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Published December 2016
Xenocracy
State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864
Gekas, S.
Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain’s liberal reforms, the Ionian State’s economic deterioration anticipated the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published June 2015
Yearnings in the Meantime
'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
Jansen, S.
An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2008
Years of Conflict
Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement
Hart, J. (ed)
Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published June 2023
Yiddish Transformed
Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914
Cohen, N.
Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflections of reading experiences in life stories.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Literary Studies
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Published November 2011
Young Men in Uncertain Times
Amit, V. & Dyck, N. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2011
Youth Gangs and Street Children
Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia
Heinonen, P.
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives — as they describe it in their own words — this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs
The History of a National Idea
Jezernik, B.
Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I
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Published June 2010
Zimbabwe's New Diaspora
Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
McGregor, J. & Primorac, R. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
Hb