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Foreign Direct Investment in the Successor States of Yugoslavia - A Comparative Economic Geography 25 Years Later (Hardcover,... Foreign Direct Investment in the Successor States of Yugoslavia - A Comparative Economic Geography 25 Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Joel I Deichmann
R4,648 Discovery Miles 46 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

T his edited volume offers a descriptive analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and cumulative stock, industrial composition, and important spatial trends for each successor state of former Yugoslavia: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The chapters are written by academic experts on the topic from each of these countries and are organised systematically in order to facilitate comparison between the states. The aim of this book is to advance scholarly knowledge about FDI in Southeastern Europe 25 years after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Each chapter includes a summary of scholarly contributions published on the topic in English-language and local language journals, a discussion of origins, composition by industry, and location choice within the country from 1995-2018, using Dunning's (1980) eclectic paradigm as a discussion framework. The chapters conclude with prospects for FDI over the next twenty-five years with emphasis on economic growth projections, EU integration, and other relevant country-specific considerations the local authors deem relevant. Special attention is given to specific companies operating in Yugoslavia prior to its breakup and how these firms have been impacted by dissolution, recession, efforts toward European Union membership. The authors also examine the past and potential impact of FDI from unforeseen events such as the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19. This book appeals to scholars of geography, international business, economics, and economic history of the former Yugoslavia as well as professionals working in the region and on related topics elsewhere.

North Carolina Lighthouses - The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition):... North Carolina Lighthouses - The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, Bruce Roberts
R673 R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Save R110 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 miles of coast. These beacons are cherished monuments of North Carolina history. In addition to warning ships to safer waters, they now draw thousands of visitors each year. With this book, cofounders of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society Cheryl Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts provide a well-researched, human-centered, and beautifully illustrated history of these towering structures. The authors offer stories-including the misadventures of Civil War spies and the threat of looming German U-boats off the North Carolina coast-that provide important context and meaning to the history of North Carolina's lighthouses. From Cape Fear to Currituck Beach, every still-standing lighthouse is lovingly described alongside their architects, builders, and keepers and the sailors who depended on the lighthouses to keep them from harm.

Troubadour on the Road to Gold - William B. Lorton's 1849 Journal to California (Paperback): LeRoy Johnson, Jean Johnson Troubadour on the Road to Gold - William B. Lorton's 1849 Journal to California (Paperback)
LeRoy Johnson, Jean Johnson; Foreword by Richard L. Saunders
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants who hoped to strike it rich in California left behind letters and journals that provide valuable insights into one of the great migrations in American history. Of all the journals and diaries left behind, William B. Lorton's is perhaps the most informative and complete. Although known to historians for decades, Lorton's journal has never been published. In this volume, LeRoy and Jean Johnson bring Lorton's writings to life with meticulous research and commentary that broadens the context of his narrative. Lorton's work is revealing and entertaining. It captures glimpses of a growing Salt Lake City, the hardships of Death Valley, and the extraordinary and mundane aspects of daily life on the road to gold. With resilience and a droll sense of humor, Lorton shares accounts of life-threatening stampedes, dangerous hailstorms, mysteriously moving rocks, and slithering sidewinders. The inclusion of images, maps, and the editors' detailed notes make this a volume that will entertain and inform.

African American History in New Mexico - Portraits from Five Hundred Years (Paperback): Bruce A Glasrud African American History in New Mexico - Portraits from Five Hundred Years (Paperback)
Bruce A Glasrud
R981 R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Save R180 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state. Here, Bruce Glasrud assembles the best information available on the themes, events, and personages of black New Mexico history.

The contributors portray the blacks who accompanied Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, and de Vargas and recount their interactions with Native Americans in colonial New Mexico. Chapters on the territorial period examine black trappers and traders as well as review the issue of slavery in the territory and the blacks who accompanied Confederate troops and fought in the Union army during the Civil War in New Mexico. Eventually blacks worked on farms and ranches, in mines, and on railroads, as well as in the military, seeking freedom and opportunity in New Mexico's wide open spaces. A number of black towns were established in rural areas. Lacking political power because they represented such a small percentage of New Mexico's population, blacks relied largely on their own resources and networks, particularly churches and schools.

