Reconstructed World

Author : Barbara Roberts
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773565920

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Reconstructed World by Barbara Roberts Pdf

Born in Leicester, England, and raised in a working-class family, Richardson emigrated to northern Manitoba in 1911. She was influential in the women's and peace movements in both countries. Devoutly religious, she challenged orthodoxy and worked outside the mainstream churches for peace and social justice. She cofounded one of the earliest suffrage groups in Manitoba and was a key activist in peace movements during the Boer War and World War I. She also served as an information centre for international antiwar news and ran an internationally focused women's peace crusade in World War I from her Manitoba farmhouse via the post and newspaper columns. Richardson was also a gifted writer and poet. She wrote on a variety of women's movement issues for British and Canadian newspapers and magazines, including Woman's Century, the magazine of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her outcries against war, her indictment of militarism, and her call for women and men to stand together for justice were powerful messages that still have resonance today. Tragically, poor health, both mental and physical, interfered with Richardson's work and prevented her from achieving the recognition attained by feminist contemporaries such as Nellie McClung.

Author : Flavia Bruni,Andrew Pettegree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004311824

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Lost Books by Flavia Bruni,Andrew Pettegree Pdf

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.

Author : Christopher R Cotter,David G. Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317419952

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After World Religions by Christopher R Cotter,David G. Robertson Pdf

The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations and innovative solutions. An international team of scholars addresses the challenges presented in their different departmental, institutional, and geographical contexts. Instructors developing syllabi will find supplementary reading lists and specific suggestions to help guide their teaching. Students at all levels will find the book an invaluable entry point into an area of ongoing scholarly debate.

Author : Peter Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415617246

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Corporations, Global Governance, and Post-conflict Reconstruction by Peter Davis Pdf

This book looks at the impact multinational companies have in post-conflict environments, the role they have and how they are governed, drawing on detailed fieldwork in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Rwanda.

Author : Nathan Marcus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674983045

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Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931 by Nathan Marcus Pdf

Although some statesmen and historians have pinned Austria’s—and the world’s—interwar economic implosion on financial colonialism, in this corrective history Nathan Marcus deemphasizes the negative role of external players and points to the greater impact of domestic malfeasance and predatory speculation on Austrian political and financial decline.

Author : J. Charles Schenking
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231162180

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The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan by J. Charles Schenking Pdf

In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties about modernity. While explaining how and why the disaster compelled people to reflect on Japanese society, he also examines how reconstruction encouraged the capital's inhabitants to entertain new types of urbanism as they rebuilt their world. Some residents hoped that a grandiose metropolis, reflecting new values, would rise from the ashes of disaster-ravaged Tokyo. Many, however, desired a quick return of the city they once called home. Opportunistic elites advocated innovative state infrastructure to better manage the daily lives of Tokyo residents. Others focused on rejuvenating society--morally, economically, and spiritually--to combat the perceived degeneration of Japan. Schencking explores the inspiration behind these dreams and the extent to which they were realized. He investigates why Japanese citizens from all walks of life responded to overtures for renewal with varying degrees of acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance. His research not only sheds light on Japan's experience with and interpretation of the earthquake but challenges widespread assumptions that disasters unite stricken societies, creating a "blank slate" for radical transformation. National reconstruction in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Schencking demonstrates, proved to be illusive.

Author : Bruce E. Baker
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0813926602

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What Reconstruction Meant by Bruce E. Baker Pdf

Examining the southern memory of Reconstruction, in all its forms, is an essential element in understanding the society and politics of the twentieth-century South.

Author : Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791404013

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William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy by Charlene Haddock Seigfried Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556035568153

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Route 9A Reconstruction Project, Battery Place to 59th St., New York County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415379229

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The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-51 by Alan S. Milward Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Muna Ndulo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135392017

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Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation by Muna Ndulo Pdf

This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies. Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections: the social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict the impact of conflict on women and children reconstruction and past human rights violations disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, post-war reconstruction and the building of a capable state and the role of the international community in the peace process. The chapters offer a detailed and succinct exposition of the challenges facing post conflict societies by articulating the vision of a new society. With a foreword by Francis Deng, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons, the authors discuss the issues in the context of possible solutions and lessons learnt in the field. This new book is a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers and students in the fields of conflict resolution, security studies, law and development.

Author : Jane Schneider,Ida Susser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184839

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Wounded Cities by Jane Schneider,Ida Susser Pdf

Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by wounds inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the look and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a grass roots up approach, it places emphasis on peoples experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317600398

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Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

This book surveys the development of geo-political thought in the twentieth century and relates it to international political developments, as well as examining how sound geopolitical theories are. It considers the work of Mackinder, Hartshorne, and Haushofer and his disciples in Germany who influenced the Nazis; and of more recent developments including Marxist geographical writing.

Author : UNESCO,World Bank
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002885

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Culture in city reconstruction and recovery by UNESCO,World Bank Pdf

As urban growth and development continue at a breathtaking pace across the world, cities are increasingly bearing the brunt of conflicts, crises and disasters, which themselves are growing in number, magnitude and complexity. The convergence of these two trends - increasing urbanization and growing crises - demands an enhanced approach to city reconstruction and recovery, one that puts culture at its heart. Elaborated by the World Bank and UNESCO, this Position Paper outlines one such approach, the Framework for Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery, also known as the CURE Framework. The CURE Framework is a culture-based approach to the process of city reconstruction and recovery in post conflict, post disaster and urban distress situations that accounts for the needs, values and priorities of people.

Author : Scott Joseph Budzynski
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8869772624

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Evoking the New City by Scott Joseph Budzynski Pdf

In reconstructing Milan after World War II, architects looked back to the relatively young tradition of modern architecture in Italy, while simultaneously re-ordering its narratives. Focusing on skyscrapers, housing, and city planning, this book approaches Milan as a great example of postwar city through architecture, film, and print media.