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The power of scale : a global history approach / / John H. Bodley
| The power of scale : a global history approach / / John H. Bodley |
| Autore | Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909 |
| Collana | Sources and Studies in World History |
| Soggetto topico |
World history
History, Modern Civilization, Modern Imperialism - History Capitalism - History Geopolitics - History |
| ISBN |
1-315-69923-0
1-317-45523-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Imperia and the Power of Scale""; ""Imperia, Social Power, and Scale""; ""Three Cultural Worlds: Tribal, Imperial, and Commercial""; ""Great Cultural Transformations""; ""Quality of Life in the Tribal World""; ""The Irreducible Minimum in the Tribal World""; ""Political Imperia and Conditional Rights in the Imperial World""; ""The Commercial World and Capitalism""; ""2. Imperia in Three Worlds""
""Domestic Imperia in the Amazon Rain Forest: The Ashaninka""""Circles of Kings: Political Imperia in Southeast Asian Kingdoms""; ""The Thai Kingdom, 1782-1932""; ""Modern Thai and Balinese Imperia""; ""Commercial Imperia: The United States, 1998""; ""3. Why Scale Matters""; ""Power Laws, Energy, and the Disproportions of Scale""; ""The Illusion of Evolutionary Progress""; ""Culture, Biology, and the Problem of Size""; ""Human Community, Society, and Scale""; ""Scale Limits in the Tribal World: Australian Bands""; ""Scale Limits to Power in the Tribal World: The Ashaninka"" ""The Power of Scale in the Urbanization Process""""Bureaucracy and Domination""; ""Scale, Imperia, and Growth Trajectories""; ""4. The Political Elite Take Power""; ""Crossing the Great Divide from Tribal to Imperial Worlds""; ""Village Headman to Divine King in Southeast Asia""; ""Beyond 500: Scalar Stress and Urban Growth""; ""Elite Payoff: Mates, Servants, and Palaces""; ""Strategies of Domination in the Ancient Imperial World""; ""The Romans: Conquerors and Slaves in a Legionary Economy""; ""5. The Rise of European Commercial Elites"" ""Urban Growth and the Origins of Capitalism, 1100-1600""""Medieval City-States and the Medici Imperium""; ""Crisis as Opportunity: England, 1500-1688""; ""Landed and Monied Interests in the London Financial Revolution, 1600-1900""; ""British Colonialism: Merchant Capitalists Transform the World""; ""The Business of Government in the Fiscal-Military State""; ""Capitalist Manufacturers: Canals, Pots, Guns, and Lobbies""; ""The Power of Scale in Britain, A.D. 1066-2000""; ""A Tale of Three Families: Grosvenors, Rothschilds, and Bonapartes"" ""Commercial Elites in Control: Summary and Assessment""""6. The Power Elite in Action: America's Commercial Revolution, 1787-1945""; ""Founding Fathers and the Constitution""; ""The Rise of Big Business""; ""Urban Elites and American Inequality: Boston, New York, and Philadelphia""; ""J.J. Astor, Real Estate, and the Fur Empire""; ""The Rail Empires, 1840-1870""; ""American Financial Imperia""; ""Rockefeller Imperium and the Fossil Fuel Revolution""; ""Factory Farms and the American Food System""; ""The Triumph of Cars over Rails""; ""The Millionaire Imperia: Super-Elite Lifestyles"" ""7. Counter-Imperia: Imagining Alternative Worlds"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797133603321 |
Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942->
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The power of scale : a global history approach / / John H. Bodley
| The power of scale : a global history approach / / John H. Bodley |
| Autore | Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina |
909
909.08 |
| Collana | Sources and Studies in World History |
| Soggetto topico |
World history
History, Modern Civilization, Modern Imperialism - History Capitalism - History Geopolitics - History |
| ISBN |
1-315-69923-0
1-317-45523-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Imperia and the Power of Scale""; ""Imperia, Social Power, and Scale""; ""Three Cultural Worlds: Tribal, Imperial, and Commercial""; ""Great Cultural Transformations""; ""Quality of Life in the Tribal World""; ""The Irreducible Minimum in the Tribal World""; ""Political Imperia and Conditional Rights in the Imperial World""; ""The Commercial World and Capitalism""; ""2. Imperia in Three Worlds""
