Contested powers : the politics of enregy and develpoment in Latin America / / edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink and Owen Logan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.79098 |
Soggetto topico |
Power resources - Political aspects - Latin America
Power resources - Economic aspects - Latin America Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America Energy industries - Environmental aspects - Latin America Energy policy - Latin America |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-78360-095-0
1-78360-094-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Map; 1: Introduction: Recovering Power from Energy - Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development ; Introduction ; Resource Sovereignties ; Contested Powers in Latin America ; A Politics of Renewables ; Beyond National and Regional Borders ; Development, Modernity and Power ; An Anthropology of Energy? ; Critical Institutionalism ; Critical Perspectives on the Energetic State ; The Story of This Book ; Notes ; References
2: Oil Extraction and Territorial Disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve Post-War Guatemala ; The Political History of Mining ; Laguna Del Tigre: A Strategic Territory ; The Xan Oil Well ; Population and Land Occupation ; Interest Groups and Social Conflict ; Creating Favourable Public Opinion ; Oil Contracts to the Detriment of National Interests ; The Controversial Role of the State ; The Consequences ; Final Reflections ; Notes ; References ; Webpages ; 3: Gracias A Díos Y Al Gobierno: Electric Power Struggles in Nicaraguan Politics; Background: Nicaragua, State, Society and Electricity Electric Power to the People Changing Opportunities for Popular Protest ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 4: Wind at the Margins of the State: Autonomy and Renewable Energy Development in Southern Mexico ; Oaxacan Wind Power at a Crossroads ; An Anthropology of Failure ; In the Fading Light of the Black Sun ; Capturing the Meter ; Rescuing the Land from the Wind ; On Fish and Neoliberalism ; Conclusions: Downed Windmills ; Notes ; References ; 5: Oil and Environmental Injustice in Venezuela: An Ethnographic Study of Punta Cardón; Introduction ; Before the Arrival of the Oil Company The First Contact with Oil People The Attraction of 'Black Gold'; Environmental and Social Impacts ; Dialogue of the Deaf ; Punta Cardón in the 1980's and 1990's ; Punta Cardón Today ; The Environmental Situation Today ; Diverging Epistemologies ; Memories Discarded ; Blaming the Fishermen ; The Politics of Payouts ; Punta Cardón and the Bolivarian Revolution ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 6: 'Everything Moves with Fuel': Energy Politics and the Smuggling of Energy Resources ; Introduction ; Politics and Prices ; Protests and Responses ; Contraband The Social Embeddedness of Cross-Border Trade Conclusions ; Notes ; References ; 7: The Continuous Negotiation of the Authority of Oil- and Gas-Dependent States: The Case of Bolivia ; The Theoretical Ground - Power, Institutions and Agency ; Public Policies in Countries Dependent on Non-Renewable Natural Resources ; Hydrocarbon Policy and Revenue Redistribution Mechanisms in Bolivia; The Gasolinazo and Government Justifications for Reducing Fuel Subsidies; The Violent Social Reaction to the Reduction in Fuel Subsidies ; Conclusions: Power, Sovereignty and Epistemology ; Notes ; References 8: Passive Revolution? Social and Political Struggles Surrounding Brazil's New-Found Oil Reservoirs |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461012803321 |
London, [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
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Contested powers : the politics of energy and development in Latin America / / edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink, and Owen Logan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7/9/098 |
Soggetto topico |
Power resources - Political aspects - Latin America
Power resources - Economic aspects - Latin America Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America Energy industries - Environmental aspects - Latin America Energy policy - Latin America Politics & government |
ISBN |
1-350-21936-3
1-78360-095-0 1-78360-094-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Map; 1: Introduction: Recovering Power from Energy -- Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development ; Introduction ; Resource Sovereignties ; Contested Powers in Latin America ; A Politics of Renewables ; Beyond National and Regional Borders ; Development, Modernity and Power ; An Anthropology of Energy? ; Critical Institutionalism ; Critical Perspectives on the Energetic State ; The Story of This Book ; Notes ; References.
