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The Persistence of memory: remembering slavery in Liverpool, 'slaving capital…
The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being ‘forgotten histories’, persist over time as a contested publi…
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- 9781789622577
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- xvi, 306p.: ill.
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- 306.3620942753 MOO p
The Japanese automotive industry: model and challenge for the future?
As the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies reflected on the deteriorating position of the domestic auto industry in the fall of 1980, and the strong competitive threat being posed by the Japanese automakers, we were struck by the extraordinary low quality of the public discussion of these critical issues. The national importance of the issues seemed only matched by the superficia…
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- 9780472902033
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- ix, 147 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Michigan papers in Japanese studies ; no. 3
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- 338.4762920952 JAP j
Trademark and unfair competition conflicts : historical-comparative, doctrina…
With the rise of internet marketing and e-commerce around the world, international and cross-border conflicts in trademark and unfair competition law have become increasingly important. In this groundbreaking work, Tim Dornis - who, in addition to his scholarly pursuits, has worked as an attorney, a public prosecutor, and a judge, giving him experience in both civil and common-law jurisdictions…
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- 9781316651285
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- lii, 644p. : ill.
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- 346.0488 DOR t
Geographical indications at the crossroads of trade, development, and culture…
Historically, few topics have proven to be so controversial in international intellectual property as the protection of geographical indications (GIs). The adoption of TRIPS in 1994 did not resolve disagreements, and countries worldwide continue to quarrel today as to the nature, the scope, and the enforcement of GI protection nationally and internationally. Thus far, however, there is little l…
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- 9781316711002
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- xx, 550p : ill.
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- 382.3 GEO g
Fabricating modern societies : education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrial…
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- 9789004410510
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- xviii, 246p. : ill.
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- 338.94935009041 FAB f
Snow in the tropics: a history of the independent reefer operators
Snow in the Tropics offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators, companies that are dedicated to transport refrigerated products by ship, from the early 20th century to the present. Readership: All interested in maritime history, particularly those with an interest in the modern history of the shipping industry.
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- 9789004393868
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- xiv, 278p.: ill.
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- 387.554 LEN s
Dutch ships in tropical waters: the development of the Dutch East India Compa…
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark study looks at perhaps the most important tool in the Company' trading - its ships. In order to reconstruct the complete shipping activities of the…
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- 9789048501236
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- 217 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.
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- Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
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- 387.50959809032 PAR d
Grassroots politics and oil culture in Venezuela : the revolutionary petro-state
This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular poli…
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- 9783319595078
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- xxi, 357p. : ill.
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- 987.0642 STR g
Indonesia in a reforming world economy: effects on agriculture, trade and the…
In the mid-1990s a joint research project was established between CASER (Bogor), CIES (Adelaide), CSIS ( Jakarta) and RSPAS (at ANU, Canberra) to examine interactions between agriculture, trade and the environment in Indonesia. Funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR Project No. 9449), the specific objective of the project was to assess the production, con…
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- 9780980623871
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- xvi, 265p.: ill.
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- 338.109598 AND
European variations as a key to cooperation
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation. Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve impasses in negotia…
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- 9783030328931
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- xx, 177p. : ill.
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- 337.142 EUR e
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