Greater than Equal - African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 (Paperback): Sarah... Greater than Equal - African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 (Paperback)
Sarah Caroline Thuesen
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school officials, and civic leaders to reconstruct this high-stakes drama. She explores how African Americans pressed for equality in curricula, higher education, teacher salaries, and school facilities; how white officials co-opted equalization as a means of forestalling integration; and, finally, how black activism for equality evolved into a fight for something "greater than equal--integrated schools that served as models of civic inclusion. These battles persisted into the Brown era, mobilized black communities, narrowed material disparities, fostered black school pride, and profoundly shaped the eventual movement for desegregation. Thuesen emphasizes that the remarkable achievements of this activism should not obscure the inherent limitations of a fight for equality in a segregated society. In fact, these unresolved struggles are emblematic of fault lines that developed across the South, and serve as an urgent reminder of the inextricable connections between educational equality, racial diversity, and the achievement of first-class citizenship.

American Atrocity - The Types of Violence in Lynching (Paperback): Guy Lancaster American Atrocity - The Types of Violence in Lynching (Paperback)
Guy Lancaster
R577 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R77 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. However, in this new treatise, historian Guy Lancaster exposes the multiple forms of violence hidden beneath the singular label of lynching.Lancaster, who has written extensively on racial violence, details several lynchings of Blacks by white posses in post-Reconstruction Arkansas. Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, he argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence. This new framework reveals lynching to be even more of an atrocity than previously understood: that mobs did not disregard the humanity of their victims but rather reveled in it; that they were not simply enacting personal vengeance but manifesting an elite project of subjugation. Lancaster thus clarifies and connects the motives and goals of seemingly isolated lynch mobs, embedding the practice in the ongoing enforcement of white supremacy. By interrogating the substance of lynching, American Atrocity shines new light on both past anti-Black violence and the historical underpinnings of our present moment.

Nuclear Nuevo Mexico - Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos (Paperback): Myrriah... Nuclear Nuevo Mexico - Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos (Paperback)
Myrriah Gomez
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark - The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806 (Paperback, New Ed): Thomas Freeman, Peter... Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark - The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806 (Paperback, New Ed)
Thomas Freeman, Peter Custis; Edited by Dan Flores
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1806 President Thomas Jefferson sent cartographer Thomas Freeman and botanist Peter Custis to explore the southen Louisiana Purchase westward to the Rocky Moutnains. Stopped by a Spanish army in what is today extreme southern Oklahoma, they did not complete their mission. President Jefferson minimized their failure by focusing instead on the success of their northern counterparts Lewis and Clark. Hence the fame of Lewis and Clark and the virtual anonymity of Freeman and Custis-until now, thanks to editor Dan L. Flores.

Dan Flores presents the primary documents created by Freeman and Custis during their ill-fated attempt to explore the Louisiana territory and areas west of the Mississippi in 1806.

American Politics - A Graphic Guide (Paperback, 2nd Edition): Laura Locker American Politics - A Graphic Guide (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
Laura Locker; Illustrated by Jules Scheele 1
R202 R113 Discovery Miles 1 130 Save R89 (44%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Illustrator Jules Scheele teams up with Dr Laura Locker in this comic-book introduction to the political history of the Land of Opportunity.

How did a political outsider like Trump win the 2016 presidential election? Why do some Americans feel so strongly about gun rights? Is there a role for more than two political parties in the system?

Politics isn’t something that just occurs in the West Wing or the gleaming Capitol building – it comes from the interaction between state and society, the American people living their daily lives. In this unique graphic guide, we follow modern citizens as they explore everything from the United States’ political culture, the Constitution and the balance of power, to social movements, the role of the media, and tensions over race, immigration, and LGBT rights.

Step right up, and see what lies beneath the pageantry and headlines of this great nation.

Canadian Firsts - Inventions, Sports, Medicine, Space, Women's Rights, Explorers, Science, Research, Arts, World Affairs... Canadian Firsts - Inventions, Sports, Medicine, Space, Women's Rights, Explorers, Science, Research, Arts, World Affairs (Paperback)
Lisa Wojna
R479 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Cleveland's Cultural Gardens - A Landscape of Diversity (Paperback): John J. Grabowski, Lauren R. Pacini Cleveland's Cultural Gardens - A Landscape of Diversity (Paperback)
John J. Grabowski, Lauren R. Pacini
R901 R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Save R165 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Honoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spacesFrom their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethnic diversity, the unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens that compose Cleveland's Cultural Gardens holds a rich history. John J. Grabowski guides readers through this story, using both archival images and Lauren R. Pacini's stunning contemporary photography to illustrate their development and importance. The effect is a comprehensive view of the factors that made the Cultural Gardens possible, from Cleveland's geographical features to international conflicts. First erected as the Shakespeare Garden in 1916, the land bordering Doan Brook slowly began to incorporate tributes to immigrants, reflecting Cleveland's role as a key location for eastern European immigrants. Through this chronicle of the gardens' changing landscapes, Grabowski shapes a gripping narrative of shifting attitudes toward immigration, both locally and nationally. Throughout both world wars, the Cold War, and more recent events, the gardens' composition has changed to reflect more diversity, now encompassing 33 individual gardens that honor cultures and countries with connections to Cleveland. Today, each garden features plants native to the corresponding culture, from German to Vietnamese and from Ethiopian to Finnish. This vast cultural inclusivity makes Cleveland's Cultural Gardens a forerunner in the push for greater representation of cultures and people of color in memorials and public spaces. The gardens also highlight a growing emphasis on collaboration and coexistence among cultures, as symbolized in the Peace Garden of the Nations and its crypt of intermingled soil from historic shrines around the world. This book will be of interest to field specialists and nonexperts alike for its excellent illustrations and for its discussion of culture, inclusion, and diversity both on a local and national scale.

Wonders of Sand and Stone - A History of Utah's National Parks and Monuments (Paperback): Frederick H Swanson Wonders of Sand and Stone - A History of Utah's National Parks and Monuments (Paperback)
Frederick H Swanson
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah's five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America's most amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a protected mini-empire of public lands. Drawing on extensive historical research, Swanson presents little-known accounts of people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth protecting. Readers are introduced to the region's early explorers, scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents and tourism promoters who worked with the National Park Service to build the system of parks and monuments we know today, when Utah's national parks and monuments face multiple challenges from increased human use and from development outside their borders. As scientists continue to uncover the astonishing diversity of life in these desert and mountain landscapes, and archaeologists and Native Americans document their rich cultural resources, the management of these federal lands remains critically important. Swanson provides us with a detailed and timely background to advance and inform discussions about what form that management should take.

Martyrs and Tricksters - An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (Paperback): Walter Armbrust Martyrs and Tricksters - An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (Paperback)
Walter Armbrust
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An important look at the hopeful rise and tragic defeat of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern Egyptian history. How was the passage from utmost euphoria into abject despair experienced, not only by those committed to revolutionary change, but also by people indifferent or even hostile to the revolution? In Martyrs and Tricksters, anthropologist and Cairo resident Walter Armbrust explores the revolution through the lens of liminality-initially a communal fellowship, where everything seemed possible, transformed into a devastating limbo with no exit. To make sense of events, Armbrust looks at the martyrs, trickster media personalities, public spaces, contested narratives, historical allusions, and factional struggles during this chaotic time. Armbrust shows that while martyrs became the primary symbols of mobilization, no one took seriously enough the emergence of political tricksters. Tricksters appeared in media-not the vaunted social media of a "Facebook revolution" but television-and they paved the way for the rise of Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi. In the end Egypt became a global political vanguard, but not in the way the revolutionaries intended. What initially appeared as the gateway to an age of revolution has transformed the world over into the age of the trickster. Delving into how Egyptians moved from unprecedented exhilaration to confusion and massacre, Martyrs and Tricksters is a powerful cultural biography of a tragic revolution.

