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    An Aqueous Territory (2021)
    Duke University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: In 'An Aqueous Territory' Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by geopolitical borders. Rather, the cross-border activities of sailors, traders, revolutionaries, indigenous peoples, and others reflected their perceptions of the Caribbean as a transimperial space where trade, information, and people circulated, both conforming to and in defiance of imperial regulations. Bassi demonstrates that the islands, continental coasts, and open waters of the transimperial Greater Caribbean constituted a space that was simultaneously Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Danish, Anglo-American, African, and indigenous.
    Keywords: History ; Colombia ; Haiti ; Jamaica ; Riohacha ; Santa Marta ; Spain ; United States ; Wayuu people ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
    Language: English
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    Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization (2021)
    Temple University Press
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-01
    Description: The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use. Kraidy analyzes the use of the concept of cultural mixture from the first century A.D. to its present application in the academy and the commercial press. The book's case studies build an argument for understanding the importance of the dynamics of communication, uneven power relationships, and political economy as well as culture, in situations of hybridity. Kraidy suggests a new framework he developed to study cultural mixture—called critical transculturalism—which uses hybridity as its core concept, and provides a practical method for examining how media and communication work in international contexts.
    Keywords: Media and Communications ; Cultural imperialism ; Globalization ; Hybridity ; Lebanon ; United States
    Language: English
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    Terror and its Representations (2022)
    Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: What are the origins and nature of terror and terrorism in the United States and beyond? This book of essays about the history and contemporary reality of terror reveals little-known aspects of a compelling subject. Since the American and French Revolutions, governments and their opponents have used terror and terrorism for different political reasons. We learn how terror and terrorism have marked the evolution of social values and have entered into cultural expression of all types - literature, music, television, cinema - and have influenced the formation of ideologies and political institutions. The authors of the introduction and eighteen chapters comprising Terror and Its Representations show how a sensitive subject can be treated with conviction while maintaining the critical distance necessary for serious debate.
    Keywords: social history ; United States ; terror ; representation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
    Language: English
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    Uneven Encounters (2021)
    Duke University Press | Duke University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and intellectual currents as well as local, regional, and national ones. Seigel explores the circulation of images of Brazilian coffee and of maxixe in the United States during the period just after the imperial expansions of the early twentieth century. Exoticist interpretations structured North Americans’ paradoxical sense of themselves as productive “consumer citizens.” Some people, however, could not simply assume the privileges of citizenship. In their struggles against racism, Afro-descended citizens living in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Chicago encountered images and notions of each other, and found them useful. Seigel introduces readers to cosmopolitan Afro-Brazilians and African Americans who rarely traveled far from home but who nonetheless absorbed ideas from abroad. She suggests that studies comparing U.S. and Brazilian racial identities as two distinct constructions are misconceived. Racial formation transcends national borders; attempts to understand it must do the same.
    Keywords: History ; United States ; 20th Century ; Social Science ; Ethnic Studies ; American ; African American & Black Studies ; History ; Latin America ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
    Language: English
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    Correspondence of James K. Polk, Volume XII, January-July 1847 (2021)
    Newfound Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; E11-143 ; Tennessee--Governors--Correspondence ; United States ; James Knox Polk ; United States--Politics and government--1845-1849--Sources ; 1795-1849 ; Tennessee--Politics and government--To 1865--Sources ; Presidents--United States--Correspondence ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Guardiani del Nord. Gli Stati Uniti e la geopolitica della crisi climatica nell'Artico (2023)
    Milano University Press | Milano University Press
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-07
    Description: Can climate change really shape United States geography and geopolitics in the Arctic? So far, the question has seldom been raised. This essay demonstrates how the climate crisis is undermining traditional geopolitical concepts, such as the northern invulnerability of the American continent and the very concept of insularity of the United States, while climate change influences – but not determines – national security and defense policies. The research is dedicated to International Relations scholars, but can be appreciated also by readers coming from different fields, interested in politics, geopolitics, and climate change.
