Disarming words [[electronic resource] ] : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / / Shaden M. Tageldin |
Autore | Tageldin Shaden M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 418/.02 |
Collana | FlashPoints |
Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 19th century
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 20th century Postcolonialism - Egypt Comparative literature - Arabic and English Comparative literature - English Language and languages in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century egypt
19th century europe arab and muslim british occupation of egypt colonial history colonized egyptians cultural imperialism edward said egyptian empire egyptian history europe and egypt european colonialism european colonization european empire european orientalism frantz fanon french occupation of egypt hasan al-attar imperialism and nationalism imperialism jacques derrida napoleon postcolonial egypt postructuralist theorists translational seduction walter benjamin |
ISBN |
1-283-27834-0
9786613278340 0-520-95004-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture. Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- 1. The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- 2. The Dismantling I: Al-'Attār's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- 3. Suspect Kinships: Al-Tahtāwī and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 -- 4. Surrogate Seed, World-Tree: Mubārak, al-Sibā'ī, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- 5. Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign: Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- 6. English Lessons: The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda. History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781507803321 |
Tageldin Shaden M | ||
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disarming words : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / / Shaden M. Tageldin |
Autore | Tageldin Shaden M |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 418/.02 |
Collana | FlashPoints |
Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 19th century
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 20th century Postcolonialism - Egypt Comparative literature - Arabic and English Comparative literature - English Language and languages in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century egypt
19th century europe arab and muslim british occupation of egypt colonial history colonized egyptians cultural imperialism edward said egyptian empire egyptian history europe and egypt european colonialism european colonization european empire european orientalism frantz fanon french occupation of egypt hasan al-attar imperialism and nationalism imperialism jacques derrida napoleon postcolonial egypt postructuralist theorists translational seduction walter benjamin |
ISBN |
1-283-27834-0
9786613278340 0-520-95004-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture. Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- 1. The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- 2. The Dismantling I: Al-'Attār's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- 3. Suspect Kinships: Al-Tahtāwī and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 -- 4. Surrogate Seed, World-Tree: Mubārak, al-Sibā'ī, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- 5. Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign: Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- 6. English Lessons: The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda. History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818323803321 |
Tageldin Shaden M | ||
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss |
Autore | Theiss Janet M. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 176/.0951 |
Soggetto topico |
Chastity
Women - China - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
adultery chastity cult chastity shrines chastity china chinese history chinese women criminals domestic violence domesticity female chastity female sexuality female virtue femininity feminist law feminist theory gender roles gender studies gender hagiography imperial china imperialism innocent justice system laws legal cases legal system politics purity qing rape sexual assault sexual harassment sexual morality sexual virtue suicide widows women and the law women womens studies |
ISBN |
0-520-93066-5
1-59734-581-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft -- Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier -- 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire -- 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign -- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy -- Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way -- 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen -- 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority -- 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy -- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space -- Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue -- 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder -- 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice -- PART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power -- Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End -- 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency -- 9. The Logic of Female Suicide -- Epilogue |
Altri titoli varianti |
Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
Chastity in 18th century China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783316403321 |
Theiss Janet M. <1964-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Disposition of Nature : Environmental Crisis and World Literature / / Jennifer Wenzel |
Autore | Wenzel Jennifer |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 363.7009172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental degradation - Developing countries
Nature in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Anthropocene
corporation ecocriticism environmental humanities environmental justice globalization imperialism new materialism postcolonial world literature |
ISBN |
0-8232-8679-7
0-8232-8888-9 0-8232-8680-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Reading for the planet -- Chapter 1. Consumption for the common good? commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism -- Chapter 2. Hijacking the imagination: how to tell the story of the Niger delta -- Chapter 3. From waste lands to wasted lives: enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime -- Chapter 4. How far is bhopal? inconvenient forums and corporate comparison -- Epilogue. Fixing the world -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795388603321 |
Wenzel Jennifer | ||
New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Disposition of Nature : Environmental Crisis and World Literature / / Jennifer Wenzel |
Autore | Wenzel Jennifer |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 363.7009172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental degradation - Developing countries
Nature in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Anthropocene
corporation ecocriticism environmental humanities environmental justice globalization imperialism new materialism postcolonial world literature |
ISBN |
0-8232-8679-7
0-8232-8888-9 0-8232-8680-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Reading for the planet -- Chapter 1. Consumption for the common good? commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism -- Chapter 2. Hijacking the imagination: how to tell the story of the Niger delta -- Chapter 3. From waste lands to wasted lives: enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime -- Chapter 4. How far is bhopal? inconvenient forums and corporate comparison -- Epilogue. Fixing the world -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826750303321 |