The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 2 - Hawaiian Text and Translation (Hardcover): Davida Malo The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 2 - Hawaiian Text and Translation (Hardcover)
Davida Malo; Edited by Charles Langlas; Translated by Charles Langlas; Commentary by Charles Langlas; Edited by Jeffrey Lyon; Translated by …
R1,860 Discovery Miles 18 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i, wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional amusements. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript known as the "Carter copy," handwritten by him and two helpers in the decade before his death in 1853. Volume 1 provides images of the original text, side by side with the new edited text. Volume 2 presents the edited Hawaiian text side by side with a new annotated English translation. Malo's text has been edited at two levels. First, the Hawaiian has been edited through a careful comparison of all the extant manuscripts, attempting to restore Malo's original text, with explanations of the editing choices given in the footnotes. Second, the orthography of the Hawaiian text has been modernized to help today's readers of Hawaiian by adding diacritical marks ('okina and kahako, or glottal stop and macron, respectively) and the punctuation has been revised to signal the end of clauses and sentences. The new English translation attempts to remain faithful to the edited Hawaiian text while avoiding awkwardness in the English. Both volumes contain substantial introductions. The introduction to Volume 1 (in Hawaiian) discusses the manuscripts of Malo's text and their history. The introduction to Volume 2 contains two essays that provide context to help the reader understand Malo's Moolelo Hawaii. "Understanding Malo's Moolelo Hawaii" describes the nature of Malo's work, showing that it is the result of his dual Hawaiian and Western education. "The Writing of the Moolelo Hawaii" discusses how the Carter copy was written and preserved, its relationship to other versions of the text, and Malo's plan for the work as a whole. The introduction is followed by a new biography of Malo by Kanaka Maoli historian Noelani Arista, "Davida Malo, a Hawaiian Life," describing his life as a chiefly counselor and Hawaiian intellectual.

Secrets of the Conqueror - The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine (Paperback, Main): Stuart Prebble Secrets of the Conqueror - The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine (Paperback, Main)
Stuart Prebble 1
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics. The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror, and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come straight out of a Cold War thriller. It involved the Top Secret activities of the Conqueror in the months before and after the Falklands War. Prebble has waited for thirty years to tell his story. It is a story of incredible courage and derring-do, of men who put their lives on the line and were never allowed to tell what they had done. This story, buried under layers of official secrecy for three decades, is one of Britain's great military success stories and can now finally be told.

The Great Texas Oil Heist (Paperback): Robert Cargill The Great Texas Oil Heist (Paperback)
Robert Cargill
R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was 1946. World War II was over. The thieves went to work. They drilled deviated wells from outside the East Texas Oil Field back into the oil that remained after 16 years of production. This was the oil field that supplied the oil needed for an Allied victory in 1945. The deviators continued their nefarious activity until an angry and aggressive attorney general led his posse of lawmen, including the Texas Rangers, into East Texas to stop the theft and administer Texas justice. I tell this story on the basis of 35 years of research and my father's well files. Yes, he drilled six of the nearly 400 deviated wells. I first learned of the so-called Slant-Hole scandal in late spring 1962. That's when colleagues in my research group at the University of California at Berkeley accosted me with the morning's San Francisco Chronicle. They knew my father was an East Texas oilman. One pointed to an article reporting that oilmen in East Texas had drilled 'deviated' oil wells from beyond the known productive limits of the East Texas Oil Field to steal oil.'Has your dad been stealing oil?' 'Of course, not!' I replied. I had known nothing of the illicit activity until that morning. Then a report in TIME further exposed the East Texas oil scandal that had erupted in my hometown of Longview. Here, then, for the first time, I reveal the story of how a few dozen oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil Field. I am eager to share what I have learned and to tell the truth of the slant-hole scandal-the circumstances that made it inevitable, who did what to whom, and how the matter eventually reached its conclusion. Much of what I reveal in this book has been the tightly guarded secrets of the families of the participants so that grandchildren can be kept from knowledge of granddaddy's scandalous behavior. But most of what I reveal here lies barely hidden in the public record. The slant-hole story is a significant piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left to tell it.

New Jersey State of Mind (Hardcover): Peter Genovese New Jersey State of Mind (Hardcover)
Peter Genovese
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Pewabic Pottery - The American Arts and Crafts Movement Expressed in Clay (Hardcover): Thomas W. Brunk, Martin Eidelberg Pewabic Pottery - The American Arts and Crafts Movement Expressed in Clay (Hardcover)
Thomas W. Brunk, Martin Eidelberg
R1,466 Discovery Miles 14 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pewabic Pottery is a significant manifestation of the international Arts and Crafts movement in Michigan. As ceramic expert Martin Eidelberg points out in his introductory essay, it was also a striking example of the coterie of talented American female ceramists who broke with traditional norms, seeking to excel both as artists and as entrepreneurs. Founded by Mary Chase Perry and Horace James Caulkins in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century, Pewabic produced simple objects with unique glazes rooted in ceramic history, yet freshly made their own. This chronological history of Pewabic work-the most extensive study published to date-focuses primarily on the pottery as operated by Perry and Caulkins, and then goes up through the beginning of the Pewabic Society Inc. in 1979. It offers a fascinating, in-depth exploration of the various aspects of the history of Pewabic Pottery, from the personal lives of its founders and prominent potters to discussions of tiles and glazes and finally to Pewabic Pottery's place at Michigan State University. Authored by the most recognized scholar on Pewabic Pottery, this study relies heavily on archival sources to achieve a comprehensive history of one of Michigan's most interesting art studios.

