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The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes : Central Asian Migran…
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration pol…
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- 9783030992569
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- IX, 192 p ; ill
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- 327.111 POL
Opposing power : building opposition alliances in electoral autocracies
Opposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances. When electoral autocracies are consistently dominant, opposition parties eschew fully fledged alliances. At best, they allocate only one candidate to contest against the incumbent in each subnational electoral district to avoid splitting the oppos…
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- edision 2
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- 9780472133000
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- xiii. :313 p.
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- 322.4. OPP e
The Bible in Buffalo Country : Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931
Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931 represents a snapshot of the tumultuous first six years of the Church Missionary Society's mission …
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- 9781760463991
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- xix, 332p. ill;
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- 266.306 BIB S
Revolutionary bodies: Chinese dance and the socialist legacy
This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The book argues that Chinese dance, not revolutionary ballet, was the primary legacy of Maoist dance research and innovation. Showing the relationship between dance and politics, it discusses dance developments during…
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- edision 16
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- 9780520971905
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- xv, 305p.: ill.
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- 792.80951 WIL r
Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new histor…
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- 9781108623391
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- xii, 233p. ; ill.
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- 349.5430903
Island Fantasia
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- 9781009023481
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- xvii, 330p, ill
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- 951.249 WEI
Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts
Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson reveals tha…
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- 9781108768177
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- xiii, 574p,: ill
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- 306.8930951 ETH
Babad Tanah Jawi, the chronicle of Java: the revised prose version of C.F. Wi…
The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. Although Winter a…
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- 9789400604230
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- XXXVIII, 1045 p.
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- 091 BAB B
Bondage : labor and rights in eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentie…
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the 16th and 20th centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, comparing the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under …
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- 9781785336607
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- ix. ;270 p.
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- 331.0950903 ALES b
Central peripheries : nationhood in central asia
Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in spite of – or perhaps precisely because of – this, they hold a very classical vision of the nation-state, rejecting the abolition of boundaries and the theory of the ‘death of …
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- 9781800080133
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- ix. :264 p.
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- 327.58. MAR c
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