Cinderella Province
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Cinderella Province
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Author : Achim von Oppen
language : en
Publisher:
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Cinderella Province written by Achim von Oppen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Cinderella S Sisters
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Author : Dorothy Ko
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-12-12
Cinderella S Sisters written by Dorothy Ko and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-12 with History categories.
The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women—those who could afford it—bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism—as a way to live as the poets imagined—ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.
African Socialism In Postcolonial Tanzania
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Author : Priya Lal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-12
African Socialism In Postcolonial Tanzania written by Priya Lal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-75. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world.
The River Of Lost Footsteps
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Author : Thant Myint-U
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-02-03
The River Of Lost Footsteps written by Thant Myint-U and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with History categories.
Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, a sixty-year civil war that continues today, military repression and the immergence of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling. Thant Myint-U is the author of Where China Meets India and has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Statesman.
Roads Through Mwinilunga
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Author : Iva Peša
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-29
Roads Through Mwinilunga written by Iva Peša and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-29 with Social Science categories.
Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. Focussing on agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, Iva Peša reassesses existing explanations of social change in Central Africa.
The Flags Changed At Midnight
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Author : Michael Longford
language : en
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Release Date : 2001
The Flags Changed At Midnight written by Michael Longford and has been published by Gracewing Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Colonial administrators categories.
More Adventures With Britannia
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Author : William Roger Louis
language : en
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Release Date : 1998
More Adventures With Britannia written by William Roger Louis and has been published by I.B.Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with English literature categories.
Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.
The Lunda Ndembu
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Author : James Anthony Pritchett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2001
The Lunda Ndembu written by James Anthony Pritchett and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
Pritchett (anthropology, African studies, Boston U.) presents an account of the Lunda- Ndembu people of northwestern Zambia. The text is based upon archaeological data, travel accounts, colonial field reports, and the scholarly studies of others, as well as his own field research conducted intermittently over the course of 14 years. He contends that despite much cultural borrowing in recent decades, the Lunda people have an image of themselves that is essentially unchanged. He also reflects on continuity and change in Africa. c. Book News Inc.
Scars Of Partition
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Author : William F. S. Miles
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Scars Of Partition written by William F. S. Miles and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Political Science categories.
Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular attention to the contemporary legacies of artificial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France that continue to divide indigenous peoples into separate postcolonial states. In so doing, it uniquely illustrates how the distinctive stamps of France and Britain continue to mark daily life along and behind these inherited borders in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean. Scars of Partition draws on political science, anthropology, history, and geography to examine six cases of indigenous, indentured, and enslaved peoples partitioned by colonialism in West Africa, West Indies, South Pacific, Southeast Asia, South India, and the Indian Ocean. William F. S. Miles demonstrates that sovereign nations throughout the developing world, despite basic differences in culture, geography, and politics, still bear the underlying imprint of their colonial pasts. Disentangling and appreciating these embedded colonial legacies is critical to achieving full decolonization—particularly in their borderlands.
Tea Cultures Of Europe Heritage And Hospitality
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Author : Hartwig Bohne
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Tea Cultures Of Europe Heritage And Hospitality written by Hartwig Bohne and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Business & Economics categories.
"No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served." -- Earlene Grey Tea has its very own significance in every consumer’s life. However, above all, tea represents enjoyment, the ritual of preparation and the appreciation of the moment. In this sense, tea creates hospitality and peace, tea brings people together to talk and to make time for each other. Tea needs time, tea spends time. In this pioneering book featuring hospitality embraced by tea culture, you will read of fascinating tea ceremonies, impressive tea china and comfortable tea houses as well as different national and regional tea-related habits in European countries. Nearly 50 contributions provide unique insights -- Samowars in the East, Dresmer blue porcelain in Germany, tulip glasses in Turkey and around, silver tea pots in Great Britain and, many more. The first tea plantations in Portugal or Georgia are discussed, as well as tea in arts, tea events, tea flavoured signature products, tea pairing and, impulses for entrepreneurship and education. Tea Cultures of Europe is written for tea lovers, educators and students, as well as industry practitioners (tea sommeliers, tea masters) and entrepreneurs.