2: Oil Extraction and Territorial Disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve Post-War Guatemala ; The Political History of Mining ; Laguna Del Tigre: A Strategic Territory ; The Xan Oil Well ; Population and Land Occupation ; Interest Groups and Social Conflict ; Creating Favourable Public Opinion ; Oil Contracts to the Detriment of National Interests ; The Controversial Role of the State ; The Consequences ; Final Reflections ; Notes ; References ; Webpages ; 3: Gracias A Díos Y Al Gobierno: Electric Power Struggles in Nicaraguan Politics; Background: Nicaragua, State, Society and Electricity. Electric Power to the People Changing Opportunities for Popular Protest ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 4: Wind at the Margins of the State: Autonomy and Renewable Energy Development in Southern Mexico ; Oaxacan Wind Power at a Crossroads ; An Anthropology of Failure ; In the Fading Light of the Black Sun ; Capturing the Meter ; Rescuing the Land from the Wind ; On Fish and Neoliberalism ; Conclusions: Downed Windmills ; Notes ; References ; 5: Oil and Environmental Injustice in Venezuela: An Ethnographic Study of Punta Cardón; Introduction ; Before the Arrival of the Oil Company. The First Contact with Oil People The Attraction of 'Black Gold'; Environmental and Social Impacts ; Dialogue of the Deaf ; Punta Cardón in the 1980s and 1990s ; Punta Cardón Today ; The Environmental Situation Today ; Diverging Epistemologies ; Memories Discarded ; Blaming the Fishermen ; The Politics of Payouts ; Punta Cardón and the Bolivarian Revolution ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 6: 'Everything Moves with Fuel': Energy Politics and the Smuggling of Energy Resources ; Introduction ; Politics and Prices ; Protests and Responses ; Contraband. The Social Embeddedness of Cross-Border TradeConclusions ; Notes ; References ; 7: The Continuous Negotiation of the Authority of Oil- and Gas-Dependent States: The Case of Bolivia ; The Theoretical Ground -- Power, Institutions and Agency ; Public Policies in Countries Dependent on Non-Renewable Natural Resources ; Hydrocarbon Policy and Revenue Redistribution Mechanisms in Bolivia; The Gasolinazo and Government Justifications for Reducing Fuel Subsidies; The Violent Social Reaction to the Reduction in Fuel Subsidies ; Conclusions: Power, Sovereignty and Epistemology ; Notes ; References. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797242703321 |
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
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Contested powers : the politics of energy and development in Latin America / / edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink, and Owen Logan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7/9/098 |
Soggetto topico |
Power resources - Political aspects - Latin America
Power resources - Economic aspects - Latin America Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America Energy industries - Environmental aspects - Latin America Energy policy - Latin America Politics & government |
ISBN |
1-350-21936-3
1-78360-095-0 1-78360-094-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Map; 1: Introduction: Recovering Power from Energy -- Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development ; Introduction ; Resource Sovereignties ; Contested Powers in Latin America ; A Politics of Renewables ; Beyond National and Regional Borders ; Development, Modernity and Power ; An Anthropology of Energy? ; Critical Institutionalism ; Critical Perspectives on the Energetic State ; The Story of This Book ; Notes ; References.
2: Oil Extraction and Territorial Disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve Post-War Guatemala ; The Political History of Mining ; Laguna Del Tigre: A Strategic Territory ; The Xan Oil Well ; Population and Land Occupation ; Interest Groups and Social Conflict ; Creating Favourable Public Opinion ; Oil Contracts to the Detriment of National Interests ; The Controversial Role of the State ; The Consequences ; Final Reflections ; Notes ; References ; Webpages ; 3: Gracias A Díos Y Al Gobierno: Electric Power Struggles in Nicaraguan Politics; Background: Nicaragua, State, Society and Electricity. Electric Power to the People Changing Opportunities for Popular Protest ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 4: Wind at the Margins of the State: Autonomy and Renewable Energy Development in Southern Mexico ; Oaxacan Wind Power at a Crossroads ; An Anthropology of Failure ; In the Fading Light of the Black Sun ; Capturing the Meter ; Rescuing the Land from the Wind ; On Fish and Neoliberalism ; Conclusions: Downed Windmills ; Notes ; References ; 5: Oil and Environmental Injustice in Venezuela: An Ethnographic Study of Punta Cardón; Introduction ; Before the Arrival of the Oil Company. The First Contact with Oil People The Attraction of 'Black Gold'; Environmental and Social Impacts ; Dialogue of the Deaf ; Punta Cardón in the 1980s and 1990s ; Punta Cardón Today ; The Environmental Situation Today ; Diverging Epistemologies ; Memories Discarded ; Blaming the Fishermen ; The Politics of Payouts ; Punta Cardón and the Bolivarian Revolution ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 6: 'Everything Moves with Fuel': Energy Politics and the Smuggling of Energy Resources ; Introduction ; Politics and Prices ; Protests and Responses ; Contraband. The Social Embeddedness of Cross-Border TradeConclusions ; Notes ; References ; 7: The Continuous Negotiation of the Authority of Oil- and Gas-Dependent States: The Case of Bolivia ; The Theoretical Ground -- Power, Institutions and Agency ; Public Policies in Countries Dependent on Non-Renewable Natural Resources ; Hydrocarbon Policy and Revenue Redistribution Mechanisms in Bolivia; The Gasolinazo and Government Justifications for Reducing Fuel Subsidies; The Violent Social Reaction to the Reduction in Fuel Subsidies ; Conclusions: Power, Sovereignty and Epistemology ; Notes ; References. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823242303321 |
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
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Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina | 337.8 |
Collana | Historical Materialism Book Series |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America
Marxian economics - Latin America |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-04-27107-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy / Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber -- 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services / Susan Spronk -- 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990's / Mariano Féliz -- 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001 / Emilia Castorina -- 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture / Ben Selwyn -- 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party / Gabriel Hetland -- 7 Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle / Dario Azzellini -- 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela / Thomas F. Purcell -- 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought / Juan Grigera -- 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil / Leandro Vergara-Camus -- 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina / Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta -- 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis / Claudio Katz -- 13 Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the tipnis Conflict in Bolivia / Jeffery R. Webber -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463630803321 |
Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
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Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina | 337.8 |
Collana | Historical Materialism Book Series |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America
Marxian economics - Latin America |
ISBN | 90-04-27107-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy / Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber -- 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services / Susan Spronk -- 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990's / Mariano Féliz -- 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001 / Emilia Castorina -- 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture / Ben Selwyn -- 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party / Gabriel Hetland -- 7 Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle / Dario Azzellini -- 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela / Thomas F. Purcell -- 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought / Juan Grigera -- 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil / Leandro Vergara-Camus -- 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina / Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta -- 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis / Claudio Katz -- 13 Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the tipnis Conflict in Bolivia / Jeffery R. Webber -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787905203321 |
Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
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Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina | 337.8 |
Collana | Historical Materialism Book Series |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America
Marxian economics - Latin America |
ISBN | 90-04-27107-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy / Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber -- 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services / Susan Spronk -- 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990's / Mariano Féliz -- 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001 / Emilia Castorina -- 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture / Ben Selwyn -- 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party / Gabriel Hetland -- 7 Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle / Dario Azzellini -- 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela / Thomas F. Purcell -- 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought / Juan Grigera -- 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil / Leandro Vergara-Camus -- 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina / Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta -- 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis / Claudio Katz -- 13 Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the tipnis Conflict in Bolivia / Jeffery R. Webber -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823622803321 |
Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
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Extractive imperialism in the Americas : capitalism's new frontier / / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer ; with contributions by Paul Bowles [and three others] |
Autore | Petras James F. <1937-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.2097 |
Collana | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America
Natural resources - Political aspects - Latin America Capitalism - Latin America Imperialism - Economic aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-04-26886-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A New Model or a New Form of Imperialism? -- Extractive Imperialism in Historical Perspective -- Agro-Extractivism: The Agrarian Question of the 21st Century -- Trade and Development in an Era of Extractive Imperialism -- Class Struggle on the New Frontier of Extractive Capitalism -- Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Guyana -- Extractive Capitalism and Brazil’s Great Leap Backward -- Resistance and Reform in Mexico’s Mining Sector -- Canadian Resistance to the Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline -- Imperialist Dynamics of US-Venezuela Relations -- Dynamics of 21st Century Imperialism -- Reflections on us Imperialism at Home and Abroad -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460412903321 |
Petras James F. <1937->
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
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Extractive imperialism in the Americas : capitalism's new frontier / / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer ; with contributions by Paul Bowles [and three others] |
Autore | Petras James F. <1937-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.2097 |
Collana | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America
Natural resources - Political aspects - Latin America Capitalism - Latin America Imperialism - Economic aspects |
ISBN | 90-04-26886-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A New Model or a New Form of Imperialism? -- Extractive Imperialism in Historical Perspective -- Agro-Extractivism: The Agrarian Question of the 21st Century -- Trade and Development in an Era of Extractive Imperialism -- Class Struggle on the New Frontier of Extractive Capitalism -- Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Guyana -- Extractive Capitalism and Brazil’s Great Leap Backward -- Resistance and Reform in Mexico’s Mining Sector -- Canadian Resistance to the Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline -- Imperialist Dynamics of US-Venezuela Relations -- Dynamics of 21st Century Imperialism -- Reflections on us Imperialism at Home and Abroad -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787182203321 |
Petras James F. <1937->
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
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Extractive imperialism in the Americas : capitalism's new frontier / / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer ; with contributions by Paul Bowles [and three others] |
Autore | Petras James F. <1937-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.2097 |
Collana | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Political aspects - Latin America
Natural resources - Political aspects - Latin America Capitalism - Latin America Imperialism - Economic aspects |
ISBN | 90-04-26886-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A New Model or a New Form of Imperialism? -- Extractive Imperialism in Historical Perspective -- Agro-Extractivism: The Agrarian Question of the 21st Century -- Trade and Development in an Era of Extractive Imperialism -- Class Struggle on the New Frontier of Extractive Capitalism -- Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Guyana -- Extractive Capitalism and Brazil’s Great Leap Backward -- Resistance and Reform in Mexico’s Mining Sector -- Canadian Resistance to the Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline -- Imperialist Dynamics of US-Venezuela Relations -- Dynamics of 21st Century Imperialism -- Reflections on us Imperialism at Home and Abroad -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824400403321 |
Petras James F. <1937->
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
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