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The National Habitus

Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870

By: Marie-Pierre Le Hir

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The National Habitus

Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870

By: Marie-Pierre Le Hir

Stories about border crossers, illegal aliens, refugees that regularly appear in the press everywhere point to the crucial role national identity plays in human beings' lives today. The National Habitus seeks to understand how and why national belonging became so central to a person's identity and sense of identity. Centered on the acquisition of the national habitus, the process that transforms subjects into citizens when a state becomes a nation-state, the book examines this transformation at the individual level in the case of nineteenth century France. Literary texts serve as primary material in this study of national belonging, because, as Germaine de Staël pointed out long ago, literature has the unique ability to provide access to "inner feelings." The term "habitus," in the title of this book, signals a departure from traditional approaches to nationalism, a break with the criteria of language, race, and ethnicity typically used to examine it. It is grounded instead in a sociology that deals with the subjective dimension of life and is best exemplified by the works of Norbert Elias (1897–1990) and Pierre Bourdieu (1931–2002), two sociologists who approach belief systems like nationalism from a historical, instead of an ethical vantage point. By distinguishing between two groups of major French writers, three who experienced the 1789 Revolution firsthand as adults (Olympe de Gouges, François René de Chateaubriand and Germaine de Staël) and three who did not (Stendhal, Prosper Mérimée, and George Sand), the book captures evolving understandings of the nation, as well as thoughts and emotions associated with national belonging over time. Le Hir shows that although none of these writers is typically associated with nationalism, all of them were actually affected by the process of nationalization of feelings, thoughts, and habits, irrespective of aesthetic preferences, social class, or political views. By the end of the nineteenth century, they had learned to feel and view themselves as French nationals; they all exhibited the characteristic features of the national habitus: love of their own nation, distrust and/or hatred of other nations. By underscoring the dual contradictory nature of the national habitus, the book highlights the limitations nation-based identities impose on the prospect for peace.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110391538

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The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State (Routledge Revivals)

By: Alexandre Bennigsen,Marie Broxup

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The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State (Routledge Revivals)

By: Alexandre Bennigsen,Marie Broxup

First published in 1983, this book traces the historical and cultural development of the Soviet Muslim population. Going back to the Mongol Empire and the Russian conquest of Muslim lands under the Tsars, it demonstrates how the present Soviet Islamic culture has emerged. It also examines how Soviet Muslims interact with the Muslim world abroad and how Soviet Muftis have been used as ambassadors of the USSR in Muslim countries.

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1317831713

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Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose

Five Psycho-Sociological Readings

By: Marie Kolkenbrock

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Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose

Five Psycho-Sociological Readings

By: Marie Kolkenbrock

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal' and 'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of "stereotype and destiny," Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501330977

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9781501330971

Abstract Labour: A Critique

By: Jim Cohen,Jean-Marie Vincent,Mhairi Cowden

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Abstract Labour: A Critique

By: Jim Cohen,Jean-Marie Vincent,Mhairi Cowden

These five philosophical essays are designed to constitute a unified whole, in both their critical and their constructive dimensions. Vincent addresses the crisis of meaning, the repetitiousness of technological processes and mechanisms and the declining sense of the real in political life.

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The 'Social' as Metaphor and the Case of Cooperatives

A Critique of Economic Individualism

By: Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia

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The 'Social' as Metaphor and the Case of Cooperatives

A Critique of Economic Individualism

By: Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia

Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, Marie Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi offer a powerful critique of the language and categories of thought that dominate the contemporary intellectual and political landscape. The general tendency to dichotomize concepts such as left and right, social and economic, globalization and anti-globalization, is, they argue, a consequence of our subservience to the primacy of the rational economic agent. The authors offer a selection of case-studies of co-operatives, which are shown to be paradoxical entities in a worldview in which the social exists only as a metaphor for a space concerned with the damage caused by the economic. Through an analysis of experiences in achieving civil accord in South Africa and in establishing a new town in the mountains of Sicily, they offer a new political orientation in a world of uncertainty. In doing so they attempt an answer to one of the most intriguing questions of our time: should we accept as a fait-accompli the way our society is conceived and shaped, or can we have a say in the matter and assume the ethical responsibility involved?

