• 'Performing the state' in post-1947 India and Pakistan
• People on the move : refugees and minorities in Uttar Pradesh and Sindh
• Citizens and the city : from people on the move to the movement of goods
• New constitutions, new citizens
• Women and differentiated citizenship in post-colonial South Asia
• 'Hidden citizens' in 1940s and 1950s India and Pakistan.

"The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction-- 1 Summary of al-Azdi's Futuh al-Sham-- 2 The compiler-author and his work-- 3 Policies of translation-- 4 Translation.
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This book narrates the battles, conquests and diplomatic activities of the early Muslim fighters in Syria and Iraq vis-a-vis their Byzantine and Sasansian counterparts. It is the first English translation of one of the earliest Arabic sources on the early Muslim expansion entitled Futuh al-Sham (The Conquests of Syria). The translation is based on the Arabic original composed by a Muslim author, Muhammad al-Azdi, who died in the late 8th or early 9th century C.E. A scientific introduction to al-Azdi's work is also included, covering the life of the author, the textual tradition of the work as well as a short summary of the text's train of thought. The source narrates the major historical events during the early Muslim conquests in a region that covers today's Lebanon, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and Iraq in the 7th century C.E. Among these events are the major battles against the Byzantines, such as the Battles of Ajnadayn and al-Yarmuk, the conquests of important cities, including Damascus, Jerusalem and Caesarea, and the diplomatic initiatives between the Byzantines and the early Muslims. The narrative abounds with history and Islamic theological content. As the first translation into a European language, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of readership, including (Muslim and Christian) theologians, historians, Islamicists, Byzantinists, Syrologists and (Arabic) linguists.
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• 1. Introduction: Modernity and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat)
• 2. The Restoration of Sovereign Order and the Kurdish Resistance
• 3. The Revival of the Nationalist Movement
• 4. Coup d'etat and Exile
• 5. Armed Action in Rojhelat
• 6. The Rise of the Left and Search for a New Identity
• 7. The Formation and Structure of the Komalay Shoreshgeri Zahmatkeshani Kurdistani Eran (The Revolutionary Association of the Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan)
• 8. The Revolutionary Rupture and the Political Field in Rojhelat: A Brief Survey
• 9. Conclusions: Genealogy of Violence: Sovereign Domination and Kurdish Resistance
• 10. Epilogue.
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This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution. An original and path-breaking investigation of the period, it sheds light not only on the historical specificity of the phenomenon of nationalism in exile, but also on the political processes and practices defining the development of Kurdish nationalism in the post-revolutionary era. Although nationalist landmarks such as the Kurdish republic in 1946 and the resurgence of the movement in the revolutionary conjuncture of 1978-79 have attracted the attention of historians and social scientists in recent years, little is known about the three decades of Kurdish nationalism in exile between these two events. This analysis draws on contemporary poststructuralist theory to question the concept of the minority in democratic and constitutional theory, arguing that it is an effect of the discursive linkage between sovereign power and the dominant ethnic-linguistic identity in the nation-state. This text will appeal to a wide academic audience ranging from the fields of Kurdish, Iranian and Middle East Studies to ethnicity, nationalism, government, and political science.
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• List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Introduction: Indian Ocean histories. Rila Mukherjee
• Part I: Historiographies, methodologies and scale in the Indian Ocean
• 1. The Indian Ocean: global nexus (1500-1800). Patrick Manning
• 2. The sodden archive: Africa, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. Isabel Hofmeyr
• Part II: Case studies
• 3. The Kakatiyas, Motupalli and the Southern Bay of Bengal linkages. Radhika Seshan
• 4. Regional identities, maritime networking and Islamic conversions in fifteenth-century Java. Kenneth R. Hall
• 5. Brokers and go-betweens within the Portuguese State of India (1500-1700). Amelia Polonia
• 6. South Asian settlers at Batavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ryuto Shimada
• 7. Physicians, surgeons, merchants and healers: production, circulation and reconfiguration of knowledge in eighteenth-century Portuguese India. Fabiano Bracht
• 8. Indian seamen (lascars), shipboard labor regime and the East India Company in the first half of the nineteenth century. Ghulam A. Nadri
• Part III: New histories
• 9. Hazards and history on the Western Australian coast: the 'Pearling Fleet Disaster' of
• 1887. Joseph Christensen
• 10. Landscape, Rajah and wax prints: contemporary archaeologies of India in Mozambique. Pedro Pombo
• 11. Littoral shell tracks: tracing Burma's transregional pearl histories. Pedro Machado
• Part IV: Reminiscences
• 12. Michael Naylor Pearson: the discipline of history, the sea and the man. Rila Mukherjee
• 13. Afterword. Radhika Seshan
• Index.
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This book offers a global history of the Indian Ocean and focuses on a holistic perspective of the worlds of water. It builds on maritime historian Michael Naylor Pearson's works, his unorthodox approach and strong influence on the study of the Indian Ocean in viewing the oceanic space as replete with human experiences and not as an artefact of empire or as the theatre of European commercial and imperial transits focused only on trade. This interdisciplinary volume presents several ways of writing the history of the Indian Ocean. The chapters explore the changing nature of Indian Ocean history through diverse themes, including state and capital, regional identities, maritime networking, South Asian immigrants, Bay of Bengal linkages, the East India Company, Indian seamen, formal and informal collaboration in imperial networking, scientific transfers, pearling, the issues of colonial copyright, customs, excise and port cities. The volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of global history, modern history, maritime history, medieval history, Indian history, colonial history and world history.
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• 1. Iran's Pre-Revolutionary Opposition and the Palestine Cause
• 2. Iran's relations with Palestine during the first decade of the Islamic revolution
• 3. Iran's Relations with Palestinian Islamic Jihad
• 4. Relations between Iran and Hamas (1987-2011) - Strategic Partnership, Shared Values, and Ideological Differences
• 5. Iran and Palestinian Islamic Movements in the post-Arab Spring Era
• 6. Conclusion: The Trajectory of Iran's pro-Palestinian Stance.
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Examining the nature of relations between Iran and Palestine, this book investigates the relationship between state and authorities in the Middle East. Analysing the connections of the Iranian revolutionary movements, both the Left and the Islamic camps' perspectives are scrutinized. To provide a historical background to the post-revolutionary period, the genealogy of pro-Palestinian sentiments before 1979 are traced additionally. Demonstrating the pro-Palestinian stance of post-revolutionary Iran, the study focuses on the causes of roots of the ideological outlook and the interest of the state. Despite a growing body of literature on the Iranian Revolution and its impacts on the region, Iran's connection with Palestine have been overlooked. This new volume fills the gap in the literature and enables readers to unpack the history of the two states. This unique and comprehensive coverage of Iran and Palestine's relationship is a key resource for scholars and students interested in international relations, politics, Islamic and Middle East studies.
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• Prologue
• Introduction
• 1. The Language of Reform
• 2. Modernism and Humanism
• 3. The Meaning and End of Time
• 4. The Viva Activa
• 5. Knowledge and Wisdom
• Epilogue: Can the Muslims Speak?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great tribulation for Muslim India under British rule. By examining Khan's work as a critical expression of modernity rooted in the Muslim experience of it, Islam as Critique argues that Khan is essential to understanding the problematics of modern Islam and its relationship to the West. The book re-imagines Islam as an interpretive strategy for investigating the modern condition, and as an engaged alternative to mainstream Western thought. Using the life and work of nineteenth-century Indian Muslim polymath Khan (1817-1898), it identifies Muslims as a viable resource for both critical intervention in important ethical debates of our times and as legitimate participants in humanistic discourses that underpin a just global order. Islam as Critique locates Khan within a broader strain in modern Islamic thought that is neither a rejection of the West, nor a wholesale acceptance of it. The author calls this "Critical Islam". By bringing Khan's critical engagement with modernity into conversation with similar critical analyses of the modern by Reinhold Niebuhr, Hannah Arendt, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the author shows how Islam can be read as critique.
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• INTRODUCTION
• I. PROLOGUE
• Chapter 1. The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa on the Eve of World War II
• Chapter 2. The Issue of Racism and Opposition to Nazism
• Chapter 3. German and Italian Policy and the Issue of Palestine
• II. THE WAR BEGINS
• Chapter 4. The War Begins: The War in the Levant
• Chapter 5. The Threat to Palestine
• Chapter 6. Iraq and the Farhud in Baghdad
• Chapter 7. Vichy in Syria and Lebanon
• Chapter 8. Iran and the "Tehran Children"
• III. THE WAR CONTINUES
• Chapter 9. The War Continues: The North African Campaign
• Chapter 10. Egypt and the Panic of 1942
• Chapter 11. Bombings and Deportations in Libya
• Chapter 12. Algeria and "Operation Torch"
• Chapter 13. The Nazi SS in Tunisia
• Chapter 14. Morocco, Labor Camps and Refugees
• Chapter 15. Turkish Neutrality and Refugees
• IV. EPILOGUE
• Chapter 16. The War Ends: Epilogue.
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Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran. Surviving the Nazi slaughter did not mean that Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa were unaffected by the war: there was constant anti-Semitic propaganda and general economic deprivation; communities were bombed; and Jews suffered because of the anti-Semitic Vichy regulations that left them unemployed, homeless, and subject to forced labor and deportation to labor camps. Nevertheless, they fought for the Allies and assisted the Americans and the British in the invasion of North Africa. These men and women were community leaders and average people who, despite their dire economic circumstances, worked with the refugees attempting to escape the Nazis via North Africa, Turkey, or Iran and connected with international aid agencies during and after the war. By 1945, no Jewish community had been left untouched, and many were financially decimated, a situation that would have serious repercussions on the future of Jews in the region. Covering the entire Middle East and North Africa region, this book on World War II is a key resource for students, scholars, and general readers interested in Jewish history, World War II, and Middle East history.
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• History, memory, forgetting
• Intangible violence
• Scripting their own lives
• They stuttered: non-narratives of the unsayable
• Not at home
• Memories of lost homes
• Resettled homes
• Moving on
• Partitioned subjects.

