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Domesticating the World

African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

By: Jeremy Prestholdt

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Domesticating the World

African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

By: Jeremy Prestholdt

“ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA

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Univ of California Press

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0520254244

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Icons of Dissent

The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden

By: Jeremy Prestholdt

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Icons of Dissent

The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden

By: Jeremy Prestholdt

The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.

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Oxford University Press

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0190092599

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Domesticating the World

African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

By: Jeremy Prestholdt

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African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

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“ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA

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Oman, Culture and Diplomacy

By: Jeremy Jones

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Oman, Culture and Diplomacy

By: Jeremy Jones

This book is a cultural history, offering an historical account of the formation of a distinctive Omani culture; arguing that it is in this unique culture that a specific conception and practice of diplomacy has been developed.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748674632

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Missing Links

The African and American Worlds of R.L. Garner, Primate Collector

By: Jeremy Rich

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Missing Links

The African and American Worlds of R.L. Garner, Primate Collector

By: Jeremy Rich

Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848–1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution. Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of primates. Garner brought some of the first live primates to America, launching a traveling demonstration in which he claimed to communicate with a chimpanzee named Susie. He was often mocked by the increasingly professionalized scientific community, who were wary of his colorful escapades, such as his ill-fated plan to make a New York City socialite the queen of southern Gabon, and his efforts to convince Thomas Edison to finance him in Africa. Yet Garner did influence evolutionary debates, and as with many of his era, race dominated his thinking. Garner's arguments—for example, that chimpanzees were more loving than Africans, or that colonialism constituted a threat to the separation of the races—offer a fascinating perspective on the thinking and attitudes of his times. Missing Links explores the impact of colonialism on Africans, the complicated politics of buying and selling primates, and the popularization of biological racism.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820340596

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9780820340593

A History of Modern Oman

By: Jeremy Jones,Nicholas Ridout

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A History of Modern Oman

By: Jeremy Jones,Nicholas Ridout

The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of contemporary Oman. Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout offer a distinctive new approach to Omani history, building on postcolonial thought and integrating the study of politics and culture. The book addresses key topics including Oman's historical cosmopolitanism, the distinctive role of Omani Islam in the country's social and political life, Oman's role in the global economy of the nineteenth century, insurrection and revolution in the twentieth century, the role of Sultan Qaboos in the era of oil and Oman's unique regional and diplomatic perspective on contemporary issues.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316404595

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9781316404591

China's Lonely Revolution

The Local Communist Movement of Hainan Island, 1926-1956

By: Jeremy A. Murray

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China's Lonely Revolution

The Local Communist Movement of Hainan Island, 1926-1956

By: Jeremy A. Murray

Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956. Jeremy A. Murrays study of local Communist revolutionaries in Hainan between 1926 and 1956 provides a window into the diversity and complexity of the Chinese revolution. Long at the margins of the Chinese state, Hainan was once known by mainlanders only for its malarial climate and fierce indigenous people. In spite of efforts by the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese to exterminate Hainans Communists, the movement survived because of an alliance with the indigenous Li. For years it persevered, though in complete isolation from Communist headquarters on the mainland. Using Chinese-language sources, archival materials, and interviews, Murray draws a vivid picture of this movement from the Hainanese perspective, and broadens our understanding of how patriotism, Party loyalty, and Chinese identity have been experienced and interpreted in modern China.

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SUNY Press

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1438465319

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Icons of Dissent

The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden

By: Jeremy Prestholdt

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The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden

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Oxford University Press

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0190092645

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Indian Ocean Imaginings

People, Time, and Space

By: Joshua Esler,Mark Fielding

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Indian Ocean Imaginings

People, Time, and Space

By: Joshua Esler,Mark Fielding

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. From the earliest exchanges through Sumerian and Harappan trade, to emerging geopolitical alliances in the twenty-first century, this volume demonstrates both the continuity and change of the region as well as its unity and diversity. The expanse of this ocean and its littoral rim is connected through the social imaginary, which enables these processes. It is with the stories of the peoples inhabiting this rim that this book is concerned—told both through micro studies of the everyday lives of the region’s people and through macro studies centered around civilizations, empires, nation-states, and climate change.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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166692217X

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Domesticating the World

Domesticating the World

Icons of Dissent

Icons of Dissent

Domesticating the World

Domesticating the World

Oman, Culture and Diplomacy

Oman, Culture and Diplomacy

Missing Links

Missing Links

A History of Modern Oman

A History of Modern Oman

China's Lonely Revolution

China's Lonely Revolution

Icons of Dissent

Icons of Dissent

Indian Ocean Imaginings

Indian Ocean Imaginings

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