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DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and L…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 20
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839435410
- Collation
- 241 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 810.9 POO d
The wealthy, the brilliant, the few : elite education in contemporary America…
How do the US make sense of their own elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839457290
- Collation
- 273 p.
- Series Title
- Volume 33 in the series American Culture Studies
- Call Number
- 370.73 SPI t
Rituals of the past : prehispanic and colonial case studies in Andean archaeo…
Through the study of archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical evidence from northern Peru to northern Chile, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina, the authors in this volume show the significance of ritual from pre-contact to present day in the Andes. These volume essays deal with theoretical and methodological concerns in anthropology and archaeology including non-human and human a…
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- -
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- 9781607325963
- Collation
- XIII, 321 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 985.01 BAU r
Towards a comparative analysis of social inequalities between Europe and Lati…
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030484422
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- xxiii, 480p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.5 TOW t
Financial crisis management and democracy : lessons from Europe and Latin Ame…
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, analyzing both the role and impact of the EU and regional organizations in Latin America on crisis management as well as t…
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- -
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- 9783030548957
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- ix, 382p. : ill.
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- -
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- 339 FIN f
Unequal family lives : causes and consequences in Europe and the Americas
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, whereas conservatives tend to stress cultural and policy roots. In this illuminating book, an international group of …
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- -
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- 9781108235525
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- xix, 327p. : ill.
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- -
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- 306.850973 UNE u
Archaeological perspectives on warfare on the Great Plains
The Great Plains of the United States have played an influential role in shaping academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because of the well-documented violence that was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement there. However, violence has deep roots on the Plains, and these roots have never been examined systematically across the region as a whole. Coveri…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781607326700
- Collation
- VII, 439 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 970.00497 CLA a
Excavating the future : archaeology and geopolitics in contemporary North Ame…
Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds.’ But more than a well-spring for SF scenarios, the genre’s archaeological imaginary invites us to consider the ideological implications of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of very…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781786948731
- Collation
- XV, 228 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.43615097 MAL e
Unequal family lives: causes and consequences in Europe and the Americas
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, whereas conservatives tend to stress cultural and policy roots. In this illuminating book, an international group of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108415958
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- xix, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.850973 CAH u
Enabling openness: the future of the information society in Latin America and…
In recent years, the Internet and other network technologies have emerged as a central issue for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. They have shown their potential to increase productivity and economic competitiveness, to create new ways to deliver education and health services, and to be driving forces for the modernization of the provision of public services. With an introduct…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781552505793
- Collation
- vii, 200 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4833068 GIR e
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