"This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of survivors and their children to show how they script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and survival. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, this book analyses the traumatizing effects of the somatic impact of direct violence and the aftermath of the equally traumatic experience of displacement, resettlement and struggle for survival shared by successive generations of survivors. At the same time, this book reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors' narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on Asian history, South Asian studies and postcolonial studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction-- Part One: Institutions-- Chapter One: Mapping the Background: The Uncertain Influence of the Ming State and Imperial Leadership by Thomas Nimick-- Chapter Two: Nanjing's Longjiang Shipyard Treatise and Our Knowledge of Ming Ships by Sally Church-- Chapter Three: How Yongle Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gun: Perspectives on Early Ming Military History by Tonio Andrade-- Chapter Four: The Paradoxical Effect of Autocracy: Collective Deliberation in the Ming Official Merit-Evaluation System by Yang Wei-- Chapter Five: Deserts and Islands: Politics and Border Control, 1547-49 by Roland Higgins-- Part Two: Ideas-- Chapter Six: Cartography in the Ming by Ken Hammond-- Chapter Seven: Gender & Religion in the Ming by Ann Waltner-- Chapter Eight: Adopting an Orphan: Theater and Urban Culture in Ming China by Yuming He-- Chapter Nine: Theater and Society in the Ming World by Hsiao Li-ling-- Part Three: Identities-- Chapter Ten: The Han-ness of Ming China by Leo Shin-- Chapter Eleven: The Hall of Supreme Harmony as Simulacrum of Ming Dynasty Construction by Aurelia Campbell-- Chapter Twelve: The Confucian Ideal Friend by Ying Zhang-- Chapter Thirteen: The Lineage Organization in Ming China: A Case Study of Haining by Ivy Lim-- Chapter Fourteen: Soaring Dragon Amid Dynastic Transition: Dates and Legitimacy among the Post-Ming Chinese Diaspora by Xing Hang-- Part Four: Individuals-- Chapter Fifteen: The Legend of Tang Saier by Kenneth M. Swope-- Chapter Sixteen: Wang Yangming in Chuzhou and Nanjing, 1513-1516: "I Have only two words to say: "Be Truthful!"' by Larry Israel-- Chapter Seventeen: Zhang Dai's Musical Life by Joseph Lam-- Chapter Eighteen: The Making of an Empress in Life and Death: Empresses Xiaoduan's and Xiaojing's Burial Goods in the Ding Mausoleum by Yu-ping Luk-- Chapter Nineteen: From Peasant Rebel to Loyalist: The Career of Li Dingguo by Kenneth M. Swope-- Part Five: Interactions-- Chapter Twenty: The Ming as a Eurasian Power by Edward L. Farmer-- Chapter Twenty-one: Contested Histories of Ming Agency in the Java Sea, Straits of Melaka and Bay of Bengal Region by Kenneth R. Hall-- Chapter Twenty-two: Dai Viet & The Ming World by John K. Whitmore-- Chapter Twenty-three: Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys: Relations with Choson Through the Zhengde Reign by Wang Sixiang-- Chapter Twenty-four: War and Commerce in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Late Sixteenth Century by Masato Hasegawa-- Selected Chinese Character Glossary-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world. The book is designed to replicate the structure of popular Ming-era unofficial histories that gathered information and gossip from a wide variety of fields and disciplines. Engaging with a broad array of primary and secondary sources, the authors build upon earlier scholarship while extending the field to embrace new theories, methodologies, and interpretive frameworks. It is divided into five thematically linked sections: Institutions, Ideas, Identities, Individuals, and Interactions. Unique in its breadth and scope, The Ming World is essential reading for scholars and postgraduates of early modern China, the history of East Asia and anyone interested in gaining a broader picture of the colorful Ming world and its inhabitants.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Kharagpur Raj
• 3. The Ujjainias of Bhojpur
• 4. The Cheros of Palamau
• 5. The Khokhra Chieftaincy
• 6. The Gidhaur Chieftaincy
• 7. The Darbhanga Raj
• 8. The Betia Raj
• 9. The Hathwa Raj
• 10. Conclusion.
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The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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• Chapter 1: The Middle East North Africa Socio-economic ChallengesSara Bazoobandi
• Chapter 2: GCC Oil Wealth: The Power and the PeopleSara Bazoobandi and Rhiannon Alexander
• Chapter 3: The Realignment of Regional Politics and the Future of the Gulf Cooperation Council Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
• Chapter 4: Iran Nuclear Programme, A Brief HistorySara Bazoobandi
• Chapter 5: The Role of External Powers: Global Actors (Part I)Neil Quilliam
• Chapter 6: The Role of External Powers: Regional Actors (Part II)Neil Quilliam.
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This book examines some of the driving forces of change in the Middle East and aims to provide a regional outlook. The political and social events of the past years have significantly affected the regional structure across the Middle East, evident in socio-economic systems, security framework and the balance of power across the area. Each chapter focuses on one of the driving forces of change, including the Iran Nuclear Deal, the role of external powers, energy and its political and economic role in the region, the regional balance of power struggle amongst the key regional players and the socio-economic challenges across the region. .
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Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present-including Mongolia and Vietnam, alongside China, Japan, and Korea-Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a framework around which to structure the material. This approach serves as both an organizational aid to instructors and as a tool to make complex material more comprehensible to students. The result is enhanced pedagogical flexibility. This subtly recursive format allows abundant opportunities for contrast and comparison among and within the societies under consideration. The overall aim is to simplify the immense complexities of history for beginning students without making them simplistic. Featuring nearly sixty maps and 200 photos, Patterns of East Asian History provides a rich visual history that complements its engaging narrative.
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• Into the woods: Judaean engagements with the early Persian empire
• Second Isaiah
• Old Persian creation "theology"
• First Zechariah
• The phenomenology of dreams and visions
• The great king, elites, priests, and temples in the early empire
• The great king and local elites in early Persian imperial discourse
• Exit, pursued by a bear.

• List of tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: power and knowledge
• 1 Indonesia and the Philippines: a contextual comparison
• 2 Genesis of Tadhana project
• 3 Tadhana in political and historiographic contexts
• 4 The making of Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI)
• 5 SNI: contents and contexts
• 6 The calculus of power-knowledge relations
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Index.
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Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators, government officials) and knowledge (intellectuals, historians, history). Known respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the Tadhana project, these projects were initiated by the Suharto and Marcos authoritarian regimes against the backdrop of rising and competing nationalisms, as well as the regimes' efforts at political consolidation. The dialectics between actors and the politico-academic contexts determine whether scholarship and politics would clash, mutually support, or co-exist parallel with one another. Rather than one side manipulating or co-opting the other, this study shows the mutual need or partnership between scholars and political actors in these projects. This book proposes the need to embrace rather than deny or transcend the entwined power/knowledge if the idea is for scholarship to realize its truly progressive visions. Analyzing the dynamics of state-scholar relations in the two countries, the book will be of interest to academics in the fields on Southeast Asian history and politics, nationalism, historiography, intellectual history, postocolonial studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge.
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• 1.
• Chapter 1 Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel: Defining Attributes and Foundations for Comparative Analysis Part I. Typologies and Theory: Some Comparisons among Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs inIsrael
• 2.
• Chapter 2 Ethnic Change and Non-assimilating Minority Status: The Case of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel
• 3.
• Chapter 3 The Identity of Religious Minorities in Non-secular States: Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel
• 4.
• Chapter 4 The Protection of Minorities in the Middle East: The Case of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel in the 1970s Part II. The Context: Religion, Politics, and Conflict in the Middle East in the 1970s
• 5.
• Chapter 5 A Cultural Basis for Arab-Israeli Accommodation
• 6.
• Chapter 6 Secularism in the Middle East: Reflections on Recent Palestinian Proposals
• 7.
• Chapter 7 Political Change and the Religious Revival in Tunisia
• 8.
• Chapter 8 Israel and Morocco: The Political Calculus of a 'Moderate' Arab State Part III. Jews in Tunisia and Morocco: Two Small Mobilized Minorities
• 9.
• Chapter 9 The Jews of North Africa
• 10.
• Chapter 10 The Political Culture of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco (by Mark Tessler and Linda Hawkins)
• 11.
• Chapter 11 Minorities in Retreat: The Jews of the Maghreb (by Mark Tessler, Linda Hawkins, and Jutta Parsons) Part IV. Israel's Arab Citizens: A Large Proletarian Minority
• 12.
• Chapter 12 Israel's Arabs and the Palestinian Problem
• 13.
• Chapter 13 Arabs in Israel
• 14.
• Chapter 14 Arab Women's Emancipation in Israel
• 15.
• Chapter 15 Israel's Arab Citizens: The Continuing Struggle (by Mark Tessler and Audra K. Grant)
• 16.
• Chapter 16 Reflections, 2019.
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This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority. The politics and identity of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel are, therefore, shaped to a substantial degree by their status as religious minorities in non-secular states. This collection, based on in-depth fieldwork carried out during an important moment in the history of each community, and of the region, considers the nature and implications of each group's response to its circumstances. It focuses on both the community and individual levels of analysis and draws, in part, on original public opinion surveys. It also compares the three communities in order to offer generalizable insights about ways the identity, political culture, and institutional character of a minority group are shaped by the broader political environment in which it resides. The project will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Middle Eastern and North African studies, Judaic studies, Islamic Studies, minority group politics, and international relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Japanese goals, Chinese realities at the grassroots: the Japanese Occupation in northern Zhejiang, 1937-42
• R. Keith Schoppa
• 2 The rise of the Chinese Communist military-fiscal party-state in Shandong Province, 1937-45
• Sherman Xiaogang Lai
• 3 New China Daily: social change and the class project in wartime Nationalist China
• Joshua H. Howard
• 4 Liberation: a view from the Southwest
• Kristin Stapleton
• 5 The search for a Socialist everyday: the urban communes
• Fabio Lanza
• 6 Changes in the rural land system and power structure in the countryside
• Liu Yigao
• 7 "There is no crisis and it is going to go away soon, anyhow"-propaganda, denialism and revisionism in debating the Great Leap Forward famine
• Lauri Paltemaa
• 8 Gospel light or imperialist poison? Controversies of the Christian community in China, 1922-55
• Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
• 9 A (wo)men's revolution? Small feet, large hands and visions of womanhood in China's long twentieth century
• Barbara Mittler
• 10 The afterlife of Sun Yat-sen during the Republic (1925-49)
• Xavier Paules
• 11 The New Life Movement and national sacrifice
• Maggie Clinton
• 12 Learning the new culture: rural literacy education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s
• Di Luo
• 13 Making Taiwan Chinese, 1945-60
• Tehyun Ma
• 14 Chinese professions, the nation and revolution, 1895-1965
• Charles W. Hayford
• 15 Roles of the beautiful nation in the making of a revolutionary Middle Kingdom
• Xu Guoqi
• 16 Closest model, rival and fateful enemy: China's political economy, law and Japan
• Joyman Lee
• 17 Ambiguous paradigms: the Russian model and the Chinese Revolution
• James Z. Gao
• 18 All rivers flow into the sea: the making of China's most cosmopolitan city
• Hanchao Lu
• 19 Public space and public life: transformation of urban China, 1900-2000
• Wang Di
• 20 The nationalization of the hardship of travel in China, 1895-1949: progress, hygiene and national concern
• Antonio Barrento
• 21 Chinese revolutions and the ebb and flow of revolutionary historiography
• Q. Edward Wang
• Index.