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1351145223

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Women Mystics Confront the Modern World

Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

By: Marie-Florine Bruneau

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Women Mystics Confront the Modern World

Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

By: Marie-Florine Bruneau

Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.

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SUNY Press

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0791436624

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The Anarchist Way to Socialism

Elisée Reclus and Nineteenth-Century European Anarchism

By: Marie Fleming

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The Anarchist Way to Socialism

Elisée Reclus and Nineteenth-Century European Anarchism

By: Marie Fleming

First published in 1979. Elisée Reclus was an important anarchist theorist whose contribution to the radical direction which the European anarchist movement assumed in the late nineteenth century, has been largely neglected by scholars. This study of his thought provides a basis for a general re-assessment of European anarchism, by contributing to an understanding of important dimensions of theory and practice, which previously have not been well understood. Amongst the aspects examined are the anarchist conception of the state, the nature of oppression and revolution and the role of violence and terrorism. One of the revealing and fundamental themes of this examination, is that the social and political theory of Elisée Reclus was the product of interaction of utopianism and science, two strands of thought frequently taken to be mutually exclusive. For Reclus the use of the scientific method served to strengthen his concept of Utopia, rendering it part of the real world. Within this context of utopianism and science, it can be seen that Reclus’ legendary benevolence, and his justification of violence are logically consistent, both deriving from his all-embracing social and political theory. This work presents a challenging approach to many widely held views about the nature of anarchism, particularly regarding its relationship to socialism.

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1000704750

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Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity

His Church Politics and Ecclesiology

By: Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes

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Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity

His Church Politics and Ecclesiology

By: Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes

This study provides a new insight in the development and background of the church-political and ecclesiological ideas of the famous chancellor of the Paris University, Jean Gerson (1363-1429).

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9004112960

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Ideal world of Mrs. Widder's soirée musicale

Music and difference in nineteenth-century Ontario

By: Kristina Marie Guiguet

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Ideal world of Mrs. Widder's soirée musicale

Music and difference in nineteenth-century Ontario

By: Kristina Marie Guiguet

In 1844, Mrs. Frederick Widder held a soirée musicale in her lavish Toronto home. Both the music and program were standard fare for the time but, for the author, it has implications beyond a single drawing-room extravaganza. Through the study of this elaborate domestic concert, the author reveals the way musical life affected and reflected contemporary values, thoughts and beliefs of the distinct categories of class and gender in pre-Confederation Canadian society.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772823716

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The French Film Musical

By: Phil Powrie,Marie Cadalanu

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The French Film Musical

By: Phil Powrie,Marie Cadalanu

Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical. The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.

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1501329774

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Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

By: Sherry Marie Gallagher

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Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

By: Sherry Marie Gallagher

Boulder Blues brings you back to the era of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Its madness is exposed in a naive twist of two musicians from Irish immigrant backgrounds who struggle through the nightmare of a political war and countrywide civil unrest as they try to make sense of a world beyond the American Dream of their parents and grandparents. Sweet, poignant, laughable and pithy, it catches a time once labeled as a 'Modern Renaissance'.

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Lulu.com

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1445230976

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Pavements in the Garden

The Suburbanization of Southern New Jersey, Adjacent to the City of Philadelphia, 1769 to the Present

By: Ann Marie T. Cammarota

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Pavements in the Garden

The Suburbanization of Southern New Jersey, Adjacent to the City of Philadelphia, 1769 to the Present

By: Ann Marie T. Cammarota

Although it focuses on the local nature of the development, it draws comparisons to the similarities and differences of other locales across the country, and stresses the primary significance of new methods of transportation to suburban expansion.".

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838638813

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What Great Paintings Say

By: Rose-Marie Hagen,Rainer Hagen

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What Great Paintings Say

By: Rose-Marie Hagen,Rainer Hagen

These are the kinds of question Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen ask when faced with world-famous masterpieces. In the language of today they comment on the fashions and attitudes, trends and intrigues, love, vice and lifestyles of past times. Book jacket.