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    Description: La crisi climatica può davvero riscrivere la geografia e la geopolitica degli Stati Uniti nell’Artico? A lungo la domanda è rimasta in sordina: questo libro dimostra come la crisi climatica stia minando concetti geopolitici ritenuti tradizionalmente immutabili, come l'invulnerabilità del continente americano da nord e il concetto stesso di insularità della superpotenza americana. La trasformazione avviene in una cornice dove il cambiamento climatico è fattore che influenza – ma non determina – la sicurezza nazionale e le politiche di difesa. Il volume si pone come opera di interesse per gli studiosi di Relazioni internazionali, ma anche per un pubblico più vasto di lettori interessati alle questioni politiche, al cambiamento climatico e alla geopolitica.
    Keywords: International relations ; Geopolitics ; Climate Security ; United States ; Arctic ; bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LB International law
    Language: Italian
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    Citizen Outsider (2021)
    University of California Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.
    Keywords: islam ; race and ethnicity ; france ; north african ; second generation ; international migration ; cultural citizenship ; postcolonial ; racial project ; children of immigrants ; Banlieue ; French people ; Middle class ; Paris ; Social exclusion ; United States ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration ; thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
    Language: English
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    Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram (2021)
    Springer Nature
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approach may be disappointing: Demographers may have liked more information about the mathematical underpinnings of population dynamics on the Lexis surface as demonstrated, for instance, by Arthur and Vaupel in 1984. Statisticians would have probably preferred more information about the underlying smoothing methods that were used. Epidemiologists likewise might miss discussions about the etiology of diseases. Sociologists would have probably expected that our results were more embedded into theoretical frameworks....
    Keywords: data ; lexis diagram ; mortality dynamics ; software ; Breast cancer ; Colorectal cancer ; Creative Commons license ; Human Mortality Database ; Life expectancy ; Lung cancer ; Seasonality ; United States ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology
    Language: English
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    Western North Carolina (2024)
    Appalachian State University | Appalachian State University
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Published in 1977, Western North Carolina is a narrative history of the Southern Appalachian Mountains up to 1880. Ora Blackmun depicts the stories of native Cherokee and Sequoyah people and pioneers such as William Bartram, Daniel Boone, Bishops Spangenberg and Asbury, and Zeb Vance.
    Keywords: History ; United States ; State & Local ; South (al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, Ms, Nc, Sc, Tn, Va, Wv) ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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    Bulk Collection (2021)
    Oxford University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: In June 2013, Edward Snowden revealed a secret US government program that collected records on every phone call made in the country. Further disclosures followed, detailing mass surveillance by the UK as well. Journalists and policymakers soon began discussing large-scale programs in other countries. Over two years before the Snowden leaks began, Cate and Dempsey had started researching systematic collection. Leading an initiative sponsored by The Privacy Projects, they commissioned a series of country reports, asking national experts to uncover what they could about government demands that telecommunications providers and other private-sector companies disclose information about their customers in bulk. Their initial research found disturbing indications of systematic access in countries around the world. These programs, often undertaken in the name of national security, were cloaked in secrecy and largely immune from oversight, posing serious threats to personal privacy. After the Snowden leaks, the project morphed into something more ambitious: an effort to explore what should be the rules for government access to data and how companies should respond to those demands within the framework of corporate responsibility. This volume concludes the nearly six-year project. It assembles 12 country reports, updated to reflect recent developments. One chapter presents both descriptive and normative frameworks for analyzing national surveillance laws. Others examine international law, human rights law, and oversight mechanisms. Still others explore the concept of accountability and the role of encryption in shaping the surveillance debate. In their conclusion, Cate and Dempsey offer recommendations for both government and industry.
    Keywords: government surveillance ; national security ; privacy ; human rights ; oversight ; international law ; corporate responsibility ; Personal data ; United States ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law
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