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The Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China covers the evolution of Chinese society from the roots of the Republic of China in the early 1900s until the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The chapters in this volume explain aspects of the process of revolution and how people adapted to the demands of the revolutionary situation. Exploring changes in political leadership, as well as transformation in culture, it compares the differences in experiences in urban and rural areas and contrasts rapid changes, such as the war with Japan and Communist 'liberation' with evolutionary developments, such as the gradual redefinition of public space. Taking a comprehensive approach, the themes covered include: * War, occupation and liberation * Religion and gender * Education, cities and travel. This is an essential resource for students and scholars of Modern China, Republican China, Revolutionary China and Chinese Politics.
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• Series Introduction
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• A Brief Note on Language
• Timeline
• Part One:
• Introduction. Toward "Peace"
• 1. Richard Nixon, the Cold War, and Southeast Asia
• 2. Vietnamization and the Illusion of Peace
• 3. Nixon and the Bloodbath Theory
• 4. The "Great Silent Majority" and Right-Wing Revanchism
• Epilogue. Conjuring Nixon in the Twenty-First Century
• Part Two: Documents
• 1. Richard Nixon, "Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, " November 3, 1969
• 2. Mrs. Dennis W. Harrison to Richard Nixon, November 4, 1969
• 3. Commentary by George Salem, KWGN Television, November 5, 1969
• 4. Editors, "President on Solid Ground in Search for Vietnam Peace, " Orlando
• Sentinel, November 5, 1969
• 5. Robert T. Park, et al., to Richard M. Nixon, November 17, 1969
• 6. Excerpt from Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., "The Collapse of the Armed
• Forces, " Armed Forces Journal (June 7, 1971)
• 7. Excerpt from George McT. Kahin, "History and the Bloodbath Theory in Vietnam, " New
• York Times, December 6, 1969
• 8. Richard Nixon, "Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast
• Asia, " April 30, 1970
• Index.
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The "Silent Majority" Speech treats Richard Nixon's address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to U.S. global power and American domestic life. The book uses Nixon's speech - which introduced the policy of "Vietnamization" and cited the so-called bloodbath theory as a justification for continued U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia - as a fascinating moment around which to build an analysis of the last years of the war. For Nixon's strategy to be successful, he requested the support of what he called the "great silent majority, " a term that continues to resonate in American political culture. Scott Laderman moves beyond the war's final years to address the administration's hypocritical exploitation of moral rhetoric and its stoking of social divisiveness to achieve policy aims. Laderman explores the antiwar and pro-war movements, the shattering of the liberal consensus, and the stirrings of the right-wing resurgence that would come to define American politics. Supplemental primary sources make this book an ideal tool for introducing students to historical research. The "Silent Majority" Speech is critical reading for those studying American political history and U.S.-Asian/Southeast Asian relations.
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• Acknowledgements-- The Editors and Contributors-- 1 Reconsidering Taiwan's Future in a More Contested East Asia - Benjamin Schreer and Andrew T. H. Tan-- 2 The Taiwan Issue and Small State Survival - Andrew T. H. Tan-- 3 Taiwan's Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Policy - J. Michael Cole-- 4 Taiwan and the Great Powers - Andrea Benvenuti-- 5 The 'Taiwan Issue': Tracing Seventy years of Taiwan-China Relations - Roger Lee Huang and Andrew T. H. Tan-- 6 Taiwan-China Relations: Asymmetric Trust and Innenpolitik - Wen-ti Sung-- 7 Preventing Independence, Striving for Unification: Chinese Perspective on Taiwan - Jingdong Yuan-- 8 Taiwan and the USA - Andrew T. H. Tan-- 9 New Dynamics in Taiwan-Japan Relations - Benjamin Schreer and Andrew T. H. Tan-- 10 Taiwan's Foreign Policy - Sheryn Lee-- 11 Taiwan's Armed Forces: Development and Prospects - Shang-Su Wu-- 12 Defending Taiwan Against China - Yves-Heng Lim-- 13 Thinking about How to Forge Lasting Peace in the Taiwan Strait - Derek Grossman-- 14 Reassessing Taiwan's Strategic Future - Benjamin Schreer.
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While global attention has been focused on other regional issues, such as China-US tensions and North Korea's nuclear ambitions, little attention has been paid to Taiwan. Yet the so-called Taiwan issue, namely the continued separation of the island from mainland China, remains a major regional security challenge that could potentially spark direct conflict involving the USA, China and Japan, the three largest economies in the world, two of which are nuclear powers. Although Taiwan has continued to find opportunities to maintain the current status quo despite a deteriorating geo-strategic environment as a result of the rise of China and the uncertainties of the Trump Administration, its room for manoeuvre continues to narrow. This volume examines the challenges and evaluates the prospects for preventing conflict on the Taiwan Strait, by focusing on the political conditions that Taiwan faces internally and externally.
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• 1. Taiwan Studies Revisited, Dafydd Fell and Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao
• Part 1: 1980s-early 1990s
• 2. My Journey of Social Movements and Civil Society Research Revisited, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
• 3. State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle Revisited, Thomas B. Gold
• 4. Revisiting Taiwan: China's Last Frontier, Simon Long
• Part 2: 1990s
• 5. Revisiting Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: Identity and Status in International Society, Christopher R. Hughes
• 6. Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy Revisited, Shelley Rigger
• Part 3: 2000s Towards a Golden Era
• 7. In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity and Beyond: Gender and Labour as a (Renewed) Research Agenda, Anru Lee
• 8. Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing Is Taiwan Chinese? in 2018, Melissa J. Brown
• 9. Healthy Democracies and Welfare Politics in Taiwan: The Arguments, Refinements and Limitations, Joseph Wong
• 10. Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan Revisited, Nancy Guy
• 11. Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited, Dafydd Fell
• 12. Writing Taiwanese: Then and now, how, why and who? Henning Kloeter
• 13. Depoliticizing a structurally politicized society: The importance of responsible political agency, Mikael Mattlin.
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This book examines and reviews some of the key figures in Taiwan Studies to plot the development of the field by revisiting their earlier influential books and bodies of work. Often autobiographical in detail, each chapter asks the author to discuss the origins of their research and how their engagement with the field has developed since. The contributors then discuss their methodologies, fieldwork and arguments, as well as how their work was received at the time. They also go on to reflect on their chosen methods and core findings, assessing whether they have stood the test of time. Reflecting the diversity of the Taiwan Studies field, subjects covered in this volume include sociology, musicology, linguistics, comparative politics, international relations and anthropology. As such, this comprehensive overview adopts a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to understanding Taiwan. Painting a picture of the changing state of international Taiwan Studies through the work of leading scholars, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Chinese Studies and Asian politics, culture and society.
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• 1. Thinking about the international factor in the Syrian Crisis Raymond Hinnebusch
• 2. The Middle East regional security complex and the Syrian civil war Soren Schmidt
• 3. The International and Regional Battle for Syria Christopher Phillips
• 4. The Regional Sectarian War and Syria Konstantinos Zarras
• 5. Hizbullah's intervention in Syria: Causes and Consequences Adham Saouli
• 6. Palestinian refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Subjectivities, mobilizations and challenges Valentina Napolitanio
• 7. Qatar and its rivals in Syria's conflict Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
• 8. Saudi Policies in the Syrian Crisis May Darwich
• 9. Iran and the Syrian civil war Jubin Goodarzi
• 10. Iraqi-Syrian Relations and the Syrian Uprising Raymond Hinnebusch
• 11. Turkish-Iranian relations in Syria: between rivalry and engagement Ozden Oktav
• 12. The 2011 collapse of Syria-Turkish Relations: through a realist- constructivist Lens Marwa Daoudy
• 13. US policy towards the Syrian Conflict under Obama: Strategic patience and miscalculation Jasmine Gani
• 14. Russian foreign policy in the early Syrian conflict: traditional factors and the role of Syria in the Kremlin's wider domestic and international goals Daria Vorobyeva
• 15. From Russia's military deployment in Syria to the Astana Process Nikolay Kozhanov
• 16. The European Union and Syria: from constructive engagement to marginalization and back? Francesco Cavatorta and Pierre-Michel Turcotte
• 17. Contextualizing Economic Sanctions on Syria Ferdinand Arslanian
• 18. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Syria: a critical analysis of R2P as an interactional process Nour M. el-Kebbi.
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Examining the international dimensions of the Syrian conflict, this book studies external factors relating to the Uprising. It explores the involvement of outside powers and the events' impact both on regional and international level. Syria was widely perceived to be essential to the regional power balance, hence it was a valued prize to be fought over. The book examines the impact of global and regional powers in propelling the conflict in Syria; looks at the motives and strategies of the key regional and international actors (Hizbollah, Palestinians, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, US, Russia, EU); and analyses the impact of the Syrian conflict on key relations between regional states (Turkey-Syria, Turkey-Iran, Iraq-Syria). Finally, several chapters treat the impact on Syria of international sanctions and the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine. This book follows on to The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory, edited by Raymond Hinnebusch and Omar Imady (2018). Subsequent volumes will examine the later evolution of the conflict. Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that seeks to capture the full complexity of the phenomenon, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the Syrian conflict and will therefore be a valuable resource for anyone studying Middle Eastern Politics.
