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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America in turn place these transformations in a comparative global perspective. The contributors include distinguished scholars from the UN, PRC, India, Zimbabwe, and Latin America who are also active in policy issues.

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1317259106

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9781317259107

Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

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Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the local and the global, this work provides the first sustained linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and the diasporic phenomenon. The book will be an invaluable resource and launching point for scholars and students in ethnic and identity studies and will interest all readers exploring the production of place and identification.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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146164092X

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9781461640929

Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

By: Roxann Prazniak

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Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

By: Roxann Prazniak

From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century. The author brings to life the stories of the Camel King of Zunhua county, Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains of Laiyang county, and many others who criticized government modernization efforts, known collectively as the New Policy. Using county archives---including oral histories---as well as memoirs, periodical literature, missionary records, and official documents both Chinese and foreign, Of Camel Kings and Other Things constructs, from fragmented sources, a coherent historical view vital to our understanding of China's twentieth-century crises and the dilemmas of modernity itself.

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324

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847690075

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9780847690077

Dialogues Across Civilizations

Sketches In World History From The Chinese And European Experiences

By: Roxann Prazniak

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Dialogues Across Civilizations

Sketches In World History From The Chinese And European Experiences

By: Roxann Prazniak

Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another. Each chapter stands as an essay that imaginatively places historical individuals and events in proximity to one another and explores a specific topic,gender relations, rural politics, artistic renderings of nature, to name a few,through the stories of persons who reflected on similar questions but in different social and cultural settings. Through this juxtaposition, Chinese and European civilizations illuminate each other's achievements, problems, and limitations in a range of areas from urban history to religious faith.Privileging neither Europe nor China, this work offers an innovative move away from relativism and multiculturalism towards an analysis that focuses on relationships between social choices and consequences. As a result, both common and divergent perspectives on the human condition emerge for discussion. Drawing upon a rich literature of cross-societal studies, Dialogues Across Civilizations generates reflection on themes central to the study of world history as well as European and Asian history.

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295

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Routledge

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0429973594

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9780429973598

Sudden Appearances

The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

By: Roxann Prazniak

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Sudden Appearances

The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

By: Roxann Prazniak

An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received cosmologies, human agency in history, and naturalism in the representation of social and organic environments all appear with consistency across diverse venues. Common themes, styles, motifs, and pigments circulated to an unprecedented extent during this era creating an equally unprecedented field of artistic exchange. Exploring art’s relationship to the unique commercial and political circumstances of Mongol Eurasia, Sudden Appearances rethinks many art historical puzzles including the mystery of the Siyah Kalem paintings, the female cup-bearer in the Royal Drinking Scene at Alchi, and the Mongol figures who appear in a Sienese mural. Drawing on primary sources both visual and literary as well as scholarship that has only recently achieved critical mass in the areas of Mongolian studies and Eurasian histories, Roxann Prazniak orchestrates an inquiry into a critical passage in world history, a prelude to the spin-off to modernity. Sudden Appearances highlights the visual and emotional prompts that motivated innovative repurposing of existing cultural perspectives and their adjustment to expanding geographic and social worlds. While early twentieth-century scholarship searched for a catholic universalism in shared European and Chinese art motifs, this inquiry looks to the relationships among societies of central, western, and eastern Asia during the Mongol era as a core site of social and political discourse that defined a globalizing era in Eurasian artistic exchange. The materiality of artistic creativity, primarily access to pigments, techniques, and textiles, provides a path through the interconnected commercial and intellectual byways of the long thirteenth century. Tabriz of the Ilkhanate with its proximity to the Mediterranean and al-Hind seas and relations to the Yuan imperial center establishes the geographic and organizational hub for this study of eight interconnected cities nested in their regional domains. Avoiding the use of modern geographic markers such as China, Europe, Middle East, India, Sudden Appearances shifts analysis away from the limits of nation-state claims toward a borderless world of creative commerce.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824878086

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9780824878085

Sudden Appearances

The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

By: Roxann Prazniak

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The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

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Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

By: Roxann Prazniak

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Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China

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From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century. The author brings to life the stories of the Camel King of Zunhua county, Qu Shiwen and the Four Mountains of Laiyang county, and many others who criticized government modernization efforts, known collectively as the New Policy. Using county archives—-including oral histories—-as well as memoirs, periodical literature, missionary records, and official documents both Chinese and foreign, Of Camel Kings and Other Things constructs, from fragmented sources, a coherent historical view vital to our understanding of China's twentieth-century crises and the dilemmas of modernity itself.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461639638

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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

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1317259114

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Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Dialogues Across Civilizations

Dialogues Across Civilizations

Sudden Appearances

Sudden Appearances

Sudden Appearances

Sudden Appearances

Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Of Camel Kings and Other Things

Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

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