【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico＜/em＞ compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of departure to conceptualize historical affinities and differences between the ancient Roman Empire and colonial Mesoamerica.＜/p＞ ＜p＞An international team of specialists in classical scholarship and Mesoamerican studies engage in an interdisciplinary discussion involving ideas from history, anthropology, archaeology, art history, iconography, and philology. Key themes include the role of religion in processes of imperial domination; religion’s use as an instrument of resistance or the imposition, appropriation, inco...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞Mixtec Evangelicals＜/em＞ is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞O’Connor identifies globalization as the root cause of this process. She demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that areat the center of traditional village life. The home ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞A reporter for the ＜em＞Los Angeles Times＜/em＞ once noted that " ＜em＞I Love Lucy＜/em＞ is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day." That Lucy's madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplacethat imports and exports TV shows. Programs from different countries are packaged, bought, and sold all over the world, under the watch of an industry that is extraordinarily lucrative for major studios and production companies.＜br /＞ In ＜strong＞Global TV＜/strong＞, Denise D. Bielb and C. Lee Harrington seek to understand the machinery of this marketplace, its origins and history, its inner workings, and its product management. In so doing, they are led to explore the cultural significance of this global trade, and to ask how it is so remarkably successful despite the inherent cultural differences between shows and local audienc...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞"A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author's round-the-world reefer safari . . . A surprisingly clear-headed view of potheads worldwide" (＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The New Yorker＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Pot Planet＜/em＞, journalist Brian Preston sets out on a global ganja safari to explore strange new cannabis cultures, to seek out new growers, activists, and other reefer revolutionaries . . . and to boldly get baked with each of them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Preston's journeys take him across every strata of pot cultivation and enjoyment. In the Canadian Kootenays, he meets hemp farmers struggling to harvest their crop on the fringes of legitimacy. In Cambodia and Morocco, he explores the final frontiers of Third World weed enthusiasts. In northern California, he takes a clear-eyed look at the medicinal marijuana movement, seeing both its promises and its probl...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goodsーoften knockoffs or copies of high-end branded itemsーto send back to their home countries. In ＜em＞The World in Guangzhou＜/em＞, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became a center of "low-end globalization" and shows what we can learn from that experience about similar transformations elsewhere in the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groupsーChinese and sub-Saharan Africansーthat don't s...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Written by a premier group of 21 thinkers from around the world, the second edition of Alternatives to Economic Globalization lays out democratic, ecologically sound, socially just alternatives to corporate globalization more fully, specifically, and thoughtfully than has ever been done before. Focusing on constructive, achievable goals, the authors present ten governing principles for establishing truly sustainable societies and describe alternatives to the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO that would better serve the needs of the planet. They offer detailed proposals for protecting vital goods and services from corporate exploitation, limiting corporate privileges and power, rebuilding economies to make them more responsive to human needs, and more. This revised and expanded edition features a new opening chapter on the global balance of power, a new section on the media and globalization, and a new final chapter on what ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in ＜em＞Tight Knit＜/em＞, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing "Made in Italy" labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industryーall the while adding new patterns to the social fabric of Italy's iconic industry.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Krause offers a revelatory look into how families involved in the fashion industry are coping with globalization based on longterm research in Prato, the historic hub of textile production in the heart of metropolitan Tuscany. She brings to the fore the tensionsーover value, money, beauty, family, care, and belongingーthat are reaching a boiling point as the country struggles to deal with the same migration pressures that are trigge...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞This is not only the first global history of nineteenth-century science but the first global history of phrenology.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe. ＜em＞Materials of the Mind＜/em＞ tells the story of how phrenology changed the worldーand how the world changed phrenology.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific.Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, ＜em＞Materials of the Mind＜/em＞ is an impressively innovative account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the min...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞From Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, the authors of ＜em＞Clean Tech Revolution＜/em＞, comes the next definitive book on the Clean Tech industry. In ＜em＞Clean Tech Nation＜/em＞, they shine a light on the leaders at the forefront of the growing movement. ＜em＞USA Today＜/em＞ called Pernick and Wilder's groundbreaking first book, "one of the few instances in this genre that shows the green movement not in heartstring terms but as economically profitable." ＜em＞Clean Tech Nation＜/em＞ expands on their original idea to provide concrete analysis on the efforts of the U.S. and other countries in this area, and provides a clear way forward for the U.S. so that it can lead the pack as it competes with the rest of the world.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞A Great and Rising Nation＜/em＞ illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States' imperialist naval aspirations.