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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

By: Tara Zahra

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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

By: Tara Zahra

A brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today’s battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global inequality. Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women’s rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was growing, one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its aftermath. In Against the World, a sweeping and ambitious work of history, acclaimed scholar Tara Zahra examines how nationalism, rather than internationalism, came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century. The air went out of the globalist balloon with the First World War as quotas were put on immigration and tariffs on trade, not only in the United States but across Europe, where war and disease led to mass societal upheaval. The “Spanish flu” heightened anxieties about porous national boundaries. The global impact of the 1929 economic crash and the Great Depression amplified a quest for food security in Europe and economic autonomy worldwide. Demands for relief from the instability and inequality linked to globalization forged democracies and dictatorships alike, from Gandhi’s India to America’s New Deal and Hitler’s Third Reich. Immigration restrictions, racially constituted notions of citizenship, anti-Semitism, and violent outbursts of hatred of the “other” became the norm—coming to genocidal fruition in the Second World War. Millions across the political spectrum sought refuge from the imagined and real threats of the global economy in ways strikingly reminiscent of our contemporary political moment: new movements emerged focused on homegrown and local foods, domestically produced clothing and other goods, and back-to-the-land communities. Rich with astonishing detail gleaned from Zahra’s unparalleled archival research in five languages, Against the World is a poignant and thorough exhumation of the popular sources of resistance to globalization. With anti-globalism a major tenet of today’s extremist agendas, Zahra's arrestingly clearsighted and wide-angled account is essential reading to grapple with our divided present.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393651975

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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

By: Tara Zahra

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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

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Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393285596

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The Lost Children

Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II

By: Tara Zahra

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The Lost Children

Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II

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During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the story of these families, and of the struggle to determine their fate. We see how the reconstruction of families quickly became synonymous with the survival of European civilization itself. Even as Allied officials and humanitarian organizations proclaimed a new era of individualist and internationalist values, Tara Zahra demonstrates that they defined the “best interests” of children in nationalist terms. Sovereign nations and families were seen as the key to the psychological rehabilitation of traumatized individuals and the peace and stability of Europe. Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives, The Lost Children is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story. It brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the efforts of everyone—from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers—to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity. This riveting tale of families destroyed by war reverberates in the lost children of today’s wars and in the compelling issues of international adoption, human rights and humanitarianism, and refugee policies.

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Harvard University Press

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0674061373

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The Lost Children

Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II

By: Tara Zahra

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Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II

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Kidnapped Souls

National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948

By: Tara Zahra

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National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948

By: Tara Zahra

Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech activists, who feared that the children born to their nation could literally be "lost" or "kidnapped" from the national community through such experiences and, more generally, by parents who were either flexible about national belonging or altogether indifferent to it. Highlighting this indifference to nationalism—and concerns about such apathy among nationalists—Kidnapped Souls offers a surprising new perspective on Central European politics and society in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on Austrian, Czech, and German archives, Tara Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents. Through their educational and social activism to fix the boundaries of nation and family, Zahra finds, Czech and German nationalists reveal the set of beliefs they shared about children, family, democracy, minority rights, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. Zahra shows that by 1939 a vigorous tradition of Czech-German nationalist competition over children had created cultures that would shape the policies of the Nazi occupation and the Czech response to it. The book's concluding chapter weighs the prehistory and consequences of the postwar expulsion of German families from the Bohemian Lands. Kidnapped Souls is a significant contribution to our understanding of the genealogy of modern nationalism in Central Europe and a groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which children have been the objects of political contestation when national communities have sought to shape, or to reshape, their futures.

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Cornell University Press

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080146191X

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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

By: Tara Zahra

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Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

By: Tara Povey

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Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

By: Tara Povey

This book examines the women's movement in Iran and its role in contesting gender relations since the 1979 revolution. Looking at examples from politics, law, employment, environment, media and religion and the struggle for democracy, this book demonstrates how material conditions have important social and political consequences for the lives of women in Iran and exposes the need to challenge the dominant theoretical perspectives on gender and Islam. A truly fascinating insider's look at the experiences of Iranian women as academics, political and civil society activists, this book counters the often inaccurate and misleading stereotyping of Iranian women to present a vibrant and diverse picture of these women's lives. A welcome and unique addition to the vibrant and growing literature on women, Islam, development, democracy and feminisms.

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Routledge

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1134779895

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Blockchain of Things and Deep Learning Applications in Construction

Digital Construction Transformation

By: Faris Elghaish,Farzad Pour Rahimian,Tara Brooks,Nashwan Dawood,Sepehr Abrishami

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Blockchain of Things and Deep Learning Applications in Construction

Digital Construction Transformation

By: Faris Elghaish,Farzad Pour Rahimian,Tara Brooks,Nashwan Dawood,Sepehr Abrishami

This book significantly contributes the digital transformation of construction. The book explores the capabilities of deep learning to provide smart solutions for the construction industry, particularly in areas of managing equipment, design optimization, energy optimization and detect cracks for buildings and highways. It provides conceptual solutions but also practical techniques. A new deep learning CNN-based highway cracks detection is demonstrated, and its usefulness is tested. The resulting deep learning CNN model will enable users to scan long distance of highway and detect types of cracks accurately in a very short time compared to traditional approaches. The book explores the integration of IoT and blockchain to provide practical solutions to tackle existing challenges like the endemic fragmentation in supply chain, the need for monitoring construction projects remotely and tracking equipment on the site. The Blockchain of Things (BCoT) concept has been introduced to exploit the advantages of IoT and blockchain, and different applications were developed based on this integration in leading industries such as shared economy and health care. Workable potential use cases to exploit successful utilization of BCoT for the construction industry are explored in the book’s chapters. This book will appeal to researchers in providing a comprehensive review of related literature on blockchain, the IoT and construction identify gaps and offer a springboard for future research. Construction practitioners, research and development institutes and policy makers will also benefit from its usefulness as a reference book and collection of case studies on the application of these new approaches in construction.

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Springer Nature

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3031068297

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Trust as the Key to Loyalty in Business-to-Consumer Exchanges

Trust Building Measures in the Banking Industry

By: Tara Ebert

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Trust Building Measures in the Banking Industry

By: Tara Ebert

Tara Ebert investigates what trust building measures in the banking industry should comprise. The author presents new and analytical insights which can be employed to deduce better targeted marketing implications for consumer trust building by banks.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3834983071

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Engaging Literate Minds

Developing Children's Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3

By: Peter H. Johnston,Kathy Champeau,Sarah Helmer,Andrea Hartwig,Merry Komar,Laurie McCarthy,Tara Krueger

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Engaging Literate Minds

Developing Children's Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3

By: Peter H. Johnston,Kathy Champeau,Sarah Helmer,Andrea Hartwig,Merry Komar,Laurie McCarthy,Tara Krueger

Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms. Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have always wanted for their children--classrooms that offer and grow positive relationships and behavior, emotional self-regulation, and a sense of well-being. Using the guiding principles from Peter Johnston's best-selling professional resources, Choice Words and Opening Minds, Peter and six colleagues began a journey to create just such classrooms--environments in which children meaningfully engage with each other through reading, writing, making, and discussing books. In Engaging Literate Minds, you'll discover how these teachers struggled and succeeded in building such classrooms. Inside you'll find the following: Practical ways to develop a caring learning community and children's socio-emotional competence Powerful teaching practices from real classrooms Engaging ways to encourage inquiry and student agency Suggestions on how to use formative assessment in everyday teaching practices Helpful research behind the classroom practices and children's development Ways to help students inspire and support each other Building a just, caring, literate society has never been more important than it is today. By embracing the ideas and teaching strategies in Engaging Literate Minds, you can help children to become socially, emotionally, and intellectually healthy. Not only do these classroom practices develop the skills to achieve district benchmarks and beyond, they help develop children's humanity.

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1625311621

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9781625311627

Ready to Learn

Before School, In School, and Beyond School in South Asia

By: Tara Beteille,Namrata Tognatta,Michelle Riboud,Shinsaku Nomura

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Before School, In School, and Beyond School in South Asia

By: Tara Beteille,Namrata Tognatta,Michelle Riboud,Shinsaku Nomura

Countries that have sustained rapid growth over decades have typically had a strong public commitment to expanding education as well as to improving learning outcomes. South Asian countries have made considerable progress in expanding access to primary and secondary schooling, with countries having achieved near-universal enrollment of the primary-school-age cohort (ages 6†“11), except for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Secondary enrollment shows an upward trend as well. Beyond school, many more people have access to skilling opportunities and higher education today. Although governments have consistently pursued policies to expand access, a prominent feature of the region has been the role played by nonstate actors—private nonprofit and forprofit entities—in expanding access at every level of education. Though learning levels remain low, countries in the region have shown a strong commitment to improving learning. All countries in South Asia have taken the first step, which is to assess learning outcomes regularly. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large-scale student learning assessments conducted in the region. But to use the findings of these assessments to improve schooling, countries must build their capacity to design assessments and analyze and use findings to inform policy.

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World Bank Publications

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1464813396

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9781464813399

Hipsterism

A Paradigm for Modernity

By: Tara Semple

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Hipsterism

A Paradigm for Modernity

By: Tara Semple

This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens of Modernity, Consumerism, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, it draws on qualitative research from two subsequent field stays in Berlin and is complemented by self-reflexion within the field. Young adults and their conceptions within modernity, capitalism and consumerism constitute a fundamental building block to understanding society. Little sociological work has been done in the field of Hipsterism, although it can function as a paradigm for western, affluent societies. With tools such as conscious consumption, conversations and ethical or creative work within a politically intended lifestyle, Hipsterism emerges as an attempt to navigate between individualism and collectivity. Resulting from these circumstances are a variety of forms of action, while searching for better ways to contribute and engage at the same time. Attempts to dissolve milieus and try to construct spaces where different cultures, classes and ethnicities are welcome might fail in spatial practice, but the practices in sum still leave a trace in (consumer) culture. All these activities hint at the potential of transformative and negotiating power that Hipsterism could have. This is an open access book.

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Springer Nature

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3658395362

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Kidnapped Souls

National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948

By: Tara Zahra

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National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948

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Cornell University Press

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The True King of Dahaar

By: Tara Pammi

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The True King of Dahaar

By: Tara Pammi

When heartbreak drives Azeez to recklessness, he nearly loses everything -- including his life. Now he must make a choice: spend his life in the shadows of the past, or embrace his future as the true King of Dahaar. Dr. Nikhat Zakhari left Azeez because she couldn't give him what he needed to rule. But now the only man she's ever loved needs her healing touch and she is powerless to refuse him. Azeez knows he must assume the crown -- but will this unforgettable woman agree to be his desert queen?

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Mills & Boon

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0263256103

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Book's by Tara Zahra

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

The Lost Children

The Lost Children

The Lost Children

The Lost Children

Kidnapped Souls

Kidnapped Souls

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

Blockchain of Things and Deep Learning Applications in Construction

Blockchain of Things and Deep Learning Applications in Construction

Trust as the Key to Loyalty in Business-to-Consumer Exchanges

Trust as the Key to Loyalty in Business-to-Consumer Exchanges

Engaging Literate Minds

Engaging Literate Minds

Ready to Learn

Ready to Learn

Hipsterism

Hipsterism

Kidnapped Souls

Kidnapped Souls

The True King of Dahaar

The True King of Dahaar

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