Domesticating the world [[electronic resource] ] : African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization / / Jeremy Prestholdt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456829303321
• Autore: Prestholdt Jeremy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-36047-7; 9786612360473; 0-520-94147-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Collana: California world history library ; ; 6
• Disciplina: 339.4/709676
• Soggetti: Consumer behavior - Africa, Eastern; Globalization - Africa, Eastern; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu -- 2. The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa -- 3. The Global Repercussions of Consumerism: East African Consumers and Industrialization -- 4. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Domestication: Consumer Imports in Zanzibar -- 5. Symbolic Subjection and Social Rebirth: Objectification in Urban Zanzibar -- 6. Picturesque Contradictions: Taxonomies of East Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon-and one driven solely by Western interests-by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Full of rich and often-surprising vignettes ; that outline forgotten trajectories of global trade and consumption, it powerfully demonstrates how contemporary globalization is foreshadowed in deep histories of intersecting and reciprocal relationships across vast distances.

A catalogue and true note of the names of such persons which (vpon good liking they haue to the worke being a great helpe to memorie) haue receaued the etymologicall dictionarie of XI languages .. [[electronic resource] /] / from the handes of Maister Minsheu the author .

• Record Nr.: UNISA996389852503316
• Autore: Minsheu John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London], : At Mr. Brownes a booke-binder in Little-Brittaine without Aldersgate in London, [between 1617 and 1620]
• Descrizione fisica: [2] p
• Soggetti: Catalogs, Booksellers' - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.).; Inserted in STC 17944--Cf. STC (2nd ed.).; Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0021

The self-employment survival guide : proven strategies to succeed as your own boss / / Jeanne Yocum

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796414003321
• Autore: Yocum Jeanne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-5381-0872-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 pages)
• Disciplina: 658/.041
• Soggetti: Strategic planning; Self-employed
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / by Rieva Lesonsky -- Introduction: an end and a beginning -- Now that you work for yourself -- Clients and workloads -- Financial expectations -- Potential roadblocks to success -- About the author and contributors -- Acknowledgements.