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce rather than military might. Michael A. Verney's ＜em＞A Great and Rising Nation＜/em＞ flips this notion on its head, arguing that early US naval expeditions, often characterized as merely scientific, were in fact deeply imperialist. Circling the globe from the Mediterranean to South America and the Arctic, these voyages reflected the diverse imperial aspirations of the new republic, including commercial dominance in the Pacific World, religious empire in the Holy Land, proslavery expansion in South America, and diplomatic prestigein Europe. As Verney makes clear, the United States had g...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞The Perfect Fit＜/em＞ shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about the process when they are made beautifully. In ＜em＞The Perfect Fit＜/em＞, Claudio E. Benzecry looks at the craft that goes into designing shoes for women in the US market, revealing that this creative process takes place on a global scale. Based on unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, ＜em＞The Perfect Fit＜/em＞ offers an ethnographic window into the day-to-day life of designers, fit models, and technicians as they put together samples and prototypes, showing how expert work is a complement to and a necessary condition for factory exploitation.＜br /＞ Benzecry looks at the decisions and constraints behind how shoesare designed and developed, from initial inspiration to the mun...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a "fair price" for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially just and environmentally sound practices. Yet constrained by existing markets and the entities that dominate them, Fair Trade often delivers material improvements for producers that are much more modest than the profound social transformations the movement claims to support.＜br /＞ There has been scant real-world assessment of Fair Trade's effectiveness. Drawing upon fine-grained anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, the chapters in Fair Trade and Social Justice represent the first works to use ethnographic case studies to assess whether ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city's image as a global metropolis. In ＜em＞Shanghai Nightscapes＜/em＞, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a revival since the 1980s. Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasuresーthe dancing, drinking, and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century.＜br /＞ The book begins by examining the history of the jazz-age dance scenes that arose in the ballrooms and nightclubs of Shanghai's foreign settlements. During its heyday in the 1930s, Shanghai was known worldwide for its jazz cabarets that fused Chine...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parre?as documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women's domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and their children negotiate these adversities.＜br /＞ Parre?as examines the underlying constructions of gender in neoliberal state regimes, export-oriented economies such as that of the Philippines, protective migration laws, and the actions and decisions of migrant Filipino women in maintaining families and communities, raising questions about gender relations, the status of women in globalization, and the meanings of greater consumptive power that migration garners for women. ＜strong＞The Force of Domesticity＜/strong＞ starkly illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women'...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglotenterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over timeーuntil the rise of English in the twentieth century.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With ＜em＞Scientific Babel＜/em＞, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotesーnot offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth's changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through the history of another global environmental threat: acid rain.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The identification of acid rain in the 1960s changed scientific and popular understanding of fossil fuel pollution's potential to cause regionalーand even globalーenvironmental harms. It showed scientists that the problem of fossil fuel pollution was one that crossed bordersーit could travel across vast stretches of the earth's atmosphere to impact ecosystems around the world. This unprecedented transnational reach prompted governments, for the first time, to confront the need to cooperate on pollution policies, transforming environmental science and diplomacy. Studies of acid rain and other pollutants brought...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as deep as the crisis is, it may contain seeds of a new global economy, what role the US will play, and whether China or other countries will rise to global leadership.＜br /＞ Contributors include: Giovanni Arrighi, Gopal Balakrishnan, Manuel Castells, Daniel Chirot, Fernando Coronil, Nancy Fraser, James K. Galbraith, David Harvey, Caglar K...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contributed to this discoveryーproving, beyond any doubt, that a new era in science had arrived, an era of multinationalism and cooperative reach. Globalization, the Internet, and digital technology all play a role in making this new era possible, but something more fundamental is also at work. In all scientific endeavors lies the ancient drive for sharing ideas and knowledge, and now this can be accomplished in a single tongueー English. But is this a good thing?＜br /＞ In ＜em＞Does Science Need a Global Language?＜/em＞, Scott L. Montgomery seeks to answer this question by investigating the phenomenon of global English in science,how and why it came about, the forms in which it appe...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separated for millions of years. Because some of these nonnative species thrive in their new homes and harm environments, economies, and human health, the prevention and management of invasive species has become a major policy goal from local to international levels.＜br /＞ Yet even though ecological research has led to public conversation and policy recommendations, those recommendations have frequently been ignored, and the efforts to counter invasive species have been largely unsuccessful. Recognizing the need to engage experts across the life, social, and legal sciences as well as the humanities, the editors of this volume have drawn together a wide variety of ecologists, historia...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Poetry in a Global Age＜/em＞ builds on Ramazani's award-winning ＜em＞A Transnational Poetics＜/em＞, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists suc...