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Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development

Author : Jane Gray
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109472
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development written by Jane Gray and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the history of the Irish linen industry as a substantive case study Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development shows how gendered variations in the division of labor within and between households affected the economic development of the local and regional textile industry beginning with industrialization through to the transition to industrial capitalism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from census records to folk poetry, Jane Gray develops a dynamic model of gender that links the allocation of labor within households to macro-socioeconomic change. Expanding on recent literature of the salience of gender in the Irish political economy, Spinning the Threads of Uneven Development is important reading for social and economic historians as well as those interested in the role of gender in economic development and Irish history.

A History of the Girl

Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331969278X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Girl written by Mary O'Dowd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.

Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures

Author : Beverly Lemire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108340180
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures written by Beverly Lemire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access to more new goods than ever before and, through industrious labour and smuggling, acquired goods that heightened comfort, redefined leisure and widened access to fashion. Consumption systems shaped by race and occupation also emerged. Lemire reveals how material cosmopolitanism flourished not simply in great port cities like Lima, Istanbul or Canton, but increasingly in rural settlements and coastal enclaves. The book uncovers the social, economic and cultural forces shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities.

Irish Materialisms

Author : Colleen Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019889483X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Irish Materialisms written by Colleen Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression. The main argument of Irish Materialisms is its methodology: of reading literature through the agency of materiality and nonhuman narrative in order to gain a more egalitarian and varied understanding of colonial experience. Irish Materialisms proves that new materialism holds powerful postcolonial potential. Through an intimate understanding of the materiality Irish peasants handled on a daily basis, this book presents a new portrait of Irish character that reflects greater empowerment, resistance, and expression in the oppressed Irish than has been previously recognized.

Ireland and the Industrial Revolution

Author : Andy Bielenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134061013
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Ireland and the Industrial Revolution written by Andy Bielenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter Introduction -- part Part I The linen industry: The lead sector in the industrialisation of Ulster -- chapter 1 The evolution of the linen industry prior to mechanisation, 1700-1825 -- chapter 2 Transition: the first generation of wet spinners, 1825-50 -- chapter 3 The high watermark of the Ulster linen industry, 1850-1914 -- part Part II Southern comfort: The food, drink and tobacco industries -- chapter 4 The food-processing industries -- chapter 5 Drink and tobacco -- part PART III Missing links? Engineering, shipbuilding and the dearth of mineral wealth -- chapter 6 The mining and engineering industries -- chapter 7 Shipbuilding: An exception to the rule? -- part Part IV Construction and the Irish economy -- chapter 8 The timber trade and the Irish building industry.

The 'Irish' Family

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135008140
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The 'Irish' Family written by Linda Connolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When situated in the wider European context, ‘the Irish family’ has undergone a process of profound transformation and rapid change in very recent decades. Recent data cites a significant increase in one parent households and a high non-marital birth rate for instance alongside the emergence of cohabitation, divorce, same sex families and reconstituted families. At the same time, the majority of children in Ireland still live in a two-parent family based on marriage and the divorce rate in Ireland is comparatively lower than other European countries. 21st century family life is, in reality, characterised by continuity and change in the Irish context. This book seeks to understand, interpret and theorise family life in Ireland by providing a detailed analysis of historical change, demographic trends, fertility and reproduction, marriage, separation and divorce, sexualities, children and young people, class, gender, motherhood, intergenerational relations, grandparents, ethnicity, globalisation, technology and family practices. A comprehensive analysis of key developments and trends over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is provided.

Handloom Weavers in Ulster's Linen Industry, 1815-1914

Author : Kevin J. James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handloom Weavers in Ulster's Linen Industry, 1815-1914 written by Kevin J. James and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K.J. James examines linen handloom weavers as they encountered significant changes in the industry, and explores fluctuating definitions of men's and women's work in the trade. Using a case study of mid-Antrim's rural weavers, this book explores sexual divisions of labour, the gendering of skill, and work strategies in weaving households as it analyzes the persistence of hand production in Ireland's main textile sector. This work advances the study of hand producers in Irish industry, whose diverse experiences have been neglected in favour of urban factory labour in the study of the post-Famine Irish linen industry.

