Migration in Colonial Spanish America
ISBN: 9780521030281 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analyses of a long-neglected topic in Latin American research. The essays are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and thus provide data and novel interpretations that represent an important step forward in colonial Latin American studies. The picture that emerges is one of colonial Spanish America in a state of continual flux: spatial mobility was no less pronounced than social and racial change. Covering countries as varied as Bolivia and...
In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analyses ...
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309,57 zł |
Migration in Colonial Spanish America
ISBN: 9780521362818 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analyses of a long-neglected topic in Latin American research. The essays are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and thus provide data and novel interpretations that represent an important step forward in colonial Latin American studies. The picture that emerges is one of colonial Spanish America in a state of continual flux: spatial mobility was no less pronounced than social and racial change. Covering countries as varied as Bolivia and...
In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analyses ...
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599,38 zł |
The National Integration of Italian Return Migration, 1870-1929
ISBN: 9780521400589 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines return migration to Italy from the United States from 1870 to 1929. A large number of Italians did not intend to settle permanently in the United States. Rather, they emigrated temporarily to the United States to make money in order to buy land in Italy. The book documents the flow back to Italy of individuals and remittances and discusses the strategies used by returnees in investing American savings.
This book examines return migration to Italy from the United States from 1870 to 1929. A large number of Italians did not intend to settle permanently...
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451,11 zł |
Justice in Immigration
ISBN: 9780521452885 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the fundamental normative issues underpinning immigration policy. A distinguished group of economists, political scientists, and philosophers offer a stimulating and provocative discussion of this complex topic. Among the issues addressed are the proper role of the state in supporting a particular culture, the possible destabilization of the political and social life of a country through immigration and the size and distribution of economic losses and gains.
This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the fundamental normative issues underpinning immigration policy. A distinguished group of economist...
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525,25 zł |
Eclipse of Empire
ISBN: 9780521457545 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eclipse of Empire brings together the work of one of the foremost historians of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and in Africa, and to assess the many sociopolitical ramifications of this process. No other study has approached the whole twentieth century decolonization process so comprehensively.
Eclipse of Empire brings together the work of one of the foremost historians of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accoun...
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189,12 zł |
Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940: A Study of Desperate Hopes
ISBN: 9780521465076 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. Both governments used migration to meet their different needs, with little regard for the migrants themselves. Not only is the book an important study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.
This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Austr...
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574,68 zł |
The National Integration of Italian Return Migration, 1870-1929
ISBN: 9780521521185 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines return migration to Italy from the United States from 1870 to 1929. A large number of Italians did not intend to settle permanently in the United States. Rather, they emigrated temporarily to the United States to make money in order to buy land in Italy. The book documents the flow back to Italy of individuals and remittances and discusses the strategies used by returnees in investing American savings.
This book examines return migration to Italy from the United States from 1870 to 1929. A large number of Italians did not intend to settle permanently...
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206,37 zł |
Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940: A Study of Desperate Hopes
ISBN: 9780521523264 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. Both governments used migration to meet their different needs, with little regard for the migrants themselves. Not only is the book an important study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.
This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Austr...
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319,89 zł |
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany
ISBN: 9780521781497 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany explores the causes of public opposition to immigration and support for anti-immigrant political movements in the three industrialized Western countries. Combining sophisticated modeling of recent public-opinion data with analysis of the past 110 years of these nations' immigration history, the book evaluates the effects of cultural marginality, economic self-interest, and contact with immigrants. Though analysis partly confirms each of these three explanations, the author concludes that being a cultural outsider...
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany explores the causes of public opposition to immigration and support for ...
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376,98 zł |
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany
ISBN: 9780521786799 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany explores the causes of public opposition to immigration and support for anti-immigrant political movements in the three industrialized Western countries. Combining sophisticated modeling of recent public-opinion data with analysis of the past 110 years of these nations' immigration history, the book evaluates the effects of cultural marginality, economic self-interest, and contact with immigrants. Though analysis partly confirms each of these three explanations, the author concludes that being a cultural outsider...
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany explores the causes of public opposition to immigration and support for ...
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180,57 zł |
Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad
ISBN: 9780521811378 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about an important cultural-political phenomenon: ethno-national diasporas. While these groups try to "feel at home" in their host countries, they maintain at the same time close contact with their homelands to promote their culture and interests. The book analyzes their continuous struggle to maintain their identity, organize, and fight against all wishing to prevent permanent settlement and integration in the host countries. It discusses the complex questions of the groups' loyalties to their homelands and host countries as well as their contributions to them.
This book is about an important cultural-political phenomenon: ethno-national diasporas. While these groups try to "feel at home" in their host countr...
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307,79 zł |
Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy
ISBN: 9780521864923 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past three decades, images of undocumented immigrants pouring across the southern border have driven the immigration debate and policies have been implemented in response to those images. The Oklahoma City bombings and the tragic events of September 11, both of questionable relevance to immigration policy have provided further impetus to implement strategies that are anti-immigration in design and effect. This book discusses the major immigration policy areas - undocumented workers, the immigration selection system, deportation of aggravated felons, national security and immigration...
In the past three decades, images of undocumented immigrants pouring across the southern border have driven the immigration debate and policies have b...
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134,80 zł |
Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales 1861-1900
ISBN: 9780521891547 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people. He has related the rate and timing of migration to the social and economic characteristics of the counties, which has provided answers to many of the outstanding questions in the history of English emigration, including, for example, the idea of an 'Atlantic Economy' and the extent to which Welsh migration was distinct from or integrated into the English pattern. Briefly, the book...
In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four deca...
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309,57 zł |
A Hispanic View: American Politics and the Politics of Immigration
ISBN: 9780595256914 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Controversy, passion, and a totally new Hispanic viewpoint is what Raoul Lowery Contreras brought to more than 200 American newspapers in 1988 when Washington, D.C. s
Controversy, passion, and a totally new Hispanic viewpoint is what Raoul Lowery Contreras brought to more than 200 American newspapers in 1988 when Wa...
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73,50 zł |
From What Struggle We Eat: An eight-month experience: Laboring in the cause of the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez 1974
ISBN: 9780595374601 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cesar Chavez was a man of courage, humility and had amazing inner strength. His life cannot be measured in material terms. He never earned more than $5,000 a year and never owned a house. As he said though sums up his whole life. 'It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us the world would be humane and just. God gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome responsibility."
Cesar Chavez was a man of courage, humility and had amazing inner strength. His life cannot be measured in material terms. He never earned more than $...
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43,14 zł |
Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780631210047 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to engage with an important and complex area of discourse.
Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to en...
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735,59 zł |
Postcolonial Discourses
ISBN: 9780631210054 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to engage with an important and complex area of discourse.
Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to en...
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230,37 zł |
Immigration Amer Diversity P
ISBN: 9780631220336 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a "Nation of Immigrants" who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America's national solidarity and ethnic diversity.
This engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a "Nation of ...
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252,34 zł |
Arguing Immigration: The Controversy and Crisis Over the Future of Immigration in America
ISBN: 9780671895587 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole political spectrum and covering issues from jobs and the economy to race and culture, it includes the strong opinions of writers and critics from Toni Morrison to Francis Fukuyama.
This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole ...
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73,50 zł |
Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration
ISBN: 9780674018853 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Passing Lines" seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field.
"Passing Lines" takes a close look at the debates that surround eyewitness testimony, expertise, and advocacy regarding immigration and sexuality, bringing together work by scholars, activists, and others from both sides of the border. "Passing Lines" seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Car...
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115,05 zł |