Wenzel Jennifer | ||
New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Divided rule : sovereignty and empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938 / / Mary Dewhurst Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Mary Dewhurst |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 961.104 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Africa / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century history
19th century world history archival research christian christianity civil rights colonial authority colonial tunisia colonialism diplomacy empire european colonialism european powers france french colonialism french governmental powers history imperial rival imperialism internatonal power politics islam jewish judaism mediterranean muslim nationalist movement north africa political reforms political power structures powerful backlash resistance sovereignty tunisia |
ISBN | 0-520-95714-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Tunisia in the Imperial Mediterranean -- Ending extraterritoriality? -- The politics of protection -- Contested terrain : redefining sovereignty in twentieth-century Tunisia -- Over our dead bodies : burial rites and sovereignty in 1930s Tunisia -- Conclusion and epilogue : from co-sovereignty to independence. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790674303321 |
Lewis Mary Dewhurst | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Divided rule : sovereignty and empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938 / / Mary Dewhurst Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Mary Dewhurst |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 961.104 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Africa / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century history
19th century world history archival research christian christianity civil rights colonial authority colonial tunisia colonialism diplomacy empire european colonialism european powers france french colonialism french governmental powers history imperial rival imperialism internatonal power politics islam jewish judaism mediterranean muslim nationalist movement north africa political reforms political power structures powerful backlash resistance sovereignty tunisia |
ISBN | 0-520-95714-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Tunisia in the Imperial Mediterranean -- Ending extraterritoriality? -- The politics of protection -- Contested terrain : redefining sovereignty in twentieth-century Tunisia -- Over our dead bodies : burial rites and sovereignty in 1930s Tunisia -- Conclusion and epilogue : from co-sovereignty to independence. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814090003321 |
Lewis Mary Dewhurst | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire at the margins [[electronic resource] ] : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / / edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald S. Sutton |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00951/0903 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CrossleyPamela Kyle
SiuHelen F SuttonDonald S |
Collana | Studies on China |
Soggetto topico | Ethnicity - China - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia
avars bandits chinese culture chinese history colonialism conquest dan empire ethnicity foreign policy frontier gender guizhou hainan highlands han history imperialism independence islam kingdoms kitans manchu miao ming dynasty ming empire mongols mountains muslim nationalism nonfiction pearl river pirates provinces qiang qing empire qing law race rebellion religion resistance smuggling social order tusi uyghurs war women in history yao wars yao yunnan |
ISBN |
1-282-35656-9
0-520-92753-2 9786612356568 1-59875-924-8 |
Classificazione | LB 48440 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I. Identity at the heart of empire -- Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott -- Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers -- The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby -- The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman -- Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest -- The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure -- Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton -- Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete -- Part IV. Uncharted boundaries -- Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan -- Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei. |
Altri titoli varianti | Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783668803321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire in waves : a political history of surfing / / Scott Laderman |
Autore | Laderman Scott <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 797.3/2 |
Collana | Sport in World History |
Soggetto topico |
Surfing - History
Surfing - Political aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
american foreign relations
american imperialism apartheid athletes beaches blue crush cold war commodification diplomacy empire gidget globalization hawaii history of surfing history imperialism individual sports indonesia industrial surfing international politics long 20th century low wage labor modern surf culture ocean political history of surfing politics repression south africa sports surfing today surfing the beach boys tourism united states of america wave riding waves |
ISBN |
0-520-27911-5
0-520-95804-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Political History of Surfing -- 1. How Surfing Became American: The Imperial Roots of Modern Surf Culture -- 2. A World Made Safe for Discovery: Travel, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Politics of Surf Exploration -- 3. Paradise Found: The Discovery of Indonesia and the Surfing Imagination -- 4. When Surfing Discovered It Was Political: Confronting South African Apartheid -- 5. Industrial Surfing: The Commodification of Experience -- Epilogue: A New Millennium -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790708003321 |
Laderman Scott <1971-> | ||
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire in waves : a political history of surfing / / Scott Laderman |
Autore | Laderman Scott <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 797.3/2 |
Collana | Sport in World History |
Soggetto topico |
Surfing - History
Surfing - Political aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
american foreign relations
american imperialism apartheid athletes beaches blue crush cold war commodification diplomacy empire gidget globalization hawaii history of surfing history imperialism individual sports indonesia industrial surfing international politics long 20th century low wage labor modern surf culture ocean political history of surfing politics repression south africa sports surfing today surfing the beach boys tourism united states of america wave riding waves |
ISBN |
0-520-27911-5
0-520-95804-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Political History of Surfing -- 1. How Surfing Became American: The Imperial Roots of Modern Surf Culture -- 2. A World Made Safe for Discovery: Travel, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Politics of Surf Exploration -- 3. Paradise Found: The Discovery of Indonesia and the Surfing Imagination -- 4. When Surfing Discovered It Was Political: Confronting South African Apartheid -- 5. Industrial Surfing: The Commodification of Experience -- Epilogue: A New Millennium -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823827003321 |
Laderman Scott <1971-> | ||
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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