Family rhythms

Author : Jane Gray
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784997846
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Family rhythms written by Jane Gray and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time

Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences

Author : Eoin Flaherty
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137549785
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences written by Eoin Flaherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new approach to environmental sociology, by integrating complexity-informed social science, Marxian ecological theory, and resilience-based human ecology. It argues that sociologists have largely ignored developments in ecology which move beyond functionalist approaches to systems analysis, and as a result, environmental sociology has failed to capitalise not only on the analytical promise of resilience ecology, but on complementary developments in complexity theory. By tracing the origins and discussing current developments in each of these areas, it offers several paths to interdisciplinary dialogue. Eoin Flaherty argues that complexity theory and Marxian ecology can enhance our understanding of the social aspect of social-ecological systems, whilst a resilience approach can sharpen the analytical power of environmental sociology.

Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

Author : Josef Ehmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111147525
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History written by Josef Ehmer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central Europe, as well as for transnational and transcontinental labour migrations, it shows the enormous influence of the extended family and wider kin on individual pathways into and out of work. For early modern Europe, India, and China, and up to twentieth-century state socialism and to current welfare states, it stresses and concretizes the crucial impact of age and gender for both societal labour relations and individual work-related decision making. With all chapters based on original research, the volume reflects a close cooperation between historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its multidisciplinary approach finds expression in its methodological plurality, reaching from archival research and sophisticated statistical analyses to biographical interviews and participant observation. This mix allows to grasp the interaction between societal change and individual agency.

The Development of Certain Instincts and Habits in Chicks

Author : Frederick Stephen Breed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Certain Instincts and Habits in Chicks written by Frederick Stephen Breed and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation

Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
ISBN 13 : 9781414419121
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation written by Dana Ferguson and published by Book Review Index Cumulation. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.

The Science of Spin

Author : Roland Ennos
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198219653X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Spin written by Roland Ennos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly made the earth round? How do boomerangs turn around mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? “A basic scientific concept receives long overdue attention” (Kirkus Reviews) in this “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) new book from the masterful author of The Age of Wood. From the solar system to spinning tops, hurricanes to hula hoops, power plants to pendulums, one mysterious force shapes almost every aspect of our lives: spin. Despite its ubiquity, rotational force continues to baffle and surprise, and few people realize how it makes our planet habitable or how it has been tamed by engineers to make our lives more comfortable. Charting the development of engineering and technology from the earliest prehistoric drills to the gas turbine, critically acclaimed author and scientist Roland Ennos presents a riveting account of human ingenuity and the seemingly infinite ways spin affects our daily lives. He also shows how this new approach not only helps us better understand the world but also ourselves. After all, even our own bodies are complex systems of rotating joints and levers. Artfully moving between astrophysics and anthropology, The Science of Spin shows how, whether natural or engineered, spin is really what makes the world go round.

Rethinking the Industrial Revolution

Author : Michael Andrew Žmolek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251790
Total Pages : 935 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Industrial Revolution written by Michael Andrew Žmolek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion.

The Routledge History of Irish America

Author : Cian T. McMahon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040047165
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge History of Irish America by : Cian T. McMahon

Download or read book The Routledge History of Irish America written by Cian T. McMahon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora. This book will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as instructors and scholars interested in American History, Immigration History, Irish Studies, and Ethnic Studies more broadly.

Essays in Irish Labour History

Author : Francis Devine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Irish Labour History written by Francis Devine and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Irish Labour History is a tribute to the late Professor John W Boyle, University of Guelph, Canada and a leading practitioner of Irish labour history, and his late wife Elizabeth. Boyle's specialism was in nineteenth century labour history, with a particular emphasis on Dublin and Belfast, cities to which he had academic and personal attachments, and these interests are well reflected in this book. The history of labour in Ulster is especially well covered, as is that of Protestant workers throughout the island. The collection also includes substantial scholarly articles that reflect ongoing research and areas that have thus far been neglected, such as the place for casual labour in nineteenth century Ireland and the impact of religion on the Irish Labour Party, 1922-73. The range of topics is broad and includes an obituary essay on the Boyles and an interrogation of Irish historiography and the working class.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

Author : Alvin Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667609
Total Pages : 979 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History written by Alvin Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and achievement by bringing together 36 leading scholars of modern Ireland and embracing 400 years of Irish history, uniting early and late modernists as well as contemporary historians. The Handbook offers a set of scholarly perspectives drawn from numerous disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, and the Irish language. It looks at the Irish at home as well as in their migrant and diasporic communities. The Handbook combines sets of wide thematic and interpretative essays, with more detailed investigations of particular periods. Each of the contributors offers a summation of the state of scholarship within their subject area, linking their own research insights with assessments of future directions within the discipline. In its breadth and depth and diversity, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History offers an authoritative and vibrant portrayal of the history of modern Ireland.