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• Preface: Two Images
• Introduction
• I. Abetting the Chaos: Western Losers
• Presidential Blunders: Bush (and Blair), Obama, Trump
• Hapless Political Philosophers, Counterproductive Social Media
• Interim Summary: US Post-Cold War Intervention and Arab Collapse
• II. Reaping the Benefits: Local Winners
• Qasem Soleimani and the Quds Force
• Putin: Russia Returns to the Middle East
• Netanyahu Leverages Arab Chaos
• Erdogan and the Kurds: the Jury is Still Out
• The Arab Monarchies and MbS's Reformist Mayhem
• III. Conclusion: Understanding a Global Grand-Strategic Event
• Timeline of Arab Chaos through December 2018.
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This book looks at the way primarily external actors influenced and were influenced by the revolutionary chaos that erupted in the Arab Middle East in 2011. The Arab revolutions radically altered the Middle East dynamic and particularly the strategic standing of key actors, both locally and globally. The `winners' are leaders with strategic understanding of the region and a scheme for exploiting the chaos-Putin, Netanyahu and Iran's Qasem Soleimani-along with, strikingly, the very institution of Arab monarchy. The `losers' are the Arab autocrats who were deposed in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. The Palestinians, seemingly bypassed by the dynamic of Arab revolution, are also losers. So are the American presidents-Bush 43 and Obama-whose disastrous strategic decision-making catalyzed Arab state fragmentation and opened the gates of the Levant to Iran's drive for regional hegemony. Western democratic society suffered too-from waves of Islamist terrorism and the effects of Muslim migration generated at least in part by Arab chaos. Only in the case of two leaders was the jury still out by 2019. The effects of the high-risk policies of Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohamed bin Salman and the strategically incoherent policies of US President Trump remain to be seen. Winners and Losers in the `Arab Spring' takes a global look at a massive regional upheaval that is far from over. It is an essential read for everybody interested in the Arab revolutions, Middle East and international strategic affairs.
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• Geleitwort / Felix Klein
• Vorwort / Georg Ruppelt
• Einleitung
• Die jüdisch-christlich-muslimische "Klammer" / Abraham
• Die Bibel-Archäologie / Gabriel Barkay
• Über 2 Milliarden Anhänger / Jesus von Nazareth
• Die umfangreiche Verbreitung des Christentums durch Paulus / Paulus von Tarsus
• Die jüdischen Evangelisten / Markus, Matthäus
• Die allegorische Lesart der Bibel / Philo von Alexandria
• Die Unabhängigkeit Judäas / Simon Bar Kochba
• Der Ursprung der Alchemie / Maria Prophetissa
• Versöhnung der aristotelischen Logik mit der Bibel / Maimonides
• Der Begründer des westlichen Pantheismus / Baruch Spinoza
• Die jüdische Aufklärung / Moses Mendelssohn, David Friedländer
• Der Finanzier der US-Unabhängigkeit / Haym Salomon
• Der "entlaufene Romantiker" / Heinrich Heine
• Der "Vater" des British Empire / Benjamin Disraeli
• Das grösste Experiment der Weltgeschichte / Karl Marx
• Der "Vater" der Operette / Jacques Offenbach
• Der Urvater der SPD / Ferdinand Lassalle
• Die Erfinder der Jeans / Levi Strauss, Jacob Davis
• Der "Vater" des Impressionismus / Camille Pissarro
• Der erste Elektromotor / Moritz von Jacobi
• Der deutsche Impressionismus / Max Liebermann
• Der Erfinder der Schallplatte / Emil Berliner
• Wie gross sind Sterne? Wie schnell ist das Licht? / Albert Michelson
• Der Pionier des Datenschutzes / Louis Brandeis
• Die Psychoanalyse / Sigmund Freud
• Der Begründer der Phänomenologischen Philosophie / Edmund Husserl
• Der Zionismus / Theodor Herzl
• Der Pionier der Schwulen- und Lesbenbewegung / Magnus Hirschfeld
• Die Erfinder des Teddybärs / Rose und Morris Michtom
• Anti-Kriegs-Märtyrerin / Rosa Luxemburg
• Der Kosmetiker Hollywoods / Max Factor
• Die Citroën-Kultautos / André Citroën
• Die Individualpsychologie / Alfred Adler
• Die "Reine Rechtslehre" / Hans Kelsen
• Das Kafkaeske / Franz Kafka
• Rebellion in der Kunst / Amedeo Modigliani
• Weisse und schwarze Sänger erstmals zusammen / AL Jolson
• Zündfunke des Surrealismus / Marc Chagall
• Philosophie der Sprache / Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Suprematismus und Konstruktivismus / EL Lissitzky
• Die Gestalttherapie / Fritz und Laura Perls
• Der erste Kernreaktor / Leo Szilard
• Klassik erreicht die Massen / George und Ira Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill
• Der Erfinder des Kugelschreibers / Lászlo Bíró
• Internationale Ahndung von Völkermord / Raphael Lemkin
• Archaische Monumentalität / Louis Kahn
• Philosophie der Wissenschaften / Karl Popper
• Pionier der Informatik / John von Neumann
• Die Pioniere der Farbfeldmalerei / Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman
• Die Banalität des Bösen / Hannah Arendt
• Der ethnologische Strukturalismus / Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Die ersten Fotos und Spielfilme in Farbe / Gabriel Lippmann, Leopold Godowsky Jr., Leopold Mannes
• Der Begründer der Chemotherapie / Paul Ehrlich
• Die Sofortbildkamera / Edwin Land
• Die Erfindung des Herzschrittmachers und des Defibrillators / Paul Zoll
• Die Impfung gegen Polio / Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin
• Wie nutzen Pflanzen das Licht? / Richard Willstätter
• Brot aus der Luft / Fritz Haber
• Die "Ära-Salinger" / Jerome David Salinger
• Die Zwölftonmusik / Arnold Schönberg
• Die Relativitätstheorie und die Solarenergie / Albert Einstein
• Die Quantensprünge im Atom / Niels Bohr
• Pionier der Pop Art / Roy Lichtenstein
• MGM : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg
• Warner Brothers und der erste Tonfilm / Sam, Jack, Albert und Harry Warner
• Sprunghafter Übergang zur Magnetisierung / Ernst Ising
• Fraktale / Felix Hausdorff, Benoît Mandelbrot
• Stimmt die Quantenphysik? / James Franck, Otto Stern
• Die Philosophie des élan vital / Henri Bergson
• Die Entdeckung der "dunklen Materie" / Vera Rubin
• Kernmagnetische Resonanz und MRT / Isidor Isaac Rabi, Felix Bloch
• Juden und Nichtjuden trauern zusammen / Anne Frank
• Die "Dekonstruktion" / Jacques Derrida
• Die Entdeckung der Blutgruppen / Karl Landsteiner
• Die chemischen und elektrischen Signale im Nervensystem / Otto Loewi, Joseph Erlanger
• Die Theorie zur Kernspaltung / Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch
• Der Pionier der Chaosforschung / Mitchell Feigenbaum
• Die Entdeckung des Penicillins / Boris Chain
• Der Vater der Atombombe / Robert Oppenheimer
• Zukunftsforschung : Wenn Computer schlauer werden als wir / Ray Kurzweil
• Die "Väter" der Pille / Carl Djerassi, Gregory Pincus
• Die Entdeckung des Positroniums / Martin Deutsch
• Hollywood : Die klassische Phase und die Monumentalfilme / David Selznick, Joseph Mankiewicz, Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Curtiz, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Spiegel
• Die "New Hollywood"-Ära / Arthur Penn, Mike Nichols, Bob Rafelson, Mel Brooks, Dustin Hoffman, John Schlesinger, Sydney Pollack, Paul Mazursky, William Friedkin, Steven Spielberg, Alan Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen
• Der Sieg über die Tuberkulose / Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz
• Die Wasserstoffbombe / Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam
• Wie atmen die Zellen? Der Krebs-Zyklus / Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Lipmann
• Die Mathematisierung der Quantenphysik / Max Born
• Die Entdeckung der Neutrinos / Frederick Reines, Melvin Schwartz, Leon Lederman, Jack Steinberger, Martin Lewis Perl
• Die erste Erzeugung von Antimaterie / Emilio Segrè
• Der Beginn der Gentechnik / Arthur Kornberg
• Die Erfindung der Blasenkammer / Donald Glaser
• Die Erklärung der Photosynthese / Melvin Calvin
• Die Quantenelektrodynamik / Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Alfred Landé
• Die Frankfurter Schule und die 68er-Bewegung / Wilhelm Reich, Max Horkheimer, Friedrich Pollock, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer, Franz Neumann, Erich Fromm, Walter Benjamin, Leo Löwenthal, Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• Viren gegen Bakterien / Salvador Luria
• Dialog mit dem Papst : Aufhebung der "jüdischen Schuld" / Jules Isaac
• Die Quarks / Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, Yuval NeʼEman, Jerry Friedman, Sheldon Glashow, Burton Richter, Leon Lederman, David Gross, David Politzer
• Die Funktionsweise des Immunsystems / Gerald Edelman
• Die Supraleitung / Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginsburg, Leon Cooper
• Die Erfindung der Holographie / Dennis Gabor
• Die Beendigung des Vietnamkrieges / Henry Kissinger
• Milton Friedman und die Chicagoer Schule / Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, Herbert Simon, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Fogel, Harry Markowitz, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, Roger Myerson
• Die Theorie der Selbstorganisation / Ilya Prigogine
• Die Gründung von Amnesty International / Peter Benenson
• Die jiddische Literatur wird zur Weltliteratur / Mendele Mokher Sforim, Jizchok Leib Perez, Scholem Alejchem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel
• Blick in die Packung des Erbguts in der Zelle / Aaron Klug
• Wachstumstreibende Stoffe für Nerven, Haut und Tumore / Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
• Kämpferin gegen die Apartheid / Nadine Gordimer
• Google / Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Susan Wojcicki
• Die Superflüssigkeiten / David Morris Lee, Lev Landau
• Die Prionen / Tikvah Alper, Stanley Prusiner
• Das Wundermolekül NO / Robert Furchgott
• Lösung eines Millennium-Problems / Grigori Perelman
• Die Irrationalität in der Wirtschaft / Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky
• Der programmierte Selbstmord der Zellen / Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz
• Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg
• Das Ubiquitin / Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, Irwin Rose
• Die Struktur von Ribosomen, Ziele von Antibiotika / Ada Yonath
• Die Entdeckung der "dunklen Energie" / Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess
• Teleportation und Dekohärenz / Serge Haroche, Nathan Rosen, Boris Podolsky, David Bohm, Asher Peres
• Das Higgs-Teilchen / Franc̦ois Englert, Robert Brout
• Lyrik erreicht die Massen / Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen
• Nachwort / Daniel Libeskind
• Anhang
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Sachverzeichnis
• Bildnachweis
• Danksagung.

