Latin America facing China

south-south relations beyond the Washington Consensus

The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third ...

Kinship and beyond

the genealogical model reconsidered

The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model - in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission - structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what ...

Imperial Germany revisited

continuing debates and new perspectives

The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent ...

Border interrogations

questioning spanish frontiers

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions - subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past ...

Narrating the nation

representations in history, media and the arts

"...an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting 'nationhood.' There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a 'transitional formulation' in Jaspers's sense of the term ...

Civil society and gender justice

historical and comparative perspectives

"On the whole, this much needed book offers both a necessary corrective to and further development of theoretical thinking about and empirical analysis of civil society. It should be required reading among historians, political scientists and sociologists alike." * Journal of Contemporary European Studies "Civil Society ...

Germans no more

accounts of jewish everyday life, 1933-1938

A welcome complement to historians' accounts of Jewish reactions to Nazi persecution before 1939. It richly maps the spatial, emotional and psychological effects of social abandonment, propaganda and the atomization of everyday life that made many Jews come to feel what National Socialist policy had ...

The dream in Islam

from Qr'anic tradition to jihadist inspiration

The war in the Middle East is marked by a lack of cultural knowledge on the part of the western forces, and this book deals with another, widely ignored element of Islam-the role of dreams in everyday life. The practice of using night dreams to ...

Struggles for home

violence, hope and the movement of people

"[A] theoretical milestone that signposts provocative new directions for scholars and students of displacement. This volume offers an exceptional critical synthesis of emergent strands of thinking about displacement while also posing new questions about how processes of 'home making, un-making, and re-making' unfold for people ...

Order and disorder

anthropological perspectives

"...the ethnographies...are rich, nuanced and highly readable." * Anthropological Notebooks Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the ...

Crises in european integration

challenges and responses, 1945-2005

Ed. Ludger Kühnhardt. While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading ...

The politics of euroepan citizenship

deepening contradictions in social rights and migration policy

As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital. This book is the first of its kind to map the development of EU citizenship and its ...

Who Abolished Slavery?

Slave Revolts and Abolitionism a Debate with Joâo Pedro Marques

Eds. Seymour Drescher and Pieter C. Emmer. The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents ...

Changing properties of property

Eds. Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda Beckmann, Melanie G. Wiber. As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as ...

Pursuits of happiness

well-being in anthropological perspectives

Edited by Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo. Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being-defined as "the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society ...

Other people's anthropologies

ethnographic practice on the margins

Ed. Aleksandar Boskovic. Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo- American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With ...

Sugarlandia revisited

sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940

Eds. Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, G. Roger Knight. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and ...

Region-building. Vol. II

Regional integration in the World: documents

Ed. Ludger Kühnhardt. After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are ...

Region-building. Vol. I

The global proliferation of regional integration

After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are deepening their ambitions ...

The plans that failed

an economic history of the GDR

The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR's newA" society was ...

Responsible history

Foreword by Jürgen Kocka Reflecting on the responsible use of history, the author identifies the duties that the living have toward the dead and analyzes the rights to memory and history necessary to fulfil these duties.

Crises in european integration

challenges and responses, 1945-2005

Ed. Ludger Kühnhardt. While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading ...