A predictable tragedy [[electronic resource] ] : Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe / / Daniel Compagnon |
Autore | Compagnon Daniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 968.9105/1092 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Asian Studies History Human Rights Law Middle Eastern Studies Political Science |
ISBN |
1-283-88997-8
0-8122-0004-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Authoritarian control of the political arena -- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival -- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition -- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war -- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation -- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine -- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy -- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788202203321 |
Compagnon Daniel | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A predictable tragedy : Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe / / Daniel Compagnon |
Autore | Compagnon Daniel |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 968.9105/1092 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Asian Studies History Human Rights Law Middle Eastern Studies Political Science |
ISBN |
1-283-88997-8
0-8122-0004-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Authoritarian control of the political arena -- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival -- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition -- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war -- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation -- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine -- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy -- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809311003321 |
Compagnon Daniel | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reorienting the East : Jewish travelers to the medieval Muslim world / / Martin Jacobs |
Autore | Jacobs Martin <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina | 915.604/14089924 |
Collana | Jewish Culture and Contexts |
Soggetto topico |
Jews - Travel - History
Jewish travelers - History Travelers' writings, Hebrew - Early works to 1800 - History and criticism Travel, Medieval - Early works to 1800 - History and criticism Jews - Islamic Empire - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Asian Studies Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Middle Eastern Studies Religion |
ISBN | 0-8122-9001-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Translations and Transliterations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Medieval Jewish Travelers and Their Writings -- Chapter 2. Travel Motivations: Pilgrimage and Trade -- Chapter 3. Levantine Journeys: Choices and Challenges -- Chapter 4. Facing a Gentile Land of Israel -- Chapter 5. Medieval Mingling at Holy Tombs -- Chapter 6. Marvels of Muslim Metropolises -- Chapter 7. Ishmaelites and Edomites: Muslims and Christians -- Chapter 8. Near Eastern Jews: Brothers or Strangers? -- Chapter 9. Karaites, Samaritans, and Lost Tribes -- Chapter 10. Assassins, Blacks, and Veiled Women -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Travelers and Works -- Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786889603321 |
Jacobs Martin <1963-> | ||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reorienting the East : Jewish travelers to the medieval Muslim world / / Martin Jacobs |
Autore | Jacobs Martin <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina | 915.604/14089924 |
Collana | Jewish Culture and Contexts |
Soggetto topico |
Jews - Travel - History
Jewish travelers - History Travelers' writings, Hebrew - Early works to 1800 - History and criticism Travel, Medieval - Early works to 1800 - History and criticism Jews - Islamic Empire - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Asian Studies Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Middle Eastern Studies Religion |
ISBN | 0-8122-9001-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Translations and Transliterations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Medieval Jewish Travelers and Their Writings -- Chapter 2. Travel Motivations: Pilgrimage and Trade -- Chapter 3. Levantine Journeys: Choices and Challenges -- Chapter 4. Facing a Gentile Land of Israel -- Chapter 5. Medieval Mingling at Holy Tombs -- Chapter 6. Marvels of Muslim Metropolises -- Chapter 7. Ishmaelites and Edomites: Muslims and Christians -- Chapter 8. Near Eastern Jews: Brothers or Strangers? -- Chapter 9. Karaites, Samaritans, and Lost Tribes -- Chapter 10. Assassins, Blacks, and Veiled Women -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Travelers and Works -- Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818403003321 |