• Introduction--
• 1. Farewell to the Huangpu River--
• 2. Not all quiet on the rural front--
• 3. The unplanned economy--
• 4. Inappropriate intimacies--
• 5. Urban outposts in rural China--
• 6. Things fall apart--
• 7. Epilogue.
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The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of the intense suffering and hardship of the period. Drawing on rich archival research focused on Shanghai's youth in village settlements in remote regions, this history of the movement pays particular attention to how it was informed by and affected the critical issue of urban-rural relations in the People's Republic of China. It highlights divisions, as well as connections, created by the movement, particularly the conflicts and collaborations between urban and rural officials. Instead of chronicling a story of victims of a monolithic state, Honig and Zhao show how participants in the movement - the sent-down youth, their parents, and local government officials - disregarded, circumvented, and manipulated state policy, ultimately undermining a decade-long Maoist project.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Self in the World
• 3. Adaptive Ambivalence
• 4. Modernity and Migration
• 5. China: Race and Ethnicity
• 6. Contemporary Blackness in China: Psychosocial Perspectives-- Aspirations and Constraints
• 7. Africana Persons and Self-Making in China
• 8. Conclusions and Possibilities for the Future.
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This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ambivalence and the challenges that migrant workers face around issues of self-development, agency, and identity. Through a careful analysis of interviews with Africana people, the author demonstrates that the capacity to be reflective and resilient alongside having a strong and diversified support network are crucial for the psychological well-being of those living and working in unfamiliar geographic and cultural conditions.
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After the Coup brings together the work of a group of leading Thai intellectuals of several generations to equip readers to anticipate and understand the developments that lie ahead for Thailand. Contributors offer findings and perspectives both on the disorienting period following the Thai coup of May 2014 and on fundamental challenges to the country and its institutions. Chapters address regionalism and decentralization, the monarchy and the military, the media, demography and the economy, the long-running violence in Southern Thailand, and a number of surprising social and political trends certain to shape the future of Thailand. The volume will serve as a valuable resource for all those concerned with that future.
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• Introduction : the ecumenical frame
• Religious difference in an imperial Age
• The crucible of sectarian violence
• Coexistence in an age of genocide
• Colonial pluralism
• Sectarianism and antisectarianism in the post-Ottoman Arab world
• Breaking the ecumenical frame : Arab and Jew in Palestine.

"Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisi's Age of Coexistence reveals a hidden and hopeful story that counters this clichéd portrayal. It shows how a region rich with ethnic and religious diversity created a modern culture of coexistence amid Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence of nationalism. Moving from the nineteenth century to the present, this groundbreaking book explores, without denial or equivocation, the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a place of age-old sectarian animosities, Age of Coexistence describes the forging of a complex system of coexistence, what Makdisi calls the "ecumenical frame." He argues that new forms of antisectarian politics, and some of the most important examples of Muslim-Christian political collaboration, crystallized to make and define the modern Arab world. Despite massive challenges and setbacks, and despite the persistence of colonialism and authoritarianism, this framework for coexistence has endured for nearly a century. It is a reminder that religious diversity does not automatically lead to sectarianism. Instead, as Makdisi demonstrates, people of different faiths, but not necessarily of different political outlooks, have consistently tried to build modern societies that transcend religious and sectarian differences"--Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Angami Science of Dreaming
• 3. The Phenomenology of Dreaming
• 4. The Corporeality of Dreams
• 5. The Authority of Dreams
• 6. The Landscapes of Dreams
• 7. The Public Life of Dreams
• 8. The reversibility of dreaming.
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The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands, dream sharing and interpretation remain important avenues for negotiating everyday uncertainty and unpredictability. This book explores the relationship between dreams and agency through ethnographic fieldwork among the Angami Nagas. It tackles questions such as: What is dreaming? What does it mean to say `I had a dream'? And how do night-time dreams relate to political and social actions in waking moments? Michael Heneise shows how the Angami glean knowledge from signs, gain insight from ancestors, and potentially obtain divine blessing. Advancing the notion that dreams and dreaming can be studied as indices of relational, devotional, and political subjectivities, the author demonstrates that their examination can illuminate the ways in which, as forms of authoritative knowledge, they influence daily life, and also how they figure in the negotiation of day-to-day domestic and public interactions. Moreover, dream narration itself can involve techniques of `interference' in which the dreamer seeks to limit or encourage the powerful influence of social `others' encountered in dreams, such as ancestors, spirits, or the divine. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book advances research on dreams by conceptualising how the `social' encompasses the broader, co-extensive set of relations and experiences - especially with spirit entities - reflected in the ethnography of dreams. It will be of interest to those studying Northeast India, indigenous religion and culture, indigenous cosmopolitics in tribal India more generally, and the anthropology of dreams and dreaming.
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• An enigmatic upheaval
• Mobilizing a nation
• The pace of rebel insurgencies
• The implosion of the party-state
• The formation of factions
• The emergence of factional warfare
• The dynamics of regional escalation
• Repression unleashed
• Final observations.

Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers a surprising answer that holds a powerful implicit warning for today's governments. By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People's Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that summer everything changed. Mao Zedong called for students to attack intellectuals and officials who allegedly lacked commitment to revolutionary principles. Rebels responded by toppling local governments across the country, ushering in nearly two years of conflict that in places came close to civil war and resulted in nearly 1.6 million dead. How and why did the party state collapse so rapidly? Standard accounts depict a revolution instigated from the top down and escalated from the bottom up. In this pathbreaking reconsideration of the origins and trajectory of the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Walder offers a startling new conclusion: party cadres seized power from their superiors, setting off a chain reaction of violence, intensified by a mishandled army intervention. This inside-out dynamic explains how virulent factions formed, why the conflict escalated, and why the repression that ended the disorder was so much worse than the violence it was meant to contain. Based on over 2,000 local annals chronicling some 34,000 revolutionary episodes across China, Agents of Disorder offers an original interpretation of familiar but complex events and suggests a broader lesson for our times: forces of order that we count on to stanch violence can instead generate devastating bloodshed.
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• List of Figures
• List of Maps
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Key Dates
• Stemma chart
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Reliability of Josephus As a Historical Source for Agrippa II
• Chapter 3. Agrippa's Early Years
• Chapter 4. Agrippa II in His Patrimony
• Chapter 5. Agrippa's Address to the Population of Jerusalem
• Chapter 6. Agrippa II in the Opening Phase of the Judaean-Roman War
• Chapter 7. From the Campaigns of Vespasian and Titus to the Conclusion of the War
• Chapter 8. Agrippa's Activities in the Aftermath of the War
• Chapter 9. Conclusions
• Appendix A1. Inscriptions Relating to the Reign of Agrippa II (David F. Graf)
• Appendix A2. The Coinage of Agrippa II
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its destruction in the Judaean-Roman War. This study documents his life from a childhood spent at the Imperial court in Rome and rise to the position of client king of Rome under Claudius and Nero. It examines his role in the War during which he sided with Rome, and offers fresh insights into his failure to intervene to prevent the destruction of Jerusalem and its Sanctuary, as well as reviewing Agrippa's encounter with nascent Christianity through his famous interview with the Apostle Paul. Also addressed is the vexed question of the obscurity into which Agrippa II has fallen, in sharp contrast with his sister Berenice, whose intimate relationship with Titus, the heir to the Roman throne, has fired the imagination of writers through the ages. This study also includes appendices surveying the coins issued in the name of Agrippa II and the inscriptions from his reign. This volume will appeal to anyone studying Judaean-Roman relations and the Judaean-Roman War, as well as those working more broadly on Roman client kingship, and Rome's eastern provinces. It covers topics that continue to attract general interest as well as stirring current scholarly debate.
