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This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese
labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural
Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of
working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism.
Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these
three modes of militancy promoted by d
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese
labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural
Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of
working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism.
Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these
three modes of militancy promoted by different types of leaders
with differing agendas and motivations. Drawing upon a wealth of
heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the
divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains
within the Shanghai labor movement. As they convincingly
illustrate, the multiplicity of worker responses to the Cultural
Revolution cautions against a one-dimensional portrait of
working-class politics in contemporary China.
In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary
Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order
by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of
respectability--prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other
deviants who provoked the concern of a growing central government
linked closely to the church. Focusing on Seville, the commercial
capital of Habsburg Spain, Perry uses rich archival sources to
document the economic and spiritual activity of women, and efforts
made by civil and church authorities to control this activity,
during a period of local economic change and religious turmoil.
In analyzing such sources as art and literature from the period,
women's writings, Inquisition records, and laws and regulations,
Perry finds that social definitions of what it meant to be a woman
or a man persisted due to their sanctification by religious ideas
and their adaptation into political order. She describes the
tension between gender ideals and actual conditions in women's
lives, and shows how some women subverted the gender order by using
a surprisingly wide variety of intellectual and physical
strategies.
In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and
Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in
Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary
Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a
remarkable exploration of how Moriscos, converted Muslims and their
descendants, responded to their increasing disempowerment in
sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Spain. Stepping beyond
traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the
view of victors, "The Handless Maiden" focuses on Morisco women.
Perry argues that these women's lives offer vital new insights on
the experiences of Moriscos in general, and on how the politics of
religion both empowers and oppresses.
Drawing on archival documents, legends, and literature, Perry
shows that the Moriscas carried out active resistance to cultural
oppression through everyday rituals and acts. For example, they
taught their children Arabic language and Islamic prayers, dietary
practices, and the observation of Islamic holy days. Thus the home,
not the battlefield, became the major forum for Morisco-Christian
interaction. Moriscas' experiences further reveal how the Morisco
presence provided a vital counter-identity for a centralizing state
in early modern Spain. For readers of the twenty-first century,
"The Handless Maiden" raises urgent questions of how we choose to
use difference and historical memory.
Federal and State Court Systems: Analysis of History Making Legal
Precedent presents students with a collection of articles written
by experts in the field that explore the formation of the legal
system in the United States, as well as how the U.S. Constitution
and Bill of Rights have shaped and continue to shape legal
precedence within the country. The anthology features three
distinct sections. Section I explores the establishment of the U.S.
system of government, detailing compromises involved in setting up
the government, judicial politics, and the history of the Bill of
Rights. In Section II, students read about issues that are of vital
importance to the legal and criminal justice field, including the
exclusionary rule, the Miranda decision, Brady/Giglio disclosure
requirements, and issues at play when judges run for election. The
final section addresses issues within the discipline, including how
to lead in the face of adversity and challenges experienced by
under-represented minorities. Designed to expose students to
diverse viewpoints and provide them with a critical knowledge,
Federal and State Court Systems is an ideal text for courses in
criminal justice and law.
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Shipshape (Paperback)
Eric Schmall; Illustrated by Chris Austerman; Designed by Elizabeth Perry Spalding
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R712
Discovery Miles 7 120
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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IF YOUR NONPROFIT BOARD SEEMS BEWILDERED OVER ITS TRUE ROLE,
doesn't understand the mission, allows the organization to drift
aimlessly, squabbles with its executive director over authority and
responsibility--then get ready to have all of that disorder and
confusion cleared up once and for all. ShipShape offers your
nonprofit a simple, engaging, and refreshingly unique guide to
governing and managing your organization. This guidebook assures
clear sailing into wide-open ocean of absorbing ideas and stirring
tales illustrating how to skillfully navigate your nonprofit toward
mission success. Drawing over forty years of management experience,
including over a decade consulting with hundreds of nonprofit
boards and executive directors, Eric Schmall offers a masterful and
proven method of thinking about how nonprofits can and should act
to bring results they promise to their communities. Clever,
absorbing, and easily accessible, ShipShape will leave you with a
deeply practical appreciation of how to govern and steer your
nonprofit with a steadfast, resolute hand.
With A Cursory View Of Events To The Union Of The Kingdoms Under
Queen Anne, May 1, 1707; Ending With The Final Extinction Of The
Royal Line Of Stuart In 1807. This scarce antiquarian book is
included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of
creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book
reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may
possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred
pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and
other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
With A Cursory View Of Events To The Union Of The Kingdoms Under
Queen Anne, May 1, 1707; Ending With The Final Extinction Of The
Royal Line Of Stuart In 1807. This scarce antiquarian book is
included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of
creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book
reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may
possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred
pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and
other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
With A Cursory View Of Events To The Union Of The Kingdoms Under
Queen Anne, May 1, 1707; Ending With The Final Extinction Of The
Royal Line Of Stuart In 1807. This scarce antiquarian book is
included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of
creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book
reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may
possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred
pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and
other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
More than just an expression of religious authority or an
instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where
cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This
pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained
despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able to survive the
Inquisition by means of diverse strategies-whether Christianized
Jews in Spain preserving their experiences in literature, or native
American folk healers practicing medical care. These investigations
of social resistance and cultural persistence will reinforce the
cultural significance of the Inquisition. Contributors: Jaime
Contreras, Anne J. Cruz, Jesus M. De Bujanda, Richard E. Greenleaf,
Stephen Haliczer, Stanley M. Hordes, Richard L. Kagan, J. Jorge
Klor de Alva, Moshe Lazar, Angus I. K. MacKay, Geraldine
McKendrick, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Mary Elizabeth Perry,
Noemi Quezada, Maria Helena Sanchez Ortega, Joseph H. Silverman
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1995.
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese
Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from
its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in
the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of
cultural resources -- during their revolutionary rise to power and
afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural
patronage," on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors,
helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system
came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese." Perry traces this
process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where
Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party
mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their
revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of
"political correctness" in the People's Republic of China. Once
known as "China's Little Moscow," Anyuan came over time to
symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the
meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary
Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new
political future.
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese
Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from
its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in
the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of
cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and
afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural
patronage", on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors,
helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system
came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese". Perry traces this
process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where
Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party
mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their
revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of
"political correctness" in the People's Republic of China. Once
known as "China's Little Moscow", "Anyuan" came over time to
symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the
meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary
Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new
political future.
The contributors of "Contesting Archives" challenge the
assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a
historical repository of information. Instead, these historians
view it as a place where decisions are made about whose
documents--and therefore whose history--is important. Finding that
women's voices and their texts were often obscured or lost
altogether, they have developed many new methodologies for creating
unique archives and uncovering more evidence by reading documents
"against the grain," weaving together many layers of information to
reveal complexities and working collectively to reconstruct the
lives of women in the past.
Global in scope, this volume demonstrates innovative research on
diverse women from the sixteenth century to the present in Spain,
Mexico, Tunisia, India, Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the United
States. Addressing gender, race, class, nationalism,
transnationalism, and migration, these essays' subjects include
indigenous women of colonial Mexico, Muslim slave women, African
American women of the early twentieth century, Bengali women
activists of pre-independence India, wives and daughters of Qajar
rulers in Iran, women industrial workers in communist Poland and
socialist Mozambique, and women club owners in modern Las Vegas. A
foreword by Antoinette Burton adroitly synthesizes the disparate
themes woven throughout the book.
Contributors are Janet Afary, Maryam Ameli-Rezai, Antoinette
Burton, Nupur Chaudhuri, Julia Clancy-Smith, Mansoureh Ettehadieh,
Malgorzata Fidelis, Joanne L. Goodwin, Kali Nicole Gross, Daniel S.
Haworth, Sherry J. Katz, Elham Malekzadeh, Mary Elizabeth Perry,
Kathleen Sheldon, Lisa Sousa, and Ula Y. Taylor.
The contributors of "Contesting Archives" challenge the assumption
that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical
repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a
place where decisions are made about whose documents--and therefore
whose history--is important. Finding that women's voices and their
texts were often obscured or lost altogether, they have developed
many new methodologies for creating unique archives and uncovering
more evidence by reading documents "against the grain," weaving
together many layers of information to reveal complexities and
working collectively to reconstruct the lives of women in the past.
Global in scope, this volume demonstrates innovative research on
diverse women from the sixteenth century to the present in Spain,
Mexico, Tunisia, India, Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the United
States. Addressing gender, race, class, nationalism,
transnationalism, and migration, these essays' subjects include
indigenous women of colonial Mexico, Muslim slave women, African
American women of the early twentieth century, Bengali women
activists of pre-independence India, wives and daughters of Qajar
rulers in Iran, women industrial workers in communist Poland and
socialist Mozambique, and women club owners in modern Las Vegas. A
foreword by Antoinette Burton adroitly synthesizes the disparate
themes woven throughout the book. Contributors are Janet Afary,
Maryam Ameli-Rezai, Antoinette Burton, Nupur Chaudhuri, Julia
Clancy-Smith, Mansoureh Ettehadieh, Malgorzata Fidelis, Joanne L.
Goodwin, Kali Nicole Gross, Daniel S. Haworth, Sherry J. Katz,
Elham Malekzadeh, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Kathleen Sheldon, Lisa
Sousa, and Ula Y. Taylor.
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