The Camera in the Crowd - Filming New Zealand in Peace and War, 1895-1920 (Hardcover): Christopher Pugsley The Camera in the Crowd - Filming New Zealand in Peace and War, 1895-1920 (Hardcover)
Christopher Pugsley
R1,853 R1,429 Discovery Miles 14 290 Save R424 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War - Viktors Arajs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police (Paperback, Softcover... Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War - Viktors Arajs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Richards Plavnieks
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War. Decades of work by prosecutors have established the facts of Latvian collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust. No group made a deeper mark in the annals of atrocity than the men of the so-called 'Arajs Kommando' and their leader, Viktors Arajs, who killed tens of thousands of Jews on Latvian soil and participated in every aspect of the 'Holocaust by Bullets.' This study also has significance for coming to terms with Latvia's encounter with Nazism - a process that was stunted and distorted by Latvia's domination by the USSR until 1991. Examining the country's most notorious killers, their fates on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and contemporary Latvians' responses in different political contexts, this volume is a record of the earliest phases of this process, which must now continue and to which this book contributes.

Lost Plantations of the South (Hardcover): Marc R Matrana Lost Plantations of the South (Hardcover)
Marc R Matrana
R1,178 R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Save R198 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In "Lost Plantations of the South," Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home.

From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster such as Alabama's Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. "Lost Plantations of the South" explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, and featuring more than one hundred elegant archival illustrations, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South.

Weird Ontario Places - Humorous, Bizarre, Peculiar & Strange Locations & Attractions across the Province (Paperback): Dan De... Weird Ontario Places - Humorous, Bizarre, Peculiar & Strange Locations & Attractions across the Province (Paperback)
Dan De Figueiredo
R278 R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Save R41 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Weird Canadian Places - Humorous, Bizarre, Peculiar & Strange Locations & Attractions across the Nation (Paperback): Dan De... Weird Canadian Places - Humorous, Bizarre, Peculiar & Strange Locations & Attractions across the Nation (Paperback)
Dan De Figueiredo
R278 R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Reinventing French Aid - The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952 (Paperback): Laure Humbert Reinventing French Aid - The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952 (Paperback)
Laure Humbert
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid in occupied Germany was influenced by French politics of national recovery and Cold War rivalries. She examines the everyday encounters between French officials, members of new international organizations, relief workers, defeated Germans and Displaced Persons, who remained in the territory of the French zone prior to their repatriation or emigration. By rendering relief workers and Displaced Persons visible, she sheds lights on their role in shaping relief practices and addresses the neglected issue of the gendering of rehabilitation. In doing so, Humbert highlights different cultures of rehabilitation, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about 'overcoming' poverty and war-induced injuries and, crucially, she unearths the active and bottom-up nature of the restoration of France's prestige. Not only were relief workers concerned about the image of France circulating in DP camps, but they also drew DP artists into the orbit of French cultural diplomacy in Germany.

Improvising Sabor - Cuban Dance Music in New York (Paperback): Sue Miller Improvising Sabor - Cuban Dance Music in New York (Paperback)
Sue Miller
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as Jose Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigon dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York. While much about Latin jazz and salsa has been written, this book focuses on the relatively unexplored New York charangas that were performing during the chachacha and pachanga craze of the early sixties. Indeed, many accounts cut straight from the 1950s and the mambo to the bugalu's development in the late 1960s with little mention of the chachacha and pachanga's popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Improvising Sabor addresses not only this lost and ignored history, but contends with issues of race, class, and identity while evaluating differences in style between players from prerevolution Cuban charangas and those of 1960s New York. Through comprehensive explorations and transcriptions of numerous musical examples as well as interviews with and commentary from Latin musicians, Improvising Sabor highlights a specific sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York. The distinctive styles generated by these musicians sparked compelling points of departure and influence.

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