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3822821004

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French Women and the Empire

The Case of Indochina

By: Marie-Paule Ha

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French Women and the Empire

The Case of Indochina

By: Marie-Paule Ha

French Women and the Empire is the first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study. Its departure point is the interrogation of the dramatic change in the French colonialist view of the empire as an exclusively male preserve where women feared to tread. At the turn of the century, a reverse discourse emerged in the metropole, forcefully arguing that colonial female emigration was essential to “true” colonisation. The study begins by analysing the highly complex web of interconnected factors underlying this radical transformation in the representation of the empire from being a “no woman's land” into a “woman's haven.” Then, drawing on a large body of hitherto little examined sources, the study continues by reconstructing the experiences and activities of French women in Indochina from the fin-de-siècle to the interwar era. The most significant finding from this study is that contrary to the image propagated by promotional literature of the colonial woman as essentially a bourgeois homemaker, the class and ethnic make-up of the French female population in the Asian colony was in fact remarkably heterogeneous, with a sizeable contingent of them, married or single, actively engaging in a variety of paid employment outside the home. By thus foregrounding the diversity and complexity of colonial female experiences, French Women and the Empire seeks to move the story of French women and the empire beyond the narrow confines of the imperial family romance to the wider arena of the colonial public sphere.

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OUP Oxford

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0191662739

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Violence as Usual

Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa

By: Marie Muschalek

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Violence as Usual

Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa

By: Marie Muschalek

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unearthing this culture of normalized violence in a settler colony, Violence as Usual uncovers the workings of a powerful state that was built in an improvised fashion by low-level state representatives. Marie A. Muschalek's fascinating portrayal of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the Landespolizei is a historical anthropology of police practice and the normalization of imperial power. Replete with anecdotes of everyday experiences both of the policemen and of colonized people and settlers, Violence as Usual re-examines fundamental questions about the relationship between power and violence. Muschalek gives us a new perspective on violence beyond the solely destructive and the instrumental. She overcomes, too, the notion that modern states operate exclusively according to modes of rationalized functionality. Violence as Usual offers an unusual assessment of the history of rule in settler colonialism and an alternative to dominant narratives of an ostensibly weak colonial state.

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Cornell University Press

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1501742876

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James Ensor

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

By: Susan Marie Canning,Patrick Florizoone,Nancy Ireson,Kimberly Nichols,Art Institute of Chicago

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James Ensor

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

By: Susan Marie Canning,Patrick Florizoone,Nancy Ireson,Kimberly Nichols,Art Institute of Chicago

James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony was published in conjunction with an exhibition titled Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor, organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 23, 2014, to January 25, 2015.

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Yale University Press

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0300203918

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Laclau and Mouffe

The Radical Democratic Imaginary

By: Anna Marie Smith

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Laclau and Mouffe

The Radical Democratic Imaginary

By: Anna Marie Smith

Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly effective theory of identity formation and power relations that carefully draws from the criticism of political theory from postmodern anti-foundationalist political theory.

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Routledge

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1134855648

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Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914

By: Julie-Marie Strange

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Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914

By: Julie-Marie Strange

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316240851

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Makers of the Russian Revolution

Biographies

By: Georges Haupt,Jean-Jacques Marie

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Makers of the Russian Revolution

Biographies

By: Georges Haupt,Jean-Jacques Marie

Until the publication of this book in 1974, the leaders of the October Revolution remained very badly known. This book exhumes the autobiographies written by the men whose actions and ideas have moulded events. Unique as sources of documentation on the Bolsheviks, these autobiographies, encompassing personal and political information up to 1917 add an important historical dimension. They allow the reader to appreciate more accurately the role played by each of the protagonists in preparing and carrying out the Revolution and beyond this they put the Bolsheviks of 1917 in the context of their social milieu and of the circumstances that shaped their minds.

