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Book Synopsis Power in the Village by : Maíra Ines Vendrame
Download or read book Power in the Village written by Maíra Ines Vendrame and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power in the Village explores the formation of late-nineteenth-century Italian rural society in southern Brazil, through an examination of how Italian peasants in northern Italy and southern Brazil solved issues related to family honor. Looking specifically at social networks and justice practices to examine the kind of rationality that ruled individual and family behaviors, the book offers an understanding of the restoration of social balance in these communities, and explores the culture of immigrants, particularly in issues related to honor and morality. Taking as a case study the ambush and murder of a parish priest, Antonio Sorio, in January 1900 in Silveira Martins, a small town of Italian immigrants, Vendrame offers a reinterpretation of the society of Italian immigrants in southern Brazil. She argues that rather than being an idyllic picture of a homogeneous and harmonious society, the colonial settlements were places pervaded by tension, solidarity and self-interest, which guided individual and collective behavior. This book will be of great interest to scholars working in Italian history, Brazilian history, immigration history and the history of colonialism. It will also be of interest to scholars working on ethnographic and religious history, as well as to social anthropologists.
Book Synopsis The Grid and the Village by : Stephen Doheny-Farina
Download or read book The Grid and the Village written by Stephen Doheny-Farina and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on electric grids and tells the stories about two villages separated by time, connected by proximity, and united by the challenges of maintaining a community under duress. It provides a glimpse of what it took to build the kind of grids that made America, the grids which connect people to one another, and is told through the experiences of some of the people who sacrificed the most to build the grids.
Book Synopsis This Is Happiness by : Niall Williams
Download or read book This Is Happiness written by Niall Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.
Book Synopsis The Global Village Myth by : Patrick Porter
Download or read book The Global Village Myth written by Patrick Porter and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porter challenges the powerful ideology of "Globalism" that is widely subscribed to by the US national security community. Globalism entails visions of a perilous shrunken world in which security interests are interconnected almost without limit, exposing even powerful states to instant war. Globalism does not just describe the world, but prescribes expansive strategies to deal with it, portraying a fragile globe that the superpower must continually tame into order. Porter argues that this vision of the world has resulted in the US undertaking too many unnecessary military adventures and dangerous strategic overstretch. Distance and geography should be some of the factors that help the US separate the important from the unimportant in international relations. The US should also recognize that, despite the latest technologies, projecting power over great distances still incurs frictions and costs that set real limits on American power. Reviving an appreciation of distance and geography would lead to a more sensible and sustainable grand strategy.
Book Synopsis Tokugawa Village Practice by : Herman Ooms
Download or read book Tokugawa Village Practice written by Herman Ooms and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to Japanese citizens today, villagers in the Tokugawa period (seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries) frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts, leaving a vast but hitherto untapped record of power struggles between villagers and the network of administrators above them. Through colorfully narrated and skillfully analyzed case studies of their lawsuits and petitions, Herman Ooms traces the evolution of class and status conflicts in villages during this feudal era. Inspired by the work of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu, the author links detailed village analysis to a broader discussion of societal power fields and juridical domains. Opening with an angry woman's lifelong struggle against village authority, Ooms's study examines how obscure historical actors, local elites, commoners, women, and outcastes manipulated the distinctions of class and status to their own advantage. The case studies offer a penetrating view of legal practice, including the position of women, inheritance customs, and particular forms of village justice. In a significant contribution to the legal history of outcaste populations, Ooms also studies the origins of discrimination against the ancestors of the burakumin population, a group that even now is struggling for equality in Japanese society.
Book Synopsis Morality and Power in a Chinese Village by : Richard Madsen
Download or read book Morality and Power in a Chinese Village written by Richard Madsen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Book Synopsis Power in the Blood by : David Warren Sabean
Download or read book Power in the Blood written by David Warren Sabean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life in the duchy of WÜrttemberg in southwest Germany between 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and characters involved include peasants' refusal to celebrate church rituals; a self-proclaimed prophet who encountered an angel in his vineyard; a thirteen-year-old-witch; a paranoid pastor; a murder; and live burial of a village bull.
Book Synopsis The Art of Power by : Thich Nhat Hanh
Download or read book The Art of Power written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Buddhist monk and author of Peace Is Every Step outlines a radical perspective on how to attain true power, sharing anecdotal teachings that reveal how current understanding about power typically results in egocentric thinking and unsatisfactory pursuits. 75,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis From Powerless Village to Union Power Secretary by : Prathipati Abraham
Download or read book From Powerless Village to Union Power Secretary written by Prathipati Abraham and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Class and Power in a Punjabi Village by : Saghir Ahmad
Download or read book Class and Power in a Punjabi Village written by Saghir Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The End of the Village by : Nick R. Smith
Download or read book The End of the Village written by Nick R. Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions. Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration. As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.
Book Synopsis To the Village Square by : Lionel Delevingne
Download or read book To the Village Square written by Lionel Delevingne and published by Easton Studio Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of vivid photographs tells the story of citizens who spoke up against the nuclear power industry, who refused to be nuclear neighbors, and who fought for years to stop construction or to close reactors in their backyards. The photographs also introduce us to the victims of nuclear power, among them the children who developed cancer and other grave health problems, even generations after the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl. Through Lionel Delevingne’s record, we can see for ourselves the tragedies of the worst accident sites: Three Mile Island in the United States, Chernobyl in Russia, and Fukushima in Japan. We hope that this collection and history will help take the story of atomic energy “to the village square,” that it will generate discussion and a renewed sense of urgency, and remind a new generation of the battles that have been fought and are still to be fought to protect the beauty and health of our world.
Book Synopsis Bounding Power by : Daniel H. Deudney
Download or read book Bounding Power written by Daniel H. Deudney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. Its main challenger, liberalism, looks to Kant and nineteenth-century economists. Despite their many insights, neither realism nor liberalism gives us adequate tools to grapple with security globalization, the liberal ascent, and the American role in their development. In reality, both realism and liberalism and their main insights were largely invented by republicans writing about republics. The main ideas of realism and liberalism are but fragments of republican security theory, whose primary claim is that security entails the simultaneous avoidance of the extremes of anarchy and hierarchy, and that the size of the space within which this is necessary has expanded due to technological change. In Daniel Deudney's reading, there is one main security tradition and its fragmentary descendants. This theory began in classical antiquity, and its pivotal early modern and Enlightenment culmination was the founding of the United States. Moving into the industrial and nuclear eras, this line of thinking becomes the basis for the claim that mutually restraining world government is now necessary for security and that political liberty cannot survive without new types of global unions. Unique in scope, depth, and timeliness, Bounding Power offers an international political theory for our fractious and perilous global village.
Download or read book Webs of Power written by Evelyn Blackwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Focusing on one rural Minangkabau village, the book provides vital insights into the gendered processes of post-coloniality. The Minangkabau living in West Sumatra are the largest matrilineal group in the world. They have intrigued generations of scholars because they are matrilineal and Islamic. By exploring the contestations and accommodations women and men make with state and Islamic ideologies, Webs of Power discloses the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of kinship and power in a rural agricultural community. The book challenges conventional thinking about matriliny, showing the prominence of senior women in all aspects of village life.
Book Synopsis New Village-Power Back to People by : Karen New
Download or read book New Village-Power Back to People written by Karen New and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're wondering how the blockchain will affect your life and career, New Village is the book for you! Learn how you can start to make use of the Blockchain NOW! - Monetise your identity and content- Monetise on spare capacity on your handphone and other electronic devices - Learn how life would be with decentralization in the year 2055.Today, we are at the height of the Internet Revolution. Content creators with millions of followers on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn were able to profit from advertising and branding. The Blockchain revolution stands to build a new range of solutions - but with decentralization, there will no longer be centralized platforms like Instagram receiving the lion's share of profits. Community-run, blockchain-driven solutions will benefit the community and support shareholders instead. The continual improvement of artificial intelligence (AI) in a blockchain-driven society will allow us to shift from a knowledge economy to a task-based one. Work will automatically be compensated via smart contracts, supported by both AI and blockchains. In this sense, academic knowledge may cease to be as important in the future and childhood education may shift in emphasis from academic to practical knowledge. This book is for people who wish to learn all about the various channels that they may leverage to profit from the Blockchain revolution. It starts with the key problems in today's world, followed by how major trends and developments on the blockchain may solve said problems. Trends include the emerging possibility of monetizing various parts of ourselves such as our identities, reputation, and created content. Contains:- Employ knowledge from blockchain use-cases in your life and career- Over 200 pages (including 10 pages of comics for easy reading)- 12 use case of blockchain projects of which some are live and you can experience it now!Enjoy Reading!
Book Synopsis Photovoltaic Village Power Application: Assessment of the Near-term Market by : Louis Rosenblum
Download or read book Photovoltaic Village Power Application: Assessment of the Near-term Market written by Louis Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Design of Village Power and Micro-Grids for Rural Areas of Zimbabwe with Specific Attention to Voltage Regulation on Low Voltage Meshed Distribution Grids by :
Download or read book Design of Village Power and Micro-Grids for Rural Areas of Zimbabwe with Specific Attention to Voltage Regulation on Low Voltage Meshed Distribution Grids written by and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
