Migrants in Modern France
ISBN: 9780043012093 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A discussion of the structure and role of migration flows affecting France from 1850 to the present day. It covers both internal and international movements and consideration is given both to broad macro-scale analysis and more detailed micro-scale investigations.
A discussion of the structure and role of migration flows affecting France from 1850 to the present day. It covers both internal and international mov...
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939,05 zł |
The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City
ISBN: 9780195021615 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, these studies examine the general notion that American society has been historically an open system which offered great opportunity for advancement to its poor and newcomers.
For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, ...
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727,83 zł |
Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans
ISBN: 9780195032703 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,80 zł |
Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics
ISBN: 9780195055108 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, Philip Curtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies. The book helps redirect thinking on the subject by giving a summary of the current state of immigration studies and a coherent new...
Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leadi...
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288,02 zł |
Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics
ISBN: 9780195055115 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, Philip Curtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies. The book helps redirect thinking on the subject by giving a summary of the current state of immigration studies and a coherent new...
Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leadi...
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795,10 zł |
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
ISBN: 9780195071368 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also come to know through Dorothea Lange's unforgettable photos of migrant families struggling to make a living in Depression-torn California. Now in James N. Gregory's pathbreaking American Exodus, there is at last an historical study that moves beyond the fiction and the photographs to uncover the full meaning of these...
Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to C...
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97,68 zł |
Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation Among Asian Indian Immigrants
ISBN: 9780195099737 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community--Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan area--bound by neither geographic proximity, nor institutional ties, and explores the processes through which ethnic identity is transmitted to...
Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and life...
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223,71 zł |
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945
ISBN: 9780195178029 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and a diverse array of primary sources in English and Italian, Guglielmo focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and color were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago. His account skillfully weaves together the major events of Chicago immigrant history--the "Chicago Color Riot" of 1919, the rise of Italian organized crime, and the rise of industrial unionism--with national and international events--such as the rise of fascism and...
Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and a diverse array of prim...
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203,94 zł |
International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories: Volume III: Migration and Identity
ISBN: 9780198202509 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by an international group of leading scholars in oral history, and featuring contributions from the world's preeminent oral historians, the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories aims to increase our understanding of the recent past and the changing present through autobiographical testimony, in the form of written biography, oral history, and life story interviews. Each volume focuses on a single theme: Volume III, Migration and Identity, concerns the shaping of identity, and reveals how migration acts as a crucible for individual social development and wider social...
Edited by an international group of leading scholars in oral history, and featuring contributions from the world's preeminent oral historians, the Int...
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549,96 zł |
In the Service of Stalin: The Spanish Communists in Exile, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9780198203155 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the epic story of the thousands of communists exiled from Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. Disciplined and dedicated to Stalin's cause, they threw themselves again into the struggle against fascism in Europe in the Second World War. In the Service of Stalin is the first full scholarly study of their experiences. Pike examines the contribution of the Spanish communists to the French Resistance, and their sufferings in Mauthausen, the Austrian concentration camp to which most who were captured were consigned. He also traces the history of those who went to the...
This is the epic story of the thousands of communists exiled from Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. Disciplined and dedicated to ...
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858,86 zł |
Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951-1964
ISBN: 9780198205050 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Party Politics and Decolonization explores the relationship between Conservative Party politics and British colonial policy in tropical Africa during the unbroken period of Conservative government from 1951 to 1964. Based on recently released documentary evidence, much of it never before published, Philip Murphy's study traces the development of Conservative attitudes towards Britain's role as a colonial power and describes reactions within the party to the rapid British withdrawal from Africa following the 1959 General Election.
Party Politics and Decolonization explores the relationship between Conservative Party politics and British colonial policy in tropical Africa during ...
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1056,55 zł |
The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast
ISBN: 9780198208488 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement in nationalist politics and their place in British imperial policy during decolonization.
The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold ...
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1118,33 zł |
Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law: Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria and Other Writings on Spain and Spanish America
ISBN: 9780198226123 / Angielski / Twarda / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitutional democracy, and is one of the most important studies of colonialism written in the nineteenth century. In these essays, Bentham provided a penetrating critique of colonialism from within the liberal utilitarian tradition.
This is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitutional democracy, and is one of the most important stu...
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Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh
ISBN: 9780198279198 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the 'sending' communities (neglected by academic research) and covers major aspects of Bangladeshi life (land, family structure, marriage, and religion) to show how out-migration has become a central economic and social resource--the route to social, as well as physical, mobility, transforming those who gain access to it. At the heart of this important text is a presentation of the dynamic nature of migration and the possibility of self-transformation it...
Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the 'sendi...
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809,43 zł |
The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces
ISBN: 9780198293910 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The book also provides a conceptual study of migration decision-making and the dynamics of international movement.
The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poor...
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784,72 zł |
Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain
ISBN: 9780198295402 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses, the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient, at least in the face of immigration.
This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Brita...
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381,92 zł |
Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics ' Comparative European Perspectives '
ISBN: 9780198295617 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when immigration and ethnic issues are hotly disputed across Europe, and challenged by minorities and xenophobes, this collection presents substantive cross-national analysis on the qualities of contentious politics. It offers conceptual approaches to migration and "ethnic relations" politics; it provides empirical analyses based on a method of systematic cross-national comparison; and, it addresses the emergence of the transnational level of political authority, its implications for national and sub-national politics, and how it is challenged by social movements.
At a time when immigration and ethnic issues are hotly disputed across Europe, and challenged by minorities and xenophobes, this collection presents s...
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317,67 zł |
The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces
ISBN: 9780198297260 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The book also provides a conceptual study of migration decision-making and the dynamics of international movement.
The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poor...
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317,67 zł |
The Irish in Post-War Britain
ISBN: 9780199276677 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant population, this new major historical study looks at the Irish in Britain after 1945. It reconstructs the histories of the lost generation who left independent Ireland in huge numbers to settle in Britain from the 1940s until the 1960s. Drawing on a wide range of previously neglected materials, Enda Delaney illustrates the complex process of negotiation and renegotiation that was involved in adapting and adjusting to life in Britain. Less visible than other newcomers, it is widely assumed that the Irish assimilated with relative...
Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant population, this new major historical study looks at the Irish in Britain after 1945. It ...
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549,96 zł |
Labor and Class Identities in Hong Kong: Class Processes in a Neoliberal Global City
ISBN: 9781137517555 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This cutting edge volume investigates how Hong Kong's economic structure and neoliberal policies have contributed to class inequality in China's global city. Specific topics include educational stratification, attitudes towards works, political attitudes, and class identifications. This cutting edge volume investigates how Hong Kong's economic structure and neoliberal policies have contributed to class inequality in China's gl... |
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194,97 zł |