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Alberta oil and the decline of democracy in Canada [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Meenal Shrivastava & Lorna Stefanick
| Alberta oil and the decline of democracy in Canada [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Meenal Shrivastava & Lorna Stefanick |
| Autore | Edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athabasca University Press, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 426 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 338.2728 |
| Soggetto topico |
Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects - Alberta
Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Alberta Petroleum industry and trade - Government policy - Alberta Democracy - Alberta |
| Soggetto non controllato |
resource-rich economies
oil C.B. Macpherson Progressive Conservatives oil industry climate change |
| ISBN |
1-77199-032-5
1-77199-030-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: framing the debate on democracy and governance in an oil-exporting economy --Part one: the context of democracy in an oil economy --Part two: rights claims in an oil economy --Part three: governance, identity and citizenship in a oil economy --Conclusion: of democracy and its deficits: surviving neoliberalism in oil-exporting countries. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131503503321 |
Edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick
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| Athabasca University Press, 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire and revolution [[electronic resource] ] : the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War / / John Mason Hart
| Empire and revolution [[electronic resource] ] : the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War / / John Mason Hart |
| Autore | Hart John M (John Mason), <1935-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (722 p.) |
| Disciplina | 972/.00413 |
| Soggetto topico |
Americans - Mexico - History
Investments, American - Mexico - History Nationalism - Mexico - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
america
american attitudes american dream banking industry civil war corruption economic growth expansion global empire globalization historians historical analysis historical perspective historiography international relations manifest destiny mexican revolution mexico mining nafta national infrastructure natural resources nonfiction oil industry railroad revolution revolutionaries social connections textbooks united states us expansion war |
| ISBN |
0-520-90077-4
1-282-35825-1 9786612358258 0-520-93929-8 1-59734-593-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imperial Ambition -- 1. Arms And Capital -- 2. Rival Concessionaires -- 3. Ubiquitous Financiers -- 4. Building The Railroads -- 5. Silver, Copper, Gold, And Oil -- 6. Absentee Landlords -- 7. Resident American Elite -- 8. Boomers, Sooners, And Settlers -- 9. Mexico For The Mexicans -- 10. Interventions And Firestorms -- 11. Crisis In The New Regime -- 12. Nationalization Of Land And Industry -- 13. Cooperation And Accommodation -- 14. Return Of The American Financiers -- 15. Mexico In The New World Order -- Conclusion: Imperial America -- Endpiece -- Appendix 1. Partial List Of American Landholdings And Ownership In Mexico, 100,000 Acres And More, 1910-1913 -- Appendix 2. Partial List Of American Properties Of More Than 100,000 Acres Or Of Special Significance, Derived Via Government Portions Of Land Surveys Or From The Land Survey Companies, 1876-1910 -- Appendix 3. American Banking Syndicates Formed To Render Financial Support To Britain And Her Allies During World War I, September 1914-April 1917 -- Notes On Archival Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780375203321 |
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Hart John M (John Mason), <1935->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metropolitan migrants [[electronic resource] ] : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon
| Metropolitan migrants [[electronic resource] ] : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon |
| Autore | Hernandez-Leon Ruben |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.00468/72 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mexicans - United States
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Mexico - Monterrey Mexicans - Texas - Houston |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american immigration
border crossing city life crowded cities economics houston immigration and emigration industrial modernization industrialization international migration mexican immigrants mexican migrants mexico migration industry migration monterrey oil industry political economy skilled urban workers social community social networks social organization sociology texas united states of america urban industrial development working class |
| ISBN |
1-282-36073-6
9786612360732 0-520-94246-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Maps of Monterrey and Houston -- Chapter 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States -- Chapter 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico, 1940-2005 -- Chapter 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood -- Chapter 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection -- Chapter 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection -- Chapter 6. Metropolitan Migrants -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780639003321 |
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Hernandez-Leon Ruben
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]
| Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60956 |
| Collana | Space and Place |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban violence - Middle East - History
Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History City and town life - Middle East - History Community life - Middle East - History Political culture - Middle East - History Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History Social change - Middle East - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
big oil cairo changing cityscape city life cityscapes contemporary politics current politics diplomacy fossil fuel historical history middle eastern history middle eastern politics nation states oil industry ottoman empire political science qajar revolutionaries sociology textbook understanding violence urban violence violence war and insurgencies wartime |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful
Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 - The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788290203321 |
| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]
| Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60956 |
| Collana | Space and Place |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban violence - Middle East - History
Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History City and town life - Middle East - History Community life - Middle East - History Political culture - Middle East - History Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History Social change - Middle East - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
big oil cairo changing cityscape city life cityscapes contemporary politics current politics diplomacy fossil fuel historical history middle eastern history middle eastern politics nation states oil industry ottoman empire political science qajar revolutionaries sociology textbook understanding violence urban violence violence war and insurgencies wartime |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful
Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 - The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828487003321 |
| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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