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Routledge

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1315400200

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Never Trust a Russian

The Kruse Family Saga

By: Anna Marie Dailey

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Never Trust a Russian

The Kruse Family Saga

By: Anna Marie Dailey

Never Trust a Russian is a novel of love, hate, deception and treachery set against the sprawling backdrop of Western Russia. The story begins in Baku on the Caspian Sea and follows three brothers as they flee the ravaging Bolsheviks. They travel with Anarchists, Boatmen and Gypsies across a landscape of turmoil and death. The tale is based upon one family’s journey to America.

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1414052227

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Essential Trade

Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace

By: Ann Marie Leshkowich

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Essential Trade

Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace

By: Ann Marie Leshkowich

“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Ben Thanh market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City’s iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped by timeless, essential truths: Vietnamese women are naturally adept at buying and selling, while men are not; Vietnamese prefer to do business with family members or through social contacts; stallholders are by nature superstitious; marketplace trading is by definition a small-scale enterprise. Essential Trade looks through the façade of these “timeless truths” and finds active participants in a political economy of appearances: traders’ words and actions conform to stereotypes of themselves as poor, weak women in order to clinch sales, manage creditors, and protect themselves from accusations of being greedy, corrupt, or “bourgeois” – even as they quietly slip into southern Vietnam’s growing middle class. But Leshkowich argues that we should not dismiss the traders’ self-disparaging words simply because of their essentialist logic. In Ben Thanh market, performing certain styles of femininity, kinship relations, social networks, spirituality, and class allowed traders to portray themselves as particular kinds of people who had the capacity to act in volatile political and economic circumstances. When so much seems to be changing, a claim that certain things or people are inherently or naturally a particular way can be both personally meaningful and strategically advantageous. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and life history interviewing conducted over nearly two decades, Essential Trade explores how women cloth and clothing traders like Ngoc have plied their wares through four decades of political and economic transformation: civil war, postwar economic restructuring, socialist cooperativization, and the frenetic competition of market socialism. With close attention to daily activities and life narratives, this groundbreaking work of critical feminist economic anthropology combines theoretical insight, vivid ethnography, and moving personal stories to illuminate how the interaction between gender and class has shaped people’s lives and created market socialist political economy. It provides a compelling account of postwar southern Vietnam as seen through the eyes of the dynamic women who have navigated forty years of profound change while building their businesses in the stalls of Ben Thanh market.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824847865

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A History of Yugoslavia

By: Marie-Janine Calic

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A History of Yugoslavia

By: Marie-Janine Calic

Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia—from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Calic takes a fresh and innovative look at the colorful, multifaceted, and complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes from the turn of the twentieth century and the transition to modern industrialized mass society. She traces the origins of ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions, applying the latest social science approaches, and drawing on the breadth of recent state-of-the-art literature, to present a balanced interpretation of events that takes into account the differing perceptions and interests of the actors involved. Uniquely, Calic frames the history of Yugoslavia for readers as an essentially open-ended process, undertaken from a variety of different regional perspectives with varied composite agenda. She shuns traditional, deterministic explanations that notorious Balkan hatreds or any other kind of exceptionalism are to blame for Yugoslavia’s demise, and along the way she highlights the agency of twentieth-century modern mass society in the politicization of differences. While analyzing nuanced political and social-economic processes, Calic describes the experiences and emotions of ordinary people in a vivid way. As a result, her groundbreaking work provides scholars and learned readers alike with an accessible, trenchant, and authoritative introduction to Yugoslavia's complex history.

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Purdue University Press

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1612495648

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They Eat Horses, Don't They?

The Truth About the French

By: Piu Marie Eatwell

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They Eat Horses, Don't They?

The Truth About the French

By: Piu Marie Eatwell

They Eat Horses, Don't They?:The Truth About the French tells you what life in France is really like. Do the French eat horses? Do French women bare all on the beach? What is a bidet really used for? In this hilarious and informative book, Piu Marie Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?). Eatwell lived in France for many years and made the most of long French weekends, extended holidays, and paid time off to sit on French beaches, evaluate the sexual allure of the French men and women around her, and, of course, scan café menus for horses and frogs. As a result, They Eat Horses, Don't They? reveals a fascinating picture of historical and contemporary France—a country that has both changed radically in the twenty-first century, but yet still retains much of the mystery, romance, and allure that has seduced foreigners for decades. Truth, as always, is stranger than fiction. . . .

