Nieuwe aandacht voor Nieuw-Guinea : Lezingen over Besturen in Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea 1945-1962 /
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This book contains the lectures delivered at the presentation of the book Besturen in Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea 1945-1962 on 29 August 1996. A kaleidoscope of subjects passes in review, ranging from the pre- and protohistory of New Guinea to the decolonization and the return of the Dutch to the island.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004643161
The Great Tragedy of India's Partition /
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The Partition of India in 1947 was a horrendous human tragedy on a gargantuan scale not seen before or since. The communal violence of serious magnitude was rearing its ugly head and creating havoc in various parts of the country like in Calcutta, Noakhali, Tippera and Bihar at least a year before the departure of the British. Unprecedented communal riots in Rawalpindi, Multan, Lahore, Amritsar and Gurgaon in the undivided Punjab, or Haripur in NWFP caused deep wounds on the collective psyche of both Hindus and Muslims and led to an all-out bloodletting following their departure. What should have been a moment of crowning triumph was marred by unimaginable violence, bloodshed and the largest migration and dislocation in human history. This book is an outcome of the author's six years of research and describes this inhuman fratricidal war whose severe aftershocks are felt even to this day. It also attempts to clear many of the misconceptions about this period and covers broadly what happened not only in the Punjab, but also in NWFP, Sind, Baluchistan and, importantly, Bengal, which cumulatively suffered as much, perhaps more, albeit over a long period.
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1 online resource (556 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753051
Punjab in Prosperity and Violence : Administration, Politics and Social Change, 1947-1997 /
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Based on papers written for seminar on 'decolonization' and 'contemporary history' of the Punjab, organized by the Institute of Punjab Studies which aims at promoting inter-disciplinary study of the political, economic, social and cultural life of the peoples of the north-west of India, this book should be of great interest to administrators, politicians and journalists as well as to social scientists and general readers. It gives useful insights into administration, politics, violence, demographic change, and the condition of the relatively unprivileged 'fragments' of the society in the region - women, dalits, labourers and village communities.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753990
RSS'S Tryst with Politics : From Hedgewar to Sudarshan /
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This RSS is perhaps the most controversial organization in con-temporary India. This book explores the mission, method and motive of the RSS and suggests that the ideological core of the RSS-Hindu Rashtra-is political and not cultural. It argues that K.B. Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS, had a clear political mission, while M.S. Golwalkar, his successor, despite his saintly appearance and overt distaste for 'politics', sharpened and amplified its ideology. Nevertheless, deep down the RSS remained political. This book goes on to delineate how Balasaheb Deoras, the third chief, who did not have much of a fancy for 'culture', plunged into Indian politics on the organizational and ideological foundation created by his predecessors. Deoras seriously pursued the homogenizing agenda of the RSS to integrate different sections like the Dalits, tribals and women into the fold of the Hindu Rashtra. Rajendra Singh the sucessor of Deoras, consolidated the political mission by getting control over the State and reaching out to civil society more effectively. K.S. Sudarshan, the present chief, while attempting to retain a tight control over State power, simultaneously reinforces Hindutva. The author concludes by arguing that the RSS-from Hedgewar to Sudarshan-continues its tryst with politics to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra. Highly readable and of contemporary relevance, this book would be of immense interest to political scientists, political sociologists and all those interested in present-day India.
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1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753730
Order and compromise : government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire to the early 21st century /
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Order and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire up to the present day. It explores how institutions at work are being framed by constant interactions with non-institutional characters from various social realms. This volume thus approaches the state-society continuum as a complex and shifting system of positions. Inasmuch as they order and ordain, state authorities leave room for compromise, something which has hitherto been little studied in concrete terms. By combining in-depth case studies with an interdisciplinary conceptual framework, this collection helps apprehend the morphology and dynamics of public action and state-society relations in Turkey. Contributors are: Marc Aymes, Olivier Bouquet, Nicolas Camelio, Nathalie Clayer, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto, Berna Ekal, Benoît Fliche, Muriel Girard, Benjamin Gourisse, Sümbül Kaya, Noémi Lévy Aksu, Élise Massicard, Jean-François Pérouse, Clémence Scalbert Yücel, Emmanuel Szurek and Claire Visier.
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1 online resource (xii, 436 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-426) and index. :
9789004289857 :
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Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis /
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We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understandings.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004467224
9789004467217
The Amorites : A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE /
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This study of the political history of Mesopotamia - today's Iraq and Syria - in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) is the first comprehensive historical synthesis of this kind published in English after many decades. Based on numerous written sources in Sumerian and Akkadian - royal inscriptions, letters, law collections, economic records, etc. - and on up-to-date research, it presents the region's political history in a meticulous geographic and chronological manner. This allows the interested academic and non-academic reader an in-depth view into the scene of ancient Mesopotamia ruled by competing dynasties of West Semitic (Amorite) origin, with a complex web of political and tribal connections between them.
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1 online resource (597 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004547315
Eurovisionen : Vorstellungen von Europa in Literatur und Philosophie /
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Das Thema Europa bewegt nicht nur die Politik. Wie sah man Europa und was wollte man damit? Wie zeigt es sich jetzt und was für Probleme wirft es auf? Was wird von ihm angstvoll erwartet und sehnlich erhofft? Wie wollen wir es haben und wie sollen wir es gestalten? Was halten wir von seiner Integration und wie stellen wir uns diese vor? Derlei Fragen zu erörtern, fand ende September 1995 in Pozna??n??/Posen ein Symposium unter dem Titel statt, der jetzt auch der Haupttitel des hier angezeigten Jahrbuchs der Duitse Kroniek ist. Aus Deutschland und der Schweiz, den Niederlanden und Portugal waren Teilnehmer angereist zu inteerrkultureller und interdisziplinärer Diskussion. Fast alle der dort gehaltenen Vorträge sind in diesen Sammelband eingegangen, sowie noch einige andere Beiträge. Niederländisch-polnische Beziehungen gibt es auch ansonsten. Sie laufen nicht nur geographisch über Deutschland, das vereinigte nunmehr; schmerzliche Erinnerungen gehören dazu, unterschiedlich, aber erkennbar. Der Niederländer sieht in Polen die Aktualität einer nur allzu vertrauten, aber bei ihm selber abgeebbten Reizbarkeit, bei deutschen Autoren aber Hemmungen, welche in seltsamem Kontrast zur Virtuosität der Gedankenführung stehen. Polen fühlt sich seit langem von Europa verlassen und ihm dennoch nach wie vor zugehörig und erhofft sich dort nunmehr einen angemessenen Spielraum für die Verwirklichung neuer Möglichkeiten, während andere ja schon zu resignieren drohen. Denn auch der Europagedanke ist kompromittiert worden, und das wirkt sich in der Versuchung aus, ihn zu verabschieden und der Frage auszuweichen, was denn zu geschehen habe. Das wird referiert und kommentiert. Die Sinnfrage taucht auf, und philosophische Anstrengungen werden nachgezeichnet in Auseinandersetzung mit Ortega, ter Braak, Guardini, Heidegger, Jaspers, Canetti, Habermas. Bildende Kunst und Musik fehlen nicht ganz. So sei der Leser - der europamüde wie der hoffnungsfrohe - aufgefordert zur Teilnahme an solcher Besinnung.
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1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004613119