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• Contents
• Acknowledgments Preface Notes on Transliteration
• Part 1: The Ancestors of Shah Esma'il
• 1 The story of Soltan Firuzshah
• 2 The story of 'Evaz al-Khavass and his son Mohammad al-Hafez
• 3 The story of Salahoddin Rashid
• 4 The story of Seyyed Jebra'il
• 5 The story of Soltan Khwajeh 'Ali
• 6 The battle between Soltan 'Ali Mirza and Aybeh Soltan and the death of Soltan 'Ali
• Part 2: Shah Esma'il vs. the Torkmans
• 7 Shah Esma'il catches sight of His Majesty the Lord of the Age
• 8 The emergence of Shah Esma'il from Gilan and Lahijan with seven people, and the conquest of Tarom
• 9 The story of the sons of Rostam Shah, and of how His Majesty the Shadow of God went to Ardabil-- the killing of 'Ali Khan Soltan
• 10 Alvand sends 'Othman Soltan to fight the Shah, who in turn sends Qarapari Qajar-- the latter is killed, and the Torkmans are defeated
• 11 King Alvand goes to the Anatolian emperor and seeks help-- he comes to Iran and is defeated-- his qualities
• 12 The world-conquering Shah's proposal to Tajlu Begom, the daughter of 'Abedin Beg Shamlu, and the wedding feast of that fortunate prince
• 13 Birth of the Shadow of God, Shah Tahmasp, in the village of Ranan near Esfahan
• 14 Shah Esma'il sends an army against Soltan Morad, and that failure is captured
• 15 Soltan Morad flees toward Shiraz-- Mohammad Karahi captures him and sends him to Shah Esma'il, but he flees again
• 16 Soltan Morad flees toward Shiraz as Elyas Beg pursues him
• 17 Elyas Beg goes to Damghan to fight Hosayn Kiya Cholavi and is killed by that man's duplicity
• 18 Shah Esma'il proceeds from Qom towards Firuzkuh and Mazandaran to defeat Hosayn Kiya Cholavi
• 19 'Ali Kiya goes to take the pass of Firuzkuh
• 20 Shah Esma'il arrives at the fortress of Marankuh and does battle with Hosayn Kiya Cholavi, who is killed
• 21 Shu'ayb Aqa is killed by Soltan Ahmad Saru'i-- Mohammad Karahi rebels, Soltan Ahmad is killed, and Yazd is captured
• 22 His Majesty arrives at Yazd, and Mohammad Karahi is killed
• 23 Shah Esma'il goes from Yazd to Tabas-- Tardi Baba is killed, and Amir Kamaloddin Hosayn comes to the royal court on behalf of Soltan Hosayn Bayqara
• 24 'Abdi Beg is martyred at the hands of Hosayn Beg, son of Sarem Khan the Kurd-- Shah Esma'il arrives, and Sarem Khan flees
• 25 The conquest of Baghdad by the Qezelbash-- Bayrak Soltan flees to Mosul, and Shah Esma'il visits Najaf
• 26 The royal banners leave for 'Eraq and Khorramabad, where Malekshah Rostam is
• 27 The Shah and his army come to fight Malekshah Rostam, who pledges obedience-- together they go to Hovayzeh to fight Malek Fayyaz
• 28 His Majesty sends Nur 'Ali Khalifeh to the Sufis of Rum on his behalf, and he accepts oaths of fealty in Tabriz and Diyarbakr
• 29 The royal banners head for Diyarbakr, and Shah Esma'il does battle with 'Ala'oddawleh Dhulqadr
• 30 Shah Esma'il sends a letter to 'Ala'oddawleh, who responds with an offer of peace-- His Majesty returns to Adharbayjan
• 31 Saru Aslan and Saru Qaplan come to the aid of Mohammadi Soltan and are killed by Qarakhan the brother of Mohammad Khan Ostajlu, who is victorious
• 32 On the nature and circumstances of Soltan Salim, son of Soltan Bayazid of Anatolia
• 33 Qarakhan attacks Arzenjan, and Mohammad Khan sends Soltan Bayazid of Anatolia an envoy with women's clothing
• 34 Soltan Bayazid and Soltan Qansaw, the ruler of Egypt, fight against 'Ala'oddawleh Dhulqadr
• Part 3: Shah Esma'il vs. the Uzbeks
• 35 Shahi Beg Khan, son of Abulkhayr Khan, makes his emergence and seizes Torkestan from the descendants of Amir Timur
• 36 Of the sons of Soltan Hosayn Bayqara and their circumstances, and how their fates were ruined
• 37 Babor Padeshah goes to Kabol, while Shahi Beg Khan goes to Balkh and Badi'ozzaman sets out to fight him
• 38 Shahi Beg Khan comes to Damghan, then returns to Samarqand-- Mohammad Hosayn Mirza comes to the service of Shah Esma'il-- Amir Najm II and the great commanders subdue Khorasan, entrust it to the sons of Soltan Hosayn Mirza, and leave
• 39 The victorious royal banners come to Marv, and the Shah plays a trick on Shahi Beg Khan the ruler of Torkestan, who is killed
• 40 Mirza Mohammad Talesh returns from Mazandaran and is met by the Shah-- Barsil Khan, the king of Urgench, comes to the foot of the royal throne with Ovays Mirza and Babor Padeshah-- Amir Najm II goes to Torkestan
• 41 Amir Najm II and his commanders head for Torkestan, and Babor Padeshah comes to Balkh
• 42 Amir Najm II arrives at Qarshi-- Shaykham Mirza mounts a night attack on the Qezelbash encampment-- Amir Najm executes his nephew Mohammad Kazem-- the victory of Amir Najm and the death of Shaykham Mirza
• 43 Jani Beg Soltan goes to Balkh-- 'Obayd Khan comes, and Khorasan is seized by an Uzbek army-- Shah Tahmasp Khan Mirza leaves Harat for 'Eraq-- Shah Esma'il receives word that Amir Najm II has been killed
• 44 Shah Tahmasp returns to Iran and to His Majesty, who summons an army to conquer Khorasan and Torkestan-- the kings of Torkestan flee
• 45 Jani Beg Soltan reaches Qasem Khan, the Padeshah of the steppe of Baghlan, who sends his son Abulkhayr Khan with a great army to fight Shah Esma'il-- Abulkhayr Khan is killed, and the Uzbek kings flee
• Part 4: Shah Esma'il vs. Soltan Salim
• 46 The glorious banners turn back to Iran, and His Majesty the Shadow of God learns of the death of Solayman Mirza in Tabriz-- he sends an emissary to Anatolia to see Soltan Bayazid, the Qaysar of Rum
• 47 Soltan Salim, the Padeshah of Rum, comes to Iran and arrives at Chalderan-- the victorious banners of the Shadow of God turn toward him, but the Qezelbash are defeated
• 48 Mohammad Zaman Mirza, the son of Badi'ozzaman Mirza, rebels and goes to Astarabad-- 'Obayd Khan arrives at Balkh with all his corruption
• 49 Soltan Salim learns of the theft and burning of his supplies by 'Ala'oddawleh Dhulqadr and the death of Mostafa Pasha at the hands of his men, then goes to fight 'Ala'oddawleh and kills him
• 50 Soltan Salim, the ruler of Anatolia, fights Soltan Qansaw, the king of Egypt, who is killed
• 51 Soltan Morad, the son of Ya'qub Padeshah son of Hasan Pasha the Torkman, comes to conquer Diyarbakr and is killed by Ahmad Soltan Qajar
• 52 Ghazali joins forces with Soltan Solayman to fight Nur 'Ali Khalifeh, who is killed by the Anatolians
• 53 Soltan Solayman comes to Iran a second time, and Ghazali is captured by His Majesty the Shadow of God
• Part 5: The Later Years
• 54 Shah Esma'il learns of the death of Soltan Salim and of Soltan Solayman's accession to the throne and return to Istanbul-- His Majesty leaves Chalderan with the intention of conquering Khorasan
• 55 Jani Beg Soltan the Uzbek comes to Balkh and fights Kopek Soltan, and the Uzbek army is defeated-- 'Obayd Khan comes to Harat and returns without having attained his goal-- Amir Khan Torkman, the governor of Harat, kills Amir Mohammad and is deposed-- His Majesty sends Durmesh Khan to fight in Harat
• 56 Durmesh Khan comes to Harat, seizes Amir Khan Torkman, and sends him to the royal court, then settles down to rule the city
• Bibliography Index.
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The Adventures of Shah Esma'il recounts the dramatic formative years of the Safavid empire (1501-1722), as preserved in Iranian popular memory by coffeehouse storytellers and written down in manuscripts starting in the late seventeenth century. Beginning with the Safavids' saintly ancestors in Ardabil, the story goes on to relate the conquests of Shah Esma'il (r. 1501-1524) and his devoted Qezelbash followers as they battle Torkmans, Uzbeks, Ottomans, and even Georgians and Ethiopians in their quest to establish a Twelver Shi'i realm. Barry Wood's translation brings out the verve and popular tone of the Persian text. A heady mixture of history and legend, The Adventures of Shah Esma'il sheds important light on the historical self-awareness of late Safavid Iran.
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• Preface ix
• Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii
• List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix
• Introduction 1
• 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15
• 2. Okinawa, 1945-1952: Allegories of Becoming 38
• 3. Okinawa, 1952-1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65
• 4. Okinawa, 1958-1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88
• 5. Okinawa, 1972-1995: Life That Matters 124
• Conclusion 143
• Acknowledgments 147
• Notes 149
• Selected Bibliography 195
• Index 211.
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Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United States, nor have they ever been treated as equal citizens of Japan. As a result, they live amid one of the densest concentrations of U.S. military bases in the world. By bringing Foucauldian biopolitics into conversation with Japanese Marxian theorizations of capitalism, Alegal uncovers Japan's determination to protect its middle class from the racialized sexual contact around its mainland bases by displacing them onto Okinawa, while simultaneously upholding Okinawa as a symbol of the infringement of Japanese sovereignty figured in terms of a patriarchal monoethnic state. This symbolism, however, has provoked ambivalence within Okinawa. In base towns that facilitated encounters between G.I.s and Okinawan women, the racial politics of the United States collided with the postcolonial politics of the Asia Pacific. Through close readings of poetry, reportage, film, and memoir on base-town life since 1945, Shimabuku traces a continuing failure to "become Japanese." What she discerns instead is a complex politics surrounding sex work, tipping with volatility along the razor's edge between insurgency and collaboration. At stake in sovereign power's attempt to secure Okinawa as a military fortress was the need to contain alegality itself-that is, a life force irreducible to the legal order. If biopolitics is the state's attempt to monopolize life, then Alegal is a story about how borderland actors reclaimed the power of life for themselves. In addition to scholars of Japan and Okinawa, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, militarism, mixed-race studies, gender and sexuality, or the production of sovereignty in the modern world.
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In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of SEALs struggled to take the summit in a desperate bid to find a lost teammate. Chapman, leading the charge, was gravely wounded in the initial assault. Believing he was dead, his SEAL leader ordered a retreat. Chapman regained consciousness, alone with the enemy closing in on three sides, beginning the most difficult and exceptional fight of his life. John Chapman's incredible display of valor--first by saving the lives of his SEAL teammates and then, aware that he was mortally wounded, single-handedly engaging two dozen hardened fighters to save the lives of an incoming rescue squad--posthumously earned him the Medal of Honor. Chapman is the first airman in nearly fifty years to be given the distinction reserved for America's greatest heroes. Alone at Dawn is also a behind-the-scenes look at the Air Force Combat Controllers: the world's deadliest and most versatile special operations force, whose members must not only exceed the qualifications of Navy SEAL and Army Delta Force teams, but also act with sharp decisiveness and deft precision--even in the face of life-threatening danger. Drawing from firsthand accounts, classified documents, dramatic video footage, and extensive interviews with leaders and survivors of the operation, Alone at Dawn is the story of an extraordinary man's brave last stand and the brotherhood that forged him.
