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Distant Ties

Author : Jonathan S. McMurray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313075174
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Distant Ties written by Jonathan S. McMurray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mobilities, Networks, Geographies

Author : Jonas Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095162
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mobilities, Networks, Geographies written by Jonas Larsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities that form and reform these geographies of networks and travel in the contemporary world. These are: physical travel of people for work, leisure, pleasure, migration and escape; physical movement of objects delivered to producers, consumers and retailers; imaginative travel elsewhere through images and memories seen on texts, TV, computer screens and film; virtual travel on the internet; and communicative travel through letters, cards, telegrams, telephones, faxes, text messages and videoconferences. In the book the authors examine the interconnections between these different mobilities. They research how travel and social meetings require systems of coordination using virtual and communicative travel in-between physical travel and meetings. They argue that, while it might be imagined that there would be less need of physical meetings with improved technology, on the contrary, scheduled visits and meetings have become highly significant. The research shows that they are necessary to social life in the contemporary world, both within business and, especially, within families and friendships which are increasingly conducted at a distance.

Networked Neighbourhoods

Author : Patrick Purcell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846286018
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Networked Neighbourhoods written by Patrick Purcell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting for this book is the networked community. The treatment of the subject matter is broad and interdisciplinary, with contributions from computer science, sociology, design, human factors and communication technology. The chapter contributors, drawn from across Europe and North America, offer a varied

The North American Trajectory

Author : Neil Nevitte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135147829X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The North American Trajectory written by Neil Nevitte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America is steering a new course, with the United States, Canada, and Mexico moving toward continental economic, integration. This book examines basic value changes that are' transforming economic, social, and political life in these three countries, demonstrating that they are gradually adopting an increasingly compatible cultural perspective. A narrow nationalism, dominant since the 19th century, has slowly been giving way to a more cosmopolitan sense of identity. As old economic boundaries become outmoded, a North American perspective makes greater sense. To what extent, then, do the three North American publics - I each with its own heterogeneities and tensions - share a common culture? That question can only be answered if we have some yardstick by which to measure their cultural similarity. These societies are far from identical. But data from the 1990- 1991 World Values survey, drawn from 43 societies around the world, show that on crucial topics, the core values of the American public are significantly closer to those of the Canadians and (to a somewhat lesser extent) to those of the Mexicans, than they are to those of most other peoples in the world. Furthermore, time series evidence indicates that the values of the three North American publics have been converging. This book draws on a unique body of directly comparable cross-national and cross-temporal survey evidence to show that what Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans want out of life is changing in analogous ways. These changes, coupled with sociostructural transformations, are reshaping peoples' feelings about national identity, about trusting each other, and about the balance between economic and non-economic goals. North American economic integration is being reinforced by the gradual emergence of increasingly similar cultural values.

Handbook on Transnationalism

Author : Yeoh, Brenda S.A.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789904013
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Transnationalism written by Yeoh, Brenda S.A. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses.

Arming the Sultan

Author : Naci Yorulmaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725181
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Arming the Sultan written by Naci Yorulmaz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy. Sending military advisors abroad and promoting arms sales, each legitimizing and supporting the other, became indispensable tools of alliance-making starting from the eve of the First World War until today. To the German Empire, as a relative latecomer to imperialistic rivalry in the struggle for colonies around the word in the late 19th century, arms exports performed a decisive service in stimulating and strengthening the German military-based expansionist economic foreign policy and provided effective tools to create new alliances around the globe. Therefore, from the outset, the German armament firms' marketing and sales operations to the global arms market but especially to the Ottoman Empire, under the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II, were openly and strongly supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bismarck and the other decision-makers in German Foreign Policy. Based on extensive multinational archival research in Germany, Turkey, Britain and the United States, Arming the Sultan explores the decisive impact of arms exports on the formation and stimulation of Germany's expansionist foreign economic policy towards the Ottoman Empire. Making an important contribution to current scholarship on the political economy of the international arms trade, Yorulmaz's innovative book Arming the Sultan reveals that arms exports, specifically under the shadow of personal diplomacy, proved to be an indispensable and integral part of Germany's foreign economic policy during the period leading up to WW1.

