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Finance Capital And Uneven Development

Finance Capital And Uneven Development
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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813374200, 0367013940 | EPUB | pages: 151 | 0.2 mb
This book examines the theoretical issues of finance capital by developing a comparative analysis of capital flows at industry, region, and nation-state levels. The analysis hopes to make an important methodological contribution to the literature on finance capital. .

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Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633–1700 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633–1700 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
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2008 | 174 Pages | ISBN: 075466452X | PDF | 1 MB
Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey here compares functionalist treatments of the body by these women, offering a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women. In doing so, Harvey explores the engagement of these women in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates that would have been understood by the authors' contemporaries in both Europe and America.

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Father Missed His Plane

Father Missed His Plane
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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1543044654 | EPUB | pages: 230 | 1.2 mb
On April 12, 1975, just days before Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge seized control of Phnom Penh, Vincent's father missed a chance to take his family and leave Cambodia on a US Marine Corp helicopter. Had they boarded the chopper, Vincent would not have had to endure four years of brutality and starvation. He and his family somehow survived the genocide, but then found themselves destitute when they returned to the ruined city that was once their home. In 1980, along with his sixty-four-year-old grandmother, Vincent risked his life to cross the landmine-filled Cambodian jungle to reach a refugee camp in Thailand.Father Missed His Plane is a powerful real-life story of a boy surviving the Killing Fields of Cambodia. His experience as a refugee who ultimately found sanctuary has a special poignancy in today's global political climate.

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Fashions of a Decade The 1930s

Fashions of a Decade The 1930s
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English | 2006 | pages: 65 | ISBN: 0816067198 | PDF | 20,3 mb
Examines the role of fashion as it made its way through the Great Depression, exploring the social and cultural aspects of history through a softer lens. Cheaper fabrics that imitated luxury items such as nylon and artificial silks became popular, along with clothing that featured a more muted palette and longer, more flowing lines.