of the First World War, as Bucovina became part of the Romanian kingdom, loosing its geo strategic position as a bridge between East and West, showed in its consequences the former importance of this organic exchange with Vienna, shaping the provinces society and cultural landscape. The genesis of Bucovina region at the periphery of a European Empire from the end of 18th up to the beginning of 20th century as well as the structural persistence of the cultural landscape’s characteristics is centrally focussed in this study. The analyses of spatial processes as well as their genesis, shaped by a changing geopolitical situation, were of main interest for the research. Since the midst of 19th century a serious and existential national tension within the Bucovina was growing which could only partially be influenced by the province politics itself. A tension in between a search for a distinguished political position, the new idea of nation state and a overall-covering ideology of Commonness, a tension between growing regional identity, of beeing Bucovina and increasing national claims. The study tries to draw a knew, integral and less known picture of this variously shaped cultural landscape – apart from common nationalistic and segmented analyses.; Die Bukowina, seit 1775 zu den Ländern der Habsburgermonarchie gehörend, entwickelte sich ausgehend von einem politischen Konstrukt auf der Landkarte Europas im letzten Drittel des 18. Jh. hin zu einem durchaus selbstbewussten Kronland, dem es bis 1914 gelungen war, eine (staatskonforme) regionale Identität aufzubauen. Bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges spielten nationale Rivalitäten eine gewisse Rolle, waren in ihren Forderungen jedoch als moderat einzuschätzen. Besonders die direkte Abhängigkeit dieses kleinen Landstrichs am Ostabhang der Karpaten von Wien als Reichshauptstadt legte den wesentlichen Baustein zu dieser Entwicklung. Eine Entwicklung, die v. a. auf innere Konsolidierung und Angleichung an die übrigen Kronländer der Monarchie gerichtet war. Erst die Folgen des Ersten Weltkrieges mit der Angliederung der Bukowina an das Königreich Rumänien legten die tatsächliche Bedeutung dieses so mit dem Zentrum der Monarchie verflochtenen Kronlandes, das von seiner Brückenstellung profitiert hatte, offen. Das Werden der Region Bukowina an der Peripherie eines europäischen Großreiches vom ausgehenden 18. bis zum beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert und die strukturelle Persistenz kulturlandschaftlicher Charaktereigenschaften sind zentraler Gegenstand dieser Arbeit. Der Brennpunkt liegt dabei in der Analyse raumwirksamer Gestaltungsprozesse sowie ihrer Genese – ausgelöst durch eine sich wandelnde geopolitische Situation. Spätestens seit der Mitte des 19. Jh. erwuchs für die Bukowina eine existentielle Spannung zwischen dessen eigener Positionsfindung, neuer Nationalstaatlichkeit und übergeordneter Ideologie des Gemeinsamen, dem Aufbau regionaler Identitäten, eigenständigem Landesbewusstsein und nationalen Forderungen. Die vorliegende Studie versucht insgesamt – abseits jener über weite Strecken des 20. Jh. ; bestimmenden Vorgaben national segmentierter Erkenntnisgerichtetheit – ein in der bisherigen Beschäftigung mit der Bukowina weniger bekanntes, auf eigenen Forschungen beruhendes Bild einer im Inneren vielgestaltigen Kulturlandschaft und ihre Genese zu zeichnen.