stanford university press jun 2020 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialization can empower authoritarian regimes-not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolize access to international credit and promote a cascade of exploitative domestic debt relations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book argues against the dominant historical view that Ottoman Armenians were united in resisting empire. Drawing on underused Armenian sources and archives, Richard Antaramian reveals the critical role the Armenian Church and clergy played in the implementation of the Ottoman state's reform efforts during the mid-nineteenth century Tanzimat era. Antaramian rethinks conceptions of the Ottoman state in terms of center and periphery, offering a networked model of empire in its place. This orients us to a view of a more dynamic political space, which has implications for understanding the Ottoman Empire, nationalism in the Middle East, and empires in general'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to 1948 Jerusalem was a city of increasingly contradictory trajectories, as Ottoman rulers, British colonial officials, Arab nationalists, Zionist activists, and Orthodox Jews negotiated its future. Text in Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages became a key means to organize space, society, and subjectivity. Wallach reassembles these written fragments to reveal how the logics of state and capital shaped the modern city'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on author's thesis (doctoral - City University of New York, 2014) issued under title: Law without recognition: the lack of judicial discretion to consider individual lives and legal equities in United States immigration law.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. In this study of Argentina's Arab diaspora, and its many intersections with other sectors of Argentine society, Lily Balloffet brings a migratory lens to Argentine history from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first century'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Over the course of four decades, the Egyptian economy underwent consistent and comprehensive economic liberalization, privatization of state-owned enterprises, deregulation. Yet the Egyptian economy today still experiences low-growth, declining total investment rates, and high un- and under-employment. The private sector has never become globally competitive. There are few beneficiaries to the economic transformations begun under Sadat and continued by Mubarak, and most Egyptians, notably public-sector workers and the urban and rural middle classes, claim losses through these efforts. The 2011 uprising highlighted that these efforts at transformation failed not only economically, but politically as well. This book explores how and why 40 years of economic reform efforts largely failed. Amr Adly argues the fault lies in cleft capitalism: the perpetuation of initial size differences in enterprises, through limits on available land and capital (finance), that constrain any opportunities for growth and expansion'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This richly illustrated and highly readable book offers a history of changing trends in amateur and commercial photography from the medium's invention until the present day'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in service of family and work in our daily life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the lessons of recent wars as a way to understand continuity and change in the conduct of war.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise of China and new global competition by moving upstream into critical deep-tech inputs and advanced materials and components. This new 'aggregate niche strategy' has made Japan the technology anchor for many global supply chains. Although the end products do not carry a 'Japan Inside' label, Japan plays a pivotal role in our everyday lives across many critical industries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes. Drawing on decades of expertise as instructors and consultants, the authors show how dispute systems design can be used within all types of organizations, including business firms, nonprofit organizations, and international and transnational bodies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book describes the importance of finance and real estate for the emergence of authoritarian regimes. Through an ethnographic study of the pseudo-oligarchs, failed European businessmen, frustrated managers, and unpaid workers that populate Macedonia's construction sector, Fabio Mattioli illustrates how financialization results in illiquidity, rather than cheap money. Mattioli's manuscript describes the political relations that emerge from restricting access to cash, a political-economic juncture that has received little attention in the literature on financialization, but that is increasingly recognized as a critical research agenda. Guiding readers through the genesis and contradictions of a landscape of political oppression and financial failure, the book details Macedonian workers' and managers' struggle to recover meaningful social lives as they become more deeply entangled in the web of illiberal politics'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on author's thesis (doctoral - City University of New York, 2014) issued under title: Law without recognition: the lack of judicial discretion to consider individual lives and legal equities in United States immigration law.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to 1948 Jerusalem was a city of increasingly contradictory trajectories, as Ottoman rulers, British colonial officials, Arab nationalists, Zionist activists, and Orthodox Jews negotiated its future. Text in Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages became a key means to organize space, society, and subjectivity. Wallach reassembles these written fragments to reveal how the logics of state and capital shaped the modern city'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. In this study of Argentina's Arab diaspora, and its many intersections with other sectors of Argentine society, Lily Balloffet brings a migratory lens to Argentine history from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first century'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Over the course of four decades, the Egyptian economy underwent consistent and comprehensive economic liberalization, privatization of state-owned enterprises, deregulation. Yet the Egyptian economy today still experiences low-growth, declining total investment rates, and high un- and under-employment. The private sector has never become globally competitive. There are few beneficiaries to the economic transformations begun under Sadat and continued by Mubarak, and most Egyptians, notably public-sector workers and the urban and rural middle classes, claim losses through these efforts. The 2011 uprising highlighted that these efforts at transformation failed not only economically, but politically as well. This book explores how and why 40 years of economic reform efforts largely failed. Amr Adly argues the fault lies in cleft capitalism: the perpetuation of initial size differences in enterprises, through limits on available land and capital (finance), that constrain any opportunities for growth and expansion'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the lessons of recent wars as a way to understand continuity and change in the conduct of war.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book argues against the dominant historical view that Ottoman Armenians were united in resisting empire. Drawing on underused Armenian sources and archives, Richard Antaramian reveals the critical role the Armenian Church and clergy played in the implementation of the Ottoman state's reform efforts during the mid-nineteenth century Tanzimat era. Antaramian rethinks conceptions of the Ottoman state in terms of center and periphery, offering a networked model of empire in its place. This orients us to a view of a more dynamic political space, which has implications for understanding the Ottoman Empire, nationalism in the Middle East, and empires in general'--.