Jacobs Martin <1963-> | ||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The royal hunt in Eurasian history / / Thomas T. Allsen |
Autore | Allsen Thomas T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 639/.109 |
Collana | Encounters with Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Hunting - Political aspects - Eurasia - History
Animals and civilization - Eurasia - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Asian Studies European History History Middle Eastern Studies World History |
ISBN |
1-283-21139-4
9786613211392 0-8122-0107-8 |
Classificazione | NW 3060 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Hunting Histories -- World Histories and the World of Animals -- Pursuing Protein -- Pursuing Profit -- Pursuing Power -- This Hunting History -- 2. Field and Stream -- Who Hunted? -- Where Did They Hunt? -- How Often Did They Hunt? -- How Did They Hunt? -- On What Scale Did They Hunt? -- 3. Parks -- The Paradise and Its Antecedents -- Hunting Parks at the Core and on the Periphery -- Hunting Parks in East Asia -- The Purposes of Paradise -- 4. Partners -- Animal Assistants -- Dogs -- Birds -- Elephants -- Cats -- 5. Administration -- Hunting Establishments -- Success and Safety -- Careers -- Costs -- 6. Conservation -- Killing and Sparing -- Game Management -- Cultural Constraints -- Species Endangered -- Natural Attitudes -- 7. A Measure of Men -- Hunting and Hierarchy -- Princely Virtues -- Courting Danger -- Publicizing Prowess -- 8. Political Animals -- Power of Animals -- Power over Animals -- 9. Legitimation -- Animals and Ideology -- Threat -- Animal Control Officer -- State and Nature -- 10. Circulation -- On the Road -- Pursuing Pleasures -- Favors -- The Court Out-of-Doors -- 11. Intimidation -- Initiating Warriors -- Imitating War -- Intimating War -- Initiating War -- 12. Internationalization -- Traffic in Animals -- Dogs -- Birds -- Elephants -- Cats -- Traffic in Trainers -- 13. Conclusions -- History Wide -- History Deep -- Notes -- Abbreviations and Primary Sources -- Bibliography and Modern Scholarship -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781736703321 |
Allsen Thomas T | ||
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The royal hunt in Eurasian history / / Thomas T. Allsen |
Autore | Allsen Thomas T |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 639/.109 |
Collana | Encounters with Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Hunting - Political aspects - Eurasia - History
Animals and civilization - Eurasia - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Asian Studies European History History Middle Eastern Studies World History |
ISBN |
1-283-21139-4
9786613211392 0-8122-0107-8 |
Classificazione | NW 3060 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Hunting Histories -- World Histories and the World of Animals -- Pursuing Protein -- Pursuing Profit -- Pursuing Power -- This Hunting History -- 2. Field and Stream -- Who Hunted? -- Where Did They Hunt? -- How Often Did They Hunt? -- How Did They Hunt? -- On What Scale Did They Hunt? -- 3. Parks -- The Paradise and Its Antecedents -- Hunting Parks at the Core and on the Periphery -- Hunting Parks in East Asia -- The Purposes of Paradise -- 4. Partners -- Animal Assistants -- Dogs -- Birds -- Elephants -- Cats -- 5. Administration -- Hunting Establishments -- Success and Safety -- Careers -- Costs -- 6. Conservation -- Killing and Sparing -- Game Management -- Cultural Constraints -- Species Endangered -- Natural Attitudes -- 7. A Measure of Men -- Hunting and Hierarchy -- Princely Virtues -- Courting Danger -- Publicizing Prowess -- 8. Political Animals -- Power of Animals -- Power over Animals -- 9. Legitimation -- Animals and Ideology -- Threat -- Animal Control Officer -- State and Nature -- 10. Circulation -- On the Road -- Pursuing Pleasures -- Favors -- The Court Out-of-Doors -- 11. Intimidation -- Initiating Warriors -- Imitating War -- Intimating War -- Initiating War -- 12. Internationalization -- Traffic in Animals -- Dogs -- Birds -- Elephants -- Cats -- Traffic in Trainers -- 13. Conclusions -- History Wide -- History Deep -- Notes -- Abbreviations and Primary Sources -- Bibliography and Modern Scholarship -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818355103321 |
Allsen Thomas T | ||
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sinophone Southeast Asia : Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas / / edited by Tom Hoogervorst, Caroline Chia |
Autore | Hoogervorst Tom |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 495.1 |
Collana | Chinese Overseas |
Soggetto topico |
Chinese language - Social aspects - Southeast Asia
Chinese language - Variation - Southeast Asia Chinese - Southeast Asia - Social life and customs Sociolinguistics - Southeast Asia |
Soggetto non controllato |
Asian Studies
South East Asia Languages and Linguistics Sociolinguistics |
ISBN | 90-04-47326-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Language -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 From Ang moh 紅毛 to Phi jun 批准: The Role of Southern Min in Early Contacts between Chinese and European Languages -- Picus Sizhi Ding -- 2 At the Periphery of Nanyang: The Hakka Community of Timor-Leste -- Juliette Huber -- 3 Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond -- Joanna Rose McFarland -- 4 The Nature of Sinitic Lexicon in Bazaar Malay and Baba Malay in Singapore -- Khin Khin Aye -- 5 Native Lexical Innovation in Penang Hokkien: Thinking beyond Rojak -- Catherine Churchman -- 6 A Preliminary Study of Kaoka 高甲 Playscripts in the Philippines -- Caroline Chia -- 7 "Do You Love China or Not?": Late-Colonial Textbooks to Learn Mandarin through Malay -- Tom Hoogervorst -- Conclusion. |
Altri titoli varianti | Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502678403321 |
Hoogervorst Tom | ||
Brill, 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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South-Indian Horizons : Felicitation volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday / / Jean-Luc Chevillard, Eva Wilden |
Autore | Agesthialingom S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pondichéry, : Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (698 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AnnamalaiE
AsherR.E BegleyVimala BopearachchiOsmund ChevillardJean-Luc DelamourdChantal DubyanskiA.M EbelingSascha Ferro-LuzziGabriella Eichinger Gopal IyerT.V GrosFrançois HartGeorge L KappDieter B LehmannThomas MKannan Mகண்ணன் MahadevanIravatham MenonA.G MurugaiyanAppasamy NagaswamyR Narayana RaoVelcheru NiklasUlrike OrrLeslie C PalaniappanS PanattoniEmanuela PollockSheldon SchalkPeter SchiffmanHarold F ShulmanDavid SubbarayaluY SubrahmanyamSanjay SubramoniamV.I TakahashiTakanobu TiekenHerman TörzsökJudit VacekJaroslav VeluppillaiAlvappillai VeluthatKesavan VenkatachalapathyA.R VijayavenugopalG Viswanathan PetersonIndira wildenEva ZvelebilKamil WildenEva |
Collana | Collection Indologie |
Soggetto non controllato |
Asian Studies
Humanities, Multidisciplinary littérature tamoule langue tamoule langues dravidiennes Tamil literature Tamil language Dravidian languages South India |
ISBN | 979-1-03-655621-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910559701003321 |
Agesthialingom S | ||
Pondichéry, : Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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State of the young child in India / / Mobile Creches |
Autore | Creches Mobile |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.230954 |
Soggetto topico | Children - India - Social conditions - 21st century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Public Health - Medical Sociology
Public Health Policy and Practice Asian Studies Sociology and Social Policy Child and Family Social Work Public Policy Children and Youth Social Policy Children and Childhood South Asian Studies Early Childhood Care and Education Early Childhood Development Immunization Infant Mortality urban slums Young Child Index |
ISBN |
1-00-302648-6
1-003-02648-6 1-000-05493-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910410649303321 |
Creches Mobile | ||
Taylor & Francis, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stitching identities in a free trade zone [[electronic resource] ] : gender and politics in Sri Lanka / / Sandya Hewamanne |
Autore | Hewamanne Sandya |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, PA, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.4095493 |
Collana | Contemporary ethnography |
Soggetto topico |
Women migrant labor - Sri Lanka
Women - Sri Lanka - Social conditions Women - Sri Lanka - Economic conditions Sex role - Sri Lanka Free trade - Sri Lanka |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Anthropology Asian Studies Folklore Gender Studies Linguistics Middle Eastern Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-89076-3
0-8122-0225-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Nation, Modernity, and Female Morality -- Chapter 3 On the Shop Floor -- Chapter 4 Loving Daughters and Politically Active Workers -- Chapter 5 Politics of Everyday Life -- Chapter 6 Performing Disrespectability -- Chapter 7 FTZ Clothes and Home Clothes -- Chapter 8 Made in Sri Lanka: Globalization and the Politics of Location -- Epilogue Cautious Voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779146003321 |
Hewamanne Sandya | ||
Philadelphia, PA, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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