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• List of Illustrations Note to the Reader Acknowledgments Maps of Southeast Asia, Amboina, and the Banda Islands Introduction: The Company and the Colony Part I. Amboina in 1623
• 1. With Treaty or With Violence
• 2. We Cannot Exist Well Without Slaves
• 3. Dangerous and Difficult to Govern
• 4. The English Serpent
• 5. The Trial Part II. Remaking a Conspiracy Trial
• 6. The War of the Witnesses
• 7. Compensation and Calamity Epilogue: The Fearful Empire Notes Bibliography Index.
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In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizo was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. When he failed to provide an adequate explanation, he was tortured until he confessed that he had joined a plot orchestrated by a group of English merchants based nearby to seize control of the fortification and ultimately to rip the spice-rich islands from the Company's grasp. Two weeks later, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators, sparking immediate outrage and a controversy that would endure for centuries to come. In this landmark study, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the standard debate over the guilt or innocence of the supposed plotters. Instead, Amboina, 1623 argues that the case was driven forward by a potent combination of genuine crisis and overpowering fear that propelled the rapid escalation from suspicion to torture, that gave shape and form to an imagined plot, and that pushed events forward to their final bloody conclusion. Based on an exhaustive analysis of original trial documents, letters, and depositions, this book offers a masterful reinterpretation of a trial that has divided opinion for centuries while presenting new insight into global history and the nature of European expansion across the early modern world.
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A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire-the Amritsar Massacre-to mark its 100th anniversary The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this dramatic account, Kim A. Wagner details the perspectives of ordinary people and argues that General Dyer's order to open fire at Jallianwalla Bagh was an act of fear. Situating the massacre within the "deep" context of British colonial mentality and the local dynamics of Indian nationalism, Wagner provides a genuinely nuanced approach to the bloody history of the British Empire.
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• 1. China's Regional Economies in 2017 and Outlook for 2018.2. Beijing's Economic Development in 2017 and Outlook for 2018.3. Beijing's Public Services at a New Stage of Quality Improvement.4. Beijing's Social Governance in
• 2017: Overview, Challenges, and Suggestions.5. Building a National Cultural Center in the Context of the New Beijing Urban Master Plan.6. Overall Evaluation of Public Service Performance of 16 Districts in Beijing.7. Involvement of Specialized Social Work Organizations in the Operation of Community Service Agencies: A Comparative Study on Six Pilot Service Stations of Five Neighborhoods in Xicheng District of Beijing.8. Incentive Effects and Influencing Factors of Government Funding on Corporate R&D Investment: A Case Study of Beijing.9. A Study on Space Optimization and Economic Development of Beijing Against the Backdrop of Coordinated Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region.10. Coordinated Industrial Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region: An Analysis Based on Enterprise Big Data.11. Coordinated Cultural Development in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei in
• 2017: Reality, Features, Challenges and Policy Recommendations.
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This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2017, both in itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination. General reports on progress Beijing made and problems it faced in 2017 in improving its economy, public services, municipal and community governance, urban planning, and funding for innovations are followed by case studies that look at best practices and how they can be applied towards promoting coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The strategy features prominently in the outlook contributors present for the greater metropolitan area of Beijing for 2018. This book is a valuable source of reference for anyone trying to gain a better understanding the what, how, and why in relation to one of the world's fastest growing mega-cities.
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• 1599
• An offer he could not refuse
• Sweeping with the broom of plunder
• A prince of little capacity
• Bloodshed and confusion
• Racked by famine
• The desolation of Delhi
• The impeachment of Warren Hastings
• The corpse of India.

In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing in silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of around 200,000 men--twice the size of the British army--and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in on small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power. -- Dust jacket flap.

• Quand l'Algérie devient française 1830-1864
• Quand les Juifs algériens deviennent français ; sans les musulmans 1865-1870
• Quand l'Algérie française se proclame antisémite
• Janvier 1871-août 1914
• Les mirages de l'assimilation
• Août 1914-août 1939
• Quand la France vichyste fait du zèle en Algérie
• Septembre 1939-décembre 1940
• En Algérie, un vichysme sans Allemands
• Décembre 1940-mars 1942
• Quand le gouverneur organise la déportation des Juifs d'Algérie
• Mars 1942-juillet 1942
• Quand les Américains préparent leur débarquement à Alger, sous protection juive
• Août 1942-8 novembre 1942
• "C'est pour cette nuit"
• 8 novembre 1942
• Le choix américain : Darlan
• 9 novembre-26 décembre 1942
• L'Algérie française, libérée, ne veut toujours pas des Juifs
• Janvier 1943-avril 1943
• Les Juifs algériens redeviennent français... "provisoirement"
• Mai 1943-novembre 1943
• Identité et citoyenneté.

""Voici le récit d'un épisode incroyable, trop souvent censuré, de l'histoire de France, de l'histoire de l'Algérie et de celle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 1943. Une extraordinaire année de dupes, qui éclaire d'un jour nouveau la situation géopolitique mondiale d'aujourd'hui. C'est d'abord l'histoire des Juifs d'Algérie qui reçurent, en 1870, la citoyenneté française et qui subirent ensuite des discriminations plus intenses encore que partout ailleurs en France, trouvant leur apogée dans les trois années de domination pétainiste en Algérie. Des Juifs à qui deux gouvernements français successifs retirèrent leur citoyenneté : un gouvernement collaborant avec les nazis ; puis un autre, dont on ne parle jamais, collaborant avec les Américains. Des Juifs à qui des dirigeants français, hors de toute présence allemande, se préparaient à faire porter des étoiles jaunes et qu'ils s'apprêtaient à enfermer dans des camps de concentration sahariens. C'est aussi l'histoire du premier débarquement de troupes anglo-américaines en terre de France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ; un débarquement qu'on ne commémore pas, parce que des troupes françaises y combattirent des troupes américaines. Cet épisode incroyable met en scène des vichystes proaméricains, des Américains pétainistes, des résistants maréchalistes, se battant les uns contre les autres. C'est enfin une histoire bien plus vaste, parce qu'en fait les dirigeants français craignaient que permettre aux Juifs d'être français n'ouvre le même avenir à tous les Algériens. Cela concerne aussi tous ceux qui réfléchissent aujourd'hui, où que ce soit dans le monde, à ce qu'est une citoyenneté, une nation, une identité. Pour construire un monde enfin libre et heureux.""--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia
• 1
• 1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization
• 19
• 2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China
• 36
• 3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea
• 57
• 4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The Dosan Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat"
• 80
• 5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia
• 98
• 6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference
• 115 Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia
• 132 Notes
• 143 References
• 153 Index 161.
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Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the Cold War and the ongoing U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region. At the same time, pro-Japan sentiments in Taiwan reveal a Taiwanese desire to recoup that which was lost after the Japanese empire fell. Anti-Japanism, Ching contends, is less about Japan itself than it is about the real and imagined relationships between it and China, Korea, and Taiwan. Advocating for forms of healing that do not depend on state-based diplomacy, Ching suggests that reconciliation requires that Japan acknowledge and take responsibility for its imperial history.
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• Contents
• Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Maps
• Introduction
• 1 The `Secret Jews' and Proto-Racialism of Early Modern Spain and Portugal
• 2 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracism
• 1 Conspiracism and Society in Early Modern Europe
• 1 Defining the Conspiracy Theory
• 2 Delusional Paranoia, Collective Emotions and the Emotional Dimension of the Conspiracy Theory
• 3 Explaining the Popularity of Conspiracy Theories
• 4 Moral Panics: The Social and Political Function of the Conspiracy Theory
• 5 `Modernity' and the Origins of Conspiracism
• 6 Conspiracism in Early Modern Europe: the Demonic Superconspiracy
• 7 Conclusion: the Conspiracy Theory in the Age of `Confessionalization'
• 2 Forged Documents and the Fear of Jewish Infiltration: the Jewish World Plot and the Early Modern Iberian World
• 1 The Early Notions of a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy in Medieval Europe
• 2 The Forged Letter of the Jews of Toledo to Those of Jerusalem: a Fatal Precedent?
• 3 Warrant for Hatred: the Forged letters from Toledo and Constantinople
• 4 The Obscure Origins of the Forged Letters
• 5 The Reception of the Forged Letters
• 6 Francisco de Quevedo's La Isla de los Monopantos
• 7 The Legacy and Influence of the "Toledan Letters" in Modern Antisemitism
• 8 Conclusion
• 3 "Seeking to Build a Synagogue within the Church of God": the Alleged Converso Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the Catholic Church
• 1 The Insidious Converso Threat to the Church
• 2 Perceiving Judaism as a Militant and Missionary Faith
• 3 The Spectre of the Jewish Dogmatizadores
• 4 The Menace of Jewish Proselytism amongst Africans and Amerindians
• 5 Reckless Resistance or Narrative Assault?: the Desecration of Religious Objects and the `Jewish Conspiracy'
• 6 Conclusion
• 4 Medical Murder: the Myth of the Jewish Serial-Killer Doctors
• 1 Jews and Medicine in Medieval Iberia
• 2 Fear of the Homicidal Jewish Doctor and its Medieval Roots
• 3 The Archetypal Homicidal Doctor: Dr Meir Alguadex
• 4 Converso Doctors and the `Jewish Plot'
• 5 Ethnic Discrimination and the Medical Professions
• 6 Medical Antisemitism in the Eighteenth Century
• 7 Other Medical Conspiracy Theories: a Comparative Study
• 8 Conclusion
• 5 "Traitors Who Dwell amongst Us": the Conversos as Collaborators and Masterminds of the Muslim and Protestant Onslaught against Spain and Portugal
• 1 The Archetype of Jewish Treason: the Fall of Toledo in 711 CE
• 2 The `Jewish Origins' of the Reformation: Linking Conversos and Protestants
• 3 The `Jewish Plot' against the Portuguese Empire
• 4 A New Toledo in the Americas: Jewish Treason and the Fall of Bahia (1624)
• 5 Dutch Brazil and the Image of the Conversos
• 6 The Dutch, the Conversos and the "Grand Conspiracy" against the Spanish Empire (1610-1650)
• 7 Conclusion
• 6 "Sponges That Suck Up the Wealth of Spain": the Jewish Plot, Economic Parasitism and the Fear of Economic Decline
• 1 The Trope of Jewish Lust of Gold and Usury beyond
• 2 The Converso Merchant: a Parasite Growing at the Expenses of the Host
• 3 The Merchant in the Ancien Regime: a Figure of Suspicion and Fear
• 4 An Easy Hate Figure: the Converso Tax-Farmers and Asentistas
• 5 Conclusion Conclusion
• 1 The Elusive Converso Enemy: a Tool to Construct a Collective Identity
• 2 Epilogue: the Survival of the Conspiracist Narrative after
• Bibliography Index.