Family Ties and Aging

Author : Ingrid Arnet Connidis
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 1412959578
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Family Ties and Aging written by Ingrid Arnet Connidis and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook

Author : A. Lambert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137287144
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook written by A. Lambert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online.

Distributed Work

Author : Pamela Hinds
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262083058
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Work written by Pamela Hinds and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidisciplinary research on dynamics, problems, and potential of distributed work.

EJKM Volume 9 Issue 3

Author :
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book EJKM Volume 9 Issue 3 written by and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Dwell Among Friends

Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226251381
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book To Dwell Among Friends written by Claude S. Fischer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982-04-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the influence of urban life on society compares and contrasts personal relationships in large cities with those in small towns.

Managing Network Resources

Author : Ranjay Gulati
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199299358
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Managing Network Resources written by Ranjay Gulati and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's firms are increasingly embedded in networks of alliances that influence their behavior and performance. Ranjay Gulati examines the 'network resources' that arise from these ties, how successful firms manage these, and how they influence strategy, access to resources, and perceptions of a firm's legitimacy.

ECIC2011-Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on on Intellectual Capital

Author : Geoff Turner
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
ISBN 13 : 1906638942
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book ECIC2011-Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on on Intellectual Capital written by Geoff Turner and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of presenters at the 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC 2011). The Conference is hosted this year by the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. The Conference Chair is Geoff Turner from the University of Nicosia and the Programme Chair is Clemente Minonne from the School of Management and Law, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland. The opening keynote address is given by John Girard from Minot State University in the USA. John will address the question Social Knowledge: Are we ready for the future? The second day of the conference will be opened by Ludo Pyis from AREOPA in Belgium who will consider Intellectual Capital Accounting: how to measure the unmeasurable. We also look forward to a Knowledge Cafe on the topic of What intellectual capital ideas and developments do you expect to live and see? facilitated by Helen Paige from The Paige Group, South Australia.

Researching Social and Economic Change

Author : David Rose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135363536
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Researching Social and Economic Change written by David Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the purposes and potential of one of the most significant national and increasingly international resources for analyzing social change. It explains the possibilities and pitfalls in the analysis of panel study data.

Social Influences on Romantic Relationships

Author : Christopher R. Agnew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029368
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Social Influences on Romantic Relationships written by Christopher R. Agnew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of external factors on the social influences of those involved in close, interpersonal relationships.

The Sociology of Community Connections

Author : John G. Bruhn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306486172
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Community Connections written by John G. Bruhn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the rationale for community, the varieties of communities, the effect of social change on communities and many other factors, tying the concept to the various levels of human interaction, from the global to the individual.

Networks and Markets

Author : James E. Rauch
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610444671
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Networks and Markets written by James E. Rauch and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks and Markets argues that economists' knowledge of markets and sociologists' rich understanding of networks can and should be combined. Together they can help us achieve a more coherent view of economic life, where transactions follow both the logic of economic incentives and the established channels of personal relationships. Market exchange is impersonal, episodic, and carried out at arm's length. All that matters is how much the seller is asking, and how much the buyer is offering. An economic network, by contrast, is based upon more personalized and enduring relationships between people tied together by more than just price. Networks and Markets focuses on how the two concepts relate to each other: Are social networks an essential precondition for successful markets, or do networks arise naturally out of markets, as faceless traders build reputations and gain confidence in each other? The book includes contributions by both sociologists and economists, applying the concepts of markets and networks to concrete empirical phenomena. Among the topics analyzed, the book explains how, in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, firms combine into tightly-knit business blocs, how wholesalers in a Marseille fish market earn the loyalty of customers, and how ethnic retailers in the U.S. share valuable market information with other shopkeepers from their ethnic group. A response to each chapter discusses the issue from the standpoint of the other discipline. Sociologists are challenged to go beyond small-scale economic exchange and to integrate their concept of networks into a broader understanding of the economic system as a whole, while economists are challenged to consider the economic implications of network ties, which can be strong or weak, unconditional or highly contingent. This book proves that both economics and sociology provide stronger insights when they study markets and networks as parallel forms of exchange. But it also clarifies the healthy division of labor that remains between the two disciplines. Sociologists are adept at showing how markets are framed by social institutions; economists specialize in explaining how markets perform, taking the social context as a given. Networks and Markets showcases what each discipline does best and reveals where each discipline would do better by borrowing from the other.