03472nam 2200613 a 450 991045245940332120200520144314.01-281-15125-497866111512561-59213-577-3(CKB)1000000000482769(EBL)328235(OCoLC)476125290(SSID)ssj0000216435(PQKBManifestationID)11185746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216435(PQKBWorkID)10198717(PQKB)10515131(MiAaPQ)EBC328235(OCoLC)229432856(MdBmJHUP)muse15615(Au-PeEL)EBL328235(CaPaEBR)ebr10210838(CaONFJC)MIL115125(OCoLC)935267509(EXLCZ)99100000000048276920061114d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West"[electronic resource] /Eric H. MielantsPhiladelphia Temple University Press20071 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-575-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-236) and index.Perspectives on the origins of merchant capitalism in Europe -- Orthodox Marxism -- Brennerism (or the Brenner approach) -- The modernization theory -- World-systems analysis -- The inter-city-state system of the Middle Ages -- Tentative conclusions -- The political economies of China and Europe compared -- The Chinese socioeconomic revolution during the Sung dynasty (circa 900-1280) -- China and the Mongols -- Ming China and Europe : divergent paths -- Conclusions vis-á-vis European capitalism -- The political economies of South Asia and Europe compared -- Trade and commodity flows in the South Asian region -- States and state structures in South Asia -- The strategies of elites in South Asia and Europe -- The impact of the perilous frontier -- Conclusions -- The political economies of Western Europe and Northern Africa compared -- Northern Africa and the Sudanic states (circa 1200-1500) -- North African cities, states, and the balance of power in the Mediterranean -- Conclusions -- Conclusion : Was the Western-European city-state in the Middle Ages a European miracle?In this study, Eric Mielants provides a novel interdisciplinary interpretation of the origins of modernity and capitalism in particular. He argues that contrary to popular thinking, the Rise of the West should not be analyzed in terms of the Industrial Revolution or the colonization of the New World, but viewed from long-term developments that occurred in the Middle Ages. A fascinating overview of different civilizations in East Asia, South Asia, and Northwestern Africa is provided and systematically compared and contrasted with Western Europe. This book addresses some of the major debateCapitalismCivilization, WesternElectronic books.Capitalism.Civilization, Western.330.94/01Mielants Eric900297MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452459403321The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West"2091324UNINA05375nam 2200709 a 450 991083054800332120170815095301.01-118-56173-21-299-18701-31-118-58748-01-118-58765-0(CKB)2670000000327580(EBL)1120459(OCoLC)827207802(SSID)ssj0000831547(PQKBManifestationID)11530135(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831547(PQKBWorkID)10873023(PQKB)10839547(OCoLC)827944777(MiAaPQ)EBC1120459(PPN)185415989(EXLCZ)99267000000032758020130301d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrErosion of geomaterials[electronic resource] /edited by Stéphane BonelliLondon ISTE ;Hoboken, N.J. Wiley20121 online resource (392 p.)ISTEDescription based upon print version of record.1-84821-351-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Erosion of Geomaterials; Title Page; Copryright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1. Introduction to the Process of Internal Erosion in Hydraulic Structures: Embankment Dams and Dikes; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The significance of internal erosion for hydraulic structures; 1.2.1. The set of hydraulic structures in France; 1.2.2. The vulnerability of hydraulic structures; 1.2.3. Erosion as a leading cause of failure; 1.2.4. Internal erosion: one failure per year in France; 1.3. The impact of incidents on embankment dams and dikes; 1.3.1. Terminology1.3.2. Initiation areas1.3.3. The importance of design; 1.3.4. Four mechanisms of erosion, classified according to their boundary conditions; 1.3.5. Triggering mechanisms; 1.4. Main results of erosion trials; 1.4.1. Which law of erosion?; 1.4.2. Concentrated leak erosion; 1.4.3. Backward erosion; 1.4.4. Contact erosion; 1.4.5. Suffusion; 1.5. Remarks on the applicability of erosion trials; 1.5.1. Problem of passing on the results from the laboratory to the hydraulic structure; 1.5.2. Scaling effect of outflows in the absence of similarity1.5.3. Influence of the geostatic structure of the soil on the erosion threshold1.5.4. Initiation of internal erosion in a cohesionless soil; 1.5.5. Erodibility and researching erosion laws; 1.6. Conclusion; 1.7. Bibliography; Chapter 2. Suffusion, Transport and Filtration of Fine Particles in Granular Soil; 2.1. Introduction; 2.1.1. Chapter objectives; 2.1.2. Terminology; 2.2. Dominant parameters that influence suffusion; 2.2.1. Parameters that modify the geometry of the porous medium; 2.2.2. Parameters that modify the physicochemical characteristics of the medium2.3. Main initiation criteria for suffusion2.3.1. Grain-size distribution criteria; 2.3.2. Confronting granular criteria; 2.3.3. Hydraulic criteria; 2.3.4. Summary and final remarks; 2.4. An initiation criterion formulated using a geohydromechanical approach; 2.4.1. Geometric criterion; 2.4.2. The hydromechanical criterion; 2.4.3. Summary and final remarks; 2.5. The scaling effect and the energetic approach; 2.5.1. Identifying the scaling effect; 2.5.2. Energetic approach; 2.5.3. Summary; 2.6. Coupling the phenomena of suffusion and filtration-clogging; 2.7. Processes causing filtration2.7.1. Background knowledge2.7.2. Theoretical background; 2.8. Filtration modeling; 2.8.1. Modeling in a continuous medium; 2.8.2. Convection model - dispersion with deposition kinetics; 2.9. Confrontation between the laboratory filtration tests and the modeling; 2.9.1. Validation of the model in the case of suspended particles; 2.9.2. Results and preferential flow; 2.10. Filtration and clogging; 2.10.1. Phenomenological laws; 2.10.2. Physicochemical aspects; 2.10.3. Filtration and clogging; 2.11. Conclusion; 2.12. Bibliography; Chapter 3. The Process of Filtration in Granular Materials3.1. Introduction This book aims to deliver significant scientific progress on the problem of the erosion of geomaterials, focusing on the mechanical/physical aspect. The chapters oscillate between a phenomenological outlook that is well grounded in experiments, and an approach that can offer a modeling framework.The basic mechanisms of internal and surface erosion are tackled one-by-one: filtration, suffusion, contact erosion, concentrated leak erosion, sediment and wind transport, bedload transport. These erosion mechanisms comprise both hydraulic structures (dams, dikes) and natural environments (wiISTESediment transportSoil erosionLeveesProtectionDam failuresPreventionSediment transport.Soil erosion.LeveesProtection.Dam failuresPrevention.627.8627/.8Bonelli Stéphane520725MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830548003321Erosion of geomaterials834522UNINA