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Macmillan

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1466854936

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9781466854932

French in Action

A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method, Part 2

By: Pierre J. Capretz,Barry Lydgate,Béatrice Abetti,Marie-Odile Germain

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French in Action

A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method, Part 2

By: Pierre J. Capretz,Barry Lydgate,Béatrice Abetti,Marie-Odile Germain

Since it was first published, French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture—The Capretz Method has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition, revised by Pierre Capretz and Barry Lydgate, includes new, contemporary illustrations throughout and, in the Documents section of each lesson, more-relevant information for today’s students. A completely new feature is a journal by the popular character Marie-Laure, who observes and comments humorously on the political, cultural, and technological changes in the world between 1985 and today. The new edition also incorporates more content about the entire Francophone world. In use by hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools, French in Action remains a powerful educational resource that this third edition updates for a new generation of learners. Part 2 gives students at the intermediate level the tools they need to communicate effectively in French and to understand and appreciate French and Francophone cultures.

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Yale University Press

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030021068X

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9780300210682

Nachman Syrkin, Socialist Zionist

A Biographical Memoir and Selected Essays

By: Marie Syrkin,Nachman Syrkin

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Nachman Syrkin, Socialist Zionist

A Biographical Memoir and Selected Essays

By: Marie Syrkin,Nachman Syrkin

Nachman Syrkin (1868-1924) was a political theorist, founder of Labour Zionism and a prolific writer in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German and English languages. In this present volume, which was first published in 1961, his daughter Marie Syrkin reprints translations of some of his more influential essays, and remembers her childhood and youth and the wanderings of her family over the face of the earth at a time not only of danger and suffering, but of adventure and romance and real enjoyment. A lively, engaging read!

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1789127459

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9781789127454

Beyond Unwanted Sound

Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism

By: Marie Thompson

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Beyond Unwanted Sound

Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism

By: Marie Thompson

Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of silence and transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instead aims to account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the exceptional to the banal; the overwhelming to the inaudible; and the destructive to the generative. What connects these various and variable manifestations of noise is not negativity but affectivity. Building on the Spinozist assertion that to exist is to be affected, Beyond Unwanted Sound asserts that to exist is to be affected by noise.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501313304

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Gentrifications

Views from Europe

By: Marie Chabrol,Anaïs Collet,Matthieu Giroud,Lydie Launay

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Gentrifications

Views from Europe

By: Marie Chabrol,Anaïs Collet,Matthieu Giroud,Lydie Launay

Offering an original discussion of the gentrification phenomenon in Europe, this book provides new theoretical insights into classical works on the subject. Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate its ‘DNA’, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.

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Berghahn Books

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1800736592

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9781800736597

Architectures of Economic Subjectivity

The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought

By: Sonia Marie Scott

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Architectures of Economic Subjectivity

The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought

By: Sonia Marie Scott

The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe. This work takes a different approach. It explores the philosophical groundwork of the theoretical structure within which economic subjects are presented. Demonstrating how the subjects of economic texts tend to be defined in and through their relationship to knowledge, this study addresses the epistemological constitution of subjectivity in economic thought."--Publisher's website.

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Routledge

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0415699215

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9780415699211

Fanon

Collective Ethics and Humanism

By: Vivaldi Jean-Marie

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Fanon

Collective Ethics and Humanism

By: Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism is an exegetical account of Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. By inviting the reader to carefully reconsider Fanon's final book, Vivaldi Jean-Marie facilitates its academic incorporation in the study of important books of the twentieth century and guides first-time readers and scholars to a greater appreciation of Fanon's work. Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism is crucial reading for any study of Fanon, colonialism and post-colonialism, and cultural studies.

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Peter Lang

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1433100622

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