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Reading History through Textuality. Writing Orality: Turning Quechua into a Language of Religious Conversion / Catalina Andrango-Walker -- A Witch in the City: History and Textuality in 19th Century Andes / Walther Maradiegue -- The Sudamericana Publishing House: An Analysis of Its 1969 General Catalogue / José Enrique Navarro -- Textual Artifacts and Materialities. Guaman Poma's Library: Costume Books and the Illustration of an Indigenous Manuscript / George Antony Thomas -- Rioplatense Sound, Text, and Transmission in the Early Era of Sonic Reproducibility / Sam Carter -- The Postcard Poetics of Nicanor Parra's Artefactos / Rebecca Kosick -- Reading Images: Art, Aesthetics, and the Imagery of the Future in Argentine Science Fiction / Silvia Kurlat Ares -- Digitial Textualities, Media, and Editing. Discourse or Database? Theorizing the Electronic Edition of Antonio de León Pinelo's Epítome de la biblioteca oriental y occidental, náutica y geográfica / Clayton McCarl -- Do Borges' Librarians Have Bodies? / Zac Zimmer -- The Graphic Novel and Digital Media in Latin America / Edward King -- Afterword / Sara Castro-Klaren.

The early phases of computer supported research in history have been characterized by enthusiasm about the many possibilities opened. Possibilities, which go beyond just one methodological paradigm as the recent discussions about the relative importance of quantitative studies within computer applications in history show. A deeper discussion about these developments is necessary, necessary for pure intellectual reasons as well as for ones within the politics of academia. This requires a theory of historical computing, which starts from an analysis of the differences between computing in history and computers' applications to other disciplines. To illustrate that, a number of examples are given, which show that the information presented by historical sources is inherently different from the one processed by information systems directed at current times.

A review essay on books by (1) Jose Bove & Francois Dufour, The World Is Not for Sale: Farmers against Junk Food (London & New York: Verso, 2001); (2) Edward Goldsmith & Jerry Mander (Eds), The Case against the Global Economy and for a Turn towards Localization (London: Earthcan, 2001); (3) Francois Houtart & Francois Polet (Eds), The Other Davos: The Globalization of Resistance and the World Economic System (London & New York: Zed, 2001); & (4) Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (London & New York: Zed, 2000). Bove & Dufour, the two leaders of the radical French Farmers' union (Confederation Paysanne), reveal the mechanisms of a system of "farming against nature" where consumers save on food only to pay a premium as citizens. The results are rationalization, mono-culture, productivism, health & environmental hazards, an increasing gap between small farmers & cereal growers, & relocation of production to countries with cheaper labor & lower feed prices, together with highly subsidized exports from France. Therefore, a real shift would prioritize food sovereignty over international trade. Goldsmith & Mander outline the global social & environmental impact of globalization on everyday life, values, & communities. They equate development with postcolonialism & analyze the failure of Bretton Woods, rejecting the assumption that expanding world trade & continuing economic growth benefits everyone & is compatible with the preservation of ecosystems. They do not advocate total self-reliance but reject the move from local nonwaged, nonmonetized economies to market economies. Houtart & Polet devise a set of alternatives based on an analysis of social relations from a Marxist perspective against the current economic system. The status of neoliberalism is challenged. Starr focuses on the use of culture by antiglobalization movements. She determines how the 15 movements studied identify their enemy, conceptualize their space of resistance, & construct alternatives. She contends that rebellion is aimed against corporate hegemony; for most movements the common enemy is globalization, not capitalism. E. Sanchez

In this article, we examine the processes by which urban space became sexually coded through municipal consolidation in the nineteenth century. Our analysis covers the union of Van Vorst Township to Jersey City in 1851 and the absorption of the City of Brooklyn to "Greater New York" in 1898. In both cases, urban space was gendered and sexualized through courtship and marriage metaphors used by local newspapers. We argue that consolidation is represented in gendered and sexualized terms so that the question of municipal expansion became insulated frommoral, racialized, and environmental concerns about the "threats" of the big city. Our analysis has contemporary relevance because it suggests the sexist and heterosexist norms that may be embedded in the noblesse oblige of contemporary municipal consolidation. It also suggests a way of looking at contemporary municipal boundary changes through a normative lens that takes us beyond economic notions of self-interest.

This collection presents a comparative study on the emerging regional nature of local and urban politics in the United States. Recent studies have tended to focus on the politics and power of inner cities or on suburban areas which have gained incredible strength in the past decade. Regional Politics, however, explores how politics works in the extended metropolis which both includes and surrounds the urban core and whose economy, society and politics are integrally joined. Through detailed case studies of 10 cities in the US, the book: looks at the development of regional patterns; analyzes t

In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or statu supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to clarify the variegated and murky history of 'dignity,' and explain how it arrived it is current and historically unusual meaning

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 178 Vallance Road -- Chapter 2 Wood Close School -- Chapter 3 Daniel Street School -- Chapter 4 Repton Boxing Club -- Chapter 5 G. Kelly Pie & -- Mash -- Chapter 6 The Regal -- Chapter 7 Chris' Hairdressers -- Chapter 8 The Double R Club -- Chapter 9 E. Pellicci's Cafe -- Chapter 10 57 Ormsby Street -- Chapter 11 The Kentucky -- Chapter 12 Wandsworth Prison -- Chapter 13 Esmeralda's Barn -- Chapter 14 The Hideaway/El Morocco -- Chapter 15 St James The Great Church -- Chapter 16 Cedra Court -- Chapter 17 34 Wimborne Court -- Chapter 18 The Lion -- Chapter 19 The Blind Beggar -- Chapter 20 206a Barking Road -- Chapter 21 The Regency -- Chapter 22 The Carpenter's Arms -- Chapter 23 97 Evering Road -- Chapter 24 Grave Maurice -- Chapter 25 The Old Horns -- Chapter 26 Braithwaite House -- Chapter 27 HM Brixton Prison -- Chapter 28 Old Street Magistrates' Court -- Chapter 29 The Old Bailey -- Chapter 30 All Saints Church -- Chapter 31 St Matthew's Church -- Chapter 32 W. English & -- Son -- Chapter 33 Chingford Mount Cemetery -- Sources -- Back Cover.