Xenocracy

Author : Sakis Gekas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785332623

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Xenocracy by Sakis Gekas Pdf

Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain—a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. As author Sakis Gekas shows, the ordeal engendered dependency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

Author : Walter D. Mignolo,Arturo Escobar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317966715

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Globalization and the Decolonial Option by Walter D. Mignolo,Arturo Escobar Pdf

This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around. The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Author : Thomas Reifer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317259046

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Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century by Thomas Reifer Pdf

Despite prognostications of the "end of history," the 21st century has posed new challenges and a host of global crises. This book takes up the current global economic crisis in relation to new and changing dynamics of territory, authority, and rights in today's global system. The authors explore long simmering conflicts in comparative perspective, including settler colonialism in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. They discuss indigenous struggles against environmental land grabs and related destruction of indigenous lands by the US nuclear weapons complex. The book uniquely considers the sacred in the context of the global system, including struggles of Latina/o farm workers in the U.S. for social justice and for change in the Catholic Church. Other chapters examine questions of civilizations and identity in the contemporary global system, as well as the role of world-regions.

Author : Ivor Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780764568749

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Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2 by Ivor Horton Pdf

Providing numerous, step-by-step, programming examples, this text includes Java solutions for a wide range of Web applications.

Author : Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942699101

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Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831 by Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko Pdf

Following the so called "Arab Spring" the world's attention has been drawn to the presence of significant minority religious groups within the predominantly Islamic Middle East. Of these minorities Christians are by far the largest, comprising over 10% of the population in Syria and as much as 40% in Lebanon.The largest single group of Christians are the Arabic-speaking Orthodox. This work fills a major lacuna in the scholarship of wider Christian history and more specifically that of lived religion within the Ottoman empire. Beginning with a survey of the Christian community during the first nine hundred years of Muslim rule, the author traces the evolution of Arab Orthodox Christian society from its roots in the Hellenistic culture of the Byzantine Empire to a distinctly Syro-Palestinian identity. There follows a detailed examination of this multi-faceted community, from the Ottoman conquest of Syria, Palestine and Egypt in 1516 to the Egyptian invasion of Syria in 1831. The author draws on archaeological evidence and previously unpublished primary sources uncovered in Russian archives and Middle Eastern monastic libraries to present a vivid and compelling account of this vital but little-known spiritual and political culture, situating it within a complex network of relations reaching throughout the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The work is made more accessible to a non-specialist reader by the addition of a glossary, whilst the scholar will benefit from a detailed bibliography of both primary and secondary sources. A foreword has been contributed to this first English language edition by the Patriarch of Antioch, John X. It contextualizes the history found in this work within the ongoing struggle to preserve the ancient Christian cultures of the Arabic speaking peoples from extinction within their ancestral homeland.

Author : Ivor Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118173411

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Ivor Horton's Beginning Java by Ivor Horton Pdf

Find out why thousands have turned to Ivor Horton for learning Java Ivor Horton's approach is teaching Java is so effective and popular that he is one of the leading authors of introductory programming tutorials, with over 160,000 copies of his Java books sold. In this latest edition, whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer switching to Java, you'll learn how to build real-world Java applications using Java SE 7. The author thoroughly covers the basics as well as new features such as extensions and classes; extended coverage of the Swing Application Framework; and he does it all in his unique, highly accessible style that beginners love. Provides a thorough introduction to the latest version of the Java programming language, Java SE 7 Introduces you to a host of new features for both novices and experienced programmers Covers the basics as well as new language extensions and classes and class methods Guides you through the Swing Application Framework for creating Swing apps Uses numerous step-by-step programming examples to guide you through the development process There's no better way to get thoroughly up to speed on the latest version of Java than with Ivor Horton's latest, comprehensive guide.

Author : Katherine Verdery
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520917286

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National Ideology Under Socialism by Katherine Verdery Pdf

The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.

Author : Evdoxios Doxiadis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474263474

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State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece by Evdoxios Doxiadis Pdf

By looking at the very specific case of the Greek-speaking Romaniote and the Ladino-speaking Sephardic communities in Southern Greece, Epirus and Macedonia, this book explores the attitudes and policies of the Greek state with regards to the Jewish communities both within its borders and in the areas of the Ottoman Empire it craved. Evdoxios Doxiadis traces the evolution of these policies from the time of Greek independence to the expansion of the Greek state in the early-20th century, telling us a great deal about the Jewish experience and the changing face of modern Greek nationalism in the process. Based on the evidence of numerous Greek consular reports, speeches, memoirs, political interviews and coverage of the status and treatment of the communities by the international Jewish press, State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece sketches a detailed picture of the Greek political elite and the state's bureaucratic view of the various Jewish communities. By focusing on the state, though not ignoring popular attitudes, the book successfully argues that the Greek state followed policies that did not conform, and often were in opposition to, popular attitudes when it came to minorities and the Jews in particular. By focusing on the Jewish communities in modern Greece separately the book allows us to recognize how Greek governments recognized and used divisions and conflicts between the communities, and other minorities, to achieve their goals. As a result Greek state policies can be seen in a new light, providing a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between the Jewish people and the Greek state. Using this case study, Doxiadis then discusses broader questions of state, nationalism and minorities in a volume of significant interest for students and scholars of modern Greek or modern Jewish history alike.

Author : Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253048004

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Jews and the Mediterranean by Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin Pdf

A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other. Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

Author : Elisabeth von Samsonow
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452960760

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Anti-Electra by Elisabeth von Samsonow Pdf

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex” The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art. Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” Anti-Electra ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.

Author : Leda Papastefanaki,M. Erdem Kabadayı
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789206975

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Working in Greece and Turkey by Leda Papastefanaki,M. Erdem Kabadayı Pdf

As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : CD-ROM industry
ISBN : UOM:39015046817378

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The Multimedia and CD-ROM Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Michaels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015029567461

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Suffix Obsession by Alan Michaels Pdf

Arranged alphabetically by suffix (except in a few cases, like phagous and vorous, or latry and theism, where likeness brought two together), this innovative dictionary defines words ending with common suffixes and gives other words with the same suffix that have related connotations.

Author : Russell Palmer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789207789

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Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople by Russell Palmer Pdf

Over the course of four centuries, the island of Malta underwent several significant political transformations, including its roles as a Catholic bastion under the Knights of St. John between 1530 and 1798, and as a British maritime hub in the nineteenth century. This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological findings to compare slavery and coerced labor, resource control, globalization, and other historical phenomena in Malta under the two regimes: one feudal, the other colonial. Spanning conventional divides between the early and late modern eras, Russell Palmer offers here a rich analysis of a Mediterranean island against a background of immense European and global change.

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015078349001

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Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf