Author: Miles Larmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108968007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Living for the City
Author: Miles Larmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108968007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108968007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Central Simple Algebras and Galois Cohomology
Author: Philippe Gille
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108293670
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The first comprehensive, modern introduction to the theory of central simple algebras over arbitrary fields, this book starts from the basics and reaches such advanced results as the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem, a culmination of work initiated by Brauer, Noether, Hasse and Albert, and the starting point of current research in motivic cohomology theory by Voevodsky, Suslin, Rost and others. Assuming only a solid background in algebra, the text covers the basic theory of central simple algebras, methods of Galois descent and Galois cohomology, Severi–Brauer varieties, and techniques in Milnor K-theory and K-cohomology, leading to a full proof of the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem and its application to the characterization of reduced norms. The final chapter rounds off the theory by presenting the results in positive characteristic, including the theorems of Bloch–Gabber–Kato and Izhboldin. This second edition has been carefully revised and updated, and contains important additional topics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108293670
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The first comprehensive, modern introduction to the theory of central simple algebras over arbitrary fields, this book starts from the basics and reaches such advanced results as the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem, a culmination of work initiated by Brauer, Noether, Hasse and Albert, and the starting point of current research in motivic cohomology theory by Voevodsky, Suslin, Rost and others. Assuming only a solid background in algebra, the text covers the basic theory of central simple algebras, methods of Galois descent and Galois cohomology, Severi–Brauer varieties, and techniques in Milnor K-theory and K-cohomology, leading to a full proof of the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem and its application to the characterization of reduced norms. The final chapter rounds off the theory by presenting the results in positive characteristic, including the theorems of Bloch–Gabber–Kato and Izhboldin. This second edition has been carefully revised and updated, and contains important additional topics.
Bankers, Bureaucrats, and Central Bank Politics
Author: Christopher Adolph
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703261X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Adolph illustrates the policy differences between central banks run by former bankers relative to those run by bureaucrats.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703261X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Adolph illustrates the policy differences between central banks run by former bankers relative to those run by bureaucrats.
Making a Modern Central Bank
Author: Harold James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835015
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy and the modernization of British institutions in the late twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835015
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy and the modernization of British institutions in the late twentieth century.
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages
Author: Nora Berend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521781566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521781566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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Ancient Central China
Author: Rowan K. Flad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139851314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly related to prehistoric salt production. The book provides detailed discussions of recent archaeological discoveries and data from the Chengdu Plain, Three Gorges and Hubei to illustrate how these various components of regional landscape were configured across Central China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139851314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly related to prehistoric salt production. The book provides detailed discussions of recent archaeological discoveries and data from the Chengdu Plain, Three Gorges and Hubei to illustrate how these various components of regional landscape were configured across Central China.
Civics and Citizenship Toolkit
Author: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher: Homeland Security
ISBN: 9780160842658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher: Homeland Security
ISBN: 9780160842658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
From Margin to Center
Author: Julie H. Reiss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262681346
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of installation art. JulieReiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence,including artists, critics, and curators.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262681346
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of installation art. JulieReiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence,including artists, critics, and curators.
Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Boston
Author: Heather Gordon
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 9780912301549
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 9780912301549
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description