""Domestic Imperia in the Amazon Rain Forest: The Ashaninka""""Circles of Kings: Political Imperia in Southeast Asian Kingdoms""; ""The Thai Kingdom, 1782-1932""; ""Modern Thai and Balinese Imperia""; ""Commercial Imperia: The United States, 1998""; ""3. Why Scale Matters""; ""Power Laws, Energy, and the Disproportions of Scale""; ""The Illusion of Evolutionary Progress""; ""Culture, Biology, and the Problem of Size""; ""Human Community, Society, and Scale""; ""Scale Limits in the Tribal World: Australian Bands""; ""Scale Limits to Power in the Tribal World: The Ashaninka"" ""The Power of Scale in the Urbanization Process""""Bureaucracy and Domination""; ""Scale, Imperia, and Growth Trajectories""; ""4. The Political Elite Take Power""; ""Crossing the Great Divide from Tribal to Imperial Worlds""; ""Village Headman to Divine King in Southeast Asia""; ""Beyond 500: Scalar Stress and Urban Growth""; ""Elite Payoff: Mates, Servants, and Palaces""; ""Strategies of Domination in the Ancient Imperial World""; ""The Romans: Conquerors and Slaves in a Legionary Economy""; ""5. The Rise of European Commercial Elites"" ""Urban Growth and the Origins of Capitalism, 1100-1600""""Medieval City-States and the Medici Imperium""; ""Crisis as Opportunity: England, 1500-1688""; ""Landed and Monied Interests in the London Financial Revolution, 1600-1900""; ""British Colonialism: Merchant Capitalists Transform the World""; ""The Business of Government in the Fiscal-Military State""; ""Capitalist Manufacturers: Canals, Pots, Guns, and Lobbies""; ""The Power of Scale in Britain, A.D. 1066-2000""; ""A Tale of Three Families: Grosvenors, Rothschilds, and Bonapartes"" ""Commercial Elites in Control: Summary and Assessment""""6. The Power Elite in Action: America's Commercial Revolution, 1787-1945""; ""Founding Fathers and the Constitution""; ""The Rise of Big Business""; ""Urban Elites and American Inequality: Boston, New York, and Philadelphia""; ""J.J. Astor, Real Estate, and the Fur Empire""; ""The Rail Empires, 1840-1870""; ""American Financial Imperia""; ""Rockefeller Imperium and the Fossil Fuel Revolution""; ""Factory Farms and the American Food System""; ""The Triumph of Cars over Rails""; ""The Millionaire Imperia: Super-Elite Lifestyles"" ""7. Counter-Imperia: Imagining Alternative Worlds"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809862203321 |
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Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942->
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victims of progress / / John H. Bodley
| Victims of progress / / John H. Bodley |
| Autore | Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942-> |
| Edizione | [Sixth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Indigenous peoples
Culture conflict Acculturation Social change |
| ISBN |
1-322-07589-1
1-4422-2694-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; What's New in the Sixth Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale; Culture Scale, Culture Process, and Indigenous Peoples; Large-Scale versus Small-Scale Society and Culture; The Problem of Global-Scale Society and Culture; Social Scale and Social Power; Negative Development: The Global Pattern; Policy Implications; Notes; 2 Progress and Indigenous Peoples; Progress: The Commercial Explosion; The Culture of Consumption; Resource Appropriation and Acculturation; The Role of Ethnocentrism
Civilization's Unwilling ConscriptsCultural Pride versus Progress; The Principle of Stabilization; Notes; 3 The Uncontrolled Frontier; The Frontier Process; Demographic Impact of the Frontier; Notes; 4 We Fought with Spears; The Punitive Raid; Wars of Extermination; Guns against Spears; Notes; 5 The Extension of Government Control; Aims and Philosophy of Administration; Tribal Peoples and National Unity; The Transfer of Sovereignty; Treaty Making; Bringing Government to the Tribes; The Political Integration Process; Anthropology and Native Administration; Notes; 6 Land Policies The People-Land RelationshipLand Policy Variables; Notes; 7 Cultural Modification Policies; These Are the Things That Obstruct Progress; Social Engineering: How to Do It; Notes; 8 Economic Globalization; Forced Labor: Harnessing the Heathens; Learning the Dignity of Labor: Taxes and Discipline; Creating Progressive Consumers; Promoting Technological Change; Tourism and Indigenous Peoples; Notes; 9 The Price of Progress; Progress and the Quality of Life; Diseases of Development; Ecocide; Deprivation and Discrimination; Notes; 10 The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination Who Are Indigenous Peoples?The Initial Political Movements; Creating Nunavut; Guna Self-Determination: The Comarca Gunayala; The Political Struggle; The Shuar Solution; CONAIE: Uprising Politics Reshaping Ecuador's Political Landscape; The Dene Nation: Land, Not Money; Land Rights and the Outstation Movement in Australia; Philippine Tribals: No More Retreat; Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic Council; The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Revision of the ILO's Convention 107; Tebtebba: An Indigenous Partnership on Climate Change and Forests; Notes 11 Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous PeoplesPetroleum: The Unsustainable Foundation of the Commercial World; The Gwich'in and Oil Development in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins; Petroleum Development and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador; First Nations Opposition to Canadian Tar Sand Development; Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) versus Shell Oil; Assigning Responsibility for Tar Sand Development; Notes; 12 Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples; The Indigenous Response to Global Warming; Indigenous Peoples as Climate Change Refugees; Arctic Warming and Alaska Natives Global Warming Perpetuators and Beneficiaries |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791297003321 |
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Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942->
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||
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victims of progress / / John H. Bodley
| Victims of progress / / John H. Bodley |
| Autore | Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942-> |
| Edizione | [Sixth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Indigenous peoples
Culture conflict Acculturation Social change |
| ISBN |
1-322-07589-1
1-4422-2694-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; What's New in the Sixth Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale; Culture Scale, Culture Process, and Indigenous Peoples; Large-Scale versus Small-Scale Society and Culture; The Problem of Global-Scale Society and Culture; Social Scale and Social Power; Negative Development: The Global Pattern; Policy Implications; Notes; 2 Progress and Indigenous Peoples; Progress: The Commercial Explosion; The Culture of Consumption; Resource Appropriation and Acculturation; The Role of Ethnocentrism
Civilization's Unwilling ConscriptsCultural Pride versus Progress; The Principle of Stabilization; Notes; 3 The Uncontrolled Frontier; The Frontier Process; Demographic Impact of the Frontier; Notes; 4 We Fought with Spears; The Punitive Raid; Wars of Extermination; Guns against Spears; Notes; 5 The Extension of Government Control; Aims and Philosophy of Administration; Tribal Peoples and National Unity; The Transfer of Sovereignty; Treaty Making; Bringing Government to the Tribes; The Political Integration Process; Anthropology and Native Administration; Notes; 6 Land Policies The People-Land RelationshipLand Policy Variables; Notes; 7 Cultural Modification Policies; These Are the Things That Obstruct Progress; Social Engineering: How to Do It; Notes; 8 Economic Globalization; Forced Labor: Harnessing the Heathens; Learning the Dignity of Labor: Taxes and Discipline; Creating Progressive Consumers; Promoting Technological Change; Tourism and Indigenous Peoples; Notes; 9 The Price of Progress; Progress and the Quality of Life; Diseases of Development; Ecocide; Deprivation and Discrimination; Notes; 10 The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination Who Are Indigenous Peoples?The Initial Political Movements; Creating Nunavut; Guna Self-Determination: The Comarca Gunayala; The Political Struggle; The Shuar Solution; CONAIE: Uprising Politics Reshaping Ecuador's Political Landscape; The Dene Nation: Land, Not Money; Land Rights and the Outstation Movement in Australia; Philippine Tribals: No More Retreat; Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic Council; The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Revision of the ILO's Convention 107; Tebtebba: An Indigenous Partnership on Climate Change and Forests; Notes 11 Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous PeoplesPetroleum: The Unsustainable Foundation of the Commercial World; The Gwich'in and Oil Development in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins; Petroleum Development and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador; First Nations Opposition to Canadian Tar Sand Development; Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) versus Shell Oil; Assigning Responsibility for Tar Sand Development; Notes; 12 Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples; The Indigenous Response to Global Warming; Indigenous Peoples as Climate Change Refugees; Arctic Warming and Alaska Natives Global Warming Perpetuators and Beneficiaries |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817446903321 |
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Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942->
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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