Author: Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
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Languages : en
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Author: Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: Jeannine Bischoff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111210545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a position of 'strong asymmetrical dependency' (including slavery) provides insights into the social categories and distinctions that informed asymmetrical social interactions. In a similar vein, an analysis of historical narratives that either justify or challenge dependency is conducive to revealing how dependency may be embedded in (historical) discourses and ways of thinking. The eleven contributions in the volume approach these issues from various disciplinary vantage points, including theology, global history, Ottoman history, literary studies, and legal history. The authors address a wide range of different textual sources and historical contexts - from medieval Scandinavia and the Fatimid Empire to the history of abolition in Martinique and human rights violations in contemporary society. While the authors contribute innovative insights to ongoing discussions within their disciplines, the articles were also written with a view to the endeavor of furthering Dependency Studies as a transdisciplinary approach to the study of human societies past and present.

Author: Morris H. Morley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Based on personal interviews and declassified US government documents, this book, first published in 1994, studies US policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter presidencies.

Author: Roni Henig
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512826596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” or the idea that Hebrew—a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century—was revitalized as part of a broader national “revival” which ultimately led to the establishment of the Israeli nation-state. This story of language revival has been commemorated in Israeli popular memory and in Jewish historiography as a triumphant transformation narrative that marks the success of the Zionist revolution. But a closer look at the work of early twentieth-century Hebrew writers reveals different sentiments. Roni Henig explores the loaded, figurative discourse of revival in the work of Hebrew authors and thinkers working roughly between 1890 and 1920. For these authors, the language once known as “the holy tongue” became a vernacular in the making. Rather than embracing “revival” as a neutral, descriptive term, Henig takes a critical approach, employing close readings of canonical texts to analyze the primary tropes used to articulate this aesthetic and political project of “reviving” Hebrew. She shows that for many writers, the national mission of language revival was entwined with a sense of mourning and loss. These writers perceived—and simultaneously produced—the language as neither dead nor fully alive. Henig argues that it is this figure of the living-dead that lies at the heart of the revival discourse and which is constitutive of Jewish nationalism. On Revival contributes to current debates in comparative literary studies by addressing the limitations of the national language paradigm and thinking beyond concepts of origin, nativity, and possession in language. Informed by critical literary theory, including feminist and postcolonial critiques, the book challenges Zionism’s monolingual lens and the auto-Orientalism involved in the project of revival, questioning charged ideological concepts such as “native speaker” and “mother tongue.”