Empire and Modernity
Antonio Negri's Empire and Beyond: The Reformation of the Lexicon of Modernity and the Imagining of a Postnational Imaginary
... of modernity and the recon- ceptualization of its structures, capital, empire, the nation-state, and the sin- gularities or multitudes that constitute the old and new, national and postna- tional ...
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TRAINING FOR EMPIRE AND MODERNITY: JAPAN’S DEVELOPMENT
... management of the Ainu are revealing of the social and political structures that would later carry through in Japanese colonialism. Some of the same agrarian techniques or crops introduced by American advisors were later ...
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Confronting modernity: 'Techno politics' and the limits of new world empire
... Anglo-American empire established great plantations like the Spanish and created vast commercial trading networks like the Dutch and the French, but for the English, land itself became a commodity, with important ...
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Women, Islam and modernity
... absolute; it was most common among the upper classes and only laxly enforced among the lower orders and in the rural areas. On the other hand, contact between the sexes was reduced by restrictions placed upon the ...
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Cultural Landscapes in Asian Modernity
... 2012. Modernity, the second variable, is the result of simultaneous and contradictory influences and consequences of homogenization, pluralization, and hybridization of the material and non-material ...and ...
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The modernity of backwardness
... Besides creating the material conditions for a century of ‘wars and revolutions’ this provoked an intense intellectual reconsideration, tightly bound up with the principal successful political opponents of European ...
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Empire and Citizenship
... in Empire, it seems clear that the doctrine of modern citizenship is central to ordering of populations by the sovereignty machine, for the production of peoples, and for the generation of the striated space of ...
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The Arabic language : a Latin of modernity?
... Roman Empire, from where the Arabs borrowed this model and modified for their own needs (cf Kościelniak ...Russian Empire until its collapse in 1917 or in Montenegro, where the temporal ruler continued to ...
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The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain
... Liberal Modernity remains an effective and illuminating collection, of considerable interest to scholars researching empire, intellec-tual culture, state power or class in the Victorian ...of empire, ...
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Historical sociology, modernity, and postcolonial critique
... While historical accounts of the two revolutions—and, by implication, of mo- dernity itself—have not remained unchanged over time, what has remained constant has been the historiographical frame—of autonomous endogenous ...
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The Empire at war: British and Indian perceptions of empire in the First World War
... of the people involved. Clearly some in the Indian army held genuine interests in Indian culture, while others’ opinions were softened by the experience of combat. This point becomes even clearer when we consider the ...
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Theological reflections on empire
... This may leave us incredulous, but such surprising attitudes run deep in the American psyche despite the historical evidence. The story of American imperialism, Griffin argues, is not a story of a benign empire ...
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Australia, Canada and Empire
... Australia’s empire was driven by British geo-political and economic reorientations in the late 1950s and 1960s (especially the decision to seek entry into the EEC, and the withdrawal from a role East of Suez) ...
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The British Empire Debate
... that empire had on Britain has been a major (if not the major) preoccupation for imperial historians for almost 30 years now, ever since John Mackenzie’s Propaganda and Empire launched Manchester University ...
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The Second British Empire: The British Empire and the re-emergence of global finance
... British Empire after WWII was even more ...largest empire the world has ever seen shrank down to contain very few remnants and debris, including the United Kingdom, three adjacent Crown territories, Jersey, ...
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The Empire at war: British and Indian perceptions of empire in the First World War
... the Empire, discussing Indian soldiers’ impressions of England and France during ...and Empire did not motivate all Indian soldiers to begin with, but by financial ...
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From empire to Empire: Benjamin Disraeli and the formalization of the British Imperial Social Structure
... accepted empire as a natural phenomenon, and Disraeli’s political agenda encompassing the formalized political construct known as the British Empire embodied the British people’s mainstream conception of ...
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Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity
... Does the 'terminal' state almost reached by classical composition really matter? Is this not a storm in an avant-garde teacup? As I will argue in Chapters 11 and 12, with respect to the demise of the avant-garde and the ...
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Rome 1945 1975 : an archaeology of modernity
... of modernity was being sought in the city’s classical ...mingling modernity with its imperial ...Rome’s modernity as a process of detachment between the two poles represented by the double-faced ...
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Nietzche, George Grant and the response to modernity.
... Although many have described George Grant as a political thinker, he is indeed much more than that. He considered him self first and foremost a debunker. His thinking spans a wide spectrum, intermingling religion and ...
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