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Introduction :the shades of the nation /Paulina L. Alberto and Eduardo Elena --Insecure whiteness :Jews between civilization and barbarism, 1880s-1940s /Sandra McGee Deutsch --People as landscape :the representation of the Criollo interior in early tourist literature in Argentina, 1920-30 /Oscar Chamosa --Black in Buenos Aires :the transnational career of Oscar Alemán /Matthew B. Karush --La Cocina Criolla :a history of food and race in twentieth-century Argentina /Rebekah E. Pite --'Invisible Indians', 'Degenerate Descendants' :idiosyncrasies of Mestizaje in Southern Patagonia /Mariela Eva Rodríguez --Race and class through the visual culture of Peronism /Ezequiel Adamovsky --Argentina in black and white :race, Peronism, and the color of politics, 1940s to the present /Eduardo Elena --African descent and whiteness in Buenos Aires :impossible Mestizajes in the white capital city /Lea Geler --The savage outside of white Argentina /Gastón Gordillo --Between foreigners and heroes :Asian-Argentines in a multicultural nation /Chisu Teresa Ko --Indias blancas, negros febriles :racial stories and history-making in contemporary Argentine fiction /Paulina L. Alberto --Epilogue:Whiteness and its discontents /George Reid Andrews.

"This volume focuses on coalitions and collaborations formed by refugees from Nazi Germany in their host countries. Exile from Nazi Germany was a global phenomenon involving the expulsion and displacement of entire families, organizations, and communities. While forced emigration inevitably meant loss of familiar structures and surroundings, successful integration into often very foreign cultures was possible due to the exiles' ability to access and/or establish networks. By focusing on such networks rather than on individual experiences, the contributions in this volume provide a complex and nuanced analysis of the multifaceted, interacting factors of the exile experience. This approach connects the NS-exile to other forms of displacement and persecution and locates it within the ruptures of civilization dominating the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors are: Dieter Adolph, Jacob Boas, Margit Franz, Katherine Holland, Birgit Maier-Katkin Leonie Marx, Wolfgang Mieder, Thomas Schneider, Helga Schreckenberger, Swen Steinberg, Karina von Tippelskirch, Jörg Thunecke, Jacqueline Vansant, and Veronika Zwerger"--Provided by publisher

Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the fact remains that high-income, high-energy societies could thrive without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material to comtemporary civilization, a comprehensive resource is needed for metallurgists, non-metallurgists, and anyone with a background in environmental studies, industry, manufacturing, and history, seeking a broader understanding of the history of iron and steel and its current and future impact on society. Given its coverage of the history of iron and steel from its genesis to slow pre-industrial progress, revolutionary advances during the 19th century, magnification of 19th century advances during the past five generations, patterns of modern steel production, the ubiquitous uses of the material, potential substitutions, advances in relative dematerialization, and appraisal of steel's possible futures, Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by world-renowned author Vaclav Smil meets that need

Introduction / Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz -- "Lessons" from the Subcontinent : Indian Dynamics in British Africa / Tim Allender -- Industrial Education in Natal : The British Imperial Context, 1830-1860 / Rebecca Swartz -- Shaping Subjects through Government Education : Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839-1862 / Helen Ludlow -- "A Test of Civilization" : Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown / Brian Willan -- The role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century / Christina Cappy -- Charles Templeman Loram : A Life in Education and Race Relations / Richard Glotzer -- Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of "Development" in Apartheid South Africa and Late Colonial British Africa / Meghan Healy-Clancy -- German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Education / Peter Kallaway -- Tracking Assimilation and Adaptation through School Literacy Practices in Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française (early twentieth century) / Elsie Rockwell -- Protestant Missions' Literacy Development during Colonization in Madagascar / Ellen Rosnes -- Independence and Influenc : an Ethio-French Girls' School in 1930s Ethiopia / Pierre Guidi

"Since the popularization of Internet technologies in the mid-1990s, human identity and collective culture has been dramatically shaped by our continued use of digital communication platforms and engagement with the digital world. Despite a plethora of scholarship on digital technology, questions remain regarding how these technologies impact personal identity and perceptions of global culture. Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age explores a multitude of topics pertaining to self-hood, self-expression, human interaction, and perceptions of civilization and culture in an age where technology has become integrated into every facet of our everyday lives. Highlighting issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in digital culture, interpersonal and computer-mediated communication, pop culture, social media, and the digitization of knowledge, this pivotal reference publication is designed for use by scholars, psychologists, sociologists, and graduate-level students interested in the fluid and rapidly evolving norms of identity and culture through digital media"--Provided by publisher

Off-centered states : rethinking state theory through an Andean lens / Christopher Krupa and David Nugent -- The idea of the state in Colombia : an analysis from the periphery / María Clemencia Ramírez -- Respatializing the state from the margins : reflections on the camba autonomy movement in Santa Cruz, Bolivia / Nicole Fabricant -- State formation and class politics in Colombia / Lesley Gill -- Cadastral politics : property wars and state realism in highland Ecuador / Christopher Krupa -- New arenas of state action in highland Ecuador : public health and state formation, c. 1925-1950 / A. Kim Clark -- The state and indigenous women in Ecuador, 1925-1975 / Mercedes Prieto -- Haunting the modern Andean state : colonial legacies of race and civilization / Irene Silverblatt -- Appearances to the contrary : fantasy, fear, and displacement in twentieth-century Peruvian state formation / David Nugent -- Notes on the formation of the Andean colonial state / Karen Spalding -- The aspirational state : state effects in Putumayo / Winifred Tate -- Off-centered states : an appreciation / Gyanendra Pandey -- Viewing states from the global south / Akhil Gupta

The term globalization is too often defined by the results it produces, both positive and negative, as opposed to being defined as a socially engineered device naturally occurring as civilization progressed. It is a mechanism to manage the affairs of human beings as they provided for their mutual, but not always equal, attainment of satisfaction. It is therefore a universal instrument that emerged out of the ordered exchange process and is to be found in all cultures. Its growth and maturity were fueled by common denominators of value that are shared across and between social groups around the world and act as a trade agent, bridging and bonding alien territories. As such it began in ancient times and continues into the present, where its prevalence has resulted in a more borderless world with increasing interdependence of nations. The historic commercial activities used in the past form the platform of principles still evident in its modern- day structure.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. THE UNITED STATES AND THE EASTERN QUESTION -- 1 The United States and the Greeks, 1821-1869 -- 2 The United States and Bulgarian Independence, 1876-1878 -- PART II. JEWISH AMERICAN ACTIVISM IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- 3 Jewish American Activism in the Ottoman Empire and Morocco, 1840-1878 -- 4 Spreading Empire and Civilization in Morocco, 1878-1906 -- PART III. THE UNITED STATES AND THE "MORO PROBLEM" IN THE PHILIPPINES -- 5 Understanding and Classifying the United States' "Mohammedan Wards" in the Philippines, 1898-1905 -- 6 Extending American Colonial Governance over Filipino Muslims, 1903-1920 -- PART IV. RESOLVING THE EASTERN QUESTION -- 7 The United States and the Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896 -- 8 The United States, World War I, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1921 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Uses and Abuses of Political Concepts -- What is a concept? -- Normative and descriptive concepts -- Contested concepts -- Words and things -- Key Concepts: Their Meaning and Significance -- Absolutism -- Accountability -- Anarchism -- Anarchy -- Animal rights -- Anti-politics -- Arms race -- Authoritarianism -- Authority -- Autonomy -- Balance of power -- Behaviouralism -- Bicameralism -- Bill of rights -- Bureaucracy -- Cabinet -- Capitalism -- Centralization/decentralization -- Checks and balances -- Christian democracy -- Citizenship -- Civil disobedience -- Civil liberty -- Civil society -- Coalition -- Collective security -- Collectivism -- Collectivization -- Committee -- Communism -- Communitarianism -- Community -- Conflict of civilizations -- Confucianism -- Consensus -- Consent -- Conservatism -- Consociationalism -- Constitution -- Constitutionalism -- Constructivism -- Consumerism -- Corporatism -- Cosmopolitanism -- Crimes against humanity -- Critical theory -- Cross-generational justice -- Democracy -- Democratic peace -- Democratization -- Deterrence -- Development -- Devolution -- Dialectic -- Dictatorship -- Diplomacy -- Discourse -- Ecologism -- Election -- Elitism -- Empiricism -- Equality -- Executive -- Failed state -- Fascism -- Federalism -- Feminism -- Free trade -- Freedom -- Functionalism -- Game theory -- Gender -- Geopolitics -- Global civil society -- Global governance -- Global justice -- Globalization -- Governance -- Government -- Great power -- Hard/soft power -- Hegemony -- Historical materialism -- Human development -- Human nature -- Human rights -- Humanitarian intervention -- Idealism -- Identity politics -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Institutionalism -- Interdependence -- Intergovernmentalism -- International aid -- International law.

"International relations theory has repeatedly failed to grasp dramatic changes occurring in East Asia. Asia has long remained peripheral, approached deductively based on findings drawn from the Euro-Atlantic region rather than through the prism of area experts and debates within the region. In this volume, experts on East Asia focus on each of the past five decades to explain the weak predictive power of traditional IR theory as applied to the region and uncover the true forces driving change. While recognizing that realist and liberal theories have vied for preeminence in recent decades, this book showcases the rise of constructivist (national identity) theory. Gilbert Rozman's chapters on each decade cover theoretical issues including strategic triangles, rising powers, regionalism, and Eastern vs. Western civilization. Contributors also examine other triangles, bilateral relations, and views of theory within the region. Parallel chapters explore historical legacies of growing relevance in China, Japan, and Russia in the 2010s, and the Korean Peninsula figures heavily throughout as a challenge to theory"--

History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization theory - this book uniquely deals with climate change and the ensuing catastrophes in relation to cultural factors, urbanism and architecture. It links the evolution of civilisation, with special emphasis on the dynamics of beauty as displayed in architecture and urbanism, to climate change. It then considers both the historic and predicted impacts of climate change and the threat it poses to the continued viability of human civilisation when survival is the top priority. This book gives students, researchers and professionals in architecture and sustainable design as well as anyone interested in the threat of global warming to civilisation, new insights as to what could be lost if action is not taken at a global level.

Cover -- Author Bio -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Footnote Abbreviations -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: After the Resistance: The Origins of the Sec in European Federalism, 194-69 -- Chapter 2: The Sec's Early Years: The `Politics of Culture' and the Appeal to the Intellectuals of Europe and the World (1952) -- Chapter 3: The `Civilization of the Universal': Overtures Toward the Third World (1953-6) -- Chapter 4: The `Will to Dialogue': The First East-West Meeting, March 1956 -- Chapter 5: The Cold War `Crisis Years' and the East-West Meetings 1958-63 -- Chapter 6: The Cultures of Black Africa and of the West Colloquium (1960), The World Association of Culture (1962) and their Aftermath -- Chapter 7: Returning to Europe: Reform Communism, Marxist Humanism and the Early Human Rights Movement in Eastern Europe in the 1960s -- Chapter 8: 1968: Toward Solidarity, The `Substance of True Democracy' -- Glossary of Names -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates -- Back Cover

From its roots in early civilizations to its modern role in globalization, the role of beer through time and space have influenced the culture, economics, and environments of what society has grown, produced, and consumed. This edited collection examines the various influences, relationships, and developments beer has had from distinctly spatial perspectives. The chapters explore the functions of beer and brewing from unique and sometimes overlapping historical, economic, cultural, environmental and physical viewpoints. Topics from authors -- both geographers and non-geographers alike -- have examined the influence of beer throughout history, the migration of beer on local to global scales, the dichotomous nature of global production and craft brewing, the neolocalism of craft beers, and the influence local geography has had on beer's most essential ingredients: water, starch (malt), hops, and yeast. At the core of each chapter remains the integration of spatial perspectives to effectively map the identity, changes, challenges, patterns and locales of the geographies of beer.

1. An introduction to the "warring with words" project / Michael Hanne -- 2. Mind, story, and society : the political psychology of narrative / Phillip L. Hammack -- 3. Governing spirits : body politic scenarios and schemas in the French Revolution debate / Michael Sinding -- 4. The politics of the past : the myth of the clash of civilizations / Chiara Bottici -- 5. On Narrative, metaphor and the politics of security / Annick T.R. Wibben -- 6. A conversation with Mark Danner / Michael Hanne and Mark Danner -- 7. Metaphors of international cooperation / Michael P. Marks -- 8. From Saving Private Ryan to building team America : US presidential oratory and the art of interpellation / Susan Wright and Cris Shore -- 9. Nation building through historical narratives in pre-independence India : Gandhi, Nehru, Savarkar, and Golwalkar as entrepreneurs of identity / James H. Liu and Sammyh S. Khan -- 10. Responses to metaphors in politics : continued explorations of the metaphor extension hypothesis / Jeffery Scott Mio -- 11. Cognitive coherence in politics : unifying metaphor and narrative in civic cognition / Lori D. Bougher -- 12. Useful strategies in the war of words / William D. Crano.

"Evolution built us to punish cheaters. Without that punishment instinct, we would never have been able to live in small groups, and would never have realized all the significant benefits that small-group living conferred, including mutual defense, cooperative hunting, property, divisions of labor and economies of scale. In fact, to a large extent our notions of right and wrong, of empathy and compassion, of fairness and justice, all come from the tensions of group living, and thus indirectly owe their very existence to punishment. It may sound strange that one key to civilization is our willingness to punish each other, but every parent knows it's true. Every parent also feels the irresistible pull not to punish too much, and in fact maybe not to punish at all - to forgive - and this, too, is a remnant of evolution. Our punishment instinct is not so much a sword ready to fall as it is a finely tuned balance, sometimes susceptible to the gentlest of breezes"--