During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered and thrived because of British rule: the Parsis. Driven out of Persia into India a thousand years ago, the Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and their Anglophilic activities ranged from cricket to Oxford to tea. The British were fulsome in their praise of the Parsis and rewarded them with high-level financial, mercantile, and bureaucratic posts. The Parsis dominated Bombay for more...
This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and placed within diasporic communities. Taking a dual approach to answer this question, Anthonie Holslag studies the cultural expression of violence during the genocidal process itself, and in the aftermath for the victims. By using this approach, this book allows us to see comparatively how genocide in...
Sociology: Dealing with Data Paper
by Ian Marsh, Keith Trobe, Janis Griffiths, Tanya Hope, Shaun Best, and Graham Harris
Suitable for the 2000 specifications, Sociology: Dealing with Data will help to develop your students' data-handling skills. This clearly structured text provides step-by-step guidance through a range of key themes, making it es of all the categories they are likely to meet in the examination. It also offers guidance on tackling exam questions by providing information about what to highlight, common problems and how to structure answers. Thorough practice in specific examination techniqu...
A Companion to Global Gender History (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History, #3) (Blackwell Companions to World History)
by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E Weisner-Hanks
Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essay...
The Protestant Ethic Debate (Studies in Social and Political Thought, #3)
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism continues to be one of the most influential texts in the sociology of modern Western societies. Although Weber never produced the further essays with which he intended to extend the study, he did complete four lengthy Replies to reviews of the text by two German historians. Written between 1907 and 1910, the Replies offer a fascinating insight into Weber's intentions in the original study, and the present volume is the first complete...
INCREDIBLE JAPAN is a crash course in Japanese culture--an introduction to those inimitable aspects of the country which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer. With delightful cartoons by the Japanese artist-illustrator, Masakazu Kuwata, the book proves that what is incredible about Japan is not inexplicable, and provides enlightenment on such potentially incomprehensible paradoxes as: - Highly-skilled young men who hold degrees in judo --and flower arrangement. - The "man in the moon"...
Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse (Routledge Voice Studies)
by Amanda Glauert
Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven’s songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when composing songs. It also offers detailed commentaries on possible responses to specific songs, responses designed to open up new ways for performing, hearing and appreciating this provocative song repertoire....
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadore...
Trustbuilding
The national director of Initiatives of Change and founder of Hope in the Cities, Rob Corcoran has been involved in promoting dialogue and conflict reconciliation among diverse and polarized racial, ethnic, and religious groups in an array of locales in Europe, South Africa, India, and the United States for over thirty years. ""Trustbuilding"" is part historical narrative and part handbook for a model of dialogue and community change that has been adopted both nationally and internationally. At...
Das Orientbild in Der Deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur Des 20. Und 21. Jahrhunderts (Kultur - Literatur - Medien, #4)
by Karolina Rapp
Die Autorin beschaftigt sich mit den einschneidenden - traumatisierenden wie faszinierenden - Stationen der Kulturbegegnung von Ost und West. Sie untersucht die vielschichtigen Facetten des Orients als einerseits rein diskursiven, andererseits geografisch und historisch realen, wenngleich imaginar uberfrachteten Topos. Die Analyse des mythischen und modernen Orientbildes in der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur ist eine Ruckbesinnung auf die Fahigkeit der westlichen wie der oestlichen Kultur, Off...