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In Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, Francois Soyer offers the first detailed historical analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Spain, Portugal and their overseas colonies between 1450 and 1750. These conspiracy theories accused Jews and conversos, the descendants of medieval Jewish converts to Christianity, of deadly plots and blamed them for a range of social, religious, military and economic problems. Ultimately, many Iberian antisemitic conspiracy theorists aimed to create a `moral panic' about the converso presence in Iberian society, thereby justifying the legitimacy of ethnic discrimination within the Church and society. Moreover, they were also exploited by some churchmen seeking to impose an idealized sense of communal identity upon the lay faithful.
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• Introduction - Judaism and anti-Semitism in Southeast Asia and Malaysia.- Anti-Semitism as morally correct - characterizing the dominant construction of Israel, Palestine and Jews in Malaysia.- Understanding the Function of anti-Semitism and the Israel/Palestine situation in Malaysia.- Questioning anti-Semitism in Malaysia.- Curiosity, interest and Philosemitism.- Conclusion.
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Offering an empirical study into anti-Semitism and anti-Israel attitudes in Malaysia, this book examines the complicated nature and function of such beliefs within the contemporary context, mapping these discourses onto different ethnic and economic divisions. Based largely upon qualitative interviews with thirty Malaysian participants who detail their own experiences with and perceptions of this phenomenon, the project reveals how political actors and organizations in Malaysia achieve political success and maintain political power through investing in the Palestinian cause, simultaneously demonizing Israel and Jews to an astounding degree. However, the book also reveals how, in contrast to this state-led agenda, challenging anti-Semitism and pushing for dialogue with Israel has become a means by which progressive citizens can critique authorities and reassert their desire for a liberal and heterogenic Malaysia. The book therefore argues that both interest in and even support for Judaism and Israel may be more prominent than the official Malaysian position may suggest, with citizens holding far more complex opinions and views upon this subject matter.
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Antisemitism has been on the rise in recent years, with violent attacks, increased verbal insults, and an acceptability in some circles of what would hitherto have been condemned as outrageous antisemitic discourse. Yet despite the dramatic increase in debate and discussion around antisemitism, many of us remain confused. In this urgent and timely book, Rabbi Julia Neuberger uses contemporary examples, along with historical context, to unpack what constitutes antisemitism, building a powerful argument for why it is so crucial that we come to a shared understanding now.
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• L'apprentissage de la citoyenneté
• Naissance de l'antisémitisme culturel
• Wagner, le précurseur
• Mirbeau ou la propagation de l'antisémitisme au théâtre
• La France juive de Drumont et son influence sur la vie artistique
• Être juif ou homosexuel sans concession à l'antisémitisme et à l'homophobie
• Ercicmann sans Chatrian, une "anomalie" dans la peinture des Juifs
• Deux acteurs exemplaires : Sarah Bernhardt et Édouard De Max
• Sarah Bernhardt : "Je serai moi"
• Roumain, juif et... homosexuel : "vouloir rester moi, malgré tous"
• Comment parler de l'homosexualité : le détour par l'Antiquité ou la Bible
• Les prétextes historiques au cinéma
• Couvrez ce "vice" que je ne saurais voir
• La Fin de Lucie Pellegrin : la mort de la lesbienne comme purification
• Lawn-tennis et l'autocensure
• Le scandale du Moulin Rouge : Rêve d'Égypte
• Le "vice errant" ou la perception de l'homosexualité au tournant du siècle
• Le Monsieur aux chrysanthèmes, ou "les déviations du sens génésique"
• La naissance de la "folle" de cinéma
• La "Belle Époque" de l'antisémitisme
• Le Prince d'Aurec d'Henri Lavedan, un modèle transparent : le baron de Hirsch
• Décadence d'Albert Guinon : la pièce antisémite de trop
• Le Retour de Jérusalem de Maurice Donnay : public contre critique
• La ronde des Juifs d'"Almanach"
• La réponse des auteurs dramatiques juifs et des auteurs "philosémites"
• Sortir du ghetto
• Le Baptême, une manifestation de la haine de soi ?
• La réaction de Bernstein à la question juive : Israël
• L'antisémitisme ne suffit pas à faire une bonne pièce
• Une tête de turc facile, Henri de Rothschild
• Un auteur méprisé
• Un mécène vilipendé
• Le théâtre Pigalle, le "plus beau théâtre du mondé" ?
• L'affaire Dreyfus au théâtre et au cinéma : la réhabilitation du juif ?
• Un metteur en scène dreyfusard, Lugné-Poe
• Les pièces en marge
• Au début était Méliès
• Henry Bernstein, victime collatérale de l'affaire Dreyfus
• L'Union sacrée au théâtre
• Le répertoire juif patriotique
• La Maison du Bon Dieu d'Edmond Fleg
• La politique ambiguë de la Comédie-Française autour de la "question juive"
• La reprise contestée de la pièce antisémite Le Prince d'Aurec
• Le Marchand de Paris, un anti-Shylock peu convaincant
• La persistance des clichés
• Le Shylock de Gémier : une caricature "populaire" d'usurier
• Les banquiers juifs du cinéma entre antisémitisme et homophobie
• Juifs persécutés ou juifs révolutionnaires
• Fuir le ghetto pour le Nouveau Monde
• Le sionisme
• La montée des périls
• La menace du Juif révolutionnaire, un traître au coeur du pays qu'il colonise
• Nouvelles des Juifs d'Allemagne
• La "folle boulevardière" ou l'homosexuel condamné
• L'homosexualité; une pathologie dangereuse
• Un "vice" à la mode
• Retour à Oscar Wilde
• La Fleur des Pois ou la peinture d'un milieu "faisandé"
• Les corrupteurs venus d'ailleurs
• Le Taciturne ou la haine de soi
• Les "années du placard" du cinéma français
• Michel Simon ou "l'esthétique de la laideur"
• La Garçonne, du roman aux films
• L'Adrien d'Hôtel du Nord : un homosexuel naturel et bien intégré
• Qui est Géo Forster ?

• Les années 1930 sur scène et à l'écran : ils voient des Juifs partout
• L'argent, une obsession de Dullin
• Albert Cohen, victime du chancelier Hitler ?
• David Golder d'Irène Nemirovsky : du roman à la scène et à l'écran
• Harry Baur, l'interprète privilégié des rôles de Juifs
• Le cas Dalio, un exemple de l'ambiguïté des acteurs "connotés"
• La haine antisémite contre les directeurs, producteurs ou autres intermédiaires juifs
• Au commencement était le directeur de théâtre juif
• "Le théâtre ne paye plus", vive le cinéma!
• Grandeur et décadence du "Roi de l'écran"
• "Les escrocs juifs du cinéma français"
• Le producteur de cinéma, personnage de caricature
• L'antisémitisme "bon enfant" : Hugon, Gréville, Vautel, et les autres
• La série des Lévy, un succès populaire
• Les "histoires juives" sur grand écran
• "Mon curé chez les...", les adaptations des romans antisémites et grivois de Clément Vautel
• Mon Curé chez mon rabbin ou Bloch de Chicago
• Qui sont les critiques
• Robert Brasillach, un grand critique dramatique dévoyé
• Derrière le masque de l'ordre moral
• La critique aux ordres
• Ils reprennent du service : les critiques Drault, Armory et Fréjaville
• Les enragés : Lucien Rebatet, Alain Laubreaux et les autres
• Du philosémitisme à l'antisémitisme : la trajectoire de Robert de Beauplan
• Et les autres ?
• La Collaboration sans peine
• La galaxie Dullin
• La propagande à destination des enfants : le théâtre de P oncle Sébastien de Chancerel
• Divertir avant tout : le cinéma sous l'Occupation
• Protégés ou dénoncés : la loterie des amitiés
• L'incertaine identité d'Harry Baur
• La Comédie-Française et ses "Juifs"
• De P"indésirable" Jean-Paul Dreyfus au résistant Jean-Paul Le Chanois
• La délation tous azimuts
• Les "zones grises"
• Les Allemands francophiles
• Artistes en exil, acteurs en résistance
• Ceux qui restent
• La déportation d'acteurs homosexuels, légende" ou réalité
• Une épuration à la carte
• Brasillach, symbole de la collaboration ?
• Et les autres journalistes ?
• Le cas François-Charles Bauer dit "François Chalais" : résistant ou collaborateur ?
• Les acteurs dans la tourmente
• Les nouveaux maîtres
• Les cas Darcante et Vermorel
• Les stratégies d'"innocentement"
• Un après-guerre dénué d'antisémitisme et d'homophobie ?
• Arcadie, revue et club homophile
• Le triomphe de La Cage aux folles
• Après la Shoah.

"Dans la France de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, le Juif et l'homosexuel sont les figures réprouvées d'une époque marquée par une crise de l'identité masculine. La défaite contre la Prusse a été vécue comme un drame national, une preuve de l'affaiblissement de la France et de la dégénérescence de la "race". Les coupables sont vite désignés : I'"invasion juive" et la dépravation des moeurs. Très rapidement et de manière massive, le théâtre puis le cinéma se font l'écho de cet antisémitisme et de cette homophobie. Ils mettent en scène des Juifs et des homosexuels présentés sous des dehors à la fois grotesques et répulsifs, en un jeu de correspondances qui éclaire puissamment les hantises liées à la sexualité, à la peur du mélange et au rejet de l'altérité. De Renoir à Pagnol, de Sarah Bernhard à Sacha Guitry, des Goncourt à Gide, cette traversée du monde du spectacle est une véritable plongée au coeur de la société française de la fin du XIXe à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qui fait de l'homme blanc, bourgeois, catholique et hétérosexuel, le pilier de la nation."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Introduction:Creating Difference From Within
• Chapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: Chandman'-OEndoer District in the Market Era
• Chapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of Standing Out
• Chapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and Hierarchy
• Chapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist Directions
• Chapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical Objects Conclusion References Index.
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Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, Hojer introduces a local world, where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.
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