Distant Ties

Author : Jonathan S. McMurray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313075179

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Distant Ties by Jonathan S. McMurray Pdf

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.

Author : Ingrid Arnet Connidis
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781412959575

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Family Ties and Aging by Ingrid Arnet Connidis Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812203943

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The Ties That Buy by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor Pdf

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.

Author : Ross Anthony,Kevin Bloom,Daouda Cissé,Martyn Davies,Maxime Lauzon-Lacroix,Garth le Pere,Thaddeus Metz,Richard Poplak,Gauhar Raza,Yongjun Zhao,Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Publisher : Real African Publishers Pty Ltd.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920655938

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Rise and Decline and Rise of China by Ross Anthony,Kevin Bloom,Daouda Cissé,Martyn Davies,Maxime Lauzon-Lacroix,Garth le Pere,Thaddeus Metz,Richard Poplak,Gauhar Raza,Yongjun Zhao,Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) Pdf

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.

Author : Greti-Iulia Ivana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319715957

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Social Ties in Online Networking by Greti-Iulia Ivana Pdf

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.

Author : Edward Ernest Russell Tratman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Railroad ties
ISBN : UIUC:30112069881123

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Report on the Use of Metal Railroad Ties and on Preservative Processes and Metal Tie-plates for Wooden Ties by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman Pdf

Author : William Richard Black,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0253340675

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Social Change and Sustainable Transport by William Richard Black,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

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.

Author : Marta Bolognani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857711717

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Crime and Muslim Britain by Marta Bolognani Pdf

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.

Author : Frans van Dijk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 079239836X

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Social Ties and Economic Performance by Frans van Dijk Pdf

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.

Author : Pnina O. Plaut,Dalit Shach-Pinsly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429949722

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Digital Social Networks and Travel Behaviour in Urban Environments by Pnina O. Plaut,Dalit Shach-Pinsly Pdf

This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments. Over the past decade, rapid development of ICT has led to extensive social impacts and influence on travel and mobility patterns within urban spaces. A new field of research of digital social networks and travel behaviour is now emerging. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge, cutting-edge research and integrated analysis methods from the fields of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It explores the challenges related to the question of how we can synchronize among social networks activities, transport means, intelligent communication/information technologies and the urban form. This innovative book encourages multidisciplinary insights and fusion among three disciplines of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It offers new horizons for research and will be of interest to students and scholars studying mobilities, transport studies, urban geography, urban planning, the built environment and urban policy.

Author : Kenneth M. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Creosote
ISBN : UOM:39015061859578

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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Migration from Creosote-treated Railway Ties Into Ballast and Adjacent Wetlands by Kenneth M. Brooks Pdf

Author : Catherine Montgomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780230365001

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Understanding the International Student Experience by Catherine Montgomery Pdf

Presents a contemporary approach to the experience of international students in Higher Education. Using empirical and qualitative data, the book explores their social and cultural context and its impact on their learning experience.

Author : Alison Marshall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774828024

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Cultivating Connections by Alison Marshall Pdf

In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For them, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada's Chinese settlers - men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies.

Author : Siu-kai Lau,Zhaojia Liu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9622013368

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Society and Politics in Hong Kong by Siu-kai Lau,Zhaojia Liu Pdf

Author : Felix Riede,Payson Sheets
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789208658

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Going Forward by Looking Back by Felix Riede,Payson Sheets Pdf

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries.