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Distant Ties
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Author : Jonathan S. McMurray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-07-30
Distant Ties written by Jonathan S. McMurray and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-30 with History categories.
As the first study to document the Baghdad Railway construction, rather than the rhetoric surrounding it, this work challenges nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline--scholarship that has too often hinged on the alleged Great Power victimization of the Ottoman Empire. McMurray unearths a fascinating, intercultural dimension of the railway and provides a comprehensive, detailed account of the Ottoman contribution. His work denies the German character of the railway by showing it to be an exclusively Ottoman enterprise designed by German engineers, funded by international capital, and built by a veritable army of Ottoman subjects. The study refutes the notion that German involvement in the Baghdad Railway somehow represented an orchestrated plunder of the Ottoman Empire. It reveals instead, the benefits this union bestowed on the Ottomans despite growing discord between Germany's leading political, financial, and cultural advocates of the railway. It traces back to the genesis of German interest in the enterprise before the Age of Empire, and it shows that the initial impetus came from private individuals whose commitment to improve the empire's infrastructure lay anchored in the hope that the Ottoman Empire would one day become Germany's ally. Finally, it reveals that German involvement with the railway did not traumatize the Ottoman Empire, but rather offered it a new lease on life, helping to strengthen the Ottomans' resolve to counter further European incursion.
Distant Ties
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Author : Tom A. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2000-07
Distant Ties written by Tom A. Wright and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07 with Human-alien encounters categories.
Poc Tec, Sentient Snake, and her Saurid partner Samot escape an attack by a race of vicious Primates, only to be forced into suspended animation within their crippled space freighter. For nineteen thousand years, they coast through space, further and further from their home. Dr. Diane Hanning joins a manned mission to Saturn to retrieve a supposedly derelict alien spacecraft. She finds herself in the center role of making contact with the live, reptilian aliens. Kyung Yazawa, CEO of the Yazawa Corporation, leads the Saturn mission, only to find the alien spacecraft occupied by a 30' venomous snake. Kyung suffers from a phobia of snakes, which threatens to overwhelm him. They must all put their fears and prejudices aside and work together to survive the onslaught of terrorism and invasion for the secrets of the alien's technology.
Family Ties And Aging
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Author : Ingrid Arnet Connidis
language : en
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Release Date : 2010
Family Ties And Aging written by Ingrid Arnet Connidis and has been published by Pine Forge Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Family & Relationships categories.
This advanced textbook covers issues of family ties and aging broadly, the goal being to provide an integrated and thorough representation of what we know from the current research. Whereas books on families and aging have traditionally focused on ties to a spouse and to children and grandchildren, Family Ties & Aging is more extensive and more reflective of contemporary society. The text includes groups and relationships that typically receive short shrift, exploring such neglected populations as single, divorced, and childless older people and their family relationships, as well as sibling relationships among the elderly, live-in partnerships not formalized by marriage, and the kinds of family ties forged by gay and lesbian persons over the life course. The book weaves the vast range of information we now have about the many facets of family relationships and aging into a critical, comprehensive, and integrated whole.
The Ties That Buy
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Author : Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-02
The Ties That Buy written by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with Business & Economics categories.
In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's work—boarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcohol—but her customers, like her creditors, underscore her connections to an expansive commercial society. These connections are central to The Ties That Buy. Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor traces the lives of urban women in early America to reveal how they used the ties of residence, work, credit, and money to shape consumer culture at a time when the politics of the marketplace was gaining national significance. Covering the period 1750-1820, the book analyzes how women such as Stoneman used and were used by shifting forms of credit and cash in an economy transitioning between neighborly exchanges and investment-oriented transactions. In this world, commerce reached into every part of life. At the hearths of multifamily homes, renters, lodgers, and recent acquaintances lived together and struck financial deals for survival. Landladies, enslaved washerwomen, shopkeepers, and hucksters sustained themselves by serving the mobile population. A new economic practice in America—shopping—mobilized hierarchical and friendly relationships into wide-ranging consumer networks that depended on these same market connections. Rhetoric emerging after the Revolution downplayed the significance of expanding female economic life in the interest of stabilizing the political order. But women were quintessential market participants, with fluid occupational identities, cross-class social and economic connections, and a firm investment in cash and commercial goods for power and meaning.
Rise And Decline And Rise Of China
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Author : Ross Anthony
language : en
Publisher: Real African Publishers Pty Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-09-14
Rise And Decline And Rise Of China written by Ross Anthony and has been published by Real African Publishers Pty Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-14 with History categories.
Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in southern Africa some 800 years ago. What makes this research report unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been undertaken primarily from an African perspective.
Social Ties In Online Networking
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Author : Greti-Iulia Ivana
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Social Ties In Online Networking written by Greti-Iulia Ivana and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the relevance of social networking from the perspective of its users to reveal the sociological significance of (inter)active experiences on Facebook. In doing so, the work examines obscure aspects of Facebook by addressing such questions as: What constitutes keeping in touch?; how is knowing of the other different from being with the other?; and why is the presence of others such an important element of Facebook? Social Ties in Online Networking discusses the significance of social networking activity through a collection of interviews with the users of Facebook. It analyses what they do, what they like and watch, but first and foremost how they intend their own actions and others’ actions to be perceived within the realm of social media. This book is an exploration of relationships, which will be of interest to academics and students in sociology, social theory, human geography, social networking, media studies and social psychology.
Social Change And Sustainable Transport
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Author : William Richard Black
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-29
Social Change And Sustainable Transport written by William Richard Black and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-29 with Business & Economics categories.
Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector. The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.
Report On The Use Of Metal Railroad Ties And On Preservative Processes And Metal Tie Plates For Wooden Ties
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Author : Edward Ernest Russell Tratman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Report On The Use Of Metal Railroad Ties And On Preservative Processes And Metal Tie Plates For Wooden Ties written by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Railroad ties categories.
Crime And Muslim Britain
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Author : Marta Bolognani
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-08-30
Crime And Muslim Britain written by Marta Bolognani and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-30 with Political Science categories.
The Britain of the early twenty-first century has become consumed by heightened concerns about violent crime and terrorism in relation to Muslim communities in the West. Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis' perceptions of crime and control are a combination of the formal and informal, or British and 'traditional' Pakistani, that are no longer separable in the diasporic context. She also examines local and national state policies that are geared to preventing crime and shows how crime comes to be understood by participants as well as institutional actors. Offering a counterpoint to the 'taboo' of talking about crime and race in cultural terms, "Crime in Muslim Britain" is essential for all those interested in criminology, ethnicity and the predicaments of Muslim communities today.
Social Ties And Economic Performance
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Author : Frans van Dijk
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1996-12-31
Social Ties And Economic Performance written by Frans van Dijk and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-31 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume focuses on the social impact of the public sector on the performance of the private sector, especially in the long term. It presents a model of the formation of social ties by economic interaction and uses this to explore the relevance of social ties and their dynamics for economic performance. The impact of public provision and stochastic migration on social ties and the (total) provision level of the public good are also examined. It discusses the role of social ties in other types of interaction, and proposes definitions of social capital and infrastructure. Furthermore, it contains a discussion of the connections between the different conceptions of these terms. Also the effects of social ties and the influence of different types of public intervention on growth are examined. The assumption of exogenously determined, stochastic migration is dropped, and migration behavior is analyzed explicitly. In this theoretical investigation of the dynamics of social ties and economic interaction